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

Frances I. Ekvall

Birth Place
Beaumont, Alberta

Residence
Calgary, Alberta

Education
1987, Painting Major Diploma
1974, Secretarial Arts Program

Selected Awards

  • Alberta Culture Travel Grant, 1986 & 89

Public Collections

  • Alberta Arts Foundation
    1990-91

Bibliography

  • Legacy Magazine, Gilbert A. Bouchard, "Clear Cut Indictment," Fall 2004
  • Red Deer Advocate, Laura Tester, "Artists' Focus on Clear Cutting," October 2004
  • Alberta Society of Artists, The First Seventy Years by Kathy E. Zimon University of Calgary Press, 2000
  • For Art's Sake - Dedicated Co-op Members Shun the Color of Money The Calgary Herald, 1993
  • The Fine Art of Selling - An Artist' Co-op Bucks the Trend by Refusing State Funding Alberta Report, 1993

Solo Exhibitions

  • Signs of Spring
    Centennial Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2004
  • New Paintings
    Lazy Loaf & Kettle/Gallery
    2003
  • The Wynford Group Open House
    Calgary, Alberta
    2000
  • New Paintings
    Fiddlehead's Bistro/Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1998
  • Recent Paintings
    Lazy Loaf & Kettle/Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1998
  • Tulips Plus
    Johnson Turnbull Designs, Calgary, Alberta
    1998
  • Florals
    Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
    1997
  • New Paintings
    Lazy Loaf & Kettle/Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1996
  • Small Things a Muse
    Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Program
    1992-93
  • More Tulips
    Centennial Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1992
  • Tulips
    Gulf Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1991

Group Exhibitions

  • Contemporary Art on the Ranch
    Calgary, Alberta
    2007
  • atTENtion: the group of Ten
    Station Cultural Centre, Okotoks, Alberta
    2006
  • Kaleidoscope
    Stone Fish Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2006
  • The Foothills Country Auction
    Calgary, Alberta
    2006
  • Autumn in Inglewood
    Stone Fish Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2005
  • New Works
    Art Point Gallery, Calgary, Alberat
    2005
  • The Foothills Country Auction
    Calgary, Alberta
    2005
  • Diversity & Harmony
    Gallery Eleven, Calgary, Alberta
    2004
  • Clear Cut: The Understory
    Allied Arts Centre, Lethbridge, Alberta
    Red Deer & District Museum, Red Deer, Alberta
    2004
  • Child's Play
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    2004
  • The Foothills Country Auction
    Calgary, Alberta
    2004
  • ASA Art Walk
    City Hall, Calgary, Alberta
    2003
  • Juried Members Show
    Leighton Centre, Calgary, Alberta
    2003
  • Intimate Visions
    Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2003
  • Ten
    Masters Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    2002
  • Shades of September
    Mount Royal Village, Calgary, Alberta
    2000
  • The Foothills Country Auction
    Calgary, Alberta
    2000
  • Fresh Start Benefit
    2000
  • Spring Birds & Flowers
    Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
    1999
  • Expressions 99
    Metropolitan Centre, Calgary, Alberta
    1999
  • New Energy ASA
    Mount Royal Village
    1999
  • Shared Visions
    Mount Royal Village, Calgary, Alberta
    1997
  • Floral & Botanical Art Show & Sale
    Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
    1997
  • Beyond the Brush
    Alberta Society of Artists, Mount Royal Village, Calgary, Alberta
    1996
  • Nature Expressed
    Alberta Society of Artists, The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • Spring Values
    Muttart Art Gallery, Alberta Society of Artists
    1995
  • Be A Fool for Art with the Muttart - Annual Art Auction
    Muttart Art Gallery
    1995
  • Orchid Show
    Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta
    1995
  • City of Gold
    The Calgary Jewish Academy, Calgary, Alberta
    1995
  • Views
    Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta
    1995
  • Transit of Venus
    Theatre Calgary, Max Bell Theatre, Calgary, Alberta
    1995
  • Triangle Gallery Rental Service
    Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • Annual Art Walk
    Mount Royal ASA Show & Sale, Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • International Organ Festival
    Doll Building, Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • Willow Park Classic Auction
    William Roper Hull Family Service
    1994
  • "Chefs for UNICEF" Second Annual Auction
    1994
  • 4th Annual Country Auction
    Foothills Hospital Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
    1994
  • Art to Remember, Head Injured Relearning Society Auction
    1994
  • 3rd Annual Country Auction
    Foothills Hospital Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
    1993
  • "Chefs for UNICEF", First Annual Auction
    1993
  • Alberta Society of Artists' Spring Sale
    Leighton Foundation
    1993
  • Art to Remember, Head Injured Relearning Society Auction
    1993
  • The Calgary Jewish Academy 23rd Annual Art Exhibition and Sale
    1993
  • Landscapes
    SAIT, Highwood Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1993
  • Celebration of Women in the Arts
    McMullen Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1993
  • 2nd Annual Country Auction
    Foothills Hospital Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
    1992
  • Celebration of Women in the Arts
    The Works, Edmonton, Alberta
    1991
  • Celebration of Women in the Arts
    Greenwood's Bookshoppe, Edmonton, Alberta
    1991
  • Celebration of Women in the Arts
    Common Woman Books, Edmonton, Alberta
    1990
  • Ways of Seeing Landscape
    Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta
    1989
  • ACA Alumnae
    Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
    1989
  • Art For All
    Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
    1989
  • Alberta Open
    Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • From the Landscape
    Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • The Associates
    Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • Individualities, Wintershow '88
    Olympic Arts Festival, Mobile Oil Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • Multiple Vantage Points
    City of Calgary Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • Along the Bow
    Gulf Canada Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1988
  • Boho Mutations
    Calgary Hall, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
    1986
  • So You Think You Know Calgary
    Equinox Fine Arts Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1986
  • Up and Down
    City of Calgary Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1986
  • The Painted Brush
    Muttart Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
    1985