Uplift

PearlAnn Reichwein is a professor of history at the University of Alberta. She is the author of the award-winning Climber's Paradise: Making Canada's Mountain Parks, 1906–1974 and co-editor with Karen Fox of Mountain Diaries: The Alpine Adventures of Margaret Fleming, 1929–1980. Both titles were Banff Mountain Book Festival finalists. She is a founding member of the Canadian Mountain Network and an advocate for parks, heritage, and UNESCO sites.Karen Wall is a professor of communication, media, and heritage studies at Athabasca University and teaches in the Heritage Resource Management Program. She is the author of Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta, as well as numerous articles about Edmonton and Alberta heritage and arts, tourism, Indigenous issues, and cultural landscapes.

• Introduction: Artists, Tourists, and Citizens 1 Uplifting the People: Extension Education and the Arts 2 Branding Banff: Arts Education, Tourism, and Nation Building3 Building a "Campus in the Clouds": Space, Design, Modernity4 "Wholesome, Understandable Pictures": Practices of Landscape Painting and Production of Landscapes5 Presence and Portrait: Indigeneity in the Park6 "Leading Artists of the World": Teachers as Tourist Attractions and Pedagogues7 "Some Paint, Some Tan": Students Coming to the MountainsConclusion: The Arts, Nature, and DemocracyNotes; Bibliography; Index

Uplift reflects Reichwein's expertise in social and environmental history and Wall's expertise in communication, public art, and memory. They build the Banff School for readers and illustrate how attitudes around nature and Canadian identity prevalent in the 1920s were formalized and regionalized in the 1950s. - Dale Barbour (NiCHE) This is a thoughtful, at times entertaining book which provides a valuable lens through which to view no just the history of the Banff Centre but also the complex and vital relationships between culture, education, and the state. - Ben Fullalove, Alberta University of the Arts (Alberta Views) Uplift is an impressive work of scholarship and will be of great value for academics in various fields. - Catherine Annau (The Canadian Historical Review) Uplift is the first history of the Banff School of Fine Arts. The historical narrative presented therein is comprehensive and investigative ... Pearl Ann Reichwein and Karen Wall adroitly weave together a wealth of primary source information to show how the Banff School was embedded in a complex network of interactions between national park tourism, art, adult extension education, and cultural policy. - Danielle Raad, Yale University Art Gallery (Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies)