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05/28/2026

This week, Prairie Rose Public Schools brought Kaleidoscope for the Arts to the Esplanade! 🎨🎵
For nearly two decades now, Kaleidoscope has highlighted the creative achievements of students across the division through a day of performances, exhibition of student artworks, and workshops facilitated by professional musicians or artists.

One of the day’s workshop facilitators was TREX exhibiting artist, Nate McLeod! In conjunction with the group show “Assembly Manual: Sites for Existence”, currently on view in the Gallery Foyer, he worked with students to create paper maquettes. In his own artistic practice, Nate uses maquettes – or, paper models – to plan his paintings; testing out different compositions, colours and lighting.🕯️

All our TREX exhibition catalogues feature lesson plans and activities for all ages. Nate’s full Paper Maquettes lesson is available in the Assembly Manual catalogue, accessible here: https://bit.ly/4dUSlxX ⭐

Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre Alberta Foundation for the Arts City of Medicine Hat Tourism Medicine Hat

05/21/2026

Our May arrivals!🌼🌷 ⭐

This month, select TREX exhibitions can be found around Elkwater, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, and Castor!

Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre City of Medicine Hat Medicine Hat College Tourism Medicine Hat

05/11/2026

New to Esplanade Project Space is "Interoceptive Sensing" by Kara Sloan! 🌀

In "Interoceptive Sensing", Kara presents visual interpretations of her body’s internal landscape, newly reconfigured by onset chronic illness. Like sight and touch, interoception refers to another of the body’s senses. It interprets internal signals and communicates actions towards regulation: hunger pangs cue eating, an itch prompts a scratch. But what were to happen if those signals became haywire? How do you begin to re-orient yourself and navigate back to a balanced state of being? Kara responds by going in search of a map.

Curated by Thea Sleight, Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre.

On view from May 16 to September 26, 2026. Take a gander! 👀

Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre City of Medicine Hat

05/08/2026

Assembly Manual: Sites for Existence is now on view at the Esplanade! 🏢

Each work presented in this group exhibition explores elements of built environments – or sites for existence – including urban / suburban, interior / exterior, and private / public space. While the human figure is absent throughout the body of work, we are ever aware that these sites were built by and for humans and so are left to contemplate how we might interact with and relate to them. Ultimately, what effects, for better or for worse, have these sites for existence had on our individual and collective psyches?

Featuring work by Nate Macleod, Morgan Melenka, and the artist-duo NASARIMBA!

Curated by Sierra Zukowski, TREX Southeast, Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre.

Catch the show now until June 13!🏃

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre City of Medicine Hat Tourism Medicine Hat

05/05/2026

Happy Season Launch, everyone! 🚗💥♥️

Our 2026-2027 Travelling Exhibitions are now available to book through our Online Booking Form! Head over to our website to find our Booking Form, 2026-2027 Booking Catalogue, and more information on the AFA TREX Program. https://trexsoutheast.ca/

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us directly!

We’re looking forward to another great season of making art accessible to Albertans through our continued partnerships with venues throughout southeast Alberta! 🌾

05/04/2026

Final sneak peek of our 2026-27 exhibition line-up before the big Launch tomorrow!‼️

Curated by our TREX Southwest region, “Mary Whale: Between the Lines”, “Reimagining Fire”, and “Howl in the Grass” will all be available to book starting Tuesday, May 5 at 12:15 PM. ⭐

Read more about these shows and our other fantastic offerings in our Booking Catalogue, available here: https://bit.ly/3QDlmGn

📸 :
1. Mary Whale, “Mary” (detail), 2023. Watercolour. Courtesy of the artist.
2. Jared Tailfeathers, "Community/aaka’itapissko" (detail), 2023. Digital print on Crane’s Lettra paper. Courtesy of the artist
3. Matthew Spidell, "Grasses #4" (detail), 2005. Red Rock Coulee Natural Area, Alberta. Archival pigment ink on paper. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Alberta Foundation for the Arts trex_southwest Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre City of Medicine Hat

05/03/2026

From our TREX Northwest region, we’re excited to offer “This is Home” and “Self Reflection” in our upcoming 2026-27 exhibition season! These shows will be available to book starting Tuesday, May 5 at 12:15 PM. 🤸

Learn more about these exhibitions and more through our Booking Catalogue, available here: https://bit.ly/3QDlmGn

📸:
1. Helen Flaig, “Dishes” (detail), 1996. Oil on Masonite. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
2. Aretha Laverne, "Sankofa: Red Horizon" (detail), 2024. Mixed media on birch panel. Collection of the Artist.
TREX Northwest Alberta Foundation for the Arts City of Medicine Hat Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

05/02/2026

Another peek at our upcoming 2026-27 exhibition offerings ahead of Season Launch! 🚀

Curated by our TREX Northeast region, “Between the Lines”, “Room to Reflect”, and “This is NOT a Photograph”, will all be available to book starting Tuesday, May 5 at 12:15 PM.

For more information, have a read through our Booking Catalogue: https://bit.ly/3QDlmGn

📸:
1. Micheal Kíre, “Dissonance” (detail), 2024. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
2. Gillian Willans, “Midnight Light” (detail), 2021. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.
3. Keith Harder, "Tackle Box” (detail), 1990. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre City of Medicine Hat

05/01/2026

Returning to our Southeast region this 2026-27 season are "Athletic Aesthetics" and “Scouring Heaven and Earth”! If you missed the chance to bring them to your venue two years ago, now's your time! 🌀

Both will be available to book starting Tuesday, May 5 at 12:15 PM. Read more about each of the shows in our Booking Catalogue here: https://bit.ly/3QDlmGn

📸:
1. Gabriel Esteban Molina, "AFM_5597" (detail), 2021. Digital print, direct to media print on dibond. Collection of the artist.
2. Don Mabie, "The Marathon: The Start" (detail), 1978. Colour Xerox on paper. Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Alberta Foundation for the Arts City of Medicine Hat Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre

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