Past TREX exhibitions

The AFA Travelling Exhibition …bring a folding chair is inspired by annual Black History Month celebrations and recognizes the significant contributions Black Canadian artists make to Alberta.

The exhibition A Cordial Word, featuring works from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, shines a spotlight on flowers and the flower garden.

The exhibition Now is the Winter…, featuring art works by Edmonton artist aAron Munson and works from the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts invites viewers to examine their personal relationships to the physical world and also to themselves. 

Featuring 17 artworks from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts collection, the exhibition Fields of Vision, Lines of Sight highlights Alberta’s vast prairie landscapes rendered 2-dimensionally by twelve different artists.

In the 1930s, an intense period of drought swept across the Great Plains of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and parts of the United States. This helped to set the stage for the historical crisis known as the dust bowl. The artworks in Farming in the Dust Bowl explore this period of history.

The exhibition Tale of a Fish Scale reflects on the beauty and bounty of fish, as well as the responsibility we hold as stewards of the lakes and rivers they live in.