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pedestrian walkway in the city’s core and has long provoked discussion about the exact nature of the conversation. With its reference to ongoing dialogue, it seemed the perfect fit and has been adopted as the Program’s logo.
• Open Spaces: Window to a View where selected
Calgary artists install temporary
projects in large, street level window spaces adjacent to LRT platforms.
Initiated in 2009,
Open Spaces celebrates the diversity and quality of Calgary artists, while enlivening a busy transportation corridor.
• Celebration of the Bow River, a three-month long initiative, premiered in June 2010 as the Program’s first venture into temporary public art. Organized in collaboration with the UEP department, Celebration featured six projects sited throughout the city on billboards and Calgary Transit, and along and on the Bow River. For example, the conceptual team of Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis transformed a mobile camper trailer into The Museum of the Bow, filling it with objects, ephemera and detritus, culled from along the Bow.
THE FUTURE Calgary’s dynamic Public Art Program is receiving great accolades. Its future goals include a Civic Gallery and public art plans for other City departments. Unarguably, this busy program reflects Calgary’s energy and expanding vision and, by doing so, it is garnering international attention for itself and the city that inspires it.
Mason Riddle is based in Minnesota and writes about art, architecture, and design.
Rachael Seupersad is the
Superintendent of Public Art for the City of Calgary.
Calgary city of contrasts
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