Art & Design, UAlberta

Art & Design, UAlberta Study Art & Design where you are going to make a difference! Our undergraduate and graduate degree programs open doors to over 150 careers.

The Department of Art and Design is devoted to the practice, the history, and the theory of the visual arts and design. Comprising three divisions—Design Studies, Fine Arts, and the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture (HADVC)—its rich complement of faculty and staff provides students in its undergraduate and graduate programs with one of the best university Art and Design programs available

in North America. We off the following degrees:
-Bachelor of Design (BDes),
-Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Design (BFA)
-Bachelor of Arts (BA) with a major or minor in Art and Design
-BA Honors
-Master of Design (in Industrial Design and Visual Communication Design)
-Master of Fine Arts (in Drawing & Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture)
-Master of Arts in HADVC,
-PhD in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. Graduates from the Department of Art and Design find career opportunities across a broad spectrum of the cultural sectors. Former students are employed in jobs that range from museum and gallery curators and university professors, to exhibition designers, art administrators, art and design educators, full time artists, and self employed designers.

05/07/2026

Printmaker Liz Ingram is participating in a study and art exhibit that illuminate the experiences of people who live with chronic rather than acute cancer, thanks to new targeted oral treatments.

x: where our paths cross Tuesday April 28 | 4-6 p.m.Studio 2-7 (FAB 2-7), Fine Arts Building and Online via Zoomx: where...
04/21/2026

x: where our paths cross
Tuesday April 28 | 4-6 p.m.
Studio 2-7 (FAB 2-7), Fine Arts Building and Online via Zoom

x: where our paths cross is a performance of visiting, trust and otherwise possibilities. In it, Peter Morin (Tahltan, French Canadian) and Leah Decter (Jewish-Canadian white settler) mark the crossing of paths across time, territories and ancestries through reading aloud as an assertion of Indigenous sovereignty and listening-while-drawing as a practice of white-setter accountability.

Learn more and Zoom link at:
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/drama/on-stage/x-where-our-paths-cross.html

Co-presented by Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta Department of Drama, University of Alberta Department of Music and Kule Institute for Advanced Study

U of A Senior Print Exhibition | RESIDUEApril 18 – May 9, 2026SNAP - Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists 10572 115...
04/17/2026

U of A Senior Print Exhibition | RESIDUE
April 18 – May 9, 2026
SNAP - Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
10572 115 st, Edmonton, AB T5H 3K6

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18, 7-9 pm

https://snapartists.com/exhibit/u-of-a-senior-print-exhibition/

RESIDUE is an exhibition of print works by senior undergraduate printmaking students at the University of Alberta. Through artist books, etchings, lithographs, screenprints, and print installations, the artists reflect on nostalgia and memory while grappling with new belief systems and a shared yearning to envision alternative worlds.

Lily Barschel, Jagoda Bolesta, Tia Bunnag, Lucas Dear, Sophia Grace F***r, Peri Glimm, Liam Macgregor, Alyssa Magnusson, Kay Peters, Fiona Rintoul, Isabella Rodriguez Chaparro, Al Young, Yuxin Liu, Ambar Azcorra

On now through April 30!Inside OutSculpture Area ExhibitionRutherford Library GalleriaUniversity of Alberta Open now thr...
04/16/2026

On now through April 30!

Inside Out
Sculpture Area Exhibition
Rutherford Library Galleria
University of Alberta

Open now through April 30 (exhibition closes April 30 at 4:00 PM)
Opening Reception April 25, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Artist Walk-About & Talks April 26, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

04/15/2026

Opening Tuesday April 21!

Never Getting Back To My Emails: They Will Find Me Eventually
2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition
April 21-May 2, 2026

About the show:
We all ignore our inbox in fear of what is to come, yet we yearn for human connection. Never Getting Back To My Emails: They Will Find Me Eventually presents the work of ten Art & Design Bachelor of Fine Arts graduating students working across a wide range of studio areas. These artists reveal, through their practices, the connections art can foster in an age of digital communication.

Featuring works by:
Jagoda Bolesta
Lucas Deary
Sophia Grace F***r
Tony Friesen
Peri Glimm
Alisan Lam
Kay Peters
Fiona Rintoul
Daniel Lee Whyte
Al Young

In a recent visit to FAB Gallery, Radio-Canada's Jules Bonnet explored the BDes graduation Exhibition, "I have an idea."...
04/08/2026

In a recent visit to FAB Gallery, Radio-Canada's Jules Bonnet explored the BDes graduation Exhibition, "I have an idea." and spoke with design instructor Valéry Goulet and graduating student Mayada Rahal. You can find the article and video linked here: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/art-design/about-art-and-design/news/2026/04-apr/bachelor-of-design-graduation-exhibition-in-the-news.html

This Saturday, APRIL 11 is the final day to catch "I have an idea."
(FAB Gallery is open Tues.-Fri. 11am-5pm and Sat. 12-3pm.)

Photo by Danielle Bénard

Please join the ART 551 Class at ArtsHub Ortona (9722 102 Street) for their pop up show, Cleave the Vessel. Cleave The V...
03/19/2026

Please join the ART 551 Class at ArtsHub Ortona (9722 102 Street) for their pop up show, Cleave the Vessel. Cleave The Vessel is an exhibition about separate works, coming together through community to create a unified whole. The artists within this show represent a coming-together of disparate experiences, bringing together works that may cleave subjects together and apart.

Running:
• March 27, 6-9 p.m
• March 28, 12-5 p.m.
• March 29, 11-3

DESIGN ACTIVISM FOR THE PLANETMarch 16-20 | FAB 2nd Floor Pocket Gallery (glass display cases by the pedway to HUB)Watch...
03/17/2026

DESIGN ACTIVISM FOR THE PLANET
March 16-20 | FAB 2nd Floor Pocket Gallery (glass display cases by the pedway to HUB)

Watch 3-minute talks about sustainable design by students in HADVC 216, China's Design Revolution.

"Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical."
- Victor Papanek
17s

03/12/2026

FAB Gallery BFA practicum student Sophia F***r talks to MFA in Printmaking student Sheryl Spencer about her show, "A Season of Melancholy", which runs in FAB Gallery until March 21.

In recognition of International Women's Day!Department Women Represent in "Wayfinders" at the AGA"We are very proud that...
03/08/2026

In recognition of International Women's Day!

Department Women Represent in "Wayfinders" at the AGA

"We are very proud that four local female artists who teach across Art & Design (Emily Jan, Oksana Movchan, Tammy Salzl and Marilène Oliver) are featured in 'Wayfinders: A Constellation of Women Artists', an exhibition on show at the Art Gallery of Alberta until the end of May."

https://www.ualberta.ca/en/art-design/about-art-and-design/news/2026/03-mar/department-women-represent-in-wayfinders-at-the-aga.html

Image credit: Tammy Salzl, "Nelly Longarms Dipped Her Fingertips Into the Universe and Drew the Web of Life", 2025. Ceramic, glaze glass beads, thread. Courtesy of the Artist. Installation view of "Wayfinders: A Constellation of Women Artists", Art Gallery of Alberta, 2026. Photography by Charles Cousins, courtesy of the Art Gallery of Alberta.

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Edmonton, AB
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