Search × Search Public Art Search Public Art Reset Fields Filter By: Medium Documentary Film Mixed Media Mural Music, Social Practice Photography Sculpture Various Vinyl covering for environment, traffic and utility infrastructure Workshop, Social Practice Reset Medium Location Downtown NE NW SE SW Reset Location Status Coming Soon Current Reset Status Reset Filter Community-Run Public Art Microgrant Recognizing that public art opportunities can come from grassroots ideas that are initiated and led by communities, Calgary Arts Development invites proposals for community-run public art projects. The program is intended to promote economic revitalization in the city of Calgary. Year: 2022 Artist-Initiated Public Art Microgrant This microgrant program recognizes that public art opportunities can come from grassroots ideas that are initiated by professional artists. Year: 2022Medium: Various Save Afghan Art Musical Night The Pamir Canadian Multiculturalism Council held a public event to support refugees from Afghanistan who have found a new home in Calgary. Address: Dawat Hall Westwinds, 9 4825 Westwinds Dr. NEYear: 2022Medium: Music, Social Practice Hidden Valley: Inspire our Future This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride. Address: Throughout the Hidden Valley communityYear: 2022Medium: Vinyl covering for environment, traffic and utility infrastructure Excavation: Unearthing the Story and History of a Space The group examined artifacts found in the De Waal building, collected written and recorded stories from the public, and held land-based photography workshops, which began with and were guided by Indigenous Knowledge Keepers. Address: Sparrow Artist Space: de Waal Block, 36 4th St. NEYear: 2022Medium: Various Banff Trail Blackfoot Art Installation The Banff Trail Community Association invited artist Irvin Tom Manyguns to create an outdoor sculpture meant to deepen connections with the Siksika Nation and celebrate Blackfoot culture. Address: Banff Trail Community Association, 2115 20th Ave. NWYear: 2022Medium: Sculpture Mount Pleasant Community Engagement Mural Through a social media and poster campaign, Mount Pleasant residents sent their input on what they love about their community. Artist Conz took this feedback to create a mural of community members of all ages coming together in local parts and nature. Address: Mount Pleasant Community Association, 602 22nd Ave. NEYear: 2022Medium: Mural Filipinx Female and Youth Empowerment Murals The FilipinX Kasaganaan Artist Collective created two public murals to showcase Filipino community and culture. Address: 302 10th St. NW & 1323 Centre St. NWYear: 2022Medium: Mural Journey’s Home This 5,000 sq ft mural, painted onto the side of the Calgary Dream Centre, explores the meaning of home and the stories of people currently experiencing homelessness. Address: Calgary Dream Centre, 4510 Macleod Tr. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural Mother Nature Reclaims What Belongs to Her Under generations of development under the Bow Trail overpass, artist duo NASARIMBA discovered a community skate park has grown and developed using bridge architecture and salvaged building materials. Among this brutalist architecture, the duo created a mural. Address: 2042 10th Ave. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural Beyond Resiliency Filmmakers Amber Skye Cox and Madine Kanayeva will explore success stories from local Indigenous business owners to empower traditionally overlooked communities. Year: 2022Medium: Documentary Film Dim Sum Sends Artist Yiting Hui’s mural used food as a whimsical way to tell a story about the confluence of cultures in Canada. Address: South wall of the Centre Street Bridge, 122 Riverfront Ave. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural Moving Pictures Kitchen Feminism Art Society worked with eight women from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on a series of images and short videos to explore the ways in which women’s societal roles have been “rolled back in time” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Address: 822 11th Ave. SW & OnlineYear: 2022Medium: Photography Nose Hill Entrance Mural With guidance from Blackfoot Elders Cindy Daniels and Rod Scout, artist Tiffany Wollman painted plants and flowers meaningful to the Blackfoot people in phase one of the project which started in 2020. Address: Nose Hill Park — North Haven Northern Entrance, 64th Ave. NW & 14th St. NWYear: 2022Medium: Mural Spring (Qing Ming) Festival 2022 Qing Ming is a time to honour ancestors, celebrate family bonds and herald the arrival of spring. Visitors were treated to sample teas, plant workshops, music, arts and a scroll exhibition, which gave a glimpse into everyday life in ancient China. Address: Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre Association, 197 1 St SWYear: 2022Medium: Workshop, Social Practice Renfrew Community Association South Patio Wall Mural With a theme of whimsey, joy, beauty and hope, artist Billie Rae Busby created a mural in his signature abstract landscape style. Busby developed her design by interviewing staff at the nearby Stanley Jones School. Address: Renfrew Community Hall south patio, 811 Radford Rd. NEYear: 2022Medium: Mural North Haven — South Nose Hill Entrance Mural This project will contract an Indigenous artist to design a mural referencing the Indigenous history of Nose Hill and install is at the pedestrian tunnel entrance to the community. Year: Est. Summer 2023Medium: Mural The Centre City Banner Program The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the city core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: Ongoing Centre City Banners – Jarett Sitter (2021 – 2022) The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: 2021 Centre City Banners – Curtis Van Charles (2022 – 2023) The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: 2022 1 2 ⟶
