This open call to artists request approaches to artwork of any scale for public spaces in Vancouver. The City of Vancouver invites artists to expand their art practice and propose new artworks, envisioned for sites in Vancouver, that contemplate the city, its defining features, spaces and neighbourhoods. This is an opportunity for artists to create…
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The City of Vancouver Public Art Program is pleased to announce a new artwork by Erica Stocking for Vancouver’s newest library location, the nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch. All My Favourite People are Animals by Erica Stocking, 2017 Bronze and one-way mirror nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch (720-730 East Hastings) Commissioned by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program…
CITY OF VANCOUVER CALL TO ARTS ORGANIZATIONS FOR PROPOSALS PUBLIC ART BOOST Deadline: 4:00 pm PST, February 22nd, 2017 PUBLIC ART OPPORTUNITY The City of Vancouver invites proposals from professional arts organizations that are currently working on new public art projects or to boost capacity to commission new artworks for existing projects that can be…
The City of Vancouver is seeking proposals for murals that celebrate the creativity of Indigenous artists and the rich cultural histories and continuing presence of Indigenous peoples in what is now known as Vancouver, as well as look toward the city and the country’s future. Application Deadline: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 – 4:00 pm Learn…
By Henry Tsang A permanent public art installation with aluminum letters and fibre optic lighting installed December 1997 on Drake Street Plaza, Vancouver WELCOME TO THE LAND OF LIGHT is positioned along 100 metres of the seawall handrail along False Creek North in downtown Vancouver. This public artwork speaks about how technology promises to bring cultures together…
By Lorna Brown While much continues to change on the Number 003 bus route along Vancouver’s Main Street, the collage of text signage in multiple languages, logos and graphics picturing everything from sushi and bagels to coffee cups and books remains, appealing to pedestrians at human scale. In the shop windows, new and vintage clothing…
By Renée Mok If you walk westward on Keefer Street towards downtown Vancouver, the old buildings adorned with Chinese characters and the novel red lampposts of Chinatown begin to fade. At Keefer Place, a residential building at the historic entrance to Shanghai Alley, you will come across an abacus. The abacus, a tool for calculating…
By Eli Bornowsky That’s what it’s called: untitled; why should it be called anything, this anonymous sentinel standing tall above the pedestrians on the corner of Hastings and Bute, in an upscale office and high-rise condominium district? Of solid stone sediment, this stock-still sidewalk watchman stands on the borderlines between the business quarter, Harbour Green…
For the next two years, funding of up to $20,000 is available for small-scale, one-time community public art projects sponsored by Vancouver-based non-profits working with practicing artists and communities. Arts and cultural organizations that have received or are applying for other City of Vancouver grants programs are eligible to apply for these grants as well.…
Article by Joni Low I visited the bridge at dusk, just as the clouds were breaking. The sunset reflected from the water onto the bridge’s underbelly; kayaks passed underneath, while birds migrated eastward overhead. Everything appeared picturesque; idyllic. Yet the simple chromatic blue stripes at the bridge’s base belied this reality, marking, as they do,…
VANCOUVER, BC – A new film by Emilie Crewe contrasts natural and manmade elements of Vancouver and the team of Castle Grünenfelder Ingram present images of local indigenous fruit trees in transit shelters. Ben Bogart’s computerized abstraction surrounds the light structure at Queen Elizabeth Plaza, and an image from Laiwan’s film Barnacle City will show…
Natalie McHaffie’s Solo, located in Devonian Harbour Park (Denman and Georgia streets), is an abstract sculpture of stainless steel and carved cedar planks or ‘wings’ that fan out in a spiral. McHaffie says the artwork means to show movement, but not flight. Installed in 1986, Solo was one of ten pieces in the City Shapes…
