The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) is an art museum in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The museum occupies a 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) building at Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. The museum building was originally designed by Donald G. Bittorf, and B. James Wensley, although portions of that structure were demolished or built over during a redevelopment of the building by Randall Stout.
Royden Mills Is a sculptor who has taught as a contract Academic at the University of Alberta over more than 25 years. His first professional studio was in Hokkaido Japan and he now works out a rural studio not far from Edmonton. A selection of his large-scale work can be found at: Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton New Jerzy, Terwillegar Park Edmonton Canada, State University of New York, Odette Sculpture Park, Franconia Sculpture Park (Minnesota), Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta and Chomin Hall Shikaoi, Hokkaido Japan, among other places. Mills work can be seen at the University of Lethbridge, Arlington Heights, Chicago, Sculpturesite Gallery San Francisco, Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden in Dalton Georgia, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canmore Hospital Canada, and also in Centennial Plaza Red Deer Alberta, as well as Shikaoi, Hokkaido Japan, as well as in Imagining Science at the Art Gallery of Alberta where he collaborated with internationally recognized Print Artist, Sean Caulfield The work they generated has been seen at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, UQAM Gallery Montreal, McMaster University Museum, and Enterprise Square, Edmonton. He has won many of Canada's major art awards and continues to work actively to promote the advancement of Sculpture as a discipline, most obviously as an active studio artist, demonstrating that it is possible to make a life through art, paid for by art even if one is not a highly paid educator. He also takes the opportunity through his contract academic position to advance the potential of his students in very significant ways. Through opportunities for young artists at Franconia Sculpture Park many University of Alberta Students have gone on to enjoy mentoring from John Hock, Jon Isherwood and they also have been able to enjoy seeing how they can enjoy working far outside of the Canadian scene. Mills' undergraduate students have twice won the International Sculpture Centre's Outstanding Student Achievement Award in 2014 and 2015. Kaise Campbell and Tiffany Adair beat even applications for this award from graduate students from many leading institutions and were given the opportunity to meet and learn about further opportunities available to them. During his many years of teaching in the Department of Art & Design at the U of A, he has coordinated all 32 sections of art and design fundamentals, while also maintaining a very strong professional studio practice. In 2014 he won the William Hardy Alexander Teaching Award and the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award.
Carol Lorraine Sutton; born September 3, 1945, is a multi-disciplined artist born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an award-winning painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows. Her work, which ranges from complete abstraction to the use of organic and architectural images, relates to the formalist ideas of Clement Greenberg and is noted for the use of color. Some of Sutton paintings have been related to ontology.
Kirsten Lillian Abrahamson is a Canadian ceramic artist.
Jane Ash Poitras is a Cree painter and printmaker from Canada. Her work uses the idioms of mainstream art to express the experience of Aboriginal people in Canada.
Luke Orton Lindoe was a Canadian painter, sculptor, potter, businessman and ceramic artist who did most of his work in Alberta, Canada. For long periods he was based in Medicine Hat.
Sandra Bromley is a Canadian artist. She is noted for her anti-war and anti-violence artwork, most notably Gun Sculpture, co-created with Wallis Kendal. Her artwork has been exhibited at the United Nations and the presentation of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Susan G. Scott RCA (1949) is a Canadian artist known for contemporary figurative painting. Her work is found in national and international public collections including the Canada Council for the Arts, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Collection du Fonds régional d'art contemporain d’Île-de-France in Paris, Canada - Israel Cultural Foundation in Jerusalem and Houston Baptist University in Texas. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2013.
Susan Shantz, is a Canadian sculptor. Her work is often described as spiritual and feminist. She currently resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Diane Whitehouse is a Canadian painter, professor and a founding member of Mentoring Artists For Women's Art. She has based her practice in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, since 1977. Her large, semi-abstract paintings are in collections including Alberta Government House, and Winnipeg Art Gallery. In 2011, she won the Making A Difference Award at the Winnipeg Mayor's Luncheon for the Arts.
Lyndal Osborne is a Canadian artist based in Edmonton, Alberta. She was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Her works include BioArt, Sculpture, Video art, and multimedia. Osborne's' installation work speaks of the forces of transformation within nature and provides a commentary on issues relating to the environment. In her more recent works, Osborne has also examined the issues of genetically modified organisms as subject matter.
Joane Cardinal-Schubert was an artist of Kainaiwa ancestry. She was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. She was an activist for native sovereignty.
Ryan McCourt is a Canadian late modernist artist best known for his "elegant" sculptures. His artwork has been seen in exhibitions alongside a variety of notable visual artists, from Aganetha Dyck and Barbara Astman to Jules Olitski and Walter Darby Bannard. With sculptors Andrew French, Mark Bellows, Bianca Khan, Rob Willms, Linda Maines, and Cynthia Sentara, Ryan McCourt is identified as part of the "Next Generation" of Edmonton Sculpture.
Nancy Tousley is an award-winning 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 an award-winning contemporary Cree artist based in Edmonton, Alberta.
Tanya Lukin Linklater is of Caucasian and Alutiiq descent. She is an artist-choreographer. Her work consists of performance collaborations, videos, photographs and installations. She is currently the Director of the Office of Indigenous Initiatives at Nipissing University.
Egevadluq Ragee was a Canadian artist, known primarily for her hand drawn prints and acrylics.
Evelyn Roth is a self-taught community and interdisciplinary artist who has worked in the areas of textiles, sculpture, performance, dance and interactive fabric arts. She specializes in environmentally sensitive events, family festivals, school programs and art gallery exhibits. Roth is based in the town of Maslin Beach, Australia.
Amy Malbeuf is a Canadian-Métis visual artist, educator, and cultural tattoo practitioner born in Rich Lake, Alberta.
Linda Craddock is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1973.
