The renowned Jasper artist and founder of Mountain Galleries is sharing decades of collected works—including original paintings, Inuit prints and Canadian art treasures—in a rare Studio Sale. For more than four decades, Wendy Wacko has surrounded herself with art. Of the worksshe discovered while ch...

In Vanessa Martin’s classroom, art isn’t just about what ends up on the wall. It’s about the courage to begin, the persistence to continue, and the quiet triumph of making something your own . A week after the opening night of the 2025/26 Series , and 11 years after she began facilitating after-scho...

“I feel like I should share my process of healing and hopefully it can help somebody else.” - Katie Potter __ A collection of writing, visual art and photography is rising from the ashes of Jasper’s devastating wildfire. To commemorate the one year anniversary of the fire, on July 25, the Jasper Art...

A Utah-based artist whose favourite subjects to paint are rugged, rough-hewn and rigorous, figures he’ll have plenty of inspiration in Jasper this weekend. Stewart Anstead is an acrylics painter who incorporates mixed media in his works to evoke nostalgia, and to explore human interaction with natur...

Wild Aerial to screen during Jasper in January An aerial athlete and climate champion who lost her home and possessions in the Jasper Wildfire is bringing attention to the mountains’ fragile alpine environments via a celebration of all things winter. Together with filmmaker Trixie Pacis, Sasha Galit...

Organizers, artists and partakers of the 2024 UpLift! Mural Festival are soaring on the thermals of another successful celebration of art in Jasper. The festival, now in its third year, has brought more vibrancy to walls around the community. And because Parks Canada has softened its stance on forma...

If Picasso spent his whole life trying to paint like a child, more than three dozen young artists have a good start on the master.  The Jasper Habitat for the Arts was alive with the visual creations of the students of Mme Vanessa Martin’s after school art programs on April 9.  The exposition featur...

Recommendation helps local professionals meet Parks Canada's eligible residency requirements To an artist, there’s nothing like a blank slate. And last week, a cadre of local creatives got the official word that their collective canvas has been primed for painting. On January 18, Jasper-based cerami...

The 2023 Jasper Folk Music Festival is in the books and it's unanimous: it was the festival organizers, and the community, deserved. After successive years of cancelations due to COVID-19, the herky-jerkiness of last year's Chetamon Mountain wildfire-compromised event, and some soggy memories of les...