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VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
VAAA FACT SHEET
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WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE ALBERTA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND ALBERTA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Distributed by fax, mail and email, also on the Listserves: Museum-L,
Modernism, Popular Culture and Independent Scholars.

VAAA New Address in MEDICINE HAT
 205 Provincial Building 346-3rd St. S.E., Medicine Hat, AB, T1A OG7 Phone:
403.504.4140 (voice mail); 1.800.635.3187 (outside Medicine Hat) fax
403.526.7016; [log in to unmask]

VAAA NEWS:
SUMMER SCHOOLS AT RED DEER COLLEGE:
Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced Levels
Contact: Anne Brodie, 403.342.3130, 1-888-886-arts, [log in to unmask]
· SUMMERSCAPES, a youth (15-17 yrs) residential visual arts summer school,
August 2-7, five days of workshops, hands-on studio time, individual
consultations, professional instructors.
· SERIES, an adult residential summer school of the visual arts, June
29-July 31, 5-day workshops: ceramics, painting, printmaking, weaving,
bronze casting, etc.etc.
· HOT GLASS, May 4 - August 17, 5-day classes in glassblowing, glass
sculpting and more.
· THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CARVING SCHOOL, August 3-7, workshops in chip carving,
relief, carving horses, yellow perch, bobcat, nuthatches, etc.etc.

ARTS CELEBRATION IN RED DEER, MAY 1998
· VAAA Awards/Fundraising Dinner with Silent/Live Auction, guest speaker Dr.
Ian MacLaren on "Paul Kane in Alberta", Black Knight Inn, 5:30 p.m. Tickets
$50. Contact VAAA.
· Red Deer Art Market, May 23, 9-5, City Hall Park, Contact Theresa
Towers-Rickard, Culture Programmer, 347.8262, [log in to unmask]
· VAAA exhibition at Gallery on Ross, May 16-30, 4919-Ross St., open to
members of ACACA,ASA, HWSDA, VAAA members. Contact: VAAA or your
organization's President.
· Old Court House exhibition from the Alberta Society of Artists and Hand
Weavers, Spinners & Dyers of Alberta, May 23-30, Red Deer. Contact Susan
Woolgar, 342.1873.
· VAAA Annual General Meeting, May 23, Red Deer & District Museum.
· Alberta Society of Artists Annual General Meeting, May 23, Kerry Wood
Nature Centre.
· Alberta Cultural Human Resources Steering Committee meeting, May 24, Black
Knight Inn.

SHORT BITES:
@@Janet Mitchell, RCA died of cancer at the age of 85.  According to
Margaret Paulson, author of a book about Mitchell, she painted in two
distinct styles.  "On the one hand, she was an artists 'anchored in the
prairies' who produced highly realistic landscapes and townscapes of Western
Canada….on the other hand, she created whimsical, sometimes dreamlike images
in vibrant colors of cats, dogs, birds or fanciful floating people."
Mitchell participated in the Allied Arts Centre in Coste House (1940s), was
a member of the Calgary Sketch Club (from 1936), received a Doctor of Laws
honorary degree from the University of Calgary, and recently donated all her
art supplies to the Alberta College of Art and Design for its fundraising
auction.  Her work is in the collections of National Gallery of Canada,
Glenbow and Alberta Foundation for the Arts, to name a few.  See Paulson,
Margaret. Janet Mitchell: Life and Art. (The Calgary Herald. 28 February
1998:13)
@@1998 Edmonton Telephone book covers feature artist Patricia Mykietowich's
work It's Better Together.  The winning design, for which $2,500 was paid,
was chosen from more than 50 entries in the 4th annual cover competition.
(The Edmonton Journal. 13 February 1998:E1)
@@Ottawa Senators hockey star Alexei Yashin donated $1 million to the
National Arts Centre, Ottawa.
@@The Station Studio, a cooperative printmaking studio in its 20th year, and
the Calgary Horticultural Society partnered to produce a portfolio of 8
fine-art prints, editioned at 50, of botanical & historical images, for the
90th anniversary of the Society.  Contact: Andie Wicherts, ASA, 287-1315.
@@Artists in Literature: Prof.A.Rubek, sculptor, in Henrik Ibsen's play When
We Dead Wake.

