VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
FACT SHEET
9712-07 Please Copy
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With the Support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and Alberta
Community Development
VAAA MOVES TO MEDICINE HAT
New Address, etc.
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; email: [log in to unmask]
We have just moved, our fall/late 1997 computer problems seem solved, we
have a public office**, and now we can really get organized and get going.
It's great. Please drop by, everyone is welcome.
VAAA NEWS:
Bylaws and Membership - With the ratification and registration of new bylaws
for VAAA (Sept. & Dec. 1997), VAAA has expanded its board and begun the
process of membership recruitment (look for a January 1998 mailout - if you
want to be on that list please contact the VAAA office).
The 1997/98 VAAA Board: Organization Board Members: Elizabeth Allen,
Calgary; Kathy Buse, Edmonton; Leslee Greenaway, Edmonton; Marion Ordon,
High River; Jim Painter, Edmonton; Kristina White, Barrhead. Individual
Board Members: Joan Brownell, Sherwood Park; Bob Bruce, Edmonton; Pat
Hogaboam, Edmonton; Pat Pelletier, Red Deer; Suzanne Scott, Edmonton; Nancy
Townshend, Calgary.
The VAAA Executive Committee is: President - Jim Painter, Edmonton;
Vice-President - Elizabeth Allen, Calgary; Secretary - Bob Bruce, Edmonton;
Treasurer - Pat Pelletier, Red Deer.
Series/Summerscapes Summerschools of the Visual Arts, Red Deer College, are
now co-sponsored with RDC, AFA and VAAA. For information contact: Anne
Brodie, Red Deer College, (403)342-3130, 1-888-886-arts; email:
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VAAA Standing Policy Committee for Community Services Presentation - Nov.24
- This presentation allowed Members of the VAAA Executive Committee and its
Executive Director to provide information on and discuss the visual arts in
Alberta. The Standing Policy Committee reviews, makes recommendations and
monitors policies, programs and legislation pertaining to social
development, culture, individual rights, the arts, justice, recreation,
seniors, the disabled, children and the family. VAAA will continue to
provide information to this committee, to provide your input please contact
the VAAA office.
AFA updates from 12 December Provincial Arts Service Organizations Meeting:
-Media Arts now part of Art Travelling Exhibition program; -Arts Study
grant: no change to program unless demonstrate equivalency of quality;
-Project grants: documentation required to request an extension; -Handbook
for Jurors / Projected Jurors, will soon be printed and sent out to PASOs;
-Community Lottery Boards - Field Service Offices for Alberta Community
Development (ACD) being used, cheques come through ACD with recommendation
by the Boards, RECOMMEND to get cultural-oriented people onto these boards.
PASOs updates from 12 December Meeting: Executive Committee for Affiliated
PASOs: Chair-Susan Sax-Willock (VAAA), Vice-Chair - Bobbi Westman (Alberta
Dance Alliance), Secretary - Kathy Classen (Theatre Alberta), term until May
1998; -EPAC/CPAA representatives: decision to maintain presence through
current PASOs members in these two organizations.
Alberta Cultural Human Resources Steering Committee - The committee is
currently working at gathering research & survey material from across the
province, potentially hiring a researcher inorder to consolidate this
material and look for gaps. We urge you to attend any Alberta Advanced
Education and Career Development regional information sessions in your area.
If you do please forward a synopsis of that meeting to VAAA. -Executive
Committee - Chair: Susan Sax-Willock, VAAA; Vice-Chair: Lois Irvine,
Cultural Resources Consulting Services; Secretary/Treasurer: Bobbi Westman,
Alberta Dance Alliance and Don Stein, Banff Centre.
NOTICES:
Þ VAAA Board Meeting, 10 Jan., Edmonton.
Þ Red Deer ARTWALK meeting. January 28. Contact: Lesia Davis (403)347-8262.
Þ Affiliated PASOs, February 12, Edmonton; March 7, Calgary.
Þ VAAA 2nd Annual General Meeting: Sat. May 23, Red Deer. VAAA
Awards/Fundraising Dinner and Auction - May 23 - along with the Red Deer
ARTWALK May 23-24. After-dinner Speaker: Ian MacLaren "Paul Kane in
Alberta" + exhibitions, workshops. "Raising funds for the community and the
association" To be a part of this weekend contact: VAAA.
Þ Alberta Cultural Human Resources Steering Committee Meeting, May 24, Red Deer.
Þ Affiliated PASOs - May 24, Red Deer.
Þ IAVE'98 World Volunteer Conference, Aug.23-27, Edmonton. Contact: 422-9305.
OPPORTUNITIES:
Alberta College of Art & Design: National Portfolio Day-Jan.25, visit with
art colleges from Canada and the United States to view portfolios & discuss
the institutions, contact 284-7638.
Heritage Mall Spring Street Art Fair Mar.8-16: Call for submissions deadline
January 30, contact 438-3316 Ext.26.
Latitude 53 Society of Artists: Call for exhibit proposals in any media from
artists and curators for the 1998/99 programming year, contact 423-5353;
Allied Arts Council, Spruce Grove: Call for submissions 1998 schedule,
contact 962-0664;
Devonian Art Gallery, call for exhibition proposals, contact 268-4728.
Leading Edge Art Workshops: contact 238-5768, [log in to unmask]
EXHIBITIONS:
Glenbow,Calgary: until Jan.11, Maud Lewis & Ann Harbuz - Folk Art. Medicine
Hat Cultural Centre Gallery: until Jan.16, Everyday Enchantments-paintings
by Anne Page.
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery,Calgary: until Jan.17, International
Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Prints.
Edmonton Art Gallery: until Jan.18, Alison Wilding, Real Objects,.
Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery: until Jan.18, In Plain View-photographs
of Orest Semchishen, Rural Praire Communities-watercolours by Karen Brownlee.
The Candy Factory Lofts,Toronto: until Jan.25, group exhibition,
website:galleryontheweb.com.
Deacon Ulrich Fine Arts,Calgary: until Jan.31, mixed media by Leanne
Erickson. Stride,Calgary: until Jan.31, Yellow Vignettes-Allan MacKay.
UofA Extension Centre Gallery: Jan.9-Mar.23, Painting the Figure in Costume.
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
email: [log in to unmask]
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