Southern Alberta

The Town of Okotoks has an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Assistant Curator (Gallery) to join the Culture & Heritage team within the Community Identity Business Centre, Planning & Identity Sub-Division and Community Growth & Identity Division. Reporting to the Culture & Heritage Team Leader, the Assistant Curator (Gallery) will be responsible for work such as:

- In consultation with the Culture & Heritage Team Leader (Curator), prepares, negotiates and oversees fulfillment of formal agreements with artists, external partners for art or historical objects as a collection or on loan;
- Assists with the creation of meaningful exhibitions and related programming; includes updating exhibit themes and interactive components as needed, ensuring the preservation of our community’s culture & heritage;
- Assists Community Engagement with marketing and public engagement, including promoting exhibitions, programs and activities;
- As directed, opens and closes the facility, manages admissions and sales, greets and provides information to visitors and tourists;
- Develop relationships with and provide service to a diverse array of visitors, members, program registrants, facility users and community partners;
- Oversee gift shop ordering and sales;
- Coordinate the Art Gallery’s active membership program, including sale of memberships, member communication, membership database maintenance and membership appreciation events;
- Responsible for Gallery financial transactions, daily till cash-outs and reconciliation and the preparation of daily deposits.

What you Bring
A combination of education and experience that would provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities to qualify.  A typical way to qualify is equivalency to completion of a University (Bacehlor) Program in a related field, such as Fine Arts, Art History, or Mueseum Studies, as well as:

• 3 or more years related work experience representing continuous learning and career progression;
• Experience with writing funding and grant applications considered an asset;
• Knowledge of local history, culture and art including that of the local indigenous community is considered an asset;
• Strong customer experience aptitude;
• Strong research and writing skills;
• Able to manage assigned work, including larger projects effectively and independently;
• Proven verbal communication and storytelling skills;
• Flexibility to work a non-standard work week, including weekends and occasional evenings

For more information about the position and how to apply, please visit the Town of Okotoks's Careers website.

Application Deadline: August 3, 2025

The Allied Arts Council of Pincher Creek is a non-profit community arts organization that makes our home in the beautiful historic Lebel Mansion in Southern Alberta.

Note: our deadline has been extended until Sunday, August 31, 2025.

We are currently accepting submissions for our 2026 season. We invite solo and group artists to apply for the 2026 exhibition season.

​Please visit our website for all the details, including an updated gallery submission information packet which will guide you through the process.

We strive to host thought-provoking exhibitions that appeal to a diverse audience in order to expand understanding of the visual arts in the community. Our art gallery exhibits working artists at all levels of their artistic careers and curates dynamic exhibitions that showcase strong, current Canadian art. We provide a yearly exhibition schedule balancing local artists and artists from throughout Canada working in all mediums.

The Allied Arts Council of Pincher Creek’s preference is for exhibitions that are for sale, however we will consider submissions that do not include works for sale. The AAC has a commission rate of 30% on all sales in addition to paying artist fees. All exhibitions will be curated and installed by the AAC's Executive Director, Kassandra Chancey and/or experienced volunteers in coordination with the artist or group.

If you are applying as a solo artist and we see potential for a group show collaboration amongst submissions will be in contact with you.

​The 2026 exhibitions run for 6-8 consecutive weeks and artists are paid $1000 for showcasing their work.

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, August 31, 2025 by 11:59 p.m.

Visit our website for all the details and submission package

Upside Downtown: Concerts + Art line-up for 2025! 

Join us every Thursday in July & August from 5-7pm on Rotary Square at Casa. FREE to attend. From local talent to Juno-nominated artists, Upside Downtown has rock, soul, folk, blues, funk, and country plus everything in between. 

JULY 3*
Veronica Raine
The Decadent Phase

JULY 10*
Makiisma

JULY 17
Joce Reyome

JULY 24
Joshua Beebe & The Forest Orchestra
Willy Big Bull & Wintercount

JULY 31
John Wort-Hannam

AUGUST 7
Nuela Charles

AUGUST 14
Bailey Kate Band

AUGUST 21
Richard Inman & The Western Canadian All-Stars

AUGUST 28 - POP UP, GET DOWN - Dance until 10 pm
Shaela Miller + Guests
ADEQUATE!
Hippodrome

Our final concert on August 28 will be the inaugural POP UP, GET DOWN – A summer dance party with three bands, an art market, and we’re closing 8 Street South! 

Throughout the summer, drop by The Gallery at Casa for Re:Turning the Stories, a community exhibition with over 40 local artists reflecting on their relationship to the Nikka Yuko Japanese Garden and Nikkei cultural stories in southern Alberta. 

Follow the @AACLETH and @CASALETHBRIDGE on Facebook and Instagram to see which food trucks will be joining us each week. 

*PS - We will be joined for a pre-show on July 3 & July 10 at 4:45 pm with Chinook High School Battle of the Bands Winners. Supporting emerging talent in our community! 

Thank you to our sponsors for allowing us to provide FREE concerts to the community: FACTOR, Spectrum Ale Co., Westco Construction, Precon, Andrew Hilton, Anova Law Group, CIR Realty, Nectar Tattoo, Safeway, So Normal Print Co., Tourism Lethbridge, and Warwick Printing.

The Upside Downtown Concert Series is programmed by the Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge. For more information about this series and the AAC, visit artslethbridge.org/ 

En Salle // Indoor Landscape
Svea Ferguson

Leighton Art Centre
June 21–August 24, 2025

282027 144 Street West
Foothills, AB T1S 0Y4

www.leightoncentre.org
www.sveaferguson.com

Svea Ferguson’s current exhibition En Salle // Indoor Landscape indulges in falsified replications of nature, utilizing primarily ready-made, raw, and minimally altered materials. While the French term en plein air refers to painting outdoors within the landscape, en salle means “indoors” or “in the room,” speaking to Ferguson’s interest in interior spaces, faux surfaces, and the mimicry of biological forms. Playing with this reversal of art historical terminology, the works in the show are ostensibly ex situ: made and existing outside their natural locations of reference. These objects and materials are largely devoid of any true connection to the land, and aptly exhibit the strange futility of capitalist desires to manufacture nature.

The sculptural centerpiece of the exhibition, above below beyond, was created for an exhibition at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2020, which remained largely unviewable due to COVID-19 restrictions. Here the work is reconsidered and expanded in the context of the Leighton Art Centre with the companion work paper sky. This context considers the founders Barbara and A.C. Leighton, whose work was centered on depictions of the land and sky and the practice of plein air painting, a tradition that the Centre carries on in its current programming and collection. Ferguson has created her own version of a landscape through sourcing ready-made objects with pre-packaged nature veneers; carpet made to look like a painterly field of flowers, paper printed to imitate a blue, cloud-filled sky. The materials have been cut to physically open them into net-like forms, allowing natural light from the windows to pass through. Following the logic of the material is key; Ferguson cuts away parts of the floral carpet pattern, following the lines of the pattern itself. This allows the once-solid carpet to open itself to the light, which in turn casts shadows as replacements for the shapes that have been removed. In paper sky, that same carpet pattern is projected onto and cut out of the material as a means of connection between these two spatially separate entities (land and sky).

En Salle // Indoor Landscape acknowledges and complicates our reverence for nature, joining the worlds of “real” and “fake”. As natural light passes over and through the objects, their static surface is activated. Like painting en plein air, the work captures qualities of light and atmosphere, but here there is a disconnect when determining a sense of place; the result is entirely manufactured.

Svea Ferguson (she/her) is a sculptor from Mohkínstsis/Calgary. Her work was commissioned for the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art and has been shown across North America and abroad. Notable exhibitions include the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Esker Foundation, Division Gallery Toronto, Holland Project NV and Art Athina in Athens, Greece. She received the BMO 1st Art Prize for Alberta in 2015. Her work is included in numerous private collections and the permanent collections of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and TD Canada Trust.