artsPlace invites submissions to the RISE Emerging Artist Program, a juried ~six-week exhibition paired with professional mentorship that builds skills in exhibition design, installation, marketing, and professional practice while fostering community awareness and advancing artists’ careers.
This posting is for 1 hourly position based out of Gallery@501 and Smeltzer House
The Visual Arts Instructor II’s work within a team environment to develop and implement creative, age-appropriate programs for Strathcona County in the areas of painting, drawing, fibre arts, sewing, paper crafts, pottery, contemporary art interpretation, and games.
These positions report to the Visual Arts Programmers at Gallery@501. The programs you may support in this position include:
Calgary’s EASTSIDE STUDIO CRAWL 2025 celebrates artistic expression and collaboration … here’s your invitation to spend the day making new friends! Ramsay and Inglewood will be percolating with fabulous art, artists, demos and open studios at 7 locations on September 20th … mark your calendars, bring family & friends for Saturday’s fun day 11 am to 5pm!
The open studios are shown on the map to help set up your tour day.
About the Exhibition:
The Role
Our artists live with disabilities of varying forms but come to the studio because they want to be artists. To help our artists meet this goal, our Studio Faculty will lead their media-specific departments while making extra efforts to encourage, inspire, and motivate them to conceptualize new ideas, create with new mediums, develop and deliver specialized training programs, and exhibit their works when opportunities arise.
Alberta artists Ana Zanella and Veronica Funk present their own very distinct versions of
memories: abstract grids depicting patterns and organic motifs found in daily life, and portraits inspired by miniature vintage photographs – bringing together old and new through bodies of work that are interconnected by the past but presented in a way that represents the present. The show runs from August 5 - 30th.
Ana Zanella is a painter and mixed media artist living in Calgary who is interested in
