A Departure, Ilan Sandler, 2009
Heavy Shield has given us this insight into the mural process – “Blackfoot tipi designs come to their makers in dreams. As an artist, I am a dreamer, and like my other artworks, Iiyikitapiiyit! visited me, wanting to be shared. The tipi is still considered “home” to...
This mural represents the future, not the past. The piece depicts a mother and daughter, two women of colour, floating through a Lethbridge landscape that looks familiar but otherworldly. The figures would be framed by an ornate art nouveau-style border. There would...
The Northern Flicker is a native species that spend all year in Lethbridge. It has a distinct call and a beautiful, alluring look that most would recognize hearing or seeing, even if they don’t know what it is. This bird is a hole-dwelling species, sometimes using...
This mural is a meditation on our relationship with the environment, suggesting a journey of reflection in which we examine and reimagine our relationship to the planet. This mural is 16’ high x 25’ wide Part of a pilot project with Heart of Our City and the Public...
Buck combines the approaches of two artists. Hagan brings a strong sense of colour and a background in abstraction. Armstrong has a similar attraction to vibrant colours and a love of local wildlife. In this work, you see the use of organic, round and oval stone...
This work by a team of two Lethbridge artists brings colour and life to the stairwell inside the Nicholas Sheran Leisure Centre. A series of steel panels are painted in bright clours: yellow, red, blue, green and purple. Silhouettes move across the panels, dynamically...
A whimsical mural depicting a trumpeter competing against the wind. Commissioned by the Downtown Business Revitalization Zone to beautify the core. This mural is 25’ high x 62’ wide Johnnie Chinook can be found along the north wall of 315 5 St S, Lethbridge. ...
Destiny Manifesting (Buffalo Stampede) is another mural done by Alex Pavlenko in Lethbridge’s core. This mural depicts chaos on the loose. Pavlenko plays with the 2-dimensional breaking into 3-dimensional. This piece was commissioned by the Downtown Business...