InterCHANGE

Exhibition

Blue logo that says "Halifax"

The Halifax Regional Municipality and IOTA Studios are introducing a new program of temporary public artworks within the redeveloped Cogswell District titled InterCHANGE.  The first cycle of temporary artworks launched nin Summer/Fall 2025, in partnership with a slate of five artists, selected by an independent jury of artists, curators, and cultural workers. 

Murals

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“Across the Deep Green Sea” by Letitia Fraser

“Northenders” by Vanessa “Nessy” Thomas

 “Water is Sacred” by Lorne Julien

Banners

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“Homegrown” by Carmahn McCalla

“Interchange Chorus” by Lou Sheppard

“We Carry the Fire” by Daramfon Morgan

Bus Shelters

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“Msɨt No’kmaq (All My Relations): Everything is Smiling” by Zeta Paul

Navigating InterCHANGE

Click the icons on the map below to locate each artwork. The red icons show the artworks that are currently on view, and new artworks will be coming in late summer 2026.

Accessibility Guide

There are many pathways through InterCHANGE, which are changing as the Cogswell District is redeveloping. Our accessibility guide will help you navigate through the public artworks in Cogswell District. 

Audio Guide
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News & Updates

2026 Call to Mural Artists (closed)

Image is of the transit terminal shelter with artwork from 2025 Interchange artist Zeta Paul, titled “Msɨt No’kmaq (All My Relations): Everything is Smiling”. There is a colourful illustration with an Indigenous man riding a pale pink unicorn in the foreground, wearing a war bonnet, full regalia, and a bow and arrows on his back. He is riding towards the viewer over a hill of green grass covered with mushrooms, teddy bears, lupins, and pink crystals. The unicorn wears a bejewelled harness and around its neck is a medallion with a Mi’kmaw double curve pattern. Over their heads are telephone wires draped across the landscape. The background extends far into the distance where there is a moose at the shoreline of a body of water surrounded by mountains embedded with the faces of Mi’kmaw women wearing peaked caps. On the horizon is a massive full moon rising, and a sun rising above it. Beyond the moon and sun is a high rise apartment building with clotheslines on the fire escapes, there are shooting stars in the sky and in the top left there is three floating red pixellated video game hearts.

2026 Call to Artists (closed)

Nocturne Artist Talk & InterCHANGE Tour

Meet the Artists & Jury

Digitally rendered bird’s eye view of an irregular shaped park in a city centre, at dusk, with an angular pedway stretching overhead. The park is full of people, surrounded by a street with cars, and 5-story buildings. Angular pathways cut through the grassy park, with freestanding rectangular planters, green trees, and a wooden structure with a transparent roof and no walls.

2025 Call to Artists (closed)

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