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Everyday Tourist: My 10 Favourite Calgary Murals

Over the past 10 years, Calgary’s City Centre has followed the lead of many cities around the world in embracing the value of murals as a means of making its inner-city neighbourhoods more attractive places to live and visit.

Cities that are often at the top of the international list for murals include: Melbourne, Philadelphia, Lisbon and Buenos Aires. Mexico City has a long history of famous political muralists – Jose Clemente, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.

While you won’t find Calgary on any international list of great mural cities it soon could be, with 100+ murals in the Centre, with dozens of new ones each year.  The City’s biggest claim to fame as a “mural city” is that it is home to the world’s tallest mural.

Yes Calgary is home to the world’s tallest mural, 310 feet and 9 inches to be exact.

It was created by the legendary German graffiti artists DAIM in collaboration with the Beltline Urban Murals Project (BUMP). 

It is a fun, colourful, twisted maze of geometric shapes that

BUMP Festival taking outdoor murals to new heights

Calgary will soon be home to a towering achievement in the arts—literally, as the city will be home to the world’s tallest mural.

German graffiti artist Mirko Reisser, who goes professionally by DAIM, will be painting the mural on Hazelview Properties’ First on Tenth building.

The artwork is expected to be completed by the end of June, in time for the official start of the BUMP Festival in August.

“We’re a Calgary-based arts entity, but it’s when you really bring artists of that kind of size and scope to the city that local artists here kind of understand what their trajectory can really be as a visual artist,” said Priya Ramesh, marketing and communications manager with the BUMP Festival.

“We have massive, great muraling cities: You have Berlin, you have Montreal, you have Barcelona— there’s these real visual art strongholds around the world, and you’re starting to see Calgary leaning towards that a little bit more,” she said.

DAIM, who is internationally known f

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