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06/09/2026

Mini Galleries and USAY present ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE 🌱

Mini Gallery 6 features Blackfoot artist Shaelee Crazy Bull from Treaty 7, born and raised in Calgary, Alberta.

In her burned wood piece Roots from your Past to your Future, Shaelee portrays different versions of herself growing up within the windows and layers of a house under repair. The work reflects a personal journey of learning self-care and self-love — treating oneself with the same patience, attention, and care as rebuilding a home.

Plants and roots move through the composition, connecting past, present, and future within a living space shaped by healing and growth.

Together, the six artists in Roots from Your Past to Your Future offer deeply personal reflections on identity, memory, resilience, and belonging through the Mini Galleries installed throughout Crescent Heights.

Visit the galleries throughout the park and experience our free dog friendly exhibition 🌿
Thanks to CADA for supporting this project and helping bring these voices into public space.

06/06/2026

ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE in cooperation with USAY

Mini Gallery 5 features Violet Truong’s painting Future Bloom: Violet Moonrise.

In this work, Violet explores the journey of the self through landscape and nature. The mountains represent the natural highs and lows of life — the challenges we climb and the strength discovered in descent. Trees stand as symbols of resilience and inner strength, while blooming flowers reflect an ongoing commitment to growth.

Rooted in the past while reaching toward the future, the piece reflects on transformation, perseverance, and becoming.

Part of the strength of this exhibition lies in how each artist approaches identity and personal history differently — through symbolism, memory, landscape, and lived experience.

Discover all six Mini Gallery installations throughout Crescent Heights and experience this youth-led exhibition in the park 🌿

06/03/2026

ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE 🌱

Some of the works in this exhibition speak quietly at first — and then stay with you long after you leave the park.

Mini Gallery 4 features Vanay Villeneuve’s painting Conflicted, created in honour of their late grandfather. Vanay is from Calgary and has Cree heritage from Sweetgrass First Nation.

The blue figure on the left represents grief and loss, standing beside two possible paths. One leads toward a dark, heavy cityscape, while the other opens into a peaceful mountain landscape. The work reflects the difficult space of mourning — how grief can shape us differently depending on the path we take through it.

Wander through the park, spend some time with the Mini Galleries, and encounter six very personal stories along the way 🌿
With support from CADA, Roots from Your Past to Your Future came to life.

05/31/2026

ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE

USAY brings together six emerging Indigenous artists sharing works shaped by memory, identity, belonging, and the people and places that stay with us.

Mini Gallery 3 features Axle Morriseau’s work A Time Before 2:45.

Axle is a very reflective artist. In this piece, they wrote down the names of people who were important in their life — both in good and difficult ways. All of them remain part of their heart and story. The work carries memory, emotion, and personal history in a very direct and honest way.

Some artworks explain themselves immediately. Others hold something back and ask you to spend more time with them. A Time Before 2:45 feels like one of those works. If you want to know more about the title, maybe the best thing is to ask the artist themselves.

Take a walk through the Mini Galleries, discover all six installations, and enjoy the spring weather while exploring art in the park 🌿
This project was supported by CADA — Thank YOU!

05/29/2026

ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE by USAY
This new Mini Galleries exhibition brings together six emerging Indigenous artists sharing deeply personal works about identity, belonging, land, family, memory, and the places that continue to shape us. Spread across the park, each gallery feels like its own small world — intimate, thoughtful, and rooted in lived experience.

Mini Gallery 2 features Elle Everson, 23, Anishinaabe/Ojibwe from Treaty 1 and 3, now living on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary.

Deeply connected to nature and especially to trees, Elle created The Land to honour the life of trees and her connection to them. A stained-glass-like sky fills the branches, while stars and markings symbolize family connections across generations. The Mkwa (Bear) and paw prints represent her clan. Ribbon elements stretching through the piece connect different places and roots, while crystals, sweetgrass, and burned ribbons speak about resilience, journey, and connection to Earth Mother.

Take a walk through the Mini Galleries, discover all six installations, and enjoy the art in the park 🌿
Grateful to CADA for supporting youth artists and community-based public art.

05/25/2026

Mini Galleries and USAY present ROOTS FROM YOUR PAST TO YOUR FUTURE 🌱

A new youth-led Mini Galleries exhibition bringing together six emerging Indigenous artists exploring identity, belonging, land, resilience, and the connections between past and future through intimate public art installations across Crescent Heights.

