A listing of upcoming art events throughout the city of Calgary.
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Nov 16, 2019 - Dec 7, 2019
New works and a book launch by gallery artist Seka Owen. Read more
Art & Exhibitions
Nov 16, 2019 - Dec 15, 2019
Finding inspiration of the most sublime kind in her garden and its inhabitants, Edmonton artist Brenda Malkinson created a new collection of woodblock prints and watercolour paintings. Read more
Nov 20, 2019 - Dec 13, 2019
Thing to Wear is a collection of kimono-inspired garments created by students, staff, faculty, and alumni from the Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) under the expert guidance of Associate Professor, Bill Morton. Read more
Nov 15, 2019 - Dec 21, 2019
Portrait artists Alex Bierk, Erik Olson, Kris Knight, Tyler Bright Hilton and Winnie Truong in "A Portrait Show," consider identity as it relates to race, gender, sexual identity and the politics of each. Read more
Nov 14, 2019 - Nov 24, 2019
Local Canadian Fine Artist Sharyn Roit Miller presents her latest exhibition “Inspiration Intuition” featuring over 65 new works of art of mixed mediums. Read more
Art & Exhibitions, Art Event, Meet the Artists
Nov 14, 2019 - Dec 4, 2019
This exhibition illustrates the diversity and talent in our province. Works by: William Duma, Robin Smith-Peck, Jim Stokes, Robert Lemay, Diana Zasadny, Brent Laycock, Phil Darrah, Laurie Steen, Ted Godwin, W H Webb, and Isla Burns. Read more
Nov 22, 2019 - Jan 18, 2020
Corri-Lynn Tetz and Laura Findlay's exhibiiton, "Soft Bodied Oddities," demands that the viewer reconsider the roles women have been obliged to place themselves in throughout their lives. Read more
Nov 9, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
The Butter Dish features the diverse work of over 20 contemporary ceramic artists who will show off their distinct creative voices while staying within the function of this traditional form. Read more
Nov 9, 2019 - Dec 21, 2019
Curtis Cutshaw's new works in "Five Hole," are inspired by hockey using memorabilia; puck marked arena boards to famous goalie masks and iconic jersey numbers, that are fragmented and collaged into abstract works. Read more
Sara Robichaud’s new series of paintings in the exhibition “Spectral,” combine processes and ideas that embody the physicality of formalist painting, and invite imaginative, playful interpretation. Read more
Nov 8, 2019 - Dec 21, 2019
Matrilineal Threads is a multidimensional exhibition that combines the artistic labours of Campbell and her mother, Ginette Lund. Read more
Nov 7, 2019 - Nov 30, 2019
"Winter Is Coming," an exhibition of all things related to Winter. Artists include: Chlan Grant, Jane Lochrie, Mao (Kun) Chen, J. Broz, Laura Erdman, Nuit, Janie Lockwood, Matt Trinh (AKA “Hawk”), Keegan Karlsen and Terry Gregoraschuk. Read more
Nov 28, 2019 - Dec 1, 2019
Calgary’s first professional art fair. Located in the Mona Lisa Art Salon, Art Calgary will be showing the best contemporary art in Calgary. Sixteen local artists were selected based on the high quality of their artwork. The show is a curated, ... Read more
Nov 28, 2019 - Jan 11, 2020
Peter Hoffer's solo exhibition "A Natural Progression," features new mixed media works that incorporate collage with elements from Haute Couture images. Read more
Nov 5, 2019 - Jan 6, 2020
Diana Ohiozebau's work and talk is focused on my creative journey, the changes, growth and development anchored in my identity and place of origin. Read more
Art & Exhibitions, Art Event
Dec 1, 2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Join us for our 9th annual holiday Art Salon & Sale, showcasing artworks created by the professionally trained, practicing instructors of Wildflower Arts Centre. Read more
Art & Exhibitions, Art Event, Christmas Market
Nov 2, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
Erdem Taşdelen’s audio installation The Characters follows the self-indulgent, at times deluded, platitude-laced, bitter, pitiful, occasionally frenetic and always mordantly humorous narratives of ten stock characters. Read more
Nov 1, 2019 - Nov 23, 2019
In celebration of the City of Calgary's New Central Library members were asked to reimagine stories found in the pages of some of their favourite books. Read more
Nov 1, 2019 - Nov 29, 2019
Join us for the artist reception of the current gallery exhibitions at Arts Commons! You’ll be able to meet and mingle with local artists, curators and art lovers alike. This is a chance to celebrate our current visual and media artists and a ... Read more
Nov 1, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
"Like the winter snow kills the grass, the summer sun revives it" includes works from Joi T. Arcand, Richelle Bear Hat, Susan Blight, Tsēmā Igharas, Michelle Sylliboy and Alberta Rose W. celebrates Indigenous ways of knowing and language. Read more
Image courtesy of the artist.
