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Art of Reclamation
Hotel Arts’ new collaboration with Whiskey Jack Gallery and artist Shannon Carla King brings you an installation that’s as thought-provoking as it is beautiful. These pieces celebrate the incredible work of reclamation experts, transforming forgotten lands into renewed spaces.
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson
Timeless: 100 years of Oscar Peterson commemorates the centenary of one of Canada’s greatest musical legends. The exhibition celebrates the extraordinary life, music, and legacy of the virtuosic jazz pianist, composer, and humanitarian who captivated audiences around the world.
Unfamiliar Perspectives
Built around archival photographs, sketches, newspaper pages, personal journals and government records, this exhibit at The Confluence highlights lesser-known stories about the North-West Mounted Police.
Nelly-Eve Rajotte: Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz
Montreal-based artist Nelly-Eve Rajotte presents this large-scale multi-media installation that combines moving image, generative sound, and technological devices that listen through a modular synthesizer connected to a live tree, bringing nature, technology and the romantic imagination in dialogue to consider the deeper connections within our ecosystem.
Shadowlands
Shadowlands, an exhibition by painter Cindy Bouwers at Ambrose University, explores the meeting of light and shadow in nature and inner life. Through layered colours and intuitive gestures, the works invite reflection on moments of transition, uncertainty and emotional nuance.
Let It Be Beatles
Celebrate the timeless music and infectious spirit of The Beatles as Jubilations Dinner Theatre brings the Fab Four to life in a high-energy, interactive dinner show. Packed with iconic songs, humour, and surprises, Let It Be Beatles! invites audiences to sing along and maybe even become part of the act.
Anthony Cudahy: metronome yawned
Cudahy is a figurative painter whose tender scenes reveal the nuanced complexities of life. In masterful compositions, he creates a world for unspoken stories, intimate moments and romantic gestures. Personal and poetic, Cudahy’s figures coalesce with the atmosphere of their environments.
Magalie Guérin: Orange to Rattle
Magalie Guérin presents a striking body of work by the Marfa-based artist known for her rigorous, expressive approach to painting and drawing. Drawing on decades of international exhibition and critical acclaim, Guérin’s work balances formal precision with emotional intensity.
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender
Alexandre Pépin: Lavender presents luminous paintings that draw from fresco traditions and modern decorative movements to explore Queer intimacy, memory, and spiritual reflection. Pépin’s richly layered works blend historical influence with personal iconography.
Justin de Verteuil: sie will / muse. zur marionette
This exhibition features evocative oil paintings that explore the shifting relationship between figure, space and spectator. Through ambiguity and carefully placed detail, de Verteuil’s work invites projection and interpretation, turning each scene into a psychological encounter.
Harry Popper and The Frozen Princess
When Harry Popper discovers an ancient book in the Logwarts library, he’s pulled into the story of sisters Annie and Elsie from the Frozen Kingdom and a forbidden plan to change time itself. Don’t miss as Jubilations Junior brings back the popular kids parody.
Next Generation Artists of Alberta Exhibit
Created in partnership with ArtLaunch, check out artwork from young artists, plus two info panels on why community support for young artists matters across 160 feet of wall space outside of the former Hudson’s Bay storefront at Chinook Centre.
Who’s Under Where?
Suspicious spouses, stolen underwear, and mistaken identities collide when Jane and Sybil’s private lingerie showing is interrupted by their jealous husbands. Add a scantily clad model, a sleazy security guard, and five million dollars and you get a hilarious farce full of misunderstandings and chaos.
Yvonne Mullock: Why don’t you…
Yvonne Mullock’s exhibition Why don’t you… is a solo presentation that brings together multiple projects spanning more than ten years of the artist’s practice. Beginning with printmaking and extending into textiles, video, ceramics, and bronze, Mullock crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore questions of human behaviour. Opening Feb. 5, 5 – 8 pm.
Heather Leier: Practice Pinny
As a printmaker, Heather Leier is deeply attuned to embodied knowledge—the physical instincts and repeated actions that shape studio practice. Her practice pinny becomes a metaphor for this “costume of preparation,” echoing the apron worn in the print studio. Opening Feb. 5 from 5 – 8pm.
Eternal Gaze of Contemplation
Inspired by the legend of Mi Fu, this exhibition uses sculptural “rocks” to explore biracial identity and belonging. Through these symbolic forms, the artist reflects on perception, expectation and the weight of imposed labels.
Ashes! Ashes!
This tactile intimate exhibition by Margaret Joba-Woodruff uses charcoal, beeswax, paper and wool to trace memories of home, loss and repair. Through experimental printmaking techniques, the works reflect on housing precarity, shared domestic spaces and what we carry with us as we move on.
Particle + Wave Media Arts Festival
EMMEDIA and TELUS Spark Science Centre present the 11th PARTICLE + WAVE, Media Arts Festival, the only media arts festival in Alberta that focuses on interactive art, projection mapping, AR and VR, and audio-visual installations and performances.
Pictorial Psalms
Pictorial Psalms features work by Zambian-born, Canada-based artist Chish, whose multidisciplinary practice blends storytelling, culture and faith. Drawing on early influences and a biblical lens, the exhibition explores art as a sacred language of connection, reflection and wonder.
A Tasting Menu
A Tasting Menu presents a 12-course visual feast, where each painting serves as a carefully curated snapshot of memory, emotion and experience. Inspired by the artist’s life in the kitchen, this intimate exhibition invites viewers to savour art as they would a thoughtfully prepared meal.
Free This Week
From artist talks to stop-motion art, dive into March with free arts events this week. Catch the conversation at ArtistSpeak*... Read More
Free This Week
From fairy tales for grownups, to exhibition openings and a comic book show, this week’s roundup is full of unexpected... Read More
March Exhibitions
Check out new visual art exhibitions in Calgary — from a 12-course visual feast to an exploration of gesture. Each... Read More
Free This Week
With curator talks, boundary-pushing performances, poetry nights and more, there are plenty of ways to connect creatively this week. Meet... Read More
Questions?
Contact Calgary Arts Development’s communications team at 403.264.5330 ext. 118 or by email at events@calgaryartsdevelopment.com.
