Caelan Nowicki

Caelan Nowicki moved to Calgary, Alberta, in 2021 to pursue her passion for the arts at the Alberta University of the Arts and Design, where she majors in fibre and textiles. Taking a glass-blowing class in the second year of her degree, she discovered her love for glass and has not looked back. Within her work, she continues to further her practice by combining her two preferred mediums, glass and textiles, through pattern, texture and colour, as well as physically blending the two mediums to create sculptural work.

Other than being a full-time student and working part-time, Nowicki also continued to show dedication by being a Teaching Assistant for the continuing education classes in the evenings and weekends, co-running the AUArts Glass Club social media and finishing her senior year as Vice President of the glass club helping run production nights and multiple different student-run sales to fundraise for visiting artists within the glass department. Being able to showcase her mixed media work at the Glass Art Society Student Exhibition in 2024 solidified her confidence when she returned to AUArts for her final year and graduated from the glass program with a fibre minor in the spring of 2025.

Nowicki was awarded and began her role as a full-time Artist-in-Residence at Harbourfront Centre on September 1, 2025.