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Subject: Visual Arts Alberta FACT SHEET 9811-15
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:08:58 -0700
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VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION FACT SHEET=20
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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, Electronic Communications & Culture. =20
**Views expressed & notices provided are not necessarily those of VAAA**

VAAA NEWS:
- For information on services and membership contact the VAAA Office.
Memberships available for Individual $30; Associate $25; Family $50;
Student/Senior $20; Group Member $60; Gallery $60; Related Affiliates $80.
VAAA members receive reduced subscriptions to Legacy, Alberta's Heritage
Magazine $17.95 ($25.95 - outside Canada).
- VAAA Board Meeting - 13 November, Edmonton.
- Thank you to Latitude 53, Edmonton for their contributions to the VAAA
Office Resource Centre.
- Grant writing, portfolio development and other workshops available contact
VAAA Office.
- The VAAA is requesting nominations for the following awards:=20
=A8 Emerald Awards - an Alberta based Foundation recognizing positive
achievements affecting the environment. Award categories include
Communications, Media and the Arts. Previous recipients: CKUA, Chevron
Ecofile and The Image Works Alberta, Inc. Deadline to VAAA: January 31,=
 1999.
=A8 Alberta Order of Excellence - Highest honour accorded in the Province.=
 In
recognition of individuals who have rendered services of the highest
distinction to the residents of Alberta. Nominations ongoing. Previous
recipients: Artist John Snow. Appointments announced normally in September.=
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SHORT BITES:=20
=B7 The Association of Northwest Weavers' Guilds website is http://anwg.org
=B7 Revenue Canada has redesigned corporate financial reporting. For more
information request the Guide to the General Index of Financial Information
(GIFI) for Corporations from your local tax service office or look at
www.rc.gc.ca/t2return.  Public seminars about the changes are available
contact your local tax service.
=B7 Highlights from the 1997 National Survey of Giving, Volunteering and
Participating - "Donations to culture and the arts ranked 6th on the list,
after health, social services, religion, education and research, and
philanthropy and voluntarism. Donations to the arts and culture accounted
for 4% of the total number of donations, and 3% of the total amount
donated." (CCA Blizzart. Vol.3 #3 Fall 1998:3)
=B7 The Panel of Accountability and Governance in the Voluntary Sector
document (released May 1998) Helping Canadians Help Canadians: Improving
Governance and Accountability in the Voluntary Sector can be found at
www.pagvs.com or contact Charities Division of Revenue Canada
613.946.2423.=20
=B7 The Tate Gallery in London has employed Wolff Olins, design consultants,
to devise a new "brand" for the 100-year-old institution. The Tate is
following a trend, set by the Geological Museum, that saw
its attendance increase by 19% after it was rebuilt and renamed the Earth
Gallery, as well as regional museums (a toy museum in the Midlands was
renamed a fun centre).  The Victoria & Albert Museum is offering a bottle of
champagne to anyone who comes up with a "snappy" new title for the museum in
South Kensington. (The Daily Telegraph. 13 Sept.1998)
=B7 AMICO (Art Museum Image Consortium) is a not-for-profit consortium,=
 formed
1997, dedicated to enabling educational use of the multimedia documentation
of museum collections. Its members are together creating a digital library
that documents their collections, and making it available for educational
use. See: www.amico.net/=20

NOTICES:
~~Edmonton Art Gallery - Architectural charette, Nov.13-15. Contact Barbara
Bruce 403.422.6223
~~Medicine Hat Volunteer Symposium - Nov.20, 8a.m. to 4p.m., Contact Kay
Olsen 403.528.3002
~~The New Exporters to Border States (NEBS) program - a federal government
program to educate Canadian companies on export related issues. Contact
David Freeman, Trade Commissioner, 403.495.2630
~~For the 1998/1999 Alberta College of Art & Design Academic Calendar
contact  403.284.7634
~~Not for Profit Management program, Banff Centre for Management. Nov.22-27.
Contact 1.800.590.9799
~~Draw 'Til You Drop, non-instructional workshop. Harcourt House Gallery,
Edmonton. Nov.29 Contact 489.4400.

OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE:
! 3rd Annual Fine Art & Craft Sale, The Old CourtHouse Gallery, Red Deer -
Nov.18-Dec.24. Open to all Central Alberta artists & crafts-people. Contact
403.342.8286
! Western Greetings, an Edmonton company that produces Christmas cards by
Western Canadian artists, query deadline: June 1999 for Christmas 1999,
contact in Edmonton 403.454.7619, 1.800.661.4278.
! Attention Photographers, Wildlife & Kananaskis Country photographs
required for 1999 Kananaskis Country poster series. Deadline January 15,
1999. Contact Joel Christensen 403.678.5508 for details. For information on
the Friends of Kananaskis Country contact Suzan Chamney 403.678.5508,
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! Call for entry - The Kerry Wood Nature Centre, Red Deer, is looking for
wildlife & nature-oriented art. The Park Naturalist requests that there be
"no hand of man". Contact: Diana Anderson 403.309.8450.=20
! Call for entry for 1999 season, Devonian Art Gallery, Calgary. Deadline:
31 Nov., Contact: 403.268.4728
! Call for entry, The NEW Gallery, Calgary. Ongoing, Contact: 403.233.2399
! Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour membership slide submission
deadline Feb1, Contact Alice Reed 902.386.2501
! Research Fellowship Opportunities in American Art 1999-2000, Contact:
Smithsonian Inst. 202.357.2233
! Call to Artists, Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary. Donations of artwork
& time for 1999 Art Auction (up to 25% of proceeds are returned to the
artist).  Contact Julie 403.266.2764
! Call for entry, Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary. Submission for 12th
Annual Christmas Salon Show & Sale. Dec.10-24. Submission dates Dec.3, Dec
5. Contact 403.266.2674
! Call for entry, Stride Gallery, Calgary. Submissions for Christmas
Fundraiser/Silent Auction Bash aka 49 Forever! Preview times Dec2-4. Silent
Auction Dec.4. Contact 403.262.8507.
! Call for member submissions for 1999 season, Harcourt House Gallery,
Edmonton. Deadline Nov 30. Contact Allen Ball 403.426.4180
! Call for submissions and curatorial proposals for Alberta Foundation for
the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program. Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton.
Contact Allen Ball 403.426.4180.
! Call for submission to 10th Anniversary Members Exhibition. Harcourt House
Gallery, Edmonton. Deadline Nov 23-28. Contact 403.426.4180=20
! Call for art rental submissions. Profiles Public Art Gallery, St.Albert.
Deadlines  Nov.30 & May 20. Contact 403.460.4310.
! Special call for 2-D work featuring Still Life. Profiles Public Art
Gallery, St. Albert. Deadline: April 6. Contact 403.460.4310.

EXHIBITIONS: Caritas Art Enrichment Program - Edmonton - Grey Nuns, - until
Dec.1, New Works on Silk by Marlene Cox-Bishop, until Nov.30, Surviving the
After Effects of Sexual Abuse by Roberta G. Sharp, - Misericordia - until
Dec.9, Mary Sullivan Holdgrafer & Stella Kaufman;
Collector's Gallery, Calgary - until Nov.25, Sharon Mark; Edson Creative
Arts Society - at Edson Public Library - Nov.13-14, Palette & Pottery; FAB
Gallery, Edmonton - Nov17-29, Maggie DoRego-Materia Prima, opening Nov19;
Glenbow, Calgary - until Jan.3, In/Here/Out/There: Alberta
Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998; thro 1999, Creating the Image of the
Land; thro April 4, Source/Derivations VI: (Phillips); Harcourt House
Gallery, Edmonton - until Nov.28, Black Dogs-Urban Coyotes; Heritage Weavers
- Riverview United Church - 824 Imperial Way, Calgary - Nov.14, fall sale;
Illingworth Kerr, Calgary - until Nov14, Faculty Show; Latitude 53, Edmonton
- Nov 12 to Dec.12, Memories an installation by Ante Juric; Picture Perfect,
Grande Prairie - Nov12, The Best of Robert Guest; Prairie Art Gallery,
Grande Prairie - until Jan.3, Alexandra Haeseker, Robert Guest, AFA
Travelling Exhibition, opening Nov.12; Profiles Public Art Gallery, St.
Albert - until Nov.28 Artist Xuhong Mao with guest artist Robert Sinclair;
Scott Gallery, Edmonton - until
Nov17, Doug Haynes Small Works; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge -
until Nov25, Barbara McGill Balfour, until Nov22 Yasufumi Takahashi; Stride
Gallery, Calgary - until Nov.28, Nicolas Wade-Sculpture; University of
Alberta, Extension Gallery, Edmonton - Nov.14 to Dec.15,
Linda Wadley-Colors of Earth & Sky; Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies,
Banff - until Nov.29, Twin Peaks: The Largest Exhibition of Mount Rundle
Paintings of All Time,Between There and Here: Les Manning.