The Northern Hills Community Association (NHCA) undertook an exciting challenge in Summer 2018 – painted the longest mural in Canada.
The NHCA hired a professional visual Artist, who submitted the proposal for the Community of Fences Mural Project that will be located on the fence line along Coventry Hills Blvd NE, between Country Hills Blvd NE and Country Village Rd NE.
The professional visual Artist has been selected through an RFP process. The successful artist worked with us to complete the design and installation of our community mural with the support of the NHCA Mural Project Committee, NHCA Staff and Volunteers who painted the mural on the fence along with the professional visual Artist.
Mark Vazquez-Mackay was the project artist of Northern Hills Mural project!
Mark Vazquez-Mackay Biography
Mark Vazquez-Mackay’s work has been exhibited and collected across the continent. As one of this country’s most prominent observational painters/drawers, Mark is known as a ceaselessly inventive explorer of the human figure and portraiture. While he is widely respected as a painter and teacher, Vazquez-Mackay’s impact on his local community as a muralist, a mentor and a volunteer is hard to overstate since a central part of his practice is to create and nourish artistic communities and to create links between those communities and the citizens of Calgary. Mark Vazquez-Mackay received his BFA from Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, Canada and his MFA from the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Mark Vazquez Mackay taught for a year at the Instituto Allende and has been teaching drawing and painting at ACAD since 2004. In addition to his post-secondary teaching work, Vazquez Mackay is the current Artist in Residence at Willow Park Middle School and has taught for a range of public and private institutions including Studio C, Y Calgary Program, Tom Baker Cancer Centre, and the Arts Commons. Learn more…
