The AGA is open Thursday to Sunday. Please prebook your visit on the calendar here.

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Call for Volunteers

Help your AGA at our fundraising casino on July 6 & 7 by volunteering your time. Multiple shifts available, some nice perks and our eternal gratitude for helping us raise much needed funds to support our exhibitions and programming. Email volunteer.services@youraga.ca today if you can help out.

Your AGA from home virtual events & activities

#AGAlive | Walking Tour with Tiffany Shaw-Collinge

Don’t miss Tiffany Shaw-Collinge this Saturday as she leads a tour of The Scene and downtown Edmonton to her new public artwork "family pattern" at Kinistinâw Park. We will limit registration following the current health and safety guidelines while following social distancing and sanitization recommendations.

#AGAlive | Art of Drag with BOA

Don’t miss BOA from Canada's Drag Race on June 29 in our #AGAlive entitled Art of Drag. Learn about the creative side of drag, what inspires BOA when putting a look together and tips you can use when painting your face. There’s still time to register below.

From the Studio | Monica Rain

Our June From the Studio series features Indigenous artists for National Indigenous History Month. Register below to hear Shop AGA craft artist Monica Rain describe her artistic practice on June 30.

#AGAlive | Weaving Language with Kim McCollum

Join us for a workshop inspired by the history of weaving as a form of language. Kim McCollum will lead you through creating your own basic loom and weaving from cardboard and scrap materials. Weaving Language is a free workshop part of the Art Gallery of Alberta’s public program for the exhibition The Scene, which features emerging and mid-career Edmonton-based artists.

#AGAlive is made possible with the support of the EPCOR Heart + Soul Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts

Get the latest and watch past #AGAlive sessions here.

'Black Every Day' Artist Feature: Raneece Buddan

Raneece Buddan, Blooming Ancestry, 2019-20. Ceramic, fabric, plaster, 21” x 12.5” x 19.5”. Courtesy of the artist. Installation view of Black Every Day, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, 2021. Photo: Art Gallery of Alberta

Raneece Buddan uses painting and sculpture to express her cultural identity as a Jamaican woman of African and East Indian descent. She is featured in Black Every Day, an exhibition open now that celebrates 15 years of 5 Artists 1 Love and the vibrancy of Edmonton's African Canadian communities.

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AGA Education & Learning

AGA Art Hive

Image credit: Lina Forero

Have you heard the buzz? The Art Gallery of Alberta and St. Stephen’s College are starting an Art Hive! Starting July 8, join us every Thursday in the Atrium from 12-1pm to get creative and connect with the community, free of charge. What’s an Art Hive? It is a small, open art studio for getting messy, meeting people, learning new skills and supporting physical and mental well-being.

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Tours for Tots

Join us for the summer edition of Tours for Tots each Wednesday at 10am! We'll explore an artwork from current exhibitions and/or a new art material or art form with plenty of creative play and imaginative hijinks! We'll start July online and will transition to in-person as the summer progresses.

Join us for Tours for Tots on June 30 from 10-10:30am! Kids will bring the summer of their dreams to life with art materials.

Special thanks to the EPCOR Heart + Soul Fund for sponsoring our online initiatives.

Summer ArtBreak

Do you have a budding inventor at home? How about an engineer? Join us for Artist Innovators, an ArtBreak camp for makers ages 6-12! Each day, we'll create, iterate and problem solve life's challenges in innovative and artful ways. Visit our website for details about this camp and more but don't wait too long, these camps are limited!

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AGA Sidewalk Cinema

View daily from 10am-10pm outside the AGA (north-west corner)

Our 12 days of Sidewalk Cinema is still on. We'll be sharing more videos over the next few weeks, or you can stop by to watch all the videos outside the AGA from 10am-10pm. For the full schedule, see below.

The AGA Sidewalk Cinema is sponsored by the EPCOR Heart + Soul Fund.

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What would you like to see, hear or learn more about? Let us know here.

The Art Gallery of Alberta respectfully acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional land of diverse Indigenous peoples including the Cree, Nitsitapi/Blackfoot, Métis, Nakota Sioux, Iroquois, Dene, Ojibway/Saulteaux/Anishinaabe. We also acknowledge all of the Indigenous, Inuit and Métis peoples who make Alberta their home today.