Canadian NewsAuthor(s): Peter AnthonySource: ARLIS/NA Newsletter, Vol. 6, No. 4/5 (SUMMER, 1978), p. 80Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Art Libraries Society of NorthAmericaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27946027 .

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SCULPTURE EVERYWHERE During the first few days of June, the 10th Inter

national Sculpture conference met in Toronto at York University, but the 1500 delegates attended gallery openings all over the city, plus receptions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and at Ontario Place, the city's water front playground. Over 100 sculptures were featured during the entire month along a mile and a half of Lake Ontario waterfront. The Art Bank, an art collection belonging to the nation, lent several works. Others included "performance pieces" which were performed

only during the conference. Others were "environment

art", built especially for the Harbourfront environment.

Among the international sculptors who attended the conference was Paris sculptor Cesar. "The sculptors are

nothing compared to your buildings. They are the

sculpture of today" was his enthusiastic response to

Toronto's new architecture, especially the Royal Bank Plaza, the Mies van der Rohe Toronto-Dominion Bank

complex, and the Ontario Science Centre.

THE GREAT CANADIAN ART DRAW Artscanada magazine raised money by selling $50

lottery tickets on paintings by major Canadian artists. Six lucky winners on June 7 became the owners of works

by Kenneth Lochhead, Jack Shadbolt, Ronald Bloore, Gordon Smith, William Ronald and Ernest Lindner.

ART IN CITY HALL SQUARE The 17th annual Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition took

place on a fine sunny weekend in mid-June with the assistance of the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Toronto. An estimated 100,000 citizens and tourists visited displays by artists and craftsmen which filled the square in front of Viljo Revell's City Hall. Eighteen artists received prizes, with several student artists receiving special student awards in various categories: oil

paintings, watercolors, ceramics, crafts, and photographs.

Mary F. Williamson

Canadian News The Canadian Art Libraries Section (CARLS) was

treated to a lucid and enlightening slide illustrated lecture on Alberta arts and crafts by Ms. Bente Roed Cochran, artist and art historian, when it held its program meeting in Edmonton on Friday, June 16. Unfortunately, only a rather meager audience of ten was able to enjoy this inter

esting presentation as conflicting meetings prevented several members from attending. Indeed, few art librarians were able to attend the Canadian Library

Association Conference (June 15?21) in Edmonton, Alberta, which is some distance from the concentration of art libraries in East-Central Canada.

A business meeting of CARLS preceeded the

presentation on Alberta arts with Melva Dwyer, Chairperson, presiding.

It was reported that the Art Libraries Survey undertaken by the National Library of Canada several years ago with the cooperation of CARLS, was nearing completion and should be published before the end of 1978.

The Art Press exhibition, originally presented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in 1976, is scheduled for exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 1979 in con

junction with the ARLIS/NA Conference, March 21?25.

A letter from Karen McKenzie of the AGO, coordinator for the exhibition, was read from the Chair. As only the original descriptive panels will be on tour, Karen requested input from Canadian art libraries in the form of loans of examples of the actual periodicals and in con

tributing toward a section on Canadian art periodicals which is to be added to the original exhibition and

possibly "appear as a (modest) publication". Write Karen McKenzie, Reference Library, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ont. M5T 1G4 if you can contribute to this project.

The members present were informed of the ARLIS/NA Conference next March and it was suggested by the Chair that a letter inviting CARLS members to the Toronto Conference be sent to members in that region. This will be done.

It was reported that several CARLS members, including Noel Balke and Peter Anthony, participated in the formation of an Art Libraries Round Table at the IFLA Conference in Brussels in September, 1977, and will be continuing to work in its projects and its enhancement to Section status during the two years allowed to prove its viability. Members were requested to ask their institutions holding IFLA membership to express interest in joining an Art Section so as to increase its chances for approval.

Kathy Zimon, University of Calgary, the able editor of the CARLS Newsletter for several years, asked to be relieved of this responsibility. Pat Parnell of the Saskatoon Public Library has assumed this exacting position for an indefinite period.

Because of a lack of nominations, the 1977-78 executive will remain in office for 1978-79.

Mary Williamson, who was not able to be present, had written the Chairperson suggesting that CARLS embark on a bibliography project on Canadian subjects. This met with approval from those present but a modest start was deemed best initially.

A concensus emerged that as a start, five Canadian artists would be chosen for a bibliographic survey on each. A coordinator for the project did not emerge from those present so the Chairperson, Melva Dwyer, was left with the task of recruiting one, in the meantime initiating the project herself.

Peter Anthony

ARLIS/NA Western Regional Conference

Arizona in October . . . Taliesin West and numerous

other Frank Lloyd Wright buildings . . . Paolo Soleri's

studio, experimental construction site, and residence:

Cosanti Foundation ... the Heard Museum, devoted to the art of the American Indian . . . the Phoenix Art Museum with its Rembrandt Etchings Catalog and the nationally recognized Cowboy Artists of America Exhibition ... all this and a professional meeting too! The First ARLIS/NA Western Regional Conference will be held October 27?29 in Phoenix, Arizona, hosted by ARLIS/Arizona. Its

theme, "All About Archives" is geared to aiding the art librarian who is associated with, or interested in, archival collections, particularly ARLIS members who are

establishing archives or indexes on local artists. The

Saturday morning session is on local artists' archives with speakers ranging from a member of the editorial staff of Who's Who in American Art, a museum curator, an artist, a gallery owner, and an ARLIS member who has been actively involved in creating and maintaining an ARLIS-sponsored archive. The afternoon session on

"Photographic Archives" should be of interest both to slide librarians and those who have found themselves in control of a collection of photographs. It will feature

speakers representing archival collections which are oriented toward emphasis on photography as an art and

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