Calgary Arts Development is seeking professional artists to join The City of Calgary’s design team for the Memorial Parkway Program. 

The lead artist(s) will develop a public art program for this lively outdoor space throughout the infrastructural redevelopment of the area. The mandate of this initiative is to deliver expansive placemaking opportunities for multiple public spaces. 

Being brought into the design team at this stage of the project could facilitate the integration of artworks into the flood barrier or nearby pathway system, or the development of art concepts for multiple unique opportunities anchoring a public art program that stretches along the north bank of the Bow River, between Centre St. and 14 St. NW. 

The Gallery is a new kind of cultural institution without walls that challenges traditional models of viewing art. Each season we invite artists to respond to the some of the most important topics and questions of our time. The aim of the project is to generate meaningful debate and start a national conversation through art. 

Taking over thousands of public sites traditionally reserved for advertising, The Gallery is powered by the Out-of-Home industry exhibiting on street billboards, digital screens, bus shelters and cinemas. To date, the past three seasons of The Gallery have been viewed over 164 million times by people across the UK.