Public Art

We are committed to delivering a public art program that is engaging, relevant and accountable by creating new public art opportunities that reflect the diversity of our city and promote community development and belonging. We are also responsible for activating the existing civic art collection. 

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Abstract artwork titled feature fold, by Katie Ohe

Now Touring: Public Art Billboards – Feature Fold by Katie Ohe

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Banners featuring artworks by Słavek Pytraczyk hang on posts in Calgary's downtown.

Centre City Banners – Słavek Pytraczyk

Photo: Jiaqi Su (Sukie)

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Detail of The Bison and The Dragon wall mural panel.

The Bison and The Dragon: Untold Tales – Jarett Sitter

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Public Art Announcements

We're Hiring: Public Art Project Leads

Calgary Arts Development is seeking multiple Public Art Project Leads as qualified consultants and contractors to assist the public art team in managing and delivering public art projects and programs. For best consideration, apply by…Read more

Public Art Discussion with Karen Tam & Henry Heng Lu 

Artist Karen Tam shares insights into her public art project, Agnes Street Park, currently underway in New Westminster, British Columbia, which honours and pays tribute to the municipality’s early Chinese Canadian community as part of…Read more

"What is Public Art?" Community Conversation

Alcove Centre for the Arts is hosting a series of community conversations around the topic of public art, presented in partnership with Calgary Arts Development. Join the Producer's Live jam and talk led by Kindé…Read more

Applications Open: Art Bus RFQ 2025

Artists and artist collectives are invited to submit qualifications for an opportunity to wrap the exterior of one of seven public transit buses with new artwork. The deadline to apply is December 4, 2024.Read more

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Jessica Cheng stands beside her mini gallery, displaying a colourful artwork featuring illustrations of food.

Northeast Mini Galleries

This initiative aims to build amazing spaces for people to come together and provides opportunities…Read more

A view through the window of the Open Spaces galleries showing paper artworks by Karine Nazaryan

Open Spaces: Windows to a View

Since 2009, the Open Spaces program has provided exhibition space to local and regional artists while enlivening the…Read more

Hareet Ranu with her Northeast Mini Gallery artwork My Colourful Neighbourhood

Northeast Mini Galleries

This initiative aims to build amazing spaces for people to come together and provides opportunities…Read more

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Our Commitment to Equity

Our commitment to Indigenous reconciliation, racial equity, disability justice, and gender and sexual diversity.

We acknowledge that the land we gather on, Mohkinsstsis, is the ancestral territory of the Siksikaitsitapi — the Blackfoot people — comprising the Siksika, Kainai and Piikani Nations, as well as Treaty 7 signatories, the Tsuut’ina Nation and the Îyârhe Nakoda Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney First Nations. Today this land is home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government Districts 5 and 6 as well as many First Nations and Inuit from across Turtle Island.

We acknowledge that there has been art, music, dance, storytelling and ceremony on this land since time immemorial and it is in the spirit of this land and its people that we do our work.

Please see our full Commitment to Equity, including the sections on our aspirations, accountability, current initiatives and EDIA history.