2022 ACACA Member Show

Alberta Wide Show – Chuck McLean Arts Centre, 4809 – 52 St., Camrose, Alberta.

2022 Virtual Show award winners

2019 Alberta Wide Award Winners

You can find all of our deserving 2019 award winners here.

The 2019 Award Winners

The ACACA Video

A guide through what it means to be a member of the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association. It is a walk through the zone show process, which is a unique experience allowing artists of all talent levels and experience to grow and hone their craft.

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The Alberta Wide Show

The journey finds it’s natural conclusion at the Alberta wide show. Submitted art is juried and critiqued before those that are chosen to be awarded at the top level. This is a celebration of a culmination of a year worth of work for art on all levels, from beginners to signature.

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The Alberta Wide Show

Promoting Art and Culture Throughout Alberta

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Created in 1986, under the direction of Professor Harry Wohlfarth from the Department of Extension University of Alberta, ACACA holds Charitable Status. Financial support for the ACACA and sponsored projects is provided through membership fees, donations and grants from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts through Visual Arts Alberta Association.

Membership is not exclusive. Anyone supporting these goals may join the organization and it is not necessary to belong to a club to join the ACACA. Artists are invited and welcome to be part of this organization. Art Club memberships are essential to be the Hosting Club of the three Zone shows, with workshop grants available. The Board of Directors, Zone Rep. of ACACA and the Hosting Clubs carry the weight of organizing the juried shows each year. Silent Auctions are a nice added touch to the show. These Juried shows are once a year, usually in May or June (one in each of three Zones being Southern, Central and Northern Alberta).

Juried Art –
Finding Excellence

At each Zone Show, three jurors provided by the ACACA, select artworks for awards and advancement to the Alberta Wide Show which is held in a previously designated location, most often in either Edmonton or Red Deer. In general practice, about one third of the art pieces at zone shows are selected for sending to the Alberta Wide show, at such time, a further jurying takes place. About one half of the paintings and sculptures sent to the Alberta Wide show are chosen for hanging in the Alberta Wide. Scholarships and awards, many named to honor our former members, are picked by the jurors the day before the opening of the Alberta Wide Show.

Awarding Artists –
Acknowledging Art

At the Conclusion of the Alberta Wide Show, the Awards are then handed out to the Award Winning Artists, there is an AGM for all members, and there is a Critique done on all pieces of art that the Artist choses for this exercise, providing encouragement and learning experiences for the artists and public alike. A critique of work is a feature of each ACACA juried art show.

Lasting Traditions –
Building Friendships

Each show is a learning experience. Not only because artist-members come to know one another’s’ work but because friendships are built and maintained. To quote Jean Stephenson,

“One of the marvelous things about the group (ACACA.) is meeting people around the province. I’d have quit painting long ago if it wasn’t for the people I’ve met. That’s where my friends are”. Through the juried shows, the ACACA continues a tradition of bringing art to rural areas.

Concluding The Show

And Planning for Next Year

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Once the Alberta Wide show comes to a conclusion, all pieces of art that have won in their categories at the Zone Show level, and the Juried winners at the Alberta Wide, advance for a final showing of “the best of the best” at the Alberta Spirit Show. All remaining pieces of art are then taken home with the Artist.

Then, the following year, we do it all again. Each year new memberships are added and most welcomed.

We have a wide range of art styles on display

The ACACA Zone Shows is one of the easiest and best ways to see a wide assortment of art styles, subjects, and mediums on display. You can expect to see a stone carving of a polar-bear sitting next to a collage of mixed media which is hanging next to am abstract water-colour painting; it is truly a sight to behold.

These are just some of the art styles you should expect to see at the shows.

Acrylic Art

Acrylic paint is a quick-drying, water-soluble kind of paint that artists often use instead of oil paint or watercolors.

Digital Art

Digital Art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process.

Oil Based

painting in oil colours, a medium consisting of pigments suspended in drying oils. The outstanding facility with which fusion of tones or colour is achieved makes it unique among fluid painting mediums.

Water Colour

Watercolors are usually translucent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a pure form with few fillers obscuring the pigment colors.

Sculpture

The branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay).

Benefits of Joining The ACACA

With accessible critiques, jurried shows, workshops, paint outs, and scholarships and bursaries, it’s never been a better time to join the ACACA!

Juried exhibitions and critiques | Workshops and paint outs | Scholarships and awards | Newsletter

More About Membership

Alberta Wide Show Resources

Want to Get Involved? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

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Note: Memberships must be paid prior to February 28th to be eligible to enter in that years Zone Show.

Volunteering

For those of you looking to volunteer at this year’s Alberta wide show, you can find information below.
Member Show Guidelines

Thinking of Hosting

Thinking of Hosting? We have information for to view that can help you with hosting a successful one:
Member Show Guidelines

Labels

For all art such as sculptures, digital art, and paintings, please download the following files and submit them:

Back of Painting Labels Building Boxes Diagram for Building Boxes

About Us

Who we are, what we stand for, read more

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Who We Are

The Alberta Community Art Clubs Association aims at uniting, serving and networking with artists throughout the province. Our goals are to foster and maintain instruction in art and to develop an interest in the knowledge of art and culture in the communities throughout the province.

Exhibitions

ACACA fills a unique niche in promoting the arts in the province of Alberta by sponsoring three juried art shows annually, hosted by art clubs from different communities each year.

Find Us Online

ACACA can be found elsewhere online, in addition to our website.

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