Title: Untitled
Artist: Curtis Van Charles
Exhibition year: 2022
Project description:

These banners take the viewer on the ultimate road trip. The day begins in a prairie landscape just outside Calgary in the early morning, the scenery changes from one banner to the next as the sun crosses the sky and the Rocky Mountains in the background draw nearer. The journey eventually ends above the treeline in the evening under the northern lights. 

Title: Untitled
Artist: Jarett Sitter
Exhibition year: 2021
Project description:

When Jarett first began the process for the banner project, he was thinking a lot about Alberta wildlife and the different environments they live in. As the year 2020 went on, things got weirder, quarantines went into effect and people became more isolated. It became increasingly important to him to create something that could bring a sense of happiness to people who would see the banners.

"On my summer walks, the city banners were one of the few pieces of art I’d get to see. I hope these banners bring a source of joy and a reminder of some of the things that we love, while you discover new details over multiple viewings."

Title: Untitled
Artist: Angie Rees
Exhibition year: 2019/20
Project description:

These banners focus on Alberta’s biodiversity, representing different parts of the province by featuring the various animals that inhabit them.

Title: Untitled
Artist: Mary Haasdyk and My-An Nguyen
Exhibition year: 2018
Project description:

These banners celebrate Calgary’s vibrant culture and community. Each image is inspired by a traditional method of communication that is part of our country’s history featuring a messenger.

Title: Walk with Me Fallen Tree, Dandelion, Honey Suckle, Maternal, Sharing Circle and Stone.
Artist: Katie Green
Exhibition year: 2017
Project description:

Based off a community engagement event led by Blackfoot Elder Casey Eagle Speaker and Stoney/Nakoda Elder Paul

Daniels. Forty‐three community members were lead on a walk through Fish Creek Park to explore how individuals see nature integrating into their lives and the deeper meaning of the environment as it relates to people. Participants sat together in a sharing circle where they safely expressed thoughts on their own personal relationship to nature and reflections based on the elder’s teachings. The concept for each design is sourced directly from this event.

Title: Opened Community
Artist: Daniel J Kirk
Exhibition year: 2015
Project description:

These banners present a glimpse of community formation through creativity and an individual sense of interconnectedness. Scenes of whimsical moments combining animals, insects, humans, and plants promote playful and inclusive communities. Wood, metal, earth, water and wind combine with architectural elements to reference balance and a need for mindful creation.

Title: Ashputtel, Briar Rose, Iron Hans, Jorinda & Jorindel, Snowdrop, the Golden Bird
Artist: Karen Klassen
Exhibition year: 2014
Project description:

These banners highlight moments of discovery as told through various Grimm’s fairy tales. Each character experiences a critical moment of discovery within each story which changes the course of their lives. The bridges that span our rivers provide opportunities for discovery within the neighbourhoods that they lead us to. New faces, stories, and connections have the potential to influence how we see the world.

Title: Deer lady, iinisskim, Tricksters, Era of the horse, Calgary, Old man
Artist: Wil Yee
Exhibition year: 2013
Project description:

Each of the banners are a visual interpretation and expression of local First Nations' myths and their relationship to Calgary and area. The combination of colors and imagery represent the transformation of elements and seasons through the cycle of life, death and rebirth.

Title: Knitted wire, Funny faces in disguise, Shift and fade, City under construction, Progressions of the seasons, Nests, Patchwork history, and What’s old is new again
Artist: Stefanie Wong and Marci Simkulet
Exhibition year: 2010
Project description:

A variety of knitted, woven and sewn pieces creating an open, yet layered structure. The light easily passes through to reflect off the banners, creating texture and a sense of our city skyline.

Title: Unfolding growth
Artist: Tara Griffiths
Exhibition year: 2010
Project description:

The Itajime dying technique is used to create patterns that reflect the surrounding architectural structures and sculpture to show how repeating simple building blocks can create complexity and maturity both in a community and in a design

Title: The Wild and Not-So-Wild Things
Artists: David John Foy and Jennifer Saleik
Exhibition year: 2010
Project description:

Portraits of the spaces where people and the wild overlap. Our paintings tell the stories of the inner landscapes that we build and carry around inside us. Our work is complete with realities and hearsay, it is a reflection of the places we claim as Nature, full of our own fears and expectations of what that Wilderness actually is and how we might factor into it.

Title: All together now;
Artist: Christine Cheung
Exhibition year: 2010 – on Centre Street Bridge to celebrate 100th anniversary of Chinatown
Project description:

Since 1858, Calgary’s Chinatown has a specific history, having been moved three times to various locations.  This series celebrates the struggle of citizenship for the individuals who occupied this space and made it what it is today.

Title: The Birds
Artist: Lisa Brawn
Exhibition year: 2009
Project description:

Figurative, woodcuts of birds found in the Calgary area.

Title: Untitled
Artist: Marjan Eggermont
Exhibition year: 2008
Project description:

The patterns show natural forms you might find at the edge of the Bow: leaves, butterflies, bugs and spiders. The patterns also include city or city culture elements: running shoes, coffee machines, tourist taking pictures and helicopters (traffic, police, or Stars).

Title: Napi and the rock/ Buffalo Herder
Artist: Terrance Houle
Exhibition year: NA
Project description:

A reflection on the Blackfoot  story of Old man Napi and the spirit of Rock, plus a depiction of the Blackfoot Name, Iiniiwahkiimah (Buffalo Herder). The works portray respect for the land and things around us while paying homage to Blackfoot culture and its Contemporary life. 

Title: Ichit‘oh (Rose) and Kini (Rose)
Artist: Bruno Canadien
Exhibition year: NA
Project description:

Echo blanket patterns, using First Nations’ floral and geometric imagery to represent the land, mountains and sky; the beauty of our lush Alberta summers; the five Treaty 7 nations; and all the Peoples of the prairie, bushland, and mountains.

Title: Untitled
Artist: Dianne Bos
Exhibition year: NA
Project description:

Overlapping sequential images of the Alberta landscape inspired by Technopaegnia (concrete poetry) and Asian sumi-e brush painting.

Title: Our Calgary
Artist: Sheila Kernan
Exhibition year: NA
Project description:

The banners integrate architecture from across the city to create unique streetscapes and skylines. Taking inspiration from a variety of structures the images juxtapose new with old to engage our imaginations and celebrate the diversity and beauty of Calgary and its distinctive architecture.