The Alberta Society of Artists

The ASA is a registered society under the regulations of the Province of Alberta. Its members include professional artists in all media as well as visual arts supporters.

Current Members

Dora Helen Mackie

Birth Place
Tavistock, Ontario
1926

Residence
Calgary, Alberta

Education
1973, B.F.A., University of Calgary, Alberta
1949, M.A., University of Toronto, Ontario
1947, B.A. Hon., Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Selected Awards

  • Best of Show Alberta Printmakers, Medicine Hat Art Gallery, 1995

Public Commissions

  • Leighton Centre
    2002
  • Commemorative Anniversary Print Edition
    Alberta Society of Artists
    2000
  • First Energy Capital Corp., Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • W.M. & Co., Calgary, Alberta
    1992
  • City of Calgary Winter Festival, Calgary, Alberta
    1990
  • International Association for Scientific Experts in Tourism, Calgary, Alberta
    1987
  • Dairy Bureau of Canada
    1985

Public Collections

  • Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta
  • Alberta Governmental Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
  • Alberta House, London, England
  • Canada Council, Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Calgary, Alberta
  • Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour-Diploma Collection, Ontario
  • Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
  • H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II, Permanent Collection, Windsor Castle Library, UK
  • Hydrocarbon Research Inc. Lawrenceville, New York, USA
  • Montreal Trust Company, Calgary, Alberta
  • Pan-Canadian Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta
  • Pan-Canadian Petroleum, Calgary, Alberta
  • Royal Bank of Canada, Calgary, Alberta
  • Toronto Dominion Bank, Calgary, Alberta
  • University of Calgary, Alberta
  • Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta

Bibliography

  • The Calgary Herald, Mary-Beth Laviolette, 2002
  • The Gazette, Trois Rivieres, Quebec, 2001
  • Voir, Quebec, 2001
  • Artichoke, Spring Vol. 13, No. 1, 2001
  • Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, Pg. 6, Summer, 2001
  • Art and Science Gallery Guide, Summer, John Geary, 2001
  • Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000
  • Critics Pick The Calgary Herald, Mary-Beth Laviolette, 2000
  • Mysticism in the Everyday Fast Forward, Vol. 4 No. 38, Kay Burns, 2000
  • Extension of Nature The Calgary Herald, 1990
  • Printmaking in Alberta1945-1985 Bente Roed Cochran, 1989
  • Alberta Art Works The Calgary Herald, 1984
  • Mackie Exhibits in Japan Visual Arts Newletter, 1984
  • The Edmonton Journal, 1980
  • The Lethbridge Herald, 1979
  • Edmonton Journal, 1978
  • Bow Corridor News, 1978
  • The Calgary Herald, 1975

Solo Exhibitions

  • New Work
    Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2002
  • A Thirty Year Survey
    Image 54 Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2000
  • Giordano Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1993
  • Kensington Fine Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1992 & 94
  • Prairie Gallery Exhibition
    Alberta
    1991
  • Galerie Rochon, Toronto, Ontario
    1987
  • Alberta Society of Artists - Ontario Society of Artists
    Alberta & Ontario
    1985
  • Kanagawa Internatioal Association, Kanagawa, Japan
    1984
  • Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1981
  • Chapman Gallery, Red Deer, Alberta
    1979
  • Lefebvre Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1978
  • Dandelion Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1975 & 77

Group Exhibitions

  • Three Generations of Printmaking
    Leighton Centre, Calgary, Alberta
    2002
  • Micro
    Alberta Printmakers, Gallery San Chun, Calgary, Alberta
    2002
  • Brave New Prints
    Alberta Printmakers, Calgary, and McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2002
  • Biennale International D'Estampe Contemproraine de Trois-Rivieres
    Quebec
    2001
  • Rural Route
    AFA Government House, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • 70th Anniversary Millennium Show, The Alberta Society of Artists South Branch
    Leighton Foundation Museum and Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2001
  • Big and Brave, The Alberta Printmakers Society
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • Kaleidoscope
    Calgary Cont. Arts Society, Amsterdam and Ostrava, Czech Rep.
    2000
  • Evidence of Things Unseen
    Tyndale College, Toronto, Ontario
    2000
  • Selected Works by Members of The Alberta Society of Artists
    Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta
    1999
  • ASA Symbols in Civilization
    Alberta
    1996
  • Printmaking in Alberta
    Alberta
    1994
  • Pluralism in Alberta Prints
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1994
  • Taejon Expo International Exhibition of Graphic Arts
    Taejon, Korea
    1993
  • First International Print Biennial
    Maastricht, The Netherlands
    1993
  • Northwest Print Council
    Salem, Oregon, USA
    1992
  • 5th International Biennial Print Exhibition 1991 ROC
    Taipei, Taiwan
    1991
  • 51st Annual Exhibition of Northwest Watercolours
    Kirkland, Washington, USA
    1991
  • 1st Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints
    Kochi-shi, Japan
    1990
  • Western Canadian Woodblock Prints
    Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1989
  • Wintershow 88 Olympic Arts Festival
    Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • Exposicao International de Gravura
    San Paulo, Brazil
    1987-88
  • John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
    1987
  • International Exhibition Small Forms of Graphic Art
    Lodz, Poland
    1985,88-89
  • C.S.P. Watercolour Diamond Jubilee Exhibition
    Royal Collections, Windsor Castle, UK
    1985
  • International Independents Exhibition of Prints in Kanagawa
    Kanagawa, Japan
    1984-90
  • Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour
    Canada
    1977 - 94
  • Alberta Work
    University of Calgary, Alberta
    1977
  • Artists Greetings
    Memorial University Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland
    1977
  • The Cleveland U.K. International Drawing Biennial
    Middlesborough, UK
    1977
  • Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton, Alberta

Traveling Exhibitions

  • Blooming Prairie
    Edmonton Art Gallery's Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program, Alberta
    2001-03
  • The Blooming Praire
    Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2001
  • Bridging A New Century
    Red Deer, Stony Plain, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Blairmore, Grande Prairie, and Calgary, Alberta
    2000-02
  • Alberta Printmakers
    Alberta
    1995
  • C.S.P. Watercolour
    Alberta & Ontario
    1992
  • Southern Alberta Art Gallery Exhibition
    Alberta
    1991
  • Sharing Visions
    Alberta & Japan
    1984
  • Women Artists of Alberta
    Alberta
    1979

Public Exhibition

  • Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
    1987