Hidden Valley: Inspire our Future

Community-Initiated Microgrant 2021

A garbage bin decorated with flowers and the words "Do what feels right"

This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride.

An energy utility box wrapped with First Nations imagery sits at the corner of an intersection

This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride.

A garbage bin decorated with flowers and the words "Do what feels right"

This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride.

A garbage bin wrapped with artwork of people and dogs sledding down a snowy hill.

This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride.

A garbage bin decorated with flowers and the words "Do what feels right"
An energy utility box wrapped with First Nations imagery sits at the corner of an intersection
A garbage bin decorated with flowers and the words "Do what feels right"
A garbage bin wrapped with artwork of people and dogs sledding down a snowy hill.
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Title:

Hidden Valley: Inspire our Future

Project Completion:

2022

Medium:

Vinyl covering for environment

Location:

Throughout the Hidden Valley community

Artist(s):

Nathan Patrick Meguinis, Maya Corona, John Langeveld and Katelyn Kempthorne, Hidden Valley Community Association

The Project

This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the Hidden Valley community, promoting community pride. The artworks were based on two themes: Fostering Truth and Reconciliation, and Bringing Beauty, Joy, Whimsy and Hope.

The 2021 Community-Run Microgrant

This project was funded as part of the 2021 Community-Run Microgrant. Calgary Arts Development invited proposals for community-initiated public art projects in 2021. Community groups could apply for up to $10,000 from a total funding pool of $100,000, to hire local artists for eligible projects. Funding for this one-time program was provided through the Government of Alberta and The City of Calgary.

Learn more here.

More Information

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.