Put work by Calgary artists front and centre! From unique exhibitions to interactive public art, there are great examples of this. Let’s hear your ideas from Calgary and beyond!
4 votes
Artmobile convoy... vintage trailers used as galleries rolling through town in spring/summer/fall exhibiting in parking lots and at the side of the road in front of coffee shops, in the stampede parade, gay pride, lilac festival... One trailer for each Artist-run centre or for independent curators...
15 votes
Not many people know it but Calgary has the most vibrant poetry community in Canada. In 2012 we should appoint a Poet Laureate for Calgary - there are certainly many poets who could fill the roll.
5 votes
A public art project which enables a student(s) to mentor with an established artist. The goal is not only to foster collaboration between the experienced and the inexperienced, but to also foster collaboration multi-generationally. The outcome would be a joint project that speaks to the public realm in Calgary. The mentor artist could have an established studio practise or an established public art practise. The ...more »
A public art project which enables a student(s) to mentor with an established artist. The goal is not only to foster collaboration between the experienced and the inexperienced, but to also foster collaboration multi-generationally. The outcome would be a joint project that speaks to the public realm in Calgary. The mentor artist could have an established studio practise or an established public art practise. The student should be either enrolled in post secondary studies or a recent graduate.
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6 votes
Take the practice of the studio artist and apply it to the consideration of civic life and public spaces. This art residency situates artists in civic and community spaces for specific periods of time (generally 1-4 months in duration). The artist must engage and respond to the particulars of the site and negotiate between their own artistic concerns and those of the community and the place. Rather than turning the site ...more »
Take the practice of the studio artist and apply it to the consideration of civic life and public spaces. This art residency situates artists in civic and community spaces for specific periods of time (generally 1-4 months in duration). The artist must engage and respond to the particulars of the site and negotiate between their own artistic concerns and those of the community and the place. Rather than turning the site into a subject, artists are encouraged to focus on the process of creating socially engaging art in public settings. The program encourages studio artists to use civic spaces and community settings as the source for their art practice, thereby providing them the opportunity to engage in similar considerations around site and place, as artists who maintain a public art practice.
Placing artists in unexpected spaces and encouraging interaction with various civic entities promotes new and innovative working methods for both art-making and civic engagement.
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3 votes
Home is envisioned as a year long project about homelessness in Calgary. It builds on the community cultural development work that began in 2009 with the launch of This is My City (TMC). TMC is a program that provided Calgary's homeless community with development opportunities through creative expression while engaging Calgarians in a dialogue about the issues around homelessness and the place of art and culture in society. ...more »
Home is envisioned as a year long project about homelessness in Calgary. It builds on the community cultural development work that began in 2009 with the launch of This is My City (TMC). TMC is a program that provided Calgary's homeless community with development opportunities through creative expression while engaging Calgarians in a dialogue about the issues around homelessness and the place of art and culture in society.
This project will explore the progress of Calgary’s 10-year Plan to End Homelessness through art. Interested artists will be contracted to engage the homeless community in numerous artistic initiatives over the year that aim to sustain the public dialogue on the issues and experience of homelessness. Initiatives should provide homeless art-makers with the opportunity to add to the discourse through creative expression, while offering a support network of mentorship and personal development.
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9 votes
More studio crawls during various arts festivals in the city. We need to bring our audience into the production end of things where artists can talk to their audience about their processes and ideas, not just end products.
13 votes
Calgary is in desperate need of more visual arts production spaces. A city that exhibits work is only end-product oriented. Providing affordable production space keeps the creative wheels turning in the communities where those studios are located. More production spaces also provides a space where participants can visit the artist in their work environment and learn about the creative process. This contributes to ...more »
Calgary is in desperate need of more visual arts production spaces. A city that exhibits work is only end-product oriented. Providing affordable production space keeps the creative wheels turning in the communities where those studios are located. More production spaces also provides a space where participants can visit the artist in their work environment and learn about the creative process. This contributes to an educational element of city-wide arts promotion.
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4 votes
I would like to see a new film festival at the Plaza Theatre for our many wonderful local actors, producers, directors and writers to be showcased including those working through the disability arts.
6 votes
A Go See Art night once a month. Galleries synchronize their openings to the same night. A map (online or in print) would indicate participating venues. Establishments other than galleries might wish to participate. Viewing art is a happening in itself. It doesn't require a lot of resources to initiate.
1 vote
I would love to see a full year film festival that features only Calgary films new and old.
0 votes
Have a "horse" related market with Equine art, tack, anything related to the horse industry. Artist should not be restricted to Galgary artists only. Let the whole world celebrate our horses!
10 votes
I'd love to see the city commission artists to create "Calgary: The City Under The Arch", by building permanent arch-shaped sculptures large and small, indoors and especially outdoors (impervious to Calgary's weather) in public areas (similar to the cow-art project a number of years back).
