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Legacy: Alberta's Heritage Magazine
Barb Dacks - Owner/Publisher
http://www.legacymagazine.ab.ca
The Alberta's Arts Heritage Project is proud to have Legacy,
Alberta's Cultural Heritage Magazine, as content provider for the Project.
The magazine was launched in 1996 with a mandate to promote, preserve and
present the rich heritage of the province of Alberta and, since that time,
has gained much critical acclaim as well as a wide subscription base. A
special thanks is extended to Barbara Dacks, Publisher and owner of
Legacy, whose commitment to heritage preservation and personal belief in
and support of the work of the Heritage Community Foundation has made not
only this partnership possible but added a greater sense of integrity and
worth of the entire project.
Featured Legacy Articles:
76 Trombones
The first foreigners to come to Alberta had little interest in making
significant changes. As fur traders, the wilderness had value in its pristine
state as a source of their merchandise. For about 100 years, minimal change
occurred as a result of European presence.
Alberta's Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years
The title of this book looks back to the US presidency of John E
Kennedy, many of whose participants and advocates adopted "Camelot" to
characterize what they believed was a golden age in American history,
politics and culture. The sobriquet was taken from Lerner and Loewe's 1960
Broadway musical, which, in turn, was inspired by The Once and Future
King, by T.H. White, published in four parts between 1939 and 1958.
Art Banking
After a year of celebrations marking its 25th anniversary, the Alberta
Foundation for the Arts (AFA) is still building the best collection of
visual art in Alberta. Now with over 6,000 works, the collection is a
valuable cultural resource. Since 1972, it has served two roles.
Canada's Michelangelo
A groundbreaking Alberta artist, Janvier has been called one of
Canada's most significant contemporary artists. His innovative, modernist
style of painting has created a legacy not only for Albertans, but for the
entire Canadian art scene.
Christmas Traditions
During the late Victorian era, the new burgeoning middle class seemed
to find it morally reprehensible to have empty, undecorated space in their
homes. Their style was one of "abundance," and they filled every corner
with the accoutrements of wealth, learning, travel, knowledge of the
world, and family. Clutter became a hallmark.
Cowboy Poetry Rides Tall in Alberta
"I like to tell a story and I don't mind digging into
your soul or mine," Lloyd Dolen says frankly. "I guess I've always been
writin' a bit. It's all for fun." Now 79, the acclaimed granddaddy of
cowboy poetry in Alberta lives on a quarter section near Cochrane.
Flame Throwers
I'm holding a bowl, a handmade pottery bowl that's been
touched by the fire. A ritual baptism, this encounter with the flame has
carried the bowl from one world to the next, anointing its rim and softly
sloping interior with ash melted to an almost translucent green. Outside,
one side blushes, remembering the flame's fiery kiss.
History of the Edmonton Opera
In 1949, an ambitious young tenor and voice teacher
from Quebec City moved to Edmonton to become the organist at a Roman
Catholic Church. He took on a number of voice students, and from these
humble beginnings set the stage for professional opera in the city.
Icefields Review
My fascination with the Rockies began on August 8 1976, my first day in Canada.
Arriving in Calgary from England, I was driven straight to Jasper National Park
to begin fieldwork. Dizzy with jet-lag and culture-shock, I resolutely refused
to appear impressed by the Rockies, while inwardly stunned at my first encounter
with real mountains.
Master of Light and Sky
Sylvain Voyer's studio is nothing special. A flat light bounces in from a grey
cement wall just outside the window and infuses a place so generic, it could be
anywhere. But the brilliant yellow field under a crisp band of blue floating in the
centre of the room is anything but generic. That has to be Alberta.
Maxwell Bates at the end of the 20th century
"A prophet is not without honour except in his own
country." So rang a 1931 Calgary newspaper editorial in support of the
recent modernist art of Alberta's Maxwell Bates and W.L. Stevenson.
My Father, H.G. Glyde
Alberta is no longer a frontier province, but a land of
settled towns and communities, where many now have their roots in the
soil, where their families are growing up, young Albertans, part of the
land, with a love for it, and knowing its moods.
Photographs as Collectible Art
Paintings, prints, and other forms of art are important
to a collector's portfolio or a home decor. More and more though,
photographs are occupying space on walls that not long ago were reserved
for more "serious" works. Historical photographs can be a wonderful
addition to period interiors, but many people like to collect old
photographs simply because they evoke another time and place.
Photographer George Webber
Photographer George Webber captures "the heroic quality of simply lives."
Portrait of a Gallery
The Edmonton Art Gallery (EAG) celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, and
the staff is taking stock, reflecting, and making plans for the future. Thinking
about the first 75 years of the gallery means considering its audience as well
as its collections, for the history of a public institution is also the history
of its public.
The Journey of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
The founders of the gallery saw visual art as something akin to the Canadian
Pacific Railway. Both played an important role in "civilizing" the country, bringing
"culture" to the prairies. These early citizens came to Edmonton with new dreams,
old-world values, and a strong resolve to maintain cultural continuity.
The Nicoll Collection
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) Collection of
Art will celebrate its 25th anniversary in November 1997.
The Thoughts and Words of Rudy Wiebe
In the annals of obsure collectibles, I might possess the Holy Grail of
acquisitions. It's a 1994 mint first-edition Rudy Wiebe T-shirt. Black
cotton, never worn, created by his publishers Knopf Canada to commemorate
the winning of that year's Governor General's Award for his eighth novel,
A Discovery of Strangers.
W.O. Mitchell Remembered
Last October, the Calgary literary community honoured its favourite son, W.O.
Mitchell, with an evening of readings, appreciation, memories and, ultimately, love.
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