Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre & Sculpture Park

Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre & Sculpture Park Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre & Sculpture Park KOAC, is a year-round, sustainable, art-in-nature destination

It’s hard to tell in this photo, but on the top of Charles Boyce’s bridge sculpture there is a hawk and a swallow, and b...
06/05/2026

It’s hard to tell in this photo, but on the top of Charles Boyce’s bridge sculpture there is a hawk and a swallow, and below in the pond two female mallard ducks swimming pleasantly. All around the frogs were sounding in the ponds, the grasses hushed in the gentle breeze, and you can see an impression in the grass - possibly from a creature who found a place to rest for a while.

Like nature, art has many of these small sometimes hidden signals and clues - telling a story - the artist’s story, or an artwork might provide clues into what an artist is interested in, thinking about, and exploring.

What can you look closer at to learn? 👀

Visit KOAC sculpture park during daylight hours for self-guided walks along our pathways 💚

Or learn more at koartscentre.org

JOIN US AT KOAC JUNE 28TH FOR NEIGHBOUR APPRECIATION DAYWe’re opening the sculpture park and studios for our second annu...
06/04/2026

JOIN US AT KOAC JUNE 28TH FOR NEIGHBOUR APPRECIATION DAY

We’re opening the sculpture park and studios for our second annual Neighbour Appreciation Day at the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre! Join us for a relaxed morning of art and connection in nature to kick off our summer tour season!

We will have free guided sculpture park tours every hour on the hour from 10am until 1pm, and while you wait for a tour, you can visit KOAC’s artist in residency studio space with current artist hosting an open studio, get a glimpse into the beekeeping onsite with artist and beekeeper .lortie.art while walking the sculpture park pathways, and participate in a fun drop-in art activity with artist Blake McLeod !

Whether you’re visiting for the first time or returning to see what’s new, we look forward to welcoming you and celebrating the creative spirit of our community to kick off our summer tour season which begins Saturday, July 4th!

No registration required - drop on by for our FREE EVENT!

Please park in our main lot off of Horizon View Road, and KOAC staff and volunteers will be there to greet you when you arrive.

Upcoming next month: Join us for STORY FEATHERS on National Indigenous Peoples Day and the Summer Solstice: June 21st 🪶☀...
05/29/2026

Upcoming next month: Join us for STORY FEATHERS on National Indigenous Peoples Day and the Summer Solstice: June 21st 🪶☀️

Facilitated by Elder Harley Crowshoe (Piikani Nation) alongside artists Patricia Lortie, Oo’Ks’pain’aakii, and James Ziegler, Mohkinstsis Pookáá, this gathering invites participants into a creative and contemplative journey of storytelling, cultural knowledge sharing, reflection, and connection through the making of hand-crafted story feathers with

As stories emerge through conversation and creation, we gather across generations and ancestries to listen, learn, and imagine more connected ways of being together.

📍 Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre
🗓 Sunday, June 21, 1–4 PM
RSVP through Eventbrite (link is in bio)

Attendance is limited to 20 participants to support the intentional and reflective nature of the gathering. If this experience feels meaningful to you, we encourage you to RSVP early and get it into your calendar.

If registration reaches capacity early, we welcome emails to [email protected] to be added to a waitlist.

Magpie mid-flight as it leaves its perch on our sculpture signage - with Ray Arnatt’s sculpture installation ‘Blocks’ in...
05/28/2026

Magpie mid-flight as it leaves its perch on our sculpture signage - with Ray Arnatt’s sculpture installation ‘Blocks’ in the background.

In reference to this sculpture, artist Ray Arnatt is quoted:

“I have often said that what artists do is self-portraiture. Now these are not self-portraits, not direct representations, they are self-portraits in that they are reflections of your psyche, personality, history, biology, whatever that feeds you, as well as all the external influences in your life - people you know, people you love, they all have an incredible impact on the work.”

Every artist is compelled and driven to create the work they do based on their own personal stories and life experiences.

Come visit the sculpture park for a self-guided tour to see this sculpture and more during daylight hours, or stay tuned for upcoming events and summer Saturday tours which will be starting in July!

Join us Sunday June 14th at KOAC for an artist talk and Q&A with Artist-in-Residence Toni Cormier as she shares research...
05/22/2026

Join us Sunday June 14th at KOAC for an artist talk and Q&A with Artist-in-Residence Toni Cormier as she shares research, observations, and creative processes that have been unfolding during her residency.

