The ASA is thrilled to announce Emerging Artists Unleashed: 2025. Coinciding with our undergraduate post-secondary scholarship awards, the ASA provides resources and an artistic platform to help artists pursuing a career in the arts gain exhibition experience.
Asal Andarzipour is an Iranian-Canadian artist and curator. She identifies as an immigrant settler artist walking in her nomad ancestors’ shoes, which took her to Treaty 6 territory, Amiswaciwâskahikan. Her long journey across the ocean from Tehran to New York and then Alberta continues to inform and form her creative profile. Andarzipour’s practice is mainly focused on visual arts with roots in her design background.
Kelly Andres (she/her) is a visual artist, public art curator, and designer whose work focuses on interactive projects for experiential and sensorial encounters. She is interested in creative and/or ecologically themed concepts for public space, rural places, locative tours, research-creation, design-experiments, and enhancing or augmenting art-based experiences.
Born in Spain, Blanca lives and has a studio in Diamond Valley, Alberta. As a member of the Alberta Society of
Artists her work has been juried and taken part in several group exhibits that have travelled throughout Alberta
over the years. Her paintings have also been shown at the Leighton and Okotoks art galleries.
Blanca’s work has been carried by Bluerock gallery in Black Diamond since it’s inception as part of group shows
as well as the following solo exhibits.
Doris Charest fell in love with painting when a neighbour invited her to a painting class in a gesture of friendship and that to change her whole life. Painting and artwork became a passion. Doris teaches her technique to young people and adults who share her love for creation both online and in person.