{"id":866395,"date":"2026-08-21T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:38:10","slug":"southern-alberta-art-gallery-in-lethbridge-undergoes-7-7-million-changes-and-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866395\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Alberta Art Gallery in Lethbridge undergoes $7.7 million changes and upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ce4d72c2-662e-41ff-8123-524c84b845f7.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image Credit: LNN File Photo)<\/p>\n<p>By Dave Lueneberg<\/p>\n<p>Projected May 2028 re-opening<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tAug 21, 2026 | 6:43 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Alberta Art Gallery is preparing for an estimated\u00a0$7.7 million facelift as it looks to grow the facility and, with it, some significant\u00a0upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>Executive director Su Ying Strang says the entire staff is excited to see what the gallery will look like once all the work is complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project has been along time in the making,\u201d said Strang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026with many staff, volunteer leadership on our board and our partners at the City of Lethbridge. The team has put together a pretty good, strong timeline to get this done by May 2028, looking to re-open in the Spring of 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Image Credit: LNN File Photo) By Dave Lueneberg Projected May 2028 re-opening Aug 21, 2026 | 6:43 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-866395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}