2025 Calgary Art Bus Celebration, Métis artist and illustrator Presley Mills, photo by Cassidy Waterchief
The Calgary Art Development collaborates with local artists/artists teams to bring more artwork into daily life and communities.
The seven local artists who were chosen for this project were invited to choose themes based on honouring Indigenous stories and perspectives, as well as sharing stories of their communities to showcase diversity, history, and geography within the city of Calgary.
On June 11, 2025 the Art Bus celebration gave the public an opportunity to meet the artists and to see the wrapped buses up close in detail.
Among the seven was Métis artist and illustrator Presley Mills. She currently works as the Creative Services Director at pipikwan pêhtâkwan.
Her proposal for the Art Bus project was a celebration of all the foster dogs she has taken care of over the years, as well as combining her artistic practice, which involves traditional beadwork.
Mills shares how she uses beading to reconnect with her Métis identity through her artwork.
Local Calgarian, Lydia who was passing by along Stephen Avenue shared how seeing the buses made her feel represented throughout the artwork.
The wrapped buses launched earlier in May and will be on various routes throughout the city until November 2025.
For more information on the artists/artist collectives, you can visit Calgary Arts Development.
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