The Alberta Foundation for the Arts’ Travelling Exhibition program in southeast Alberta will leave its current space to return to the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre. Courtesy/TREX Southeast

By CHAT News Staff

IN THE CITY

TREX Southeast art gallery moving back to Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre

Apr 3, 2025 | 12:20 PM

A City of Medicine Hat arts foundation is set to move back to the Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre.

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts’ Travelling Exhibition program in southeast Alberta, known as TREX, has been based out of the TREX Space since 2019.

Close to 40 exhibitions have been presented in TREX Space, featuring work by hundreds of Albertan artists and numerous local artists.

Previously, the program had been hosted out of the Esplanade since 2005, and before that, the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery.

The city said Thursday the move back to the Esplanade provides TREX exhibitions greater visibility within what the city calls the premier facility for arts, heritage and entertainment in southeast Alberta.

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The Gallery Foyer at the Esplanade will host TREX exhibitions after the move, starting this April, the city said in a news release.

The facility change also increases staff capacity for more programming and outreach at host venues in the city and throughout southeast Alberta, it added.

Sierra Zukowski, TREX program manager and curator, hailed the current TREX Space location as “a wonderful arts hub in our community for the past five years.”

“In the same breath, we are very excited about the new opportunities this shift back to the Esplanade will provide.”

TREX Space on Third Street Southeast will still play host to two more exhibitions. That includes Soft Stories, which ends April 5 and the Medicine Hat College Art and Design Grad Show’s “Living Room” that runs April 12-25.

This change in location won’t affect the core services of the TREX program, which organizes and distributes visual art exhibitions to public spaces like schools, libraries and community centers across southeast Alberta, the city said.