ROAD WORKS
The BUMP Road Works Program was launched in 2021 through the City of Calgary to create safer adaptive patios and road infrastructure. The Road Works program creates small scale public art installations on concrete traffic barriers that go on to be utilized in neighborhoods across Calgary. Artists who are curated to be a part of Roadworks are given the opportunity to typically create a series of 2-5 Road Works pieces, encouraging them to think about art that is functional, playful and transient in the public realm. Road Works barriers provide a canvas for artists who like working on unique surfaces, it can be an interesting opportunity to experiment with design and functionality, or it can be a way for emerging artists to learn and practice scaling up their work.
While we know that the Jersey Barriers artists’ paint will end up all over the city, there is certainly an element of surprise in not knowing exactly where your piece could go. Our Roadworks artists design and paint their canvas’s with this in mind – that their art has the capacity to spark joy, wonder, play and dialogue in a variety of different neighborhoods, potentially even traveling further than one site and reaching new eyes every day.
For 2022 we launched two separate Road Works initiatives, one in the early summer, and one in the fall. For the first, we had 17 local artists paint barriers that can be found all over Downtown, The Beltline, Kensington and more. With this program being such a hit, we were asked to bring Road Works back, this time to the community of DOVER on 34 Avenue S.E. You can go to our mural gallery pages and select ‘ROADWORKS’ under the Artist Type drop down menu to to take a look at the artists who are a part of this program and their work.
SUMMER ROAD WORKS 2022
Mantis Mei
Cheyenne Bearspaw
Sterling
Abbey Bennett
Olivia Johnson
Mide
Jacqueline Huskisson
Mackenzie Bedford
Abigail Osness
Lucia
Diane McGeachy
Bill’s Benevolent Association
Harvey Nichol
Moonlight Collective
Brando
Hamburger Hands
ROAD WORKS DOVER 2022
