2025 Distinguished Artists Announced
Three outstanding artists have been named to receive the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 2025 Distinguished Artist Award: Jens Lindemann, Trumpet (Edmonton, AB; Los Angeles, CA) Rita
Three outstanding artists have been named to receive the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta 2025 Distinguished Artist Award: Jens Lindemann, Trumpet (Edmonton, AB; Los Angeles, CA) Rita

On June 4, 2020 ten new Emerging Artists were recognized for their outstanding artistic achievements and contributions with the 2020 Emerging Artist $10,000 cash award.

Since the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist awards were launched in 2005, eight Albertan communities have hosted the awards event celebrating Alberta’s most accomplished

Lac La Biche County selected as host of the 2021 Distinguished Artist Awards The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation is pleased to announce

November 28, 2019 Edmonton…Alberta artists – of all disciplines – who are in the early stages of their professional careers, are eligible to apply for the
What a loss to our province and to its arts community with the passing ofour dear John Murrell, playwright and librettist. In 2005 John Murrell
The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation is pleased to announce that poet Marilyn Dumont (Edmonton), visual artist and printmaker Walter Jule (Edmonton), and

2017 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artists, John Estacio, Alex Janvier and Alice Major were recognized as the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity hosted the 2017 celebration with a


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