public art
Youth leave arts legacy on Aldergrove wall
Aldergrove youth have left a legacy on an Aldergrove wall for Arts and Culture Week. On Friday, April 23 at 6 p.m., several youths from Aldergrove Community Secondary School will be unveiling a large-scale, public art piece, along Aldergrove’s busy Fraser Highway and the community is invited to attend this event. The artwork was created [...]
Burnaby: Part of city’s anti-graffiti efforts
More murals could soon be appearing on Burnaby buildings if city council approves a grant program to fund the projects. The proposed program would allocate $100,000 in gaming funds over five years to share in the costs of the murals, 50-50, with community groups, according to a city staff report to the city’s finance and [...]
Richmond: New York artist to speak at city hall
New York artist Dennis Oppenheim will give a free talk next Thursday, April 15 at Richmond City Hall. Oppenheim is one of several artists with work displayed in Richmond as part of the Vancouver Biennale with the circular Arriving Home located at the Vancouver International Airport. Oppenheim has been an influential figure in contemporary art [...]
Vancouver Public Art on a Grand Scale
Public art can be high-minded and it can simply be, well, high. Vancouver’s newest work of public art – to be unveiled tomorrow – spans 16 floors of the not-yet-open Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel, starting on the fifth floor (which is actually the fourth). Created by internationally renowned British artist Liam Gillick, the text-based work [...]
Ken Lum constructs icon to rule over East Vancouver
A symbolically rich sign of East Vancouver’s marginality and defiance will soon be going up on a high-profile site at the corner of Clark and East 6th Avenue. The public art work by artist Ken Lum is called Monument for East Vancouver. Placed on a ridge looking down on the False Creek flats, the 20-metre [...]
Public art shines on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2010
Bright Light will turn a spotlight on the vibrant arts community in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 2010. Part of the City’s Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program, the Bright Light program brings together the creative energy of 14 local art organizations to present innovative public art projects along and around the Carrall Street Greenway before [...]
Get your creative on – city seeks ideas for collaborative public art projects
The City of Kelowna is seeking people that have an idea for a collaborative art project they can share with others? If you do, consider picking up an application for community public art projects. Community public art is a way for artists and the community to collaborate on creative projects. A total of $10,000 in [...]
New Historic Mural Underway In Famed Vancouver Island Town
Officially designated Mural #41, this newest addition to the over 40 murals, carvings and sculptures distinguishing the picturesque and vibrant town of Chemainus is well underway with the first of 5 segments already started. The 5-segment mural includes a 60 foot by 18 foot north wall as the main scene – set in the late [...]
Vancouver’s James Schouw to fund downtown art display
A Vancouver developer says he is prepared to spend up to $500,000 to fund a public art display at his new project in downtown Vancouver. In a phone interview with the Georgia Straight, James Schouw said the public art may be commissioned as independent pieces or as part of a series of works. “Most of [...]
Graduates bring art to SkyTrain stations
An art project showcasing local artists at Burrard and Waterfront SkyTrain stations was officially opened to the public yesterday. Between Spaces is meant to foster a sense of community ownership of the SkyTrain system. The B.C. Rapid Transit Company enlisted six Emily Carr University graduates to be the first artists to decorate the public venues. [...]
Public art planned for Clark-Knight corridor
The City of Vancouver is planning on installing a series of public artworks along the Clark-Knight Street corridor between 13th and 57th Avenues. A Statement of Work on the city’s bidding opportunities page is calling for a consultant to develop the plan for a fee of $25,000. It states that the public art sites are [...]
Vancouver Art Gallery to launch new outdoor exhibition space
The Vancouver Art Gallery will launch its new outdoor exhibition space, Offsite, with a site-specific installation by Chinese artist O Zhang from July 20 to November 29, 2009. Offering a rotating program of innovative public art projects by local and international contemporary artists, the new exhibition space in the downtown core allows artists to explore [...]
Maple Ridge considers public art
What is art? In Maple Ridge, the age-old question will be answered by a committee – a public art committee – once it’s formed this spring. That’s one of the first steps to be taken as council considered a bylaw Tuesday to create the committee and an agreement to pay for it all. If council [...]
West Vancouver to get Rushmore-like sculpture: ‘Premier attraction’ set for Eagleridge
West Vancouver could soon be a major tourist destination if a tentative plan by the province to create an imposing public artwork on an exposed rock face at Eagleridge Bluffs goes ahead.The project would see an 11-storey “Spirit Sculpture,” broadly modelled after South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore, appear on the mountainside above the new Hwy. 99 [...]
