VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
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VAAA NEWS:
-  "MEET AND GREET" BREAKFAST at Red Deer College, Theatre Alberta and
Visual Arts Alberta co-hosted a breakfast and tour for their summer programs
Artstrek, Series and Summerscapes on 9 July.  Representatives of the Boards
for Theatre Alberta, Visual Arts Alberta, Red Deer College, the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts attended as well as Stockwell Day, MLA Red
Deer-North, Provincial Treasurer; Laurie Blakeman, MLA Edmonton-Centre;
Victor Doerksen, MLA Red Deer-South and Raj Pannu, MLA Edmonton-Strathcona.
***RESIDENTIAL SUMMER SCHOOLS AT RED DEER COLLEGE - SUMMERSCAPES, for youth
(15-17 yr.), August 2-7; HOT GLASS May 4 - August 17, THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
CARVING SCHOOL August 3-7. Contact: Anne Brodie, 403.342.3130,
1-888-886-arts, [log in to unmask]
-  For our Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta members please note
that included in the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies exhibit My
Grandmother's Attic: Textiles by and from many generations of Bow Valley
Women there is a display of Master Weaver Mary Andrews work.  Mary Andrews
taught at the Banff School of Fine Arts.  Exhibit runs until Sept.12.
Contact: 403.762.2291
SHORT BITES:
! The Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary announces the appointments of Mike
Aymong & Alderman Joe Ceci to its Board of Directors.
! Kay Marie Enns, Calgary was secured the contract to produce the floral
artwork for Gudren Penselin, Clinical Herbal Therapist, Grande Prairie.
(reference - notice posted in the 9804-10 VAAA FACT SHEET)
! Ottawa - Three images of pregnant women, painted by Audrey Furlong, have
been removed from a mall at the Ottawa Civic Hospital after some people
found them offensive.  The paintings illustrated the stages of pregnancy
from both inside and outside a women's body.  (Red Deer Advocate. 5 June
1998:A8)
! Italy - Archeologists, digging beneath the Emperor Trajan's Baths,
uncovered a vivid fresco of rare quality apparently showing a bird's-eye
view of ancient Rome.  (The Edmonton Journal. 15 March 1998:B12)
! Camus, Albert.  Resistance, Rebellion, and Death.  New York: Vintage
International, 1995.  "Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as
gently as doves.  Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear,
amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle
stirring of life and hope.  Some will say that this hope lies in a nation;
others, in a man.  I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished
by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate
frontiers and the crudest implications of history.  As a result, there
shines forth fleetingly the ever threatened truth that each and every man,
on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all (from
"Create Dangerously" a lecture given at the University of  Uppsala in
December 1957:272)".
! Provincial Archives Move - A government study, looking at the feasibility
of moving the Alberta provincial archives - housed in the west wing of the
Provincial Museum of Alberta since 1967, is considering a former Northern
Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) satellite campus in Stony Plain.  The
report is expected to be complete in August or September 1998.  A decision
on the archives move may not be made until 1999.  MLA Laurie Blakeman, the
Liberal critic for community development, has called for public meetings to
discuss the issue.  (The Edmonton Journal. 1 July 1998:B2)
! The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) Working Group on Cultural Policy
for the 21st Century issued its final report 26 June 1998.  The working
group process began in September 1997 and has involved dozens of artists and
cultural workers from across Canada and virtually every discipline and
cultural industry in its deliberations.
Two key objectives in the report are the creation of content by Canadians
and a strong emphasis on the rights of cultural participation by all of our
citizens through enhanced access to artistic works and cultural materials
produced by Canadians.