Oct 28, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
Iitsi’poyi documents Marjie Crop Eared Wolf’s ongoing endeavours to learn Blackfoot. A video of Crop Eared Wolf reciting Blackfoot words and phrases from an audio tape made by her mother is paired with a large drawing of transcribed Blackfoot words. Read more
Oct 25, 2019 - Nov 23, 2019
David More's vibrant, gestural and generous use of paint lend themselves to his exploration of the layers that make up landscape. Read more
Oct 25, 2019 - Nov 29, 2019
Christeen Francis' work critically engages with aspects of urban development and displacement; considering how wildlife is dislodged by expanding metropolitan areas, as well as how gentrification acts as an extension of colonialism. Read more
Oct 24, 2019 - Dec 7, 2019
Chris Kuzmanovich has been painting as a self-reflexive practice for most of his life, and exhibiting increasingly over the last ten plus years. Read more
Lisa Matthias' large-scale black and white woodcuts explore the complex geometry of arthropod biophotonic nanostructures, and respond to scientific literature and speculative fiction about biomimicry and biotechnological collapse. Read more
Art & Exhibitions, Artist Talk
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Nicole Kelly Westman presents two new moving-image works: for every sunset we haven’t seen (2018) and for nights bathed in sodium vapour (2019). These non-narrative works speak of differing stages of loss and mourning. Read more
Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 12, 2020
From linoleum to drywall, dead flowers to toilet paper, ordinary, disposal and perishable objects serve as the point of departure for the array of contemporary artworks found in ExtraOrdinary Objects. Read more
Pioneering Canadian artist Gerald Ferguson (1937 – 2009) used quotidian materials to create striking, large-scale paintings that speak to the poetics of everyday life. Read more
Sybil Andrews found her artistic voice in the form of the linocut, a printmaking medium that demands directness and dynamism. Andrews’ striking images are characterized by her bold use of colour and line. Read more
Oct 15, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
Mamanaw Pekiskwewina | Mother Tongues brings together emerging artists from four Indigenous language groups of the Treaty 7 region, who incorporate Nakoda, Nēhiyawēwin, Nitsiipowahsiin, and Tsuut’ina into their artistic practices. Read more
Oct 3, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
Mark Mullin's exhibition "I’ll climb in your eyes," focuses on his recent non-representational paintings on paper and on canvas, and engages not as much with an aesthetic assessment or appreciation of Mullin’s work as with how it functions. Read more
Paul Seesequasis' "Turning the Lens: Indigenous Archive Project" is a photography/history exhibition; a naming project; a social media campaign and an opportunity contemplate the role and importance of galleries, museums and archives across Canada. Read more
Sep 28, 2019 - Dec 20, 2019
Jeffrey Gibson’s artwork intermingles elements of traditional Native American art, art historical references, craft, and pop culture. Read more
Nep Sidhu's "Divine of Form, Formed in the Divine (Medicine for a Nightmare)," examines how memories persist in the present, especially when related to personal and collective practices of resistance, resilience, and ritual. Read more
Sep 27, 2019 - Jan 6, 2020
The Alberta Society of Artists invited all artists to participate in the exhibition, AGEism. Visual artist were asked, how do you see/experience aging/ageism? They responded with their artworks. Read more
Sep 27, 2019 - Jan 26, 2020
Through objects, moving images, photographs and works on paper, Mary Kavanagh produces a complex narrative that frames a critique of militarism and military aesthetics in order to understand how war impacts the body through generational histories. Read more
Sep 26, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
The Dynamic Environment Lab (DE Lab), part of The City of Calgary’s WATERSHED+ Public Art Program, immersed five artists in the Utilities and Environmental Protection (UEP) Department, to explore the impacts of living in our dynamic environment. Read more
Sep 20, 2019 - Dec 14, 2019
Chris Cran's "It's Still My Vault," touches on key pieces, recognized works from well-known series and periods. What is also included – highlighted – are the steps before and between, the first ideas, the backstories, the segues. Read more
Sep 12, 2019 - Nov 30, 2019
Let’s go to the Clayground an exhibition by Mabel Tan is an active investigation of forms and shapes in new spaces, environment, and communities. Read more
Broadcast Lab and the +15 Soundscape have new fall exhibitions that meditate on the impact of culture and environment in two very different ways by artists Vicki Chau, Ryland Fortie, Greg Marshall and Jonathan Kawchuk. Read more
Aug 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2019
Shaun Gamache is an automatiste and abstract painter that paints his reflection of himself making the macrocosm the microcosm. Read more
Jun 29, 2019 - Feb 9, 2020
Ric Kokotovich's series of photographs taken during New Orleans' Mardi Gras festivities in the 1980's provides powerful remembrance of people and places that perhaps no longer exist. Read more
May 30, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Collider serves as a catalyst for collaborative experimentation and discovery through a collision of ideas and actions. Read more
Mar 8, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Ladylikeness is the second exhibition in a five-part series featuring portraits from both Library andArchives Canada’s and Glenbow’s collections. Read more
Feb 3, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
Albertine Crow Shoe was Glenbow’s Artist in Residence in 2018. Through her exploration of Glenbow’s collections she was inspired to create new works of art, on view here together with the artifacts and artworks that inspired her. Read more
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