BUMP Urban Art Conference
August 5-6, 2025
This summer, join artists, curators, cultural leaders, and city-builders for the second annual BUMP Urban Art Conference. This year’s programming is centered around the theme “Monuments & Memory.” Over two dynamic days, explore how art shapes and reshapes our collective memory in the urban landscape. Through thought-provoking panels and workshops this conference tackles the evolving role of public art in a time of rapid development, cultural reckoning, and transformation.
From the politics of placemaking to the power of sound and story, this is a space for challenging conversations and visionary ideas about how cities remember, who gets to be seen, and what it means to build together. As a part of BUMP Festival 2025 (Aug 1—18), we are celebrating our 350 public art projects to date and looking forward to new murals, initiatives, events and ideas in the height of Calgary’s summer.
This conference is made possible by generous support from our partners and sponsors: Calgary Foundation, Contemporary Calgary, Calgary Downtown Association and Carvel Creative.
