BC public art
North Vancouver: Public art initiatives in North Van create controversy
The City and District of North Van have collectively spent close to $152,000 purchasing two beads in an inter-municipal public art initiative known as The Necklace Project. While at least half of the other eight participating Metro Vancouver municipalities have installed their portion, North Van’s art pieces have yet to be threaded because of public [...]
North Vancouver: Petition launched against Deep Cove sculpture
Deep Cove residents are up in arms over a plan to plunk a public-art sculpture in their midst. More than 150 locals have signed a petition in a bid to prevent the five-metre-high stainless-steel obelisk with an LED light on top, called Mirare, from being installed in Deep Cove Park. Petition organizer Karen Willliams says [...]
Downtown Eastside mural ‘touches a little bit on everybody’, Painting is the largest public mural in Western Canada
The largest public mural in Western Canada depicts ravens, canoes, dancers and even a heartbreaking scene of children being sent off to residential schools. The 7,600-square-foot scene on the wall of a Downtown Eastside hotel celebrates native culture and its history, but it’s also aimed at bringing together natives and non-natives. “It touches a little [...]
Vancouver’s unsung post-Olympic public art
On this hot August morning, five months after the 2010 Winter Games have left town, Olympic Plaza is a lively place. At one end of the public square, located at the corner of Manitoba Street and Athletes Way, bicyclists in racing stripes psych up for a hard ride. At the other end, in front of [...]
Vancouver: ‘Stubborn’ artist wants to draw baseball mural, Little Mountain Gallery’s Ehren Salazar has sport in his blood
Ehren Salazar is a multi-faceted man. The 31 year old has designed album covers and gravestones. His drawings have hung alongside a work by Picasso. His surname has been adopted by friends for their film collective and his passion for baseball led to a friendship with the late local baseball historian Bud Kerr. The artist/baseball [...]
Vancouver’s Coolest Public Art: The Drop
Vancouver is still basking in the afterglow of the 2010 Winter Olympics and one of the best remnants of the Games is the public art that now decorates the city’s parks and buildings. For the next few weeks, Jaunted’s Vancouver Embed Tuija Seipell of The Cool Hunter will be reporting on the best of the [...]
Maple Ridge: Sidewalk art marks history
The next time you’re walking through Maple Ridge, look down: you may be stepping on a piece of history. Two artists are using the downtown sidewalks as canvasses to create four colourful mosaic tiles – each one paying tribute to Maple Ridge’s unique history. Vancouver artists Bruce Walther and Ann Wilson have already completed two [...]
Chinatown murals tell stories of survival, rtist depicts the lives of Chinese immigrants from three different eras
The year is about 1884 and the young girl staring out from the historic photograph is wearing a slight smile on her delicate face. Her hair is slicked back into a tight bun, her body draped in a traditional Chinese dress. Her feet appear to be bound. She, like the other five people in that [...]
Olympic Village discards recast as public art, Berlin-based artists reclaim abandoned public space with biodegradable bulldozer
It’s really the last place you’d look for art: Behind barbed wire, on the back corner of an abandoned industrial lot, tucked in behind a big pile of dirt and gravel sprouting scrappy clumps of grass. In the movies, this would be the place to dump a body. In Vancouver, this generic strip of half-paved [...]
Burnaby: New Heights mural gets finishing touches
The latest mural to grace the Heights business area is all about whimsy. The work by Capilano University fine arts student Emily Zimmerman is being readied for its official unveiling on Wednesday, Aug. 11 at 10:30 a.m. Located on the back laneway side of the building on the southeast corner of Willingdon Avenue and Hastings [...]
Graffiti artists portray Vancouver history and war heroes, Five Victoria Cross recipients will appear on wall
A new mural replacing the graffiti covered in blue by the city shortly before the Olympics will be complete in two weeks, its creators say. Vince Dumoulin, one of 15 artists who painted the previous Beatty Street graffiti mural on a concrete wall that stretches between Dunsmuir and Georgia streets, said his concept will reflect [...]
Terrace: Building exterior to become artists’ canvas
The grey and drab exterior of the Co-op building won’t be around for long, with city council granting the rights to two local groups to use it as an artistic canvas. During the July 26 council meeting, the Terrace and District Arts Council (TDAC) and Skeena Diversity approached city council asking for the right to [...]
White Rock: Banners serve as tribute to local artist
It’s a symbol of generosity; a ‘gift’ that keeps on giving. Banners commissioned by the White Rock BIA – installed this week on city light standards just in time to be seen by thousands enjoying Spirit of the Sea festivities – feature an image from a painting by Italian-born local artist Santo De Vita, who [...]
Victoria: Coast Salish project takes shape, colour
Bonnie Quaite fine tunes the painted borders of a spirit in the sky, blowing a ship to shore. The idea behind the image, Quaite says, “is that you’re always surrounded, looked over and watched – taken care of in a way.” Quaite is the team leader of a group of six youth spending their summer [...]
Kelowna: Dragoons need muralist
It’s an extraordinary challenge but one the Okanagan Military Museum, the British Columbia Dragoons and the Whizbang Veterans Association believe someone in this community can meet. By the end of next month, members of the three organizations are hoping to have at least a handful of Okanagan artists interested in painting a mural on the [...]