Community-Run Public Art Microgrant Recognizing that public art opportunities can come from grassroots ideas that are initiated and led by communities, Calgary Arts Development invites proposals for community-run public art projects. The program is intended to promote economic revitalization in the city of Calgary. Year: 2022
Artist-Initiated Public Art Microgrant This microgrant program recognizes that public art opportunities can come from grassroots ideas that are initiated by professional artists. Year: 2022Medium: Various
Save Afghan Art Musical Night The Pamir Canadian Multiculturalism Council held a public event to support refugees from Afghanistan who have found a new home in Calgary. Address: Dawat Hall Westwinds, 9 4825 Westwinds Dr. NEYear: 2022Medium: Music, Social Practice
Hidden Valley: Inspire our Future This grassroots awareness and beautification project created art for traffic light utility boxes and outdoor refuse bins throughout the community, promoting community pride. Address: Throughout the Hidden Valley communityYear: 2022Medium: Vinyl covering for environment, traffic and utility infrastructure
Excavation: Unearthing the Story and History of a Space The group examined artifacts found in the De Waal building, collected written and recorded stories from the public, and held land-based photography workshops, which began with and were guided by Indigenous Knowledge Keepers. Address: Sparrow Artist Space: de Waal Block, 36 4th St. NEYear: 2022Medium: Various
Banff Trail Blackfoot Art Installation The Banff Trail Community Association invited artist Irvin Tom Manyguns to create an outdoor sculpture meant to deepen connections with the Siksika Nation and celebrate Blackfoot culture. Address: Banff Trail Community Association, 2115 20th Ave. NWYear: 2022Medium: Sculpture
Mount Pleasant Community Engagement Mural Through a social media and poster campaign, Mount Pleasant residents sent their input on what they love about their community. Artist Conz took this feedback to create a mural of community members of all ages coming together in local parts and nature. Address: Mount Pleasant Community Association, 602 22nd Ave. NEYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Filipinx Female and Youth Empowerment Murals The FilipinX Kasaganaan Artist Collective created two public murals to showcase Filipino community and culture. Address: 302 10th St. NW & 1323 Centre St. NWYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Journey’s Home This 5,000 sq ft mural, painted onto the side of the Calgary Dream Centre, explores the meaning of home and the stories of people currently experiencing homelessness. Address: Calgary Dream Centre, 4510 Macleod Tr. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Mother Nature Reclaims What Belongs to Her Under generations of development under the Bow Trail overpass, artist duo NASARIMBA discovered a community skate park has grown and developed using bridge architecture and salvaged building materials. Among this brutalist architecture, the duo created a mural. Address: 2042 10th Ave. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Beyond Resiliency Filmmakers Amber Skye Cox and Madine Kanayeva will explore success stories from local Indigenous business owners to empower traditionally overlooked communities. Year: 2022Medium: Documentary Film
Dim Sum Sends Artist Yiting Hui’s mural used food as a whimsical way to tell a story about the confluence of cultures in Canada. Address: South wall of the Centre Street Bridge, 122 Riverfront Ave. SWYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Moving Pictures Kitchen Feminism Art Society worked with eight women from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on a series of images and short videos to explore the ways in which women’s societal roles have been “rolled back in time” as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Address: 822 11th Ave. SW & OnlineYear: 2022Medium: Photography
Nose Hill Entrance Mural With guidance from Blackfoot Elders Cindy Daniels and Rod Scout, artist Tiffany Wollman painted plants and flowers meaningful to the Blackfoot people in phase one of the project which started in 2020. Address: Nose Hill Park — North Haven Northern Entrance, 64th Ave. NW & 14th St. NWYear: 2022Medium: Mural
Spring (Qing Ming) Festival 2022 Qing Ming is a time to honour ancestors, celebrate family bonds and herald the arrival of spring. Visitors were treated to sample teas, plant workshops, music, arts and a scroll exhibition, which gave a glimpse into everyday life in ancient China. Address: Calgary Chinese Cultural Centre Association, 197 1 St SWYear: 2022Medium: Workshop, Social Practice
Renfrew Community Association South Patio Wall Mural With a theme of whimsey, joy, beauty and hope, artist Billie Rae Busby created a mural in his signature abstract landscape style. Busby developed her design by interviewing staff at the nearby Stanley Jones School. Address: Renfrew Community Hall south patio, 811 Radford Rd. NEYear: 2022Medium: Mural
North Haven — South Nose Hill Entrance Mural This project will contract an Indigenous artist to design a mural referencing the Indigenous history of Nose Hill and install is at the pedestrian tunnel entrance to the community. Year: Est. Summer 2023Medium: Mural
The Centre City Banner Program The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the city core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: Ongoing
Centre City Banners – Jarett Sitter (2021 – 2022) The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: 2021
Centre City Banners – Curtis Van Charles (2022 – 2023) The Centre City Banner Program engages local artists to create artwork for banners displayed on light poles and bridges leading into the core, acting as gateways to Calgary’s downtown and cultural district. Address: Downtown CalgaryYear: 2022