Public art policy to keep PoCo pretty
Port Coquitlam is setting an artistic path for the city’s future by shaping its first public art policy.
“The city and community had already been doing public art on an ad hoc basis for the last 10 years,” said Yvonne Chui, PoCo’s arts and culture co-ordinator. “So we felt it really was time to articulate a policy or some sort of framework that the community and city could support and which would feed into the rest of the cultural plan and policy that the city has set out.”
About two years ago a group of community members, including representatives from the arts, business and the city, were invited to form a public art task force to develop the policy. A consultant worked with the city to identify places of importance for public art in the community, a report that Chui said revealed several key places, including the Traboulay-PoCo Trail, parks and the Leigh Square Community Arts Village.
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