Our final Emerging Artist Recipient for 2026 is Paula Turcotte, Literary Arts
Paula Turcotte is an emerging poet with extraordinary promise, already carving out a place for her strong voice.
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Please welcome our next 2026 Emerging Artist: Tayte Mitchell, Music/Opera/Theatre
Tayte is an emerging artist in the field of opera who is literally doing it all!
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Our next 2026 Emerging Artist Award Recipient Highlight is: Conor Daniel Kerr, Literary Arts
His five books since 2021 attend to urban Indigenous existence in prairies cities and have either won and been a finalist for almost every award in the country.

2026 Emerging Artist Award Recipient Highlight: Jerome "K-Riz" Henry, Music, Hip Hop, R&B
Jerome Henry – aka K-Riz - is a wonderfully adept and multifaceted performer, producer, and lyricist blending elements of soul, jazz, pop and reggae.

2026 Emerging Artist Award Recipient Highlight: Lara Felsing, Visual Arts
Lara's diverse, care-full, and finely crafted multimedia and site-specific artworks are informed by her upbringing and teachings as a Métis-Cree artist from Northern Alberta.

2026 Emerging Artist Recipient Highlight: seth cardinal dodginghorse!
seth cardinal dodginghorse's multi-layered performance art practice brings together archival research, original music and sound, oral histories and vibrant visuals.

2026 Emerging Artist Recipient: Alison DeRegt!
Puppeteer Ali DeRegt's puppets are both magical and accessible. She masters the multiple creative skills required to realize the deceptively simple-seeming character-like objects that are the foundation of her practice.

2026 Emerging Artist Highlight: Jessica Carmichael!
Jessica Carmichael is an emerging young adult fiction writer with great promise. Building on her Ghanaian Barbadian heritage, Jessica released her debut Young Adult novel, The Full Picture, in 2025 to great acclaim.

2026 Emerging Artist Highlight: Matthew Cardinal, Music/Visual Arts. Find out more at artsawards.ca/

2024 Emerging Artist Award Recipient Highlight: Gabrielle Deprés! We are so happy for you Gabrielle! Keep up the amazing work.

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Today we're highlighting the talented Braxton Garneau, 2024 Emerging Artist Award Recipient. Congratulations on your achievements, Braxton!

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We're proud to celebrate 2024 Emerging Artist Award recipient Anna Kuelken. Check out what this award meant to her, and discover the incredible documentary work she's been doing since.

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2024 Emerging Artist Recipient Highlight! Check out what Nicole Charlton Goodbrand had to say about the award and all the exciting things she has been up to since. We are so happy for you, Nicole!

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Another awesome 2024 Emerging Artist Recipient Highlight! Check out James Odin Wade and what he had to say regarding receiving the award and the impact it's had. His play 'Everyone Is Doing Fine' runs May 6-24, 2026 at Workshop West Playwright's Theatre. Check it out!

2024 Emerging Artist Award Recipient Highlight!

We wanted to take the time to highlight our past recipients. Check out Lynda Williams and what receiving the award meant for her and her career. We're so proud of you, Lynda! Headshot by Lyndsay Greenwood Photography.

Jenna Rodgers, a 2018 Emerging Artist has been announced as the incoming Artistic Director of Edmonton’s Theatre Network, building on Bradley Moss’s three-decade legacy as AD. What an honour!

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Catch 2024 Emerging Artist James Odin Wade’s play ‘Everyone is Doing Fine’ at Workshop West May 6-24, 2026. Congratulations, James!

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2022 Emerging Artist Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet and 2021 Creative Encouragement Awardee AJA Louden are both in the running for the Eldon + Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize. Winners will be announced at the Edmonton Arts Council’s 2026 Edmonton Arts Prizes celebration May 4, 2026 at Metro Cinema.

2022 Emerging Artist Nahanni McKay’s exhibit at the Art Gallery of Alberta 'critiques the colonial foundations of Canada’s national park system and its ongoing impact on Indigenous lands and wildlife’. Catch it March 28, 2026 - May 2,2027 www.youraga.ca/whats-on/cur...