Mini Gallery 1 features returning Mini Galleries artist Jakob Kimber, also known as Kiááyo Tuk (Bear Spirit), from the Fraser Valley Cheam First Nations in BC.

His painting Born for the World reflects on identity, origin, and future aspirations. Cedar roots cradle a baby figure, mountains ground the work in home, and a globe symbolizes Jakob’s dream of sharing his cooking and creative skills with the world.

As both a chef and artist, Jakob often explores beauty through food and visual storytelling. This project became a way for him to reconnect with painting and reflect on where he comes from and where he hopes to go.

‘Born for the World’
Acrylic on Canvas, 2026

Take a walk through the Mini Galleries, discover all six installations, and enjoy the beautiful spring weather while exploring art in the park 🌿
Special thanks to CADA for making this Mini Galleries exhibition possible.

04/24/2026

Enjoy the last days of our Mini Galleries exhibition — head to the park, take a walk, discover the artworks, and watch the short animations by our young artists: Monsters, Fables & Moving Things
A youth animation exhibition at Rotary Park

Part of the Festival of Animated Objects
In collaboration with Quickdraw Animation Society
Curated by Claudia & Tia

This exhibition explores how ideas take shape through animation — using drawing, collage, clay, and digital tools to build characters and stories frame by frame. Across the Mini Galleries, you can step into these small worlds and see how imagination becomes movement.

Mini Gallery No. 6:
Tamila — Hold Your Hand
Acrylic painting and ink drawing
12” x 16” x 1.5”, 2026

Tamila (17, Calgary) works across digital media, with music playing an important role in her process — sometimes as part of the work itself, sometimes as its starting point.

This piece is based on a character from JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, shaped by a darker, obsessive energy. Inspired by the song I Hold Your Hand in Mine by Tom Lehrer, the work brings together animation, sound, and character into one narrative moment.

A mix of intensity and curiosity — something that pulls you in and makes you look twice.

To see the animation scan the QR code, and experience it as part of your walk — winter into spring, Calgary style.

Made possible by CADA — thank you!

04/22/2026

Yee-haw, pardners! We are looking for volunteers for the Crescent Heights Community Association’s Stampede Breakfast 🐴 Scan the QR code or use the bit.ly link for details and registration 🤠

04/20/2026

Now in the Mini Galleries:
Monsters, Fables & Moving Things
A youth animation exhibition at Rotary Park

Part of the Festival of Animated Objects
In collaboration with Quickdraw Animation Society
Curated by Claudia & Tia

This exhibition looks at how simple materials — paper, clay, everyday fragments — are turned into animation. Across the Mini Galleries, you can catch glimpses of how characters and stories are built frame by frame, through play, trial, and imagination.

Mini Gallery No. 5:
Ashlynn Strohschein — Fetch the Facts
Collage, 15.5” x 18.5” x 5”, 2026

Ashlynn Strohschein (13, Calgary) enjoys turning ideas into something you can actually see and hold. She works with clay, paint, and paper, often creating her own craft-based worlds.

In this piece, she builds a dog game show where the “underdog” ends up winning — inspired by her own dog and shows like Family Feud.

A playful story with a clear thought behind it: being different doesn’t make anyone less.

To see the animation, head to the park, scan the QR code, and enjoy it as part of your walk — winter into spring, Calgary style.

Exhibition on view until end of April March — just a two weeks left.

Made possible by CADA — thank you!

04/17/2026

Monsters, Fables & Moving Things In the Mini Galleries right now!
A youth animation exhibition at Rotary Park

Part of the Festival of Animated Objects
In collaboration with Quickdraw Animation Society
Curated by Claudia & Tia.

This exhibition brings together simple materials — paper, objects, fragments — and turns them into moving images, built frame by frame by six young artists.

Mini Gallery No. 4:
Sean O’Connor — Stop Motion vs 2D Animation
Mixed media
12” x 16” x 6”, 2026

Sean O’Connor (14, Calgary) enjoys making art because it’s fun and shareable. He works with action figures, bringing them to life through animation — using what already exists and transforming it into something new.

Stop Motion vs 2D Animation combines two different animation techniques: custom-built figures in motion and hand-drawn 2D sequences. Inspired by Loft Studios, the piece plays with contrast and interaction between these two worlds.

Sean is especially interested in creating work that others can enjoy — turning animation into something to experience together.

To see the animation, head to the park, scan the QR code, and explore it as part of your walk — winter into spring, Calgary style.

Made possible by CADA — thank you!

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