Public Artwork

Our Land - Our Future

Vilem Zach, Our Land - Our Future, 1986. © Robbdogg120
Vilem Zach, Our Land - Our Future, 1986. © Robbdogg120
Location:
Calgary Stampede Agriculture Building , 1800 Stampede Trail, Calgary, AB, Canada
Artwork creator(s): 
Zach, Vilem
Text author(s): 
Zach, Vilem
Installation year: 
1986
Description: 

Sculpture of a man and a woman representing the farmers.

Text of the artwork: 

With hope and apprehension they
survey their new land,
brought from afar by its lure.
We depend on the farm familly’s stewardship
of our most precious renewable resource.

Artwork theme: 
Land, Family
History: 
There are 24 replicas of the sculpture. Sponsored by Bank of Montreal to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the BMO.
Document(s): 

Our Land- Our Future- The Alberta Farm Family

Dogg, Rob (2007).  Our Land- Our Future- The Alberta Farm Family. <http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM20QC> : Waymarking