Public art

concrete retaining wall with a yellow rectangle depicting the mural opportunity.

Call to Artists: Halifax Mural Festival for InterCHANGE 2026

Call for SubmissionsMay 15th, 2026

This opportunity is for a mural facilitated by the Halifax Mural Festival to be included in the InterCHANGE Temporary Public Art Gallery. InterCHANGE is a pilot collaboration between the HRM and IOTA studios to produce a series of temporary art opportunities within the Cogswell District.

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.

Call to Artists: InterCHANGE 2026

Call for SubmissionsMarch 11th, 2026

The Halifax Regional Municipality and IOTA Studios welcomes artists based in Canada to apply for a new program of temporary public art works within the redeveloped Cogswell District titled InterCHANGE.

Nocturne Artist Talk & InterCHANGE Tour

Artist TalkOctober 18th, 2025

Please join us Saturday October 18th, at 5pm in Granville Park for an Introduction and Artist Talk to the new public artworks installed as a part of the InterCHANGE project. InterCHANGE is a new program launched by The Halifax Regional Municipality and IOTA Studios of temporary public artworks within the redeveloped Cogswell District. The tour

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.

Call to Artists: InterCHANGE 2025

Call for SubmissionsMay 19th, 2025

The Halifax Regional Municipality and IOTA Studios welcomes artists based in Canada to apply for a new program of temporary public art works within the redeveloped Cogswell District titled InterCHANGE.