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
New Exhibitions Available for Booking!
Bookings for our 2025 – 2026 Tour Season are NOW OPEN! Preview exhibitions in our Booking Catalogue and use our Online Booking Form to book up to three exhibitions for your Venue.
Travelling Art 🚚🎨
TREX SOUTHEAST IS MOVING BACK TO THE ESPLANADE!
In case you haven’t heard, in May 2025, TREX Southeast has relocated from TREX Space to the Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre. We’re excited to continue serving Medicine Hat and Southeast Alberta from a familiar homebase in the Esplanade. The Gallery Foyer at the Esplanade is hosting TREX exhibitions 10 months of the year, and we continue to partner with Venues across the province to display contemporary visual art exhibitions in accessible locations. Read the full ︎︎︎ News Release ︎︎︎ for all information!
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 😊
ON NOW
UPCOMING EVENTS
SEPT 6 – 27, 2025 ︎︎︎ ReconciliACTIONS
📍 in the Gallery Foyer in the Esplanade
In ReconciliACTIONS, 21 indigenous artists share knowledge and experiences through visual forms and encourage viewers to participate in the ongoing process of reconciliation.
📖 View the Exhibition Catalogue
SEPT 13, 2025, 12 – 5 PM ︎︎︎ ART IN MOTION
📍 First Street Downtown Medicine Hat
Enjoy all this fun-filled, family-friendly festival has to offer, and be sure to visit TREX artist Danielle Piper leading 🌼 Daisy Chains with Danielle 🌼 inside the Gallery Foyer in the Esplanade.
SEPT 26, 2025 ︎︎︎ KIDS CULTURE WALK 🚶♀️🎨🎭
TREX Southeast is thrilled to take part in the Esplanade’s 10th Annual Kids Culture Walk! This NO-CHARGE program takes place at the Esplanade and Library. Over the course of two hours, each group will have four stops on their tour where they will enjoy engaging and culturally diverse activities.
︎︎︎ Learn more and Book Here ︎︎︎
OCT 11 – DEC 6, 2025 ︎︎︎ The Looking Glass
📍 in the Gallery Foyer in the Esplanade
📖 View the Exhibition Catalogue
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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Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre
401 1st Street, SE
Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 8W2
403 502 8766
siezuk@medicinehat.ca
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