Art & Design



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.

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

  • Raneece Buddan on CBC Radioactive

    January 22, 2024

    Raneece Buddan speaks with CBC Radioactive about her current FAB Gallery show, "In this vessel I am..."

  • Bei Shan Tang Doctoral Thesis Grant congratulations

    December 15, 2023

    Congratulations to Bei Shan Tang Doctoral Thesis Grant recipient, Anran Tu.

  • HADVC Collaborative Forum Supports Research and Development

    December 12, 2023

    Art & Design professors Betsy Boone and Lianne McTavish hosted a group of 18 international scholars in October at a SSHRC-funded workshop designed to provide a collaborative forum in which to develop essays to be included in their forthcoming anthology, "Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America".

  • I AM YEG ARTS: YONG FEI GUAN

    November 2, 2023

    Yong Fei Guan is an intermedia artist with a research-intensive practice that is deeply rooted in community. As a researcher, the Chinese-Canadian artist explores multicultural identity, politics and their relationship to environmental issues in her work. In this I Am YEG Arts feature, Guan tells us about her research on the goji berry and how it reflects Chinese Canadian history and culture, as well as how she plans to build on that research and what it means to her to be an EATF recipient.

  • Photostory: ‘want and fear’ at FAB Gallery

    November 1, 2023

    Emily Legleitner, a Master's of Fine Arts student in print-making at the U of A, depicts anxiety and the human condition through her art.

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