Calgary Artists

• Calgarian ‘honoured and blessed’ to be named one of Canada’s top immigrants

  A very creative Calgarian is celebrating a major new honour -- national recognition for his hard work in helping diverse communities celebrate common ground together.

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  Nov 25, 2021
  
• Calgary artists get ‘groundbreaking’ opportunity to showcase work worldwide

  Calgary artist David Oppong is really making his mark with a recent work, "Resilience means finding strength and hope when everything seems to be going bad," he said.

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  May 6, 2021
  
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• Building mural inspires Indigenous men reintegrating after prison

  A pair of Indigenous artists have used their creativity and heritage to design a mural with a message. It is intended to bring light to the over-representation of Indigenous people incarcerated.

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  Jun 5, 2020
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• Sustainable art and design: How Calgary artists, entrepreneurs are repurposing and upcycling

  Whether sustainability was their main objective or not, Calgarians have come up with a variety of ways to upcycle and repurpose everything from skateboards to skulls.

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  Jul 31, 2019
• Iconic castle-looking house becomes new studio space for Calgary artists

  Calgary's real estate downturn has an upside for artists. An unsold mansion is being converted to a temporary art collective.

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  May 15, 2019
• Calgary artist enjoys international success with his fire paintings: ‘It’s exploded!’

  No matter how many combinations he might mix together, Jeff Vermeeren says there’s always one constant – “chemicals that burn.”

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  Apr 26, 2018
• Last artworks of Toller Cranston in Calgary

  The final paintings of Canadian figure-skating great Toller Cranston have returned home.

  Apr 10, 2016