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This week in your AGA E-news we explore colour in the new exhibition Soak, Stripe, Splatter; give you another chance to see a unique collaborative dance experience with Ballet Edmonton’s PROGRAM ONE and a chance to win with City Centre Mall!

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Current Exhibitions

Want to know what's on at your AGA? You can find all the current exhibitions and information about them below!

Explore colour with your AGA

Soak, Stripe, Splatter

Claude Tousignant, Gong 80 Art Gallery of Alberta Collection, purchased in 1969

Have you had the opportunity to check out the AGA's Soak, Stripe, Splatter exhibition?

Soak Stripe Splatter features works from the AGA Collection that focus on colour as their primary element or property. From large abstract paintings to experiments in colour photography, this exhibition celebrates the bright, bold, brash and even the more sombre colours of our world. 

Take time to bring some colour into your world and enjoy the works of artists from Edmonton and around the world.

See the complete list of artists below.

  • Marcel Barbeau
  • Jack Hamilton Bush
  • David Cantine
  • Richard Chenier
  • Ann Clarke
  • Jim Corrigan
  • Chris Cran
  • Joseph Drapell
  • Dean Drever
  • Harold Feist
  • Yves Gaucher
  • Douglas Haynes
  • Geoffrey Hunter
  • Gershon Iskowitz
  • Alex Janvier  
  • Roy Kiyooka
  • Wanda Koop
  • Marie Lannoo
  • Rita Letendre
  • Kenneth Lochhead
  • Morris Louis
  • Gloria Mok
  • Guido Molinari
  • Kenneth Noland
  • Seka Owen
  • Graham Peacock
  • William Perehudoff
  • Bruce Piermarini
  • Larry Poons
  • Mary Scott
  • Gordon Smith
  • Arlene Stamp
  • Carol Sutton
  • Takao Tanabe
  • Claude Tousignant
  • Harold Town
  • Mary Will

PROGRAM ONE at the AGA

Additional show added!

Sidney Kelsie - Call for Art


Do you have artwork by the Edmonton artist Sidney Kelsie? Works that you share will help us with an upcoming exhibition featuring his work. If you have a work by Kelsie, please take a photo of it and send us an email with your name and phone number to curatorial@youraga.ca. All responses will be kept confidential.  

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October 16 at 12pm MDT 


Did you miss out on buying tickets for PROGRAM ONE? We have added an additional show on Saturday, October 16! Hurry and get your tickets to this unique collaborative performance.

Ballet Edmonton opens their 2021/22 season with a new work by Artistic Director, Wen Wei Wang, to be presented live and captured on film at the Art Gallery of Alberta. This site-specific creation is inspired by the visual art featured in the gallery spaces and will take place on all three gallery levels. This collaboration will highlight the beauty of the Art Gallery and its current art installations.  

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Upcoming #AGAlives

#AGALive | Cornelia’s Chat : Three by Three

Community Tour with Katharina Kafka 

October 17 at 2pm MDT


Join architect Jane Ferrabee and public artist Bill Pechet in conversation on landscape in the service of care on October 17 at 2:00pm on Zoom. From the hospital to the cemetery: hear about an approach to landscape design that considers cognitive and emotional healing and that creates connections to memory through design as part of the public program for the exhibition Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Genius Loci at the Art Gallery of Alberta.  

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This exhibition is presented as part of the Poole Centre of Design.   

#AGAlive is presented by the EPCOR Heart + Soul Fund and the Canada Council for the Arts.

A chance to win!

'ROYGBIV' Selfie Contest

Last chance to qualify!

Did you know that our friends at the Edmonton City Centre Mall have launched a brand new gift card? 

To celebrate, the AGA is partnering with them to give away a $100 ECCMall gift card to one of our followers! To enter:

1. Take a selfie in our exhibition ROYGBIV

2. Tag @youraga and @eccmall in your selfie

3. Make sure to follow both @eccmall and @youraga

The best selfie will receive the $100 gift card! Note: Gift card must be picked up at ECC Guest Services.

Also, until September 30, when you buy a $100 ECC Gift Card, you’ll get a $10 bonus, free!

This giveaway is in no way sponsored, administered, or associated with Instagram. Winner will be randomly selected, then contacted by DM. Entries will close on October 18 at 6 PM MST. Open to Canadian residents only. Winners will only be chosen if they have not won a giveaway from #ECC in the last 12 months. ⁠

This exhibition is presented as part of the Poole Centre of Design.   

AGA Education & Learning

Tours for Tots | Mini Oil Mixture

Wednesday, October 20

10am MDT

Go big or go home OR stay small and give it your all provides a clue to today’s art session. Join us in our current exhibition ROYGBIV for a peek at larger than life artworks before investigating colour and colour mixing on mini canvases.  

Register below!

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The Art Hive

Thursdays 12pm MDT 

Join AGA educators and students from St. Stephen’s College Art Therapy program in the art studio Art Hive; a weekly community-based art making initiative that is FREE and open to all, every Thursday from 12-1pm. 

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Discover more AGA art activities here 🎨

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.