The culture of Alberta refers to the art, customs, and traditions of the people of Alberta. Alberta entered into Confederation in 1905, placing her in a tie with Saskatchewan as the country's second youngest province. Despite her short history, the province possesses a rich culture. The vastness of the land and variation of geography – which includes mountains, foothills, grassland, parkland, forest, and rockland – have served as important sources of creative inspiration across all art forms. Alberta's primary industries of farming, ranching, and petroleum also play a major part in the province's culture and identity.
The Glenbow Museum is an art and history regional museum in the city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The museum focuses on Western Canadian history and culture, including Indigenous perspectives. The Glenbow was established as a private non-profit foundation in 1955 by lawyer, businessman and philanthropist Eric Lafferty Harvie with materials from his personal collection.
Chris Cran is a Canadian visual artist, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Alberta has been a tourist destination since the early days of the 20th Century, with attractions including national parks, National Historic Sites of Canada, urban arts and cultural facilities, outdoor locales for skiing, hiking and camping, shopping locales such as West Edmonton Mall, outdoor festivals, professional athletic events, international sporting competitions such as the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Winter Games, as well as more eclectic attractions.
Lars Jonson Haukaness was a Norwegian born American-Canadian impressionist painter and art instructor who was known for his landscapes.
Clinker is a Canadian sound artist, composer, and visual artist from Edmonton, Alberta. Recent work includes the live cinema piece On the Other Side... , commissioned by the 2008 Leonard Cohen International Festival in Edmonton, Alberta as well as the soundtrack for the documentary Dirt.
Kirsten Lillian Abrahamson is a Canadian ceramic artist.
Reta Cowley was a Canadian painter. She is known for her watercolors of the prairie country around Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, which capture the unique qualities of space and light.
Illingworth "Buck" Kerr was a Canadian painter, illustrator and writer. He is best known for his landscape paintings of the Saskatchewan and Alberta prairies and foothills.
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.
Monica Tap is a Canadian painter, artist and educator. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, and teaches at the University of Guelph. She is known for engaging and challenging conventions concerning landscape and still-life painting.
Kevin Sonmor (1959) is a Canadian artist known for paintings of still lifes, equine and marine scenes. A postmodernist, Sonmor blurs the boundaries between contemporary abstract landscape and historic landscape traditions by creating a visual language which is both representational and symbolic. His work is exhibited in public and private galleries across North America and in Europe.
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.
Sharon Christian was a Canadian artist known for her paintings and sculptures, many of which document intimate encounters with nature.
Ronald Lloyd Myren was a Canadian artist and landscape painter. He was a well known artist in Western Canada who painted mostly in the foothills and mountainous areas of those provinces. He was the Chief Preparator and Registrar, and was in charge of installations at the Edmonton Art Gallery, now known as the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA). He was not a religious man in the traditional church sense of the word, and was not baptized. He believed in nature and was often quoted as saying, "Nature is my church." He expressed his belief and feeling about nature through his art. He spent a great deal of time every summer out in the foothills of Alberta painting, taking photos and fishing. He said he was recording scenes of nature that were going to disappear because of logging and development, and in some respects this prediction has come true.
Helen Stadelbauer was a Canadian painter and educator known for her establishment of the Art Department at the University of Calgary.
Linda Craddock is a Canadian visual artist living in Calgary, Alberta. Her work has been featured in exhibitions since 1973.
Dulcie Foo Fat is a British-born Canadian landscape painter, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Joice M. Hall is a Canadian artist from Alberta, now based in British Columbia. She is known primarily as a landscape painter.
Janet Mitchell was a Canadian modernist painter from Alberta, known for her fantasies of Calgary in watercolours and oils.