NOTICES:
-Alberta Society of Artists website - www.artists-society.ab.ca
-The Arts Business Exchange (formerly Art Business Magazine) at
http://www.artsbusiness.com
-Canadian Cuisine: The Chefs Come to Dinner - a Whyte Museum of the Canadian
Rockies fundraising event with proceeds going to their art collection, April
25. Contact: 762-2292, ext340
-Government of Canada Parliamentary Website at http://www.parl.gc.ca
-Northern Alberta Women's Archives Association, dedicated to preserving the
history of women in Alberta. Contact: NAWAA, Box 60208, UA Postal Outlet,
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2S5
-Focus 1. Contemporary Studio Ceramics. Collection of the Winnipeg Art
Gallery. A full color catalogue, text by Robin Hopper, focus on Canadian &
international 20th C. ceramic artists Contact: 204.786.6641, ext.250.
-Software Skills Wkshps, Banff Multimedia Inst., contact 1-800-565-9989,
[log in to unmask]
-Universities Art Association of Canada - contact: 250.480.1026,
[log in to unmask]
-Banff Centre's new Calgary headquarters 2nd Fl. Bank of Toronto Bldg,
116-8th Ave., S.E.

OPPORTUNITIES:
· 1998 Art Acquisition through Slide Submission for artists not represented
in the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Art Collection. Deadline Apr.1.
Contact: 403.427.9968.
· Alberta Society of Artists annual membership jury. Deadline: April 14.
Contact: Peggy 454.8706
· An exhibit of East & West French artists. Sponsored by the literary
magazine L'ÉLOISE,  published in Moncton, NB.  The magazine contains poetry,
short texts and B/W images of visual art. Participate in either the
publication or the exhibit shown at the Gallery "Sans Nom", Moncton (western
artists) & the Centre Culturel Franco-Manitobain, St.Boniface, Man. (eastern
artists). Send C.V., a short description of works & slides to: Centre
culturel franco-manitobain, 340, boul. Provencher, St-Boniface, Manitoba,
R2H 0G7, att.: Julie Clément, 204.233.8972, Fax 233.3324.
· Artists Competition, for 18 mo. Calendar of paintings of Medicine Hat,
Deadline: May 12. Contact: 527-5146.
· Call for Artists: Northern National Art Competition, Open to all 2-D art.
Three-$1000.00 Awards of Excellence, over $8500.00 in prizes. Juror/Judge:
Betye Saar. For a prospectus send SASE to: Nicolet College, Art Dept, Box
518, Rhinelander WI 54501. Deadline: May 31, 1998
· Call for Applications from Artists and Design Professionals for 1998
Public Art Affairs Grant Program. Two categories, R&D Stipends (up to $800)
and Public Projects in Minnesota (up to $4000). Contact: Public Art Affairs,
FORECAST Public Artworks, 2324 University Av West Suite 102, St Paul MN
55114, 612.641.1128, Fax 612.641.0028.

EMPLOYMENT BULLETIN: CALL TO ARTISTS: COMMISSION TO PRODUCE FLORALS for a
Clinical Herbal Therapist.  Send C.V., short description of work, slides &
SASE to G. Penselin, R.R.#1, Site 1, Box 11, Wembley, AB, TOH 3SO.

EXHIBITIONS: Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, until Apr.5, Contemporary Art
Exhibition of Yukon Artists. Latitude 53, Edmonton, until Apr.19, The Art of
ManWoman. Scott Gallery, Edmonton, until Apr.21, Barbara Akins, Metaphors.
McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, until May 2, The Art of the Cartoon. Glenbow,
Calgary, until May 17, 40-yr retrospective of Quebec artist Rene Derouin;
until May 31, Strong Hearts: Native American Visions & Voices with lecture
series 1 p.m. on Apr.4, May 2; until Sept.7, Shirley & Peter Savage
Collection of Canadian Prints.