THE COLLECTION

At Southland Leisure Centre visitors can view a multi media piece by David Cheney, made with pastels/paper and plywood.

Visitors to the William R. Cassal and Signal Hill libraries can view works by Gregory Arnold, Annora Brown, Maggie Dunbar, Jean Mihalcheon, Frank Palmer, Graham Peacock, Margaret Shelton, and Thomas Lax.

Numerous sculptural pieces belonging to the collection are located at venues such as Devonian Gardens, Prince’s Island and the Calgary Zoo.

In Olympic Plaza is a work titled “The Famous Five”. This work celebrates the achievement and the efforts of five extraordinary women on behalf of all Canadian women and was donated in 1999 by the Famous Five Foundation. One hundred years from now this piece will also reflect the values of Calgarians as we entered the new millennium.

OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR CALGARIANS TO VIEW THE COLLECTION

In 2000 CAAF partnered with the Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts in an exhibit titled “Creating a Legacy – The Role of Artists in Founding Calgary’s Civic Art Collection”.

In 2001, during ArtCity, CAAF cosponsored an exhibition curated by Allan Mackay entitled “Going Somewhere: An existential study”, a contemporary art installation by Rebecca Bourgault. This was a partnership between CAAF, The Visual Art Society and The City of Calgary.

In 2002, during ArtCity, CAAF partnered with EM/MEDIA to present another site-specific installation and public video screening. The exhibition, curated by John Will, acknowledged and celebrated EM/MEDIAs twenty-year history supporting media arts and artists in Calgary. Sandra Vida and Jim Goertz created installations, "Four Range Fires and a Hole" in Devonian Gardens. On the final night of ArtCity as special screening presented works of fourteen national artists who had created works at EM/MEDIA since the 1980s. The roster included work by David Hoffos, Grant Poier, Ken Doren, Shauna Kennedy and David Clark.

In 2003, CAAF will be partnering with the new Sugar Estate Gallery and curators Lisa Brawn and Milo Dlouhy will select work from the Civic Art Collection as well as work by Calgary artists.

At the present we are participating in the City Hall School where classes come from various schools to learn about civic government. Volunteers take pieces from the collection and talk about the collection, its role and where the children can view the collection.

Plans are being made for 2002 for additional showings. Watch this page for future dates.

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