Jul 24, 2025 | Events, Installations
One of our favourite festivals and annual art celebrations is returning. The YYC Bump Festival. Not only does this event celebrate local and international artists, it has a lasting impact in the Beltline/Downtown area with their street art murals. Every year more...
Apr 11, 2025 | Installations
Afghan-Canadian artist Hangama Amiri blends painting, printmaking, and textile techniques to create colourful and intricately layered fabric vignettes inspired by familial memories, her homeland, and the diasporic experience. Her exhibition, PARTING/فراق, on view at...
Aug 14, 2023 | Events, Installations
August means it’s mural season once again and the brains and artists from YYCBump will be beautifying the streets adding murals across the Beltline and Downtown areas. Check out the festivities and the mural map. Welcome to the 2023 BUMP FESTIVAL! We are...
Aug 2, 2023 | Installations
Artists: Medina Ardic, Firuze Avci, Melika Forouzan Pour, Shiyao Fu, Tayebe Joodaki, Maryam Mahdavian Research and facilitation by Nurgül Balaç Rodriguez An installation at Contemporary Calgary includes local artists part of marginalized people groups. Here is the...
Oct 12, 2021 | Events, Installations
Re-opening again at the end of October for a two-week run until November 8th, the Beyond Van Gough exhibit has worked within the confines of the COVID-19 pandemic and provided a surreal exhibit for visitors. If you’ve thought that you could just find a bunch of...
Aug 12, 2021 | Installations
Upcoming is another fantastic year to look at wonderful mural art. Street art or urban art is a wonderful way to beautify the inner-city, transforming blank canvasses such as walls and and buildings, into art. It elevates the neighbourhood and the city. You can find...
Aug 17, 2020 | Installations
There may be a global pandemic in our midst, but that hasn’t stopped the team behind BUMP to curate another year of murals. Beautifying the inner-city with art is one way to not only develop resiliency and pride in a neighborhood, but it’s an act of...
