Creative Arts and Crafts
Creative Arts & Crafts is one of the most popular exhibits on the park, featuring hundreds of entries in creative arts and crafts and cake decorating.

The exhibit is also home to the popular Make It and Take It, which features local businesses specializing in different crafts. Visitors are welcome to learn a new craft, and take their project with them. Every two days a new craft will be presented. ...more

ATCO Kitchen Theatre
We're really cooking at the ATCO Kitchen Theatre! You're invited to watch the excitement and taste the culinary results of guest chefs each day of the Stampede. Thanks to our sponsors, local chefs and cooks use contemporary facilities to create down-home cuisine masterpieces, with urban chic and country flair. Each show is unique, fun, educational and entertaining.

Come on over to Hall C, Roundup Centre, to see for yourself. There's a seat waiting for you!  ...more

Window on the West
Window on the West Stage is where it's 'happening' in Western Showcase. We showcase both the old west and modern western lifestyles in a variety of ways and fashions. Surrounded by wonderful western art, a huge craft display and beautiful things made by talented artisans we are the place to come and "sit a spell". Come for a "how to" demonstration on something you have always wanted to know or to listen to musical groups like the Calgary Fiddlers. Cowboy poetry will tickle your funny bone and give you a unique perspective of life in the west. ...more

WESTERN ART SHOW

Western Art Show
Western Canada's largest Western Art Show combines a Gallery, Sales Salon and Auction for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. A wide range of artists offering flatworks and three-dimensionals will appeal to any pocketbook.

In addition to our fabulous display at the Roundup Centre, we are displaying Western Art at the Dream Home and in the Brand Room of the Headquarters Building. ...more

Western Art Gallery
Each year the Gallery displays and sells the work of 20 to 25 artists in the Western Showcase area located in the Roundup center of the Stampede grounds. The artists are established artists as well as emerging western artists. The Gallery offers patrons an opportunity to purchase quality western art anytime during the Stampede....more

Western Art Auction
For the artists, it is competitive. For the judges, it is a professional challenge. The result? A stunning 90+ piece collection of the finest in Western Art produced by Canadian and American artists, and a select group of historic estate pieces. This gala evening also includes a "Quick Draw", where artists produce work within a one-hour time frame.

Artisan's
This area provides a variety of top quality hand-made crafts. Our volunteers attend craft shows in search of new talent as soon as the Stampede is over and until the next show begins. Artisans are selected for their uniqueness of craft, quality of workmanship, and suitability for display and demonstration of the craft. ...more

Sales Salon

The Western Art Show Sales Salon endeavors to present well-known and emerging Canadian & American artists whose work is indicative of the heritage & grandeur of the West. Every artist is juried into the show which is based upon the quality of the work, as well as encompassing the theme of Western Art. The majority of the work must be representative of the Western Art theme, which depicts themes of Western Prairie/Mountain Culture, lifestyle, heritage, and characters that is diverse in medium and subject including; Ranching; Landscapes; Rodeo; Agriculture; First Nations; Florals; Portraits; Architecture; Wildlife. ....more

Art Corral
The Art Corral was established to provide many of the elements of the 10 day Western Art Show during The Calgary Stampede but on a more intimate scale....more

Western Photo Gallery
Preserving and promoting western heritage and values is the core vision of the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede. So, the Calgary Stampede and the Western Showcase are proud to welcome the new Western Photo Gallery.....more

Committees page last updated December 2, 2007