Public Art Opportunities

Public Art School Programs

Want to bring public art into your classroom? Our free, curriculum-connected presentations introduce students to the creativity, conversation and community behind Calgary’s public art.Read more

Call to Artists: Northeast Mini Galleries

Deadline April 22, 2025

Calgary Arts Development invites artists to submit artwork for consideration in the Northeast Mini Galleries Public Art Program, showcasing exhibitions across northeast Calgary communities.Read more

Community-Run Public Art Microgrant Program

Deadline April 16, 2025

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.Read more

Submit Your Public Art Idea

Have a brilliant idea for public art that you’d like to see in our city? We invite you to share your vision and help shape Calgary’s cultural landscape!Read more

Art Bus RFQ 2025

Applications closed

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

Standing Offer: Public Art Project Leads

Applications closed

We are recruiting 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 artists.Read more

Public Art for Sustainable Futures Residency 

Applications closed

The Public Art for Sustainable Futures residency is intended to provide artists with time, resources and support to imagine how public artworks can contribute to positive conversations and meaningful change around our current climate crisis.Read more

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.