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The AFA Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX) is an AB gov't sponsored program which promotes Alberta art and artists.

TREX provides Albertans with the opportunity to enjoy visual art exhibitions in schools, libraries and other public venues.

04/24/2026

🌀The 2026-2027 Booking Catalogue is out now! 🌀We’re really looking forward to launching these exhibitions this fall here at TREX Southwest.

If you are a current venue, please check your email for the announcement! 📩Otherwise, please visit our website for more info, and to view the catalogue.

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04/17/2026

From now until May 13th, our exhibitions are showing in eight different venues across the southwest region of the province!

Because these are all school venues, they are not open to the public. But we’ll be sure to be in touch when more public viewing opportunities come up. Happy Spring! 🌷🌱

03/20/2026

We had the chance to visit one of our current travelling exhibitions, Odd Objects: Things We Believe In, on display at Griffith Woods School in Calgary this past week!

Curated by Levin Ifko and featuring work my local artists Teresa Tam Pamela Vickerson .vickerson and Mantis Mei , Odd Objects: Things We Believe in investigates our relationships to the objects we hold dear.

Thank you to all the teachers, students, and staff for your excitement and engagement with this show!

03/06/2026

TREX exhibitions are always on the move! Here’s where each of our shows will be in the Southwest region of the province between March 5th and April 8th, 2026. We have one exhibition at a public venue this tour period: a collection of watercolour portraits by Mary Whale, on now at !

If you’d like to learn more about our programming, please visit www.albertasocietyofartists.com/trex, where you will find more info about TREX Southwest, as well as links to our partner region’s websites!

10/15/2025

Our final new exhibition that launched this September, is 𝗢𝗱𝗱 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻. Featuring the work of Alberta-based artists Mantis Mei, Teresa Tam, and Pamela Vickerson, this exhibition highlights the objects we find meaning in as vessels of comfort, humour, and connection.

This travelling exhibition was curated by Levin Ifko for TREX Southwest. With the mentorship and guidance from TREX Southwest’s former Program Manager and Curator, Ash Slemming .the.art.thing

𝗢𝗱𝗱 𝗢𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗜𝗻, is touring in the TREX Southwest region of the province until August 2026. From September 2026 to August 2027, this exhibition will visit venues at our partner regions: TREX Northeast/Central, Northwest, and Southeast. Visit our website or stay tuned to our social media for more information about this show, and where you might see our exhibitions in a public venue near you!

10/03/2025

Another brand new exhibition from TREX Southwest, 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴 features work from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts .1991 permanent collection. Curated by Ash Slemming .the.art.thing, 𝘏𝘰𝘸𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴 alludes to the mystery and aliveness of land and sky in the prairies, inviting viewers to listen, feel, and connect with the diverse calls of the land along the Great Plains in Alberta and Beyond.

This exhibiton launched at the beginning of September 2025, and started off it’s tour year at in Carstairs AB! Next stop, Roland Michener Elementary School here in Calgary.

For more information about this exhibition TREX Southwest, and the AFA TREX Travelling Exhibition Program, please visit our website (link on our profile)!

09/26/2025

Next up in our series highlighting of new TREX Southwest Exhibitions, we have 𝙍𝙚𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙮, Curated by Eveline Kolijn lead Energy Futures artist, in partnership with TREX Southwest!

Reimagining Fire, The Future of Energy is a book publication and exhibition featuring a fine art print portfolio (Energy Futures) by a collective of twenty Albertan artists and twenty Albertan writers. These creatives were thoughtfully paired to share a collaborative vision of sustainable energy in Alberta, exploring pressing questions that arise as we imagine solutions to climate change and global energy transitions.

Eveline brought the Energy Futures artist collective together with the Energy Futures Lab’s network of experts, thinkers, and influencers to develop the ensuing book, print portfolio, and now touring exhibition.

This exhibition is touring in the TREX Southwest region of the province until August 2026. From Sept 2026 to August 2027, this exhibition will visit venues at our partner regions: TREX Northeast/Central, Northwest, and Southeast. Visit our website or stay tuned to our social media For information about where you can see this work in a venue near you!

09/19/2025

Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some of our brand new TREX Exhibitions! Today, we’ll be starting with “Mary Whale: Between the Lines,” a solo exhibition featuring the work of Mary Whale .mary

Mary Whale: Between the Lines is a solo exhibition that showcases expressive portraits of older adults and celebrates the beauty of ageing through Mary Whale’s compelling and elegantly executed watercolours.

Mary Whale has been engaging older adults for portrait sittings for over twenty years as both a visual artist and a gerontologic nurse. What began as an extension of her interest in watercolour portraits evolved into an exploration of a unique interviewing and portrait sitting process that evokes reminiscence and reflection. With permission, Mary recorded the dialogue of each sitting and worked with a writer (Laurel Sproule) who transcribed the recordings into individual stories and autobiographies that are included alongside the artworks in this exhibition.

As Mary Whale’s work reveals, aging is much more than just a physical change that occurs through time. This series of watercolours seeks to highlight what’s ‘between the lines’ in an understanding of aging as an ongoing social, cultural and biological phenomenon.

This exhibition was curated by Ash Slemming .the.art.thing (TREX Southwest Program Manager and Curator, 2020-2025). Thank you Ash for curating such an beautifully engaging and important exhibition!

“Mary Whale: Between the Lines,” will be touring across Alberta from September 2025 through August 2027. Check out our website for more information, and to see if our shows are touring at a venue near you!

09/04/2025

We’re excited to share where our brand new lineup of exhibitions are headed this tour period, September 4th until October 1st, 2025!

More info to come soon about our brand new exhibitions:
🌀Mary Whale:Between the Lines🌀
🌻Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy🌻
🌾 Howl in the Grass 🌾
💽Odd Objects: Things We Believe In 📠

In the meantime, we’re wishing everyone a great start to the new school year, and a peaceful change of the seasons 🍂

08/28/2025

It’s time for our Fall 2025 Tour Launch! 🌳🍂 We’ve had a busy summer of artwork prep, crate building, catalogue design, and onboaridng our brand new Program Manager and Curator, Alexa Bunnell. Today, our brand new exhibitions have been picked up and are ready to be shown in venues all across Southwest Alberta!

We’re so excited to share these exhibitions with you - stay tuned to our social media and website, where we will be promoting our lineup of brand new exhibitions 🎀

P.S. If your venue has an exhibition booked with TREX Southwest, please check your email for information about the delivery of your show!

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