Whitebark Pine Mural Project Image source: Parks Canada The BUMP Festival is creating a mural for Parks Canada to help raise awareness about whitebark pine trees - an endangered keystone species in Banff National Park. We are seeking an artist to paint a mural in Calgary that...
Join BUMP in Transforming Calgary Updated to full-time position. See details below. Application deadline extended to Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The Beltline Urban Murals Project (BUMP) is an award-winning community driven initiative transforming the centre of Calgary, Alberta into an expansive open air art gallery with over 100...
Join BUMP in Transforming Calgary Updated to full-time position. See details below. Application deadline extended to Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The Beltline Urban Murals Project (BUMP) is an award-winning community driven initiative transforming the centre of Calgary, Alberta into an expansive open air art gallery with over 100...
BUMP has recently learned that Kalum Teke Dan’s 2018 BUMP mural Sunset Song is being covered up by a new building under construction on the adjacent lot at 1232 17 Ave SW and will no longer be visible to the public. We are deeply saddened...
Believe it or not, August is in the rearview and fall is upon us! The 2021 BUMP Festival’s come to a close, and we (and our artists!) are looking forward to enjoying some well-deserved rest. Shall we recap the 2021 BUMP Festival? Over 60 new wall...
Time flies! Week 3 of the BUMP Festival is a wrap, and a very stacked Week 4 is looming. Here’s what we got up to: We sat down with bb iskwew, John F. Ross, Cassie Suche and Rhys Farrell for our fourth Artist Talk at...
Welcome back! Another week of the BUMP Festival is in the books. Things are ramping up around here… Let’s crunch some numbers, shall we? We streamed two (!!) Artist Talks at Contemporary Calgary with seven of our favorite muralists Six DJs and three bands brought...
Welcome back! That’s a wrap on week one of the 2021 BUMP Festival, and what a way to start 🥳 We had a great time at our first Artist Talk with BUMP Road Works artists Mike Hooves, Sydonne Warren, J. Broz and Billie Rae Busby ...
In light of the most recent and tragic discovery of over 700 unmarked Indigenous graves this morning, and the 1,323 family members that went missing, we’d like to pause for a moment and hold space for everyone affected by these deeply troubling and ongoing discoveries.