Calgary's Public Art Program

Chinook Arc by Joe O’Connell and Blessing Hancock (Creative Machines – Technical Consultant)

Centre City Banner Program 2023 – 2025

Applications currently closed

Calgary Arts Development and The City of Calgary are seeking artists to design banner artworks for streetlight poles on six bridges and streets in the downtown area.

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Featured Projects

A mural filled with colourful lines create an abstract landscape.

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.

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Spring (Qing Ming) Festival 2022

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.

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The walls of the Nose Hill Park entrance, painted with Indigenous flowers and plant life.

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.

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Moving Pictures

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.

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A mural which features a confluence of people and foods from different cultures.

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.

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A mural featuring flowing rivers and plants growing from concrete is painted on a wall underneath a bridge.

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.

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