Calgary Chapter
Edgmont Community Centre
Friday November 1st (4:30-9:00pm)
Saturday November 2nd (10:00am-4:00pm)
**Setup on Friday will start at 3pm
Details to follow shortly
Strathcona Community Centre
Saturday March 28 (10:00am-5:00pm)
**Setup will start at 8/8:30**
Elbow River Casino October 22-23rd
Backup Volunteer Sign Up – Oct 22nd
Backup Volunteer Sign Up – Oct 23rd
Paint In Host – Volunteer Signup
Welcome to the Federation of Canadian Artists Calgary Chapter (FCA Calgary). We are a collective of professional and semi-professional Calgary and area artists who meet regularly to share our love of art and art-making. We offer everyone the opportunity to learn and enhance their visual communication skills in workshops and demonstrations. We also regularly host juried exhibitions of members work to be enjoyed and purchased by the public at large.
Learn more about our parent organization, the Federation of Canadian Artists.
The FCA Calgary Chapter hosts several exhibitions each year where Active Members can present and sell their original artwork to the general public. All artwork presented at the show is selected by a jury of FCA members, ensuring a consistent and high quality of workmanship.
Learn more about submitting your artwork to a FCA Calgary exhibition
Edgmont Community Centre
Friday November 1st (4:30-9:00pm)
Saturday November 2nd (10:00am-4:00pm)
**Setup on Friday will start at 3pm
Details to follow shortly
We are currently planning our next series of exhibitions. Subscribe below if you want to know when we have the next show scheduled.
The FCA Calgary Chapter hosts a number of workshops throughout the year. Workshops are open to FCA Calgary members and the general public. Our workshop coordinators work hard to find outstanding instructors who can help the membership expand their technical skills. Past workshop instructors include Mike Svob, Sandy Maudlin, Sarah Yeoman, Jane Davies, and more.
September 27 to 29, 2019 – Mixed Media with Melanie Morstad (Revised Dates)
October 18 to 20, 2019 – Encaustic Landscape with Dale Roberts
November 15 to 17, 2019 – Big Brush Watercolour with Dale Laitinen
January 24 to 26, 2020 – Acrylic Landscape Painting with Randy Hayashi
February 21 to 23, 2020 – Making a Good Painting with Deborah Tilby
March 20 to 22, 2020 – Painting Loose and Lively Landscapes with Perry Haddock
April 17 to 29, 2020 – Contemporary Portraiture with Brian Smith
May 22 to 24, 2020 – Oil and Cold Wax Landscape with Laura Culic
Download a PDF copy of our 2019 Fall Workshops, or 2020 Winter and Spring Workshops.
Subscribe to the FCA Calgary Workshops Newsletter
Welcome! The FCA Calgary Chapter offers two primary levels of membership: Supporting and Active. Every Calgary Chapter membership entitles you to attend chapter meeting with interesting presenters, demos, and other events and gives you great discounts on workshops. Only Active Members may participate in our juried exhibitions. Membership is a wonderful way to meet other artists and to keep growing artistically!
In order to be a member of the Calgary Chapter, you must belong to our parent organization as well. The headquarters of the national Federation of Canadian Artists is on Granville Island in Vancouver and that is also the location of our national gallery which has many different shows per year. If you are an Active Member you can submit your artwork for consideration in one of the shows, can win awards, titles and prizes, and can list your website on the FCA website. In addition, your national Supporting or Active membership includes a subscription to Art Avenue magazine, a biweekly e-newsletter and discounted rates on workshops, classes and advertising. The membership year runs from January to December but new members who join October to December will have their membership extended to the following year. Currently, at the national level, Supporting Memberships cost $65 while Active Memberships cost $95.
Joining the Calgary Chapter or renewing your membership is much easier if you have already paid for your national membership and have an emailed receipt saved on your computer. If you have not yet paid for your national FCA membership, please click on the appropriate button below to pay your national membership online:
Click here if you are applying for FCA membership for the first time
Click here to renew your national FCA membership
We hope you will pay for your Calgary Chapter membership online as well. Doing so updates your personal information and membership instantly. However, you may also pay by phone with a credit card or by lettermail with a cheque. Use the form below to contact the membership coordinator if you do not want to renew online.
Everyone is welcome to attend our chapter meetings to get to know our members and learn more about the FCA. We often have a painting demonstration or some other lecture of interest to new and established artists as part of our monthly meeting.
We meet on third Tuesday of every month from
September to May (Excluding December)
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Fill out the form below and someone will be in touch shortly. Thank you for your interest in the FCA Calgary Chapter.