We are passionate about creating and supporting sustainable, culturally vibrant communities. Our instructors are leaders in the local arts and culture scene, actively engaged on boards and in marketing, management and advocacy across the creative sector.

Our programs prepare students to lead and support organizations and artists in the areas of fund, resource and audience development; publicity and media relations; human resource management; special event planning; project management and much more.

News

Learn about the exciting activities undertaken by our instructors, students and alumni. Read stories about the arts and culture on campus.

Soni Dasmohapatra photo.
Featured faculty: What’s in a name?

Soni Dasmohapatra, assistant professor and City of Edmonton Naming Committee member, challenged her students to consider municipal cultural policy engagement.

The stage party at convocation, with the MacEwan Big Band in the foreground.
Meet the class of 2024: Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications
Future performers, artists, designers and communications professionals look back on their time at MacEwan, and toward their bright futures.
Two actors on stage interact while a translation of their dialogue from Spanish to English is projected above them on a screen.
Adapting, translating and performing a play from Mexico City to Allard Hall
MacEwan faculty and students dig into a centuries old piece of work.
Madison Francoeur
Student Snapshot: Stitching with stories
How stringing together seed beads connected an Arts and Cultural Management student with embodied knowledge – and her own Métis heritage.
Meet the class of 2022: Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications
These grads danced, played, sang, designed, painted and wrote their way through their programs.
Shelby LaFramboise
Shelby LaFramboise holds first tenure-track cross-appointment with kihêw waciston Indigenous Centre
“I have 1,000 ancestors guiding me and I am appreciative for that.” 
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