The Report was distributed to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage,
provincial ministers of culture and the media.  Copies are available from
the CCA ($5.00 for members, $10.00 for non-members).  The Executive summary
and key recommendations are on the CCA website www.culturenet.ca/cca/. (CCA
Bulletin. 26 June 1998)
NOTICES:
· Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Art Acquisition through Slide Submission
deadline October 1, 1998 contact 403.427.9968 (outside Edmonton call
310-0000 to be connected toll free)
· Canada Post has issued stamps commemorating the 50th anniversary of the
Refus Global manifesto publication.  It was developed by the Automatistes, a
group of Montreal artists lead by Paul-Emile Borduas, who denounced the
paternalism and intellectual repression of Quebec institutions and who
advocated for the right to personal freedom in cultural and spiritual expression
· Art-Ventures at Profiles Public Art Gallery, St.Albert - drop-in
children's programs, Saturdays, 1-4 p.m.
· Flux glassworks international inc., Canmore - hot glass studio. Contact
403.678.5051, www.fluxglass.com
· Canada Council for the Arts deadlines: Sept.1 - Creation/Production Grants
to Professional Visual Artists; Sept.15 - Project Grants to
Organizations-Assistance to First Peoples for Curatorial Residencies in the
Visual Arts.  Prizes awarded through regular application process, deadlines
1 Sept.: Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award; Joseph S. Stauffer Prize.  See
www.canadacouncil.ca or call 1.800.263.5588
· For information on a new journal - International Journal of Arts
Management - contact 514.340.5629
· "Off the Wall" summer wrap up party, Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary -
Aug.22, contact 266.2764.
· In celebration of the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association's 30th
anniversary, they have selected a series of 8 works from their permanent
collection to feature as a series of cards "1968-1998".  Works by Pearl
Brunner, Margaret Seelye, Martha Houston, Jean Stephenson, Dorothy Gardiner,
Lillian Nunn, Hilda Sherbeck.  $10./set + postage. Contact Jo Ann Nanninga
403.674.4549 or Heather Brown 403.674.6691
· Management Development for the Arts at the Banff School for Management,
Aug.3-19, scholarships available, contact Dan Thorburn 1.800.590.9799
· Historical Art Tour of Holland & Belgium, Oct.13-25, preceded by 3
lectures at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Contact Artful
Journeys 678.3395
· SNAP Courses, Edmonton - Independent Projects, Etching,
Woodcut/Collagraph. Contact 433.3269
OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE:
- 13 MO. CONTRACT, Acting Director-Curator, The George R. Gardiner Museum of
Ceramic Art, Toronto; Contact: 416.586.8085 by 31 July 1998
- Call to Artists for Exhibitions in 1999, Devonian Art Gallery, Calgary -
deadline 31 Aug., contact Lori Humphrey 403.268.4728
- On 29 Aug., as part of their Back to the Beach back to school promotion,
Capilano Mall, Edmonton is holding a Sand Sculpting Contest.  Six teams of
two people will compete for a cash prize of $500. Building area: 10x10';
Entry fee: $10.; To enter contact: Blane Stretch 403.477.2785 or Tammy
Marrelli 465.0987.
EXHIBITIONS:Camrose Art Walk 98 - until Aug 31; Caritas Art Enrichment
Group, Grey Nuns Gallery, 0 level, Edmonton - The Eye of the Beholder, until
Aug.25; Devoncian Art Gallery, Calgary - Beyond Pazyryk - Aug.5-27 - opening
Aug.6; FAB Gallery, Edmonton - The Dolls of Japan, until Aug.10; Prairie Art
Gallery, Grande Prairie - Man Trouble, Redressing the Crone, Best of the
Unseen, Recent Works by Nick May - until Aug.23; Profiles Public Art
Gallery, St. Albert - Myriad, until Aug.29 - opening Aug.5;  Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge - Mario Reis, The Buchanon Legacy, until
Aug.16.


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Susan E. Sax-Willock, Executive Director

Visual Arts Alberta Association
205 Provincial Building
346-3rd St., S.E.
Medicine Hat, AB, T1A 0G7
(403)504-4140, fax (403)526-7016
1-800-635-3187, [log in to unmask]