Contact the Leighton Art Centre:
Executive Director
Tony Luppino
Phone: (403) 931-3153
Email: tluppino@leightoncentre.org
General Inquiries / Feedback :
Site 31, COMP 9, RR #8
Calgary, Alberta
T2J 2T9
Phone: (403) 931-3633
Fax: (403) 931-3673
Email: info@leightoncentre.org
School Programs and Summer Camp
Karen Freeman
Education Coordinator
Phone: (403) 931-3636
Fax: (403) 931-3597
Email: karenf@leightoncentre.org
Sponsorship (Individual or Corporate)
Phone: (403) 931-3633 Fax: (403) 931-3597
Email: info@leightoncentre.org
Thank you for your continued Support!
Artists
Happy Barlow
Phone: (403) 931-3633
Email: happyb@leightoncentre.org
Board of Directors 2010/2011
Any director may be contacted through the Leighton Foundation office at 931-3633
Chairperson - Gervais Goodman, Goodman McDougall & Associates Ltd.
Vice Chairperson - Ray McNeil
Treasurer - Margaret McKenzie, Range Royalty Management Ltd.
Secretary - Dorothy Chisholm, Artist/Business Consultant
Director - Barb Castell, Councillor - Division 3 MD of Foothills No. 31
Director - Lisa Christensen, Heffel Fine Art Auction House
Director - Sally Gregg
Director - Nancy Peters
Director - Paul Squires, P.D.S. Display & Design Ltd
Director - Bob Thornton,
Press Release
For Immediate Release, July 21, 2011
The Board of Directors of the Leighton Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Ms. Lisa Christensen to the Board of Directors and the appointment of Mr. Gervais Goodman as the Chairman of the Board, effective June 22, 2011.
Ms. Christensen has worked in the art world for twenty years, holding the positions of Associate Curator of Art at Calgary’s Glenbow Museum and Curator of Art at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff, in addition to freelance curatorial and corporate work. She has served on the Board of the Alberta Museums Association and is currently on the Art Advisory Council to Calgary’s Military Museums.
She is the author of three award-winning books on Canadian art history: A Hiker’s Guide to Art of the Canadian Rockies, A Hiker’s Guide to the RockyMountain Art of Lawren Harris, and The Lake O’Hara Art of J.E.H. McDonald and Hiker’s Guide. As a curator, researcher and writer, Lisa possesses unique knowledge particular to the art of Canada’s West and the Rocky Mountains as well as a broad and deep knowledge of Canadian art history. She is currently employed as Heffel Fine Art Auction House’s Calgary Representative where, in addition to serving Heffel’s Calgary clients, she writes extensively for the Heffel Fine Art Live Sale Catalogues.
Mr. Goodman joined the Board of Directors in 2009 and served as Chair of the Governance Committee.
Mr. Goodman is co-founder and Partner, with his wife Janice McDougall, in the Human Resource consulting firm of Goodman, McDougall & Associates Ltd. based at The Learning Sanctuary™ near Millarville, Alberta. The firm’s specialties are compensation and appreciative facilitation, subjects on which Gervais has spoken and published. Gervais and Janice have recently completed a conservation easement on their property with the Foothills Land Trust.
Mr. Goodman is also a past member of the Municipal District of Foothills Environment Committee and has served on the National and Calgary executives of the Strategic Capability Network, and as past Chair of Mount Royal College Human Resources Advisory Committee.
He has also recently had a successful photographic essay exhibit entitled “Imagine 8 Acres…” that explores the splendour of diversity in small spaces. This may be seen at http://vimeo.com/14092790 .
For further information contact: Tony Luppino, Executive Director, Leighton Art Centre tluppino@leightoncentre.org Telephone: 403 931-3153 Fax: 403 931-3673
We have a portable ramp for persons in wheelchairs to enter the museum and gallery areas of the facility. Plan on calling ahead at (403) 931-3633 so we may have this ready for you.