Artist trading cards (ATCs) is a conceptual art project initiated by the Swiss artist M. Vänçi Stirnemann in 1997. He called it a Collaborative Cultural Performance. Artist trading cards are 2.5 by 3.5 inches in size, the same format as modern trading cards or playing cards. They are self-made unique works or small series, signed and dated on the reverse by the artist/producer, exchanged and collected by the people who participate in the collaboration.
Maxwell Bates LL.D was an architect and expressionist painter.
Edward W. (Ted) Godwin, L.L. D was the youngest member of the Regina Five, a group of five artists all based in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1961 when the group got its name from a show held by the National Gallery of Canada. Godwin is also known for his so-called Tartan paintings of the late 1960s and 1970s.
Roy Kenzie Kiyooka was a Canadian painter, poet, photographer, arts teacher.
Timothy Melvin Zuck was a Canadian painter of representational images with an orientation towards abstraction and a tranquil atmosphere distilled from the world around him. He was also an educator.
Alex Simeon Janvier, LL.D is a First Nation artist in Canada. As a member of the commonly referred to "Indian Group of Seven", Janvier is a pioneer of contemporary Canadian Aboriginal art in Canada.
The New Gallery (TNG) is a non-commercial artist-run centre that presents and promotes contemporary art in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Rita McKeough is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, musician and educator who frequently works in installation and performance.
Ruth Cuthand D.F.A. is a Canadian artist of Plains Cree and Scots ancestry. She is considered an influential feminist artist of the Canadian prairies, and is lauded for her interpretation of racism and colonialism. Her work challenges mainstream perspectives on colonialism and the relationships between settlers and Indigenous people in a practice marked by political invective, humour, and a deliberate crudeness of style.
Nancy Tousley is a senior art critic, journalist, art writer and independent curator whose practice has included writing for a major daily newspaper, art magazines, and exhibition catalogues.
Brenda Draney is a contemporary Cree artist based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Mireille Perron is a Canadian visual artist, writer, scholar, and assistant professor at Alberta University of the Arts (AUArts) based in Calgary, Alberta. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Perron has been exhibiting widely across Canada, the United States, and Europe since 1982, and has published over 80 essays relating to visual art and craft and has been faculty at ACAD since 1990.
Anna Torma is a Hungarian-Canadian fibre artist.
Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta.
Adrian Stimson is an artist and a member of the Siksika Nation.
Ronald Benjamin Moppett is a Canadian painter. He is known primarily for abstract paintings and for works in which he combines paint and collage, along with non-traditional materials. Moppett is based in Calgary, Alberta.
Orest Semchishen is a Canadian photographer whose prints of Alberta document and evoke specific places and people in subjects such as rural communities, ethnic groups and prairie farms and collectively give a sense of Canada. The stark images reveal an economic disparity that scarcely resembles official photographs of the country. He lives in Edmonton.
Laura Millard is a Canadian contemporary artist. She uses for her installations drawings and videos records of the marks left on the earth obtained from drones, such as traces of the tracks of skates and snowmobiles on ice in northern Canada in a long-term investigation of ways to reinvent the landscape tradition of Canada. She also is an educator with over many years of experience working at OCAD University and a writer; she lives and works in Toronto.
David Garneau is a Métis artist whose practice includes painting, curating, and critical writing.
Norman Yates was a painter in washes of colour of panoramic abstract and semi-abstract paintings that he called "landspaces". His themes were space and energy. In 2023, Patricia Bovey said that his landscapes are "flowing, evocative, ephemeral and always changing, reflecting the intangibility of the light, skies, and atmospheric effects". She added that his paintings are significant works in the annals of Western Canadian Art.
