Lure of Fine Art Touted As Tourist Draw

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Friesens is building a $1-million sculpture park and art gallery in Altona. The art gallery will be the finest outside Winnipeg, the company says.

Sculpture and art were a natural for Friesens because it prints so many high-end art books, and attracts people from the art publishing world to Altona. The walls inside the Friesens offices already feature a gallery-like array of work by famous Manitoba artists like Ivan Eyre, Robert Kost, Leo Mol, Armand Paquette and Clarence Tillenius, as well as artists from across Canada.

"Our staff know and expect Friesens to be a community leader. We've been doing this for a long, long time," he said.

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Lure of Fine Art Touted As Tourist Draw

Friesens Corp.building gallery, sculpture garden to boost region

Bill Redekop

ALTONA -- Renowned book printer Friesens Corp. is staking its reputation on what it promises will be a spectacular new t...

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