The Art Gallery of Alberta, which is located in Edmonton, is a great place to while away the time if you are in the city for an extended period of time. While other attractions in Edmonton are certainly worth seeing also—such as, to name just one example, the West Edmonton Mall where you can also find stationary printing services—the Art Gallery of Alberta features an exhibit that addresses the importance of Canadian national identity insofar as landscape in prints go.
This exhibition of the Art Gallery of Alberta is based largely around the collection of the Ernest E. Poole Foundation, which donated 90 works of art to the Art Gallery of Alberta back in 1975. The name of the exhibition is called "Reframing a Nation," and it goes into detail in its exploration of how Canadian artists such as Emily Carr and Tom Thomson have been looked at in past years, while searching for new ways of interpreting their art works in the present day.
Even artists who are contemporary—such as native person Maria Hupfield—get a feature at this exhibition. Her work, a photographic mural, ties in to the overarching theme of this exhibition, which is Canadian landscapes, and, as such, her work focuses on land, community and memory. If you are particularly impressed by any pieces you see, the gallery can advise you if there are any reproductions available; poster printing companies in Edmonton use the latest printing techniques, enabling you to take a part of the exhibition home with you.
So if you are in Edmonton and want to see an attraction other than the West Edmonton Mall—with its stationary printing services and all—traipse on over to the Art Gallery of Alberta and discover a little bit of Canadian national identity.