3 votes
I'd like to see ordinary Calgarians making films. A tall order to be sure, but I'm not necessarily talking about original films. I'm talking about swedes. For those not already aware, the concept is from the flim "Be Kind Rewind" by Michel Gondry. A swede is 3-5 minute remake of a film that has already been released BKR features a local story. So I would propose a swede festival encompassing two categories of entry: ...more »
I'd like to see ordinary Calgarians making films. A tall order to be sure, but I'm not necessarily talking about original films. I'm talking about swedes.
For those not already aware, the concept is from the flim "Be Kind Rewind" by Michel Gondry. A swede is 3-5 minute remake of a film that has already been released BKR features a local story.
So I would propose a swede festival encompassing two categories of entry: (1) The Remake and; (2) The Local Swede.
With any look we could get Mr. Gondry to attend to discuss his ideas on amateur artistic creation, and community film making.
After a brief search it appears the city of Fresno in California does something similar (http://www.swedefest.com/), and we should be next!
Let's BE the artists!
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20 votes
I'd suggest more grassroots arts. The Fringe here is a good start, but public places for DIY art would be very cool to see, maybe in public parks? With this as well should be more funding to cultural/arts related festivals. There's lots of good artists in Calgary who need a place to be seen.
4 votes
Have Canada's best musicians write one song each about Calgary, regardless of whether it is positive or not. Then have each artist perform the song live (wherever they are in the world) and broadcast the 'concert' over the internet. Imagine a concert with Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Feist, Pine Tarts, Brasstronaut, etc. sharing their feelings about Calgary! Even more ambitious would be ...more »
Have Canada's best musicians write one song each about Calgary, regardless of whether it is positive or not. Then have each artist perform the song live (wherever they are in the world) and broadcast the 'concert' over the internet. Imagine a concert with Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, Feist, Pine Tarts, Brasstronaut, etc. sharing their feelings about Calgary! Even more ambitious would be to invite artists from around the world to visit Calgary for a week and write a song. Imagine Puff Daddy, Justin Timberlake, Janelle Monae, Bon Jovi, etc. and what they'd write about Calgary?!
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9 votes
Commission 100 artists, architects, designers, writers, etc. to produce their vision of Calgary in 2112. While we celebrate the history of our city, let's also look forward to imagine what Calgary will be a hundred years from now! Will we have flying cars and clothes that collect solar energy, or will we living along the shores of a vast new ocean after the polar ice caps have melted? What will our architecture look like, ...more »
Commission 100 artists, architects, designers, writers, etc. to produce their vision of Calgary in 2112. While we celebrate the history of our city, let's also look forward to imagine what Calgary will be a hundred years from now! Will we have flying cars and clothes that collect solar energy, or will we living along the shores of a vast new ocean after the polar ice caps have melted? What will our architecture look like, our transportation systems, our culture, etc.
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1 vote
We should focus on exporting excellence: the people, organizations, initiatives, technologies, art, etc. that have roots in Calgary and can compete in external markets. We should work to figure out what it is about Calgary that helped them achieve these qualities, and what can we do to help the world experience more Calgary???
18 votes
We just visited Artist Ranch Project at the Western Oasis (complete with a wine bar!) at the Stampede. This project provides artist residencies at a ranch in Southern Alberta. The artists create work inspired by the residency, and this work is displayed during the Stampede. Agriculture/ranching is an important part of Calgary's heritage and culture, and it was inspiring to see the fresh perspectives provided by the ...more »
We just visited Artist Ranch Project at the Western Oasis (complete with a wine bar!) at the Stampede. This project provides artist residencies at a ranch in Southern Alberta. The artists create work inspired by the residency, and this work is displayed during the Stampede. Agriculture/ranching is an important part of Calgary's heritage and culture, and it was inspiring to see the fresh perspectives provided by the artists participating in the project.
What if we had more residencies like this during 2012? And we could expand it to other aspects of Calgary's culture: oil & gas, sports, urban growth, ethnic diversity, etc. And we could expand it beyond visual arts...
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25 votes
2012 should include an artist homecoming. Cultural organizations around the city should be encouraged to program artists that got their start or a major boost to their career in Calgary (alumni from our post secondaries, people born here, etc.), but now work elsewhere could be featured. This should go throughout the creative industries: TV, film, dance, theatre, literary arts, dance, music... Any exhibit or show that ...more »
2012 should include an artist homecoming. Cultural organizations around the city should be encouraged to program artists that got their start or a major boost to their career in Calgary (alumni from our post secondaries, people born here, etc.), but now work elsewhere could be featured. This should go throughout the creative industries: TV, film, dance, theatre, literary arts, dance, music...
Any exhibit or show that featured a Calgary artist would be promoted as part of a bigger series: Calgary making its mark around the world (or something like that...).
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