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Date of Issue: February 15, 2021
Closing Date: March 26, 2021
Closing Time: 6:00 pm Mountain Standard Time
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Summary
The Beltline Urban Murals Project (BUMP) is an award-winning community-driven project to showcase art, promote tourism, improve the public realm, and build community spirit in Calgary. Now entering its fifth year, BUMP has curated a diverse portfolio of local, national, and international artists who have created eye-catching, inspiring, and beautiful murals in Calgary. The project continues to expand with the month-long 2021 BUMP Festival celebrating art, music, and community this August.
The project celebrates the diversity, talent and vibrant character of the city through works of art that are thought-provoking, whimsical, awe-inspiring, creative and powerful. We believe public art has an important role to play in building community, promoting dialogue and enriching our cultural landscape.
BUMP is now accepting submissions for our 2021 project. The submission process is intended to solicit portfolios and qualifications for artists who will be chosen for the project. We are seeking artists, and muralists with varied experience who can execute projects large and small, and who want to contribute to the betterment of the community through art. We value creativity, diversity and talent in our artists. We are an inclusive project intended to be enjoyed by all classes, genders, cultures, ages and abilities. It is important to us and the City of Calgary that we create a safe and equitable space for our cultural diversity to be celebrated and represented through visual art.
REQUIRED SUBMISSION MATERIALS
Format
Length: Maximum five 8.5 x 11 pages
Size: 10 MB maximum
File type: Submissions should be in a single pdf file
Submit all applications and inquiries to: info@beltlineyyc.ca
Application deadline: March 26, 2021 at 6:00 pm Mountain Standard Time
Each respondent is solely responsible for ensuring that their response is received at BUMP before the specified closing and time. Proposals received after the specified closing and time may not be considered.
Note: Should the proposal requirements for this call be a barrier to you submitting your application, please contact us at info@beltlineyyc.ca before March 26th.
REQUIREMENTS
The following are required to paint for BUMP:
SUBMISSION CONTENT
Artist Details
Artistic Practice (1 page maximum)
Portfolio (3 pages maximum)
Submit all applications and inquiries to: info@beltlineyyc.ca
Application deadline: March 26th, 2021
Artist: Alex Kwong. Photographer: Harkit Uppal
SELECTION PROCESS
A qualified jury will evaluate all responses. Evaluation criteria for the 2021 project will include the following:
BUMP’s mission is to showcase a diversity of:
BUMP strives to include a significant number of local artists (Calgary and Alberta) as well as artists from the BIPOC and LBGTQIA+ communities.
Successful artists will be advised they have been selected for the project by early May 2021. All artists will be notified whether or not they are selected for the project.
Note: A roster of reserve artists will be created in the event that additional murals are added to the project in 2021, or if selected artists are unable to participate in the festival. Artists will be informed if they are on the reserve roster by May 2021.
PROJECT DETAILS
Wall Details and Budgets
The locations, details, and budgets for the murals will be provided to successful candidates. Artists will be assigned to walls by the jury with consideration of the artist preferences, building owner preferences, artist experience and the jury’s evaluation of location characteristics.
BUMP 2021 Timeline
10708-105 Ave,
Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5H 0A1
780-427-9968
(toll-free within Alberta by first dialing 310-0000)