Windows of Opportunity During this year’s more difficult months, Calgarians made creative use of windows and other public-facing Stoney Trail “canvases” to bridge the mandated 6ft gap that separated us. The art and sentiments that filled these spaces # and captured people’s attention inspired the concept for this annual report. We enlisted local artists to help share our message through their own unique style and point of view. Crowchild Trail 7 Artists Featured Trail Deerfoot Bow River Mike Hooves is a prairie queer living in Calgary. They’re an illustrator, animator, graphic designer, and filmmaker who received their 1 Bachelor of Design from AUArts in 2016. Mike’s work is centered on human experience, which is expressed through playful figures, gestural lines, and colorful shapes. Portrait by Bryce Maruk Nicole Wolf is a visual storyteller with a passion for sharing underreported stories, and a focus on themes of spirituality, wholeness, and human interaction. She holds an associate’s degree in Fine Art at Grant MacEwan University and a Visual Communications degree from Trans-Canada Hwy 1 AUA, majoring in illustration. She creates comics, editorial illustration and murals in downtown Calgary, where she works out of a generally 3 messy home studio. Website: nicolewolfdesign.com | Instagram: @nicolewolfdesign | Portrait by Steve Casey 5 Garry Peck (Sasquatch Art & Display Inc.) is a self-taught artist with his own unique style, who even as a child enjoyed sketching and 4 cartooning. Using his creativity, sense of humour and the marketing and customer service skills gained from nearly twenty-five years in the 2 retail, wholesale and food services industries, he is able to offer his clients imaginative customized, hand painted artwork. Garry also offers chalkboard art, murals, graphics, computer graphics, logo design, corporate image packages, cartoon/illustration services and caricaturing at both corporate and private functions. Website: sasquatchart.weebly.com 1 2 Trail Stoney Kyle Simmers is a bi-polar non binary artist working with the language of comic media and street art to extend bridges of empathy connecting disparate worlds. Born and raised in a special kind of nowhere known as Bashaw, Alberta, Kyle highlights overlooked 3 intersections of queer and rural experience. Their work explores identity and relationships to engage the public in conversations about 6 queer identity, mental health and what happens to the stories you never tell. Website: kylesimmers.com Marci McAdam has been a self-employed freelance artist since 2001, and besides drawing her own designs, her work includes product and character design, illustrating educational materials, whimsical logos, teaching art workshops, commissions, window painting, and Deerfoot Trail 4 traveling to conventions. Much of Marci’s work is currently digital (Illustrator, Photoshop), but her favourite artist tools are Prismacolor markers, and her favourite projects involve designing cute animals and children. Marci lives in Calgary, Alberta with her wife, two teenage sons and pug Lily. Website: heartofmarci.com | Patreon: www.theartofmarci.com/artcafe | Twitter, Instagram: @marcimcadam Bow River Glenmore Trail Tyler Lemermeyer lives and works out of his home studio in Calgary, Alberta, where he received a B.F.A from Alberta University of the Arts. Since, graduating from AU Arts and VFS (Vancouver Film School) Tyler has successfully worked on a variety of different projects 5 whose clients include (Honda, New Jersey Devils, BRON, NFB, Tourism France, YYCBUMP) where he used his skills as an animator, illustrator and most recently a muralist. Tyler always has a sketchbook with him where he takes visual notes documenting the world that surrounds him. Instagram: @lemermeyer_ Christina Stein is a mixed media illustrator currently living in Calgary, Alberta. Christina’s art style is heavily influenced by storytelling and folk art from her German and Scottish heritage. She specializes in window murals and enamel pin design. With her art, Christina hopes to 6 inspire delight and curiousity. Christina’s work has been shared locally and internationally. Local clients and partners include: the Calgary Farmers Market, the City of Calgary, Holt Refrew, Little Noise Records, TELUS Spark Science Centre and the Women’s Centre of Calgary. Website: copperspruce.ca | Instagram: @csteinstudio Lyndsay Wasko is a Calgary based designer and illustrator whose artwork focuses on themes of childlike discovery and thoughtful 7 observation of nature. Her multidisciplinary portfolio includes brand development, packaging, multi-channel ad campaigns as well as more illustrative work such as video game concept art, children’s book illustration, and museum installations. Website: lyndsaywasko.com Jenessa Drebnisky is a Calgary based designer, maker, and self-proclaimed crafty person. With a formal background in Visual Communications, Jenessa enjoys combining fundamental design principles with elements of joy and whimsy. Her primary visual style is # illustrated infographics, which often includes hand lettering. She’s had work featured in Times Square, award winning magazines, and worked with clients locally and internationally. Website: jenessa.net | Instagram: @jenoodles.doodles 2020 Calgary Foundation Annual Report Land Acknowledgment Contents In the spirit of respect, reciprocity and truth, we honour and acknowledge Board of Directors .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................18 Moh’kinsstis, and the traditional Treaty 7 territory and oral practices of the 2019 Highlights ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Blackfoot confederacy: Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, as well as the Îyâxe Nakoda Staff ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 and Tsuut’ina Nations. We acknowledge that this territory is home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Committees & Volunteers ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23 Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live, work and Impact Investments ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 play on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory. New Funds & Community Fund ............................................................................................................................................................................................................26 Community Grants .....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................30 Proactive Grants ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 Strategic Opportunity Grants ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................33 Major & Signature Grants / Daryl K. Seaman Canadian Hockey Fund Grants .............................................................................................................34 Grassroots Grants & Projects ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Donor Advised & Donor Designated Funds & Grants ...............................................................................................................................................................36 Field of Interest Funds ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................57 Student Award Funds .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 59 Charitable Organization Funds ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 62 Funds Administered For Others & Future Gifts ...........................................................................................................................................................................64