Department of Art and Art History
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UCalgary Arts is embarking on an ambitious Arts renewal process. Starting for Fall 2025, we will pause admissions to the MFA programs in Art and Art History.
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Faculty of Arts
What does ‘Made in Canada’ mean to you?
Four UCalgary alumni explore how consumers can be more thoughtful, strategic, and patriotic on National Indigenous Peoples Day and beyond
Outstanding members of UCalgary Arts honoured
Faculty awards recognize Arts community's achievements and influence
JR Shaw Institute for Art in Canada Internship Program
Temporary Full-time: 37.5 hours a week from June 2, 2025 to August 8, 2025 Compensation: $16.5608 per hour Hiring Manager: Jocelyn Anderson, Director, JR Shaw Institute for Art in Canada Closing Date: February 28, 2025
In the Media
In the News Justine Bui (Alumna), Art and Art History, in CBC News
ASIAN CHANGEMAKERS: Justine Bui raising awareness about colourism through art
In the News David Simmonds, Art and Art History, in Halifax Examiner
Moving from disability rights to disability justice
In the News Judy Anderson, Art and Art History, in Windspeaker
Exhibit challenges audiences to see ‘unlimited potential’ of beadwork
In the News Audie Murray, Alumna, Art and Art History, in Eagle Feather News
Regina’s first indigenous artist in residence is hard at work
In the News arch Magazine
How a Swiss Startup in the 1960s Led to Some of the Canadian Prairies’ Most Innovative Art
In the News Audie Murray (recent MFA grad), Art and Art History, in Regina Leader-Post
Beadwork artist Audie Murray to be first Indigenous Artist in Residency
Munnings - The War Years
Munnings – The War Years the exhibition is on until Dec. 6, 2025. Renowned today as one of England’s finest painters of horses, Sir Alfred Munnings also created more than 40 works of art as part of the Canadian War Memorials Fund.
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