When artists come together, amazing things happen. Experience art in action through the summer 2024 on Canmore’s Main Street as 11 established Bow Valley artists raise a powerful sculpture symbolizing creative individuality and how vastly different artistic processes can come together in a cohesive, elegant and beautiful piece of communal art. Conceived and fabricated by architect/artist Lesley Russell, “Paintbrush” is a representation of the indigenous wildflower that grows throughout our Valley. The Stoney people consider it medicine, and a symbol of individual expression…..so in keeping with that, Well-known Bow Valley painters will contribute their own style and content to a series of steel petals and leaves, demonstrating process each weekend in our Main Street Pedestrian Zone. The addition of each series of petals will slowly raise the sculpture, each individual voice adding another layer of meaning to the finished sculpture.