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This Show is Trash | Tanya Klimp, MFA Painting • November 19- December 14, 2024 | FAB Gallery

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This Show is Trash | Darcy Fraser Macdonald, MFA Intermedia • November 19- December 14, 2024 | FAB Gallery

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Media Arts/Intermedia • Fine Arts

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History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture

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Industrial Design • Design Studies

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Visual Communication Design • Design Studies

The Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta brings together three practices — Design Studies, Fine Arts, and the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture. A breadth and depth of teaching, research, and creative endeavour supports collaborations in design thinking, hands-on studio practice, and critical visual and historical analysis.

Design Studies

Our interdisciplinary and competitive Design Studies program offers areas of study in Industrial Design and Visual Communication Design.

Fine Arts

Our Fine Arts program provides a dynamic and collaborative environment offering studies in Drawing, Media Arts/Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, and Sculpture and Expanded Media.

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture

Our History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture program equips you to think creatively, read critically, and understand visual cultures and their histories.

Art & Design News

The Long March @ the U of A

November 19, 2024
Video Spotlight: Demystifying artificial intelligence by design

October 29, 2024

Pop-up exhibit gives visitors a hands-on introduction to the basics of technology that is reshaping the world.
‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans

October 27, 2024

Brandi Goddard's (Assistant Lecturer, HADVC) research into Irish folklore and traditional women’s craft finds that people often received warnings through oral folklore and storytelling. Just in time for Halloween, this article takes a look at this phenomenon in Irish folklore surrounding women’s craft.
These artists make videos that are sincere, funny and totally Canadian. Why aren't they ever shown together?

October 24, 2024

Curators Chloë Lum and Yannick Desranleau have often wondered the same thing
Rosefsky Gallery presents ‘A Tragedy of the Commons’

September 4, 2024

The exhibition, featuring the work of Sean Caulfield (in collaboration with U of A Department of Art & Design colleague Sue Colberg and Steven Hoffman from York University), fosters discussion on political action and environmental change.
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This Show is Trash | Tanya Klimp, MFA Painting • November 19- December 14, 2024 | FAB Gallery

This Show is Trash | Darcy Fraser Macdonald, MFA Intermedia • November 19- December 14, 2024 | FAB Gallery

Drawing • Fine Arts

Media Arts/Intermedia • Fine Arts

History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture

Industrial Design • Design Studies

Painting • Fine Arts

Printmaking • Fine Arts

Sculpture • Fine Arts

Visual Communication Design • Design Studies

Art & Design News

The Long March @ the U of A

Video Spotlight: Demystifying artificial intelligence by design

‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans

These artists make videos that are sincere, funny and totally Canadian. Why aren't they ever shown together?

Rosefsky Gallery presents ‘A Tragedy of the Commons’

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