Grounded in themes of kinship, power, ecology, and speculative futures, Toni’s practice explores relationships between living beings and their environments through painting and visual storytelling. During her residency, she has been spending time observing the forests, water bodies, plant life, insects, animals, and shifting qualities of light across the land at KOAC.

Through daily walks, en plein air studies, sketches, and painting experiments, Toni is developing new work rooted in encounters with place and the living dynamics that shift and play through time.

Come explore the sculpture park and join us for conversation about art, observation, and our relationships to the land and creatures we share space with.

📍 Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre
🎟 RSVP through Eventbrite (link in bio)

Join us in welcoming artist Toni Cormier as the current artist in residence at KOAC until June 30th! Toni explores the ...
05/22/2026

Join us in welcoming artist Toni Cormier as the current artist in residence at KOAC until June 30th!

Toni explores the shifting relationships between light, water, and the living world, and the complexity of social power systems. Through daily walks, sketches, en plein air studies, and observational research, Toni will spend time in the forests and observe water systems onsite, studying how light reveals, obscures, and transforms moments within the landscape.

Encounters between animals, insects, plants, people, and water become starting points for visual narratives exploring kinship, agency, desire, power, and speculative futures.

Through drawing, painting, and field studies, Toni will be working on developing a new series of intimate oil paintings developed from time spent in close relationship with the land.

Toni Cormier is a visual artist based in Mohkinstis (Calgary, Alberta). Working primarily in painting and sculpture, she explores relationships and social power dynamics through the metaphor of sport fishing. Scenes of play, deception, absurdity, and social roles happen over a backdrop of dream-like landscapes.

Cormier graduated with distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with disctinction in Drawing. She exhibited at Herringer Kiss Gallery in Surface, Surface and participated in BUMP’s 2025 Road Works Festival. Calgary Arts Development has generously supported her. Cormier maintains an active role in the Mohkinstis arts community as an artist and arts programmer, including her current position at National accessArts Centre as the 2D Painting/Drawing Faculty.

Torso is a hand-built hollow clay sculpture created by KOAC’s co-founding artist Katie Ohe during her fourth year at the...
05/15/2026

Torso is a hand-built hollow clay sculpture created by KOAC’s co-founding artist Katie Ohe during her fourth year at the Alberta College of Art, now known as Alberta University of the Arts ( )

As an ode to her early career, this work offers a glimpse into Ohe’s artistic development before she became widely recognized for her large-scale kinetic sculptures.

Together with her late husband Harry Kiyooka, the two artists founded the Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre to continue to inspire others in appreciating and learning about contemporary art. Sculpture, nature, and creative exploration continue to shape the site today. Works like Torso remind us that every artistic career begins with intention and dedication, and that a lifelong commitment to creativity can evolve in unexpected ways.

Visit koartscentre.org to learn more about self-guided visits, and stay tuned here or on our newsletter for updates on upcoming events!

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We hope you’re enjoying your weekend and the sunnier weather! The ducks have been enjoying our spring meltwater ponds be...
05/10/2026

We hope you’re enjoying your weekend and the sunnier weather! The ducks have been enjoying our spring meltwater ponds beside Charles Boyce’s Yellow ‘Bridge’ Sculpture 💛 Reminder that the Sculpture Park is open for self-guided tours daily from 10am-6pm! Come walk the park at your leisure and enjoy the horizon views, now with ducks 🦆🦆🙌

05/01/2026

Patricia Lortie has been busy with feeding and checking on the worker honey bees at Kiyooka Ohe Arts Centre 🐝

The bees overwintered protected by hay bales and insulating materials around their box hives, avoiding the harsh winds of the prairies. We look forward to more plant growth and wildflower blooms at the sculpture park soon - the bees are already busy collecting pollen!! Their little legs full of the golden dust doing its quiet labour 💛

While honey bees are not native to North America, they are cared for thoughtfully and kept in balance, contributing to the pollination of both cultivated and native plants. At KOAC, their presence exists alongside a growing commitment to native plantings and habitat support, making space for many kinds of pollinators to share in the work of sustaining the landscape.

04/22/2026

The frogs at KOAC have a lot to say! Maybe they have opinions about art? What do you think they’re saying?

Tell us in the comments who you think a frog’s favourite sculpture artist might be 🐸🤔

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