The Program
The Art Bus program helps bring public art into a variety of areas and communities throughout the city by inviting artists to use a public transit bus as their canvas. This temporary public art project provides opportunities for artists, offers an engaging visual art experience for citizens, and celebrates Calgary’s cultures, communities, histories, geography and diversity.
The program launched in 2024, with seven artists each creating a new original artwork to wrap on one of seven Calgary transit buses for approximately three months starting in September. In 2025, the program expanded to to include 14 buses — seven artists each create an original artwork to be wrapped on two buses, which will on streets for approximately six months starting in late May.
