VISUAL ARTS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
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WE WOULD LIKE TO EXTENDS TO YOU AND YOURS A WORLD OF BEST WISHES FOR PEACE
AND HAPPINESS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!!!

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 - 15 January, Edmonton.
- Grant writing, portfolio development and other workshops available
contact VAAA Office.
- Notice to VAAA Members: Be an Individual Board Member on the VAAA Board
of Directors. To qualify you must be a paid up VAAA member for 1999/2000
and you cannot be a member of the Hand Weavers, Spinners & Dyers of
Alberta, the Alberta Society of Artists or the Alberta Community Art Clubs
Association (they are represented through the Organizational Board Member
positions). Contact: The Nominating Committee - Pat Hogaboam 435.4163 or
Pat Pelletier  343.8242 or provide contact and biographical information to
the VAAA office. Deadline:Mar.15,1999
- Affiliated PASOs meeting, 14 January 1999, 2 p.m., Percy Page Centre,
Edmonton. Contact: 504.4140

SHORT BITES:
· The Emerald Foundation is once again seeking those Alberta individuals,
community groups and organizations which have demonstrated excellence in
activities which protect, preserve and enhance our environment. Nomination
forms for the 1999 Emerald Awards available from the Alberta Foundation for
Environmental Excellence. Categories include communications, media and the
arts. This category is for individuals and not-for-profit organizations
including filmmakers and artists, among others, whose work has demonstrated
leadership in making the public aware of environmental matters. To qualify
the candidates should meet the criteria of  - a commitment to preservation,
protection or enhancement of the environment; - a positive, tangible and
long-term impact on the quality of air, water or land, the preservation of
biological diversity, the public or corporate attitudes toward the
environment. [NOTE CHANGE IN DATE FROM LAST FACT SHEET] Nominations close:
Friday 26 Feb. 1999, judging occurs in April, presentations at Jack Singer
Hall, Calgary, Monday 7 June 1999. Contact: Becky Vander Steen
403.413.9629, 1.800.219.8329, [log in to unmask], www.emeraldawards.com
· The Jean A. Chalmers National Arts Award has recently gone under review
by the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), the administering organization.
Therefore, previously distributed information is now out-of-date. When new
information is available VAAA will post it on the FACT SHEET or contact
416.961.1660
· Since 1985 Dirk van Wyk, former University of Calgary art instructor, has
created the label designs for Big Rock Brewery, Calgary. Ed McNally,
founder of Big Rock, states that "it was the only tool we could afford at
the beginning" to entice beer lovers to the Alberta brew, "we needed a
different and distinctive label". McNally wanted an artist with good
calligraphy and watercolor skills to reflect his distinctly European beers.
According to McNally, Van Wyk's labels have been "integral" to bringing Big
Rock to where it is today. (Edmonton Journal)
· The Fall 1998 No.6 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Bulletin is available.
Contact: 403.427.9968
· 1999 Heritage Fair News - Alberta was awarded the 1999 CRB National
Heritage Fair. It will take place in Edmonton and area in July 1999. The
1999 Central Alberta Heritage Fair will take place May 14-15 at the
Parkland Mall, Red Deer. Registration packages available. Contact Rod
403.309.8445

NOTICES:
~~The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery will be closed over the winter
while its staff concentrates on preparing works in the collection for
transition to the new storage facility.
~~City Arts Centre, Edmonton Winter'99 through Spring '99 programs.
Registration begins Dec.15. Contact 496.6955
~~The School of Native Studies, UofA, Edm. 10th Anniversary Silent Art
Auction. 2-8 p.m., Feb.28, Latitude 53, Edm.
~~Something on Sundays at the Edmonton Art Gallery - creative hands-on
family programs - 11a.m. - 5 p.m.
~~Medicine Hat Museum & Art Gallery Open House, December 29, 1:30 to 4:30
p.m. Contact 527.6266
~~The Art of Taxes facilitated by David M. McGoey, C.A., Saturday, Feb.6,
10a.m.-1p.m. $15/members, $20/non-members. Contact: Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge, Marilyn Smith 327.8770, ext. 5.
~~Every Tuesday at Noon there are art films at the Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge.
~~Reid Gallery Watercolor Workshops, Brampton, ON. Contact: Jack Reid,
905.457.2078
~~8th Annual Anthropology in Action Speaker Series - Tues. in Jan , Red
Deer & District Museum. Contact: 309.8405
~~Christmas Countdown Sale, Artcetera, Edmonton, until Dec.24, contact
403.413.6414
~~Art Classes: w/c, acrylic, oil, drawing, airbrush, design. Artcetera,
Edmonton, beginning in Jan. contact 413.6414
~~Mount Royal College, Calgary, Fac. of Continuing Education & Extension,
Arts & Design courses. Contact 240.6012

OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE:
! Call for submissions-all mediums, cash award, juried exhibit, Land Marks
99 - works that express an artist's response to Brooks and Area, June3-20,
1999. Brooks Campus of the Medicine Hat College. Deadline: Feb.1,1999.
Contact: Pat Hoffman 403.362.2847, [log in to unmask],
www.eidnet.org/landmarks

! Attention Photographers, Wildlife & Kananaskis Country photographs
required for 1999 Kananaskis Country poster series. Deadline Jan15. Contact
Joel Christensen 403.678.5508.
! Volunteer opportunities during exhibit openings, programs/special events,
special projects, reference library assistant at the Red Deer & District
Museum. Contact Darci 309.8441
! Call for submissions, The Works: A Visual Arts Celebration, Edmonton.
Program Descriptions: Curated/Juried Exhibitions & Special Projects,
Artists at Work Demos, Street Works, Open Studios, Lecture/Workshops, The
Works Street Market. Deadline January 22. Contact:403.426.2122
! Call for artwork for the 1999 FEESA poster, FEESA An Environmental
Education Society, Edmonton.  Eligible artists 60 years or older & Alberta
resident. Deadline: Dec.15. Contact 403.421.1497, [log in to unmask]
! Special call: 2-D work featuring Still Life. Profiles Public Art Gallery,
St. Albert. Deadline: April 6. Contact 403.460.4310.
! Call for Womanstrength 1999 submissions. Celebration of Women in the
Arts. Deadline Jan.8. Contact 403.424.0287
! Call for slide submissions: South of 9, East of 23, Medicine Hat College
5th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Contact 529.3959. Deadline Jan.8, 1999.

EXHIBITIONS:
Devonian Art Gallery, Calgary - until Dec29, Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild's
Letters Alive; Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton - until Dec24, Christmas 98;
Edmonton Art Gallery - until Jan17, Just for the Love of It - Savage
Collection; Beauty & the Banal Contemporary artists from Alberta; Vera
Gartley; Electrum, Edmonton - until Dec24, 1998 Retrospective Group Show;
FAB, Edmonton - until Dec20, Koichi Yamamoto; Glenbow, Calgary - until
Jan3, In/Here/Out/There: Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998; thro
1999, Creating the Image of the Land; thro Apr4, Source/Derivations VI:
(Phillips); Grey Nuns Community Health Centre, Edmonton - until Feb9,
Sharing Viewpoints; Harcourt House Gallery, Edmonton - until Dec23, 10th
Anniversary Members Exhibition; Jan7-Feb6, Fiona Connell (Portwood);
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary - until Dec19, Geoffrey James, David
Hoffo; Lethbridge Public Library Theatre Gallery - until Dec30, Angels to
Icons; McMullen Gallery, Edmonton - until Jan4, Legacy; Medicine Hat
Cultural Centre Gallery - until Dec18, Peter Green, Tom Willock -
photography; Misericordia Community Health Centre, Edmonton - until Feb8,
The Portrait Project; Multicultural Heritage Centre, Stony Plain - until
Jan5, Borealis Group & Parkland Potters Guild; Sean Livingston; Museum of
the Regiments, Calgary - until Mar31, "Memento Mori" Jack Nichols' War Art;
Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie - until Jan3, Alexandra Haeseker,
Robert Guest, AFA Travelling Exhibition; Profiles Gallery, St. Albert -
until Dec22, Presence; Red Deer & District Museum - until Jan4, Christmas
Extravaganza; until Jan10, Lorlie Vuori; Jan10-Mar14, The Rowley Years;
Scott Gallery, Edmonton - until Dec21, Christmas Treasurers; Sir Alexander
Galt Museum, Lethbridge - until Jan2, selections from the Univ. of
Lethbridge Art Collection; SNAP, Edmonton - Dec17-Jan.23, Tadeusz
Warszynski recent works; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge - until
Jan17, Renate Buser; Richard Purdy; Vera Greenwood - High Ground; Trianon
Gallery, Lethbridge - until Jan2, selection of recent gifts to Univ. of
Lethbridge collections. Yates Memorial Centre, Lethbridge - until Jan.11,
Allied Arts Council 40th Anniversary Exhibition