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ᐊᐧᐃᐧᓯᐦᒋᑲᐣ wawisihcikan - adornment • January 7-25, 2025 | FAB Gallery, Main Floor

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itself, the netting, holding | Moriah Crocker • January 7-25, 2025 | FAB Gallery, First Gallery @ FAB

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2024 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada • January 7-February 8, 2025 | FAB Gallery, Second Floor

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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.

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Connections art show at RAM brings healing neuroscience and art communities together

December 17, 2024

Years in the making pairing U of A’s Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute (NMHI) and the university’s Faculty of Arts is the brain/mind exhibition, "Connections: Bringing Neuroscience and Art Together".
Students spin old clothes into synthetic spider silk — and gold

December 5, 2024

U of A undergrads from four faculties work together to win medal at the worldwide iGEM competition in Paris.
Tanya Klimp & Darcy Fraser Macdonald-on This Show Is Trash

November 28, 2024

Tanya Klimp and Darcy Fraser Macdonald chatted with CKUA Radio's Grant Stovel about "This Show is Trash", their shared exhibition that runs in FAB Gallery until December 14.
Where neuroscience meets art

November 21, 2024

Connections, a new exhibit at the Royal Alberta Museum, brings the scientific and artistic together. Developed by researchers at the University of Alberta's Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, the exhibit highlights the brain through scientific images and works created by artists drawing from their own experiences with mental health disorders and brain diseases.
Where neuroscience meets art

November 21, 2024

Marilène Oliver (Art & Design) and Simonetta Sipione (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences) discuss their involvement in "Connections", a new exhibition at the Royal Alberta Museum that brings the scientific and artistic together.
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Art + Design

ᐊᐧᐃᐧᓯᐦᒋᑲᐣ wawisihcikan - adornment • January 7-25, 2025 | FAB Gallery, Main Floor

itself, the netting, holding | Moriah Crocker • January 7-25, 2025 | FAB Gallery, First Gallery @ FAB

2024 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada • January 7-February 8, 2025 | FAB Gallery, Second Floor

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

Connections art show at RAM brings healing neuroscience and art communities together

Students spin old clothes into synthetic spider silk — and gold

Tanya Klimp & Darcy Fraser Macdonald-on This Show Is Trash

Where neuroscience meets art

Where neuroscience meets art

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