TREX 
Southeast



                                                      


Alberta art for Albertans 🌾


Since 1980, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has supported a provincial Travelling Exhibition program known as TREX. 

The TREX program strives to ensure every Albertan has an opportunity to see professionally curated visual art exhibitions in their community. Venues include schools, libraries, healthcare centres and smaller rural institutions and galleries throughout the province. The program showcases the AFA’s extensive art collection and the work of contemporary Alberta artists.

Learn more about TREX in the videos linked below! 



Produced by CINIC Studio for TREX Southwest 


Travelling Art 🚚


Curious about how it all started? Read about the history and beginnings of TREX in this article 📰

Four regional organizations coordinate the program for the AFA:


These partners offer a wide range of exhibitions to communities from High Level in the north, to Milk River in the south and virtually everywhere in between. Annually, more than 600,000 visitors enjoy exhibitions in over 150 venues. The program is the only one of its kind in western Canada and runs year round. TREX also offers educational support materials to integrate exhibitions into the school curriculum and runs a Visiting Artist program with select exhibitions.


TREX SOUTHEAST TEAM 😊



Sierra Zukowski
Program Manager / Curator
📞 403 502 8766
📩 siezuk@medicinehat.ca


Thea Sleight
Travelling Exhibitions Assistant
📞 403 525 8814
📩 thesle@medicinehat.ca



ON NOW


DEC 20, 2025 – FEB 21, 2026  ︎︎︎ Chimerical ⇌ Alchemical

📍 in the Gallery Foyer at the Esplanade



In this solo exhibition by Sadia Fakih, colourful and intricately detailed collage-drawings explore cultural hybridity, displacement, intersectionality, and the Surreal.

📖 View the Exhibition Catalogue

UPCOMING EVENTS


JAN 16, 2026 at 7 PM ︎︎︎ Public Reception

📍 Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre



Join us for a public reception celebrating the Art and Design Faculty of Medicine Hat College, local artists Deborah Forbes and Kimberly Sibbald, Inuit artist Pudlo Pudlat and TREX artist Sadia Fakih. These exhibitions showcase local and national talent across drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, digital design and typography. There will be a cash bar and live music by Derek Hintz, as well as in-depth insights into each exhibition. Please join us in celebrating these artists and their exceptional expressions of creativity.

TREX Southeast respectfully acknowledges that it supports artistic activity on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 territories: traditional lands of First Nations and Métis peoples.

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