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Feature Gallery
The ACC operates the only public gallery in the province dedicated to exhibiting craft arts and is Edmonton’s second largest public gallery. The Feature Gallery hosts
4+ exhibitions per year.

Discovery Gallery
The Discovery Gallery is dedicated to showing new work by established and emerging fine craft artists as well as small group exhibitions.  The Discovery Gallery is located on the main level of the ACC and features 7+ exhibitions per year.

Current Exhibition

May 11 - June 15, 2013
Neighbourhood Icons

Artist Reception: Saturday, May 11 from 2-4pm
a chronicle of sculpted characters from the community of Edmonton ceramic sculptor Ritchie Velthuis. View the online exhibition

 

 

May 11 - June 15, 2013
Making Notes

Artist Reception: Saturday, May 11 from 2-4pm
an exhibition of handcrafted ukuleles by Edmonton artist Andy Brooks. View the online exhibition

 

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

June 20 - July 27, 2013
Coming Up Next

Artist Reception: 2-4pm, Saturday, June 22
an exhibition of contemporary fine craft by emerging artists.
Artists: Kelly Austin, Breanne Avender, Dana Bush, Carli Castle, Katriona Drijber, Brad Goertz, Sharon Graham, Matt Heide, Sharon Hogg, Shane McNutt, Janet Peters, Jenell  Pierson, Brenda Raynard, Jocelyn Reid, Mia Riley, Julia Rayne Schumacher, Miranda Scott, Leah Spagrud, Mary Stankevicius, Paul van den Bijgaart, Kristyn Don Wozniewich

August 3 - September 7, 2013
Tails from a Rejuvenated Forest

Artist Reception: 2-4pm, Saturday, September 7
an installation exploring the drive of nature by Calgary ceramic artists Lisa McGrath and Mindy Andrews.

 

 

August 3 - September 7, 2013
Static Bloom

Artist Reception: 2-4pm, Saturday, September 7
a showcase of botanical polymer clay wall art by emerging St. Albert artist Kristen Anderson.

 

 

Previous Exhibitions

March 30 - May 4, 2013
Urban Wild

Artist Reception: Saturday, March 30 from 2-4pm

Calgary Clay arts Association investigates the idea of "wild" within an urban environment.
Particpating Artists:
Mindy Andrews, Constance Cooper, Louise Cormier, Krista Gowland, Connie Pike, Kathy Ransom, Monika Smith, Darlene Swan, Susan Thorpe  View the online exhibition

 

February 23 – March 23, 2013
The Recipients

An exhibition highlighting the 2012 Alberta Craft Award Recipients.
Linda Stanier & Family Memorial Award Jim Etzkorn (Medicine Hat, AB)
Award of Honour Sarabeth Carnat (Calgary, AB)
Award of Excellence John Blair (Calgary. AB)
Award of Achievement Bee Kingdom (Calgary, AB)
View the online exhibition

 

January 12 – February 16, 2013

Earthly Elements

Celebrating Charles Lewton-Brain’s 2012 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft and Les Manning’s recent appointment to the Order of Canada.  View the online exhibition

 

 

2012 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

See all the Discovery Gallery exhibitions from 2012: view online.

The Recipients; What’s a Girl to Do; Women; Obsession; Confluence; Coming Up Next; Pure Form; Figments & Fragments; Thank you! Come Again; Delineate

 

 

2011 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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The Recipients; Culinary Collection; Flourish; Strength & Stillness; Coming Up Next; Off the Floor; Specimen; Making a Spectacle of Myself; Victorian Inclinations; Saltalk

 

 

2010 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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The Recipients; An Affair to Remember; The Geese Came Back; Proximity & Touch; Coming Up Next; Aerial Landscapes; Intangible Cultural Assets: Reflections of Korea; Words, Wit, Wisdom and Wool

 

 

2009 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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The Recipients Exhibition; Drawing from Nature; Coming Up Next; Gone Green; Immense Mode; Wallpaper; Saving Paradise

 

 

 

2008 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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The Recipients Exhibition; The Future is Later; Nimama; Alberta is My Home; Coming Up Next; Remnants of Community; Isabelle's Sheepdog; Florescence; Vetro Grande IV: Paddle My Bottom

 

 

2007 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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The Recipients; Snow Series; Neo-Ovo: New Egg Design; Naked Truth; Coming Up Next; To China With Love; Ten Ita (Heavenly Plank); I³ - Influences, Inspirations, and Innovations

 

 

2006 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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Timeless Communicator; Sparks; Going Green; Just for Fun; Cover Ups & Further Revelations; Fairytales, Folklore & Mythcommunications... Part 1; Alberta Close Up & Personal; Two of a Kind; Once Upon a Time

 

 

2005 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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Body Ornament West; Reflections; Musings on My First Nine Lives; Artstravigant Faces; Waistcoats/Wastecoats; My House Is Your House; Fine Legs, Chest & Hot Seats; Retrospective; Links; Sojourn of Fire; Studio Ceramics in Canada; Fibre Optics; Drawn to the Flame

 

2004 Discovery Gallery Exhibitions

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Diversion; Rags to Rugs; Image Serves Technique; A Woman’s Place; Handwork Series: to the bone, in the blood, from the heart; Fine Legs, Great Chests & Hot Seats; Healing with Fibre; Stretching It; First Fire