2010 Winter Games Public Art at Park Board locations

The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games have both initiated public art programs to coincide with the Winter Games. The Park Board is the fortunate recipient of many of these works including permanent sculptures in parks and aboriginal pieces at official venues that reveal, surprise, challenge and celebrate Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Games.

VANOC's Vancouver 2010 Venues' Aboriginal Art Program (VAAP)

The Vancouver 2010 Venues' Aboriginal Art Program honours Aboriginal peoples in Canada by leaving an enduring legacy of exemplary artwork in the 2010 Winter Games venues that will live well beyond 2010. The program was developed by VANOC and the Four Host First Nations and features more than 90 talented First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists from every province and territory across Canada.

For more information on VAAP, the artists and the artwork visit vancouver2010.com

Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre

	Name	Spindle Whorls
	Location	Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre / Exterior welcome work
	Artist/Nation	Aaron Nelson-Moody, West Vancouver; Squamish Nation
	Details	Five spindle whorls cast in white concrete on stainless steel mounts. Spindle whorls are well known to Coast Salish carvers who made these disc shaped weights and long spindles for the spinning of wool.
	Name	Grand Entry
	Location	Vancouver Olympic Centre/Vancouver Paralympic Centre
	Artist/Nation	Manitoba Aboriginal Arts Council Inc. Artists are: Colleen Cutschall, Lakota; Irvin Head, Cree/Belgian; Ian August, Metis; Riel Benn, Birdtail Sioux Reserve; Roger Crait, Metis; Jasyn Lucas, Ojibwe/Cree; Gayle Sinclaire, Cree; Jackie Traverse, Anishinaabe
	Details	Grand Entry is made up of 9 pieces which are all the artists' representations of the spirit of the Raven. They are all facing forward and each is placed according to where they would stand as individuals in a grand entry at a powwow to honour the community, ancestors and the future generations.

Killarney Rink and Community Centre

	Name	Bright Futures
	Location	Killarney Rink / Exterior welcome work
	Artist/Nation	Brent Sparrow, Vancouver; Musqueam
	Details	A sandblasted glass whorl on a stainless steel base, the design is a Salish face as the central figure surrounded by larger triangles that represent athletes of today. The smaller faces represent our future athletes.
	Name	The Eyes of the People
	Location	Killarney Rink / Lobby
	Artist/Nation	Dionne Paul, Sechelt Nation
	Details	Five stained glass panels (including vintage glass salvaged from the old ice rink) that depict flowing water like images of the Coast Salish eye symbolizes the eyes of the people from past, present, future.
	Name	Spirit of the Olympics paintings (2)
	Location	Killarney Rink / Lounge
	Artist/Nation	Stephen Peltonen; Ontario; Cree
	Details	Two acrylic on canvas paintings in red, yellow, blue, white and green to follow with the Olympic values and themes.

Trout Lake Rink

	Name	Sacredness of Four
	Location	Trout Lake Rink / Exterior welcome work
	Artist/Nation	Ray Natraoro, North Vancouver; Squamish Nation
	Details	Water-jet cut granite mounted on stainless steel, this work features designs based on the sacredness of things in four: four directions (north, east, west, south); peoples of the world then coming together from these four directions; four seasons; four stages of life (infant, youth, adult and elder).
	Name	Metamorphosis
	Location	Trout Lake Rink / inside rink
	Artist/Nation	Alan Syliboy, Mi'kmag, Nova Scotia
	Details	Series of 12 96"x48" paintings of Mi'kmaq cultural motifs. The moose, caribou and butterfly are all cultural motifs of the Mi'kmaq and come from petroglyphs, the oldest connections to his ancestors.
	Name	Untitled
	Location	Trout Lake Rink / Rink entrance doors
	Artist/Nation	Elliott Doxtater-Wynn; Mohawk, Six Nations of the Grand River, Ontario
	Details	Sandblasted film on doors depict raven in a swirling composition that includes a winged spirit figure moving toward an eagle feather. These figures represent the spirit of all Nations working toward a common goal of achievement.

Southeast False Creek

	Name	Salish North Star in Maple Leaf
	Location	Southeast False Creek / Plaza welcome work
	Artist/Nation	Wade Baker, Squamish Nation, BC
	Details	Stainless steel with sandblasted finish on granite base, the design is a contemporary Coast Salish North Star within the Canadian maple leaf symbolizing the Winter Games and also welcoming the world internationally to the community.

City of Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program

The City of Vancouver's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program is an ambitious collection of newly commissioned temporary and permanent artworks for 2010. The program includes more than 20 public art projects, spanning large-scale legacy installations and artist-initiated works. Works commissioned fall into one of three categories: Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010; Major Venues and Sites; and Bright Light.

Stanley Park

	Name	Aerodynamic Forms in Space
	Location	Stanley Park, Georgia Street entrance
	Artist	Rodney Graham, Vancouver
	Details	A significant installation that is inspired by model glider kits and a nod to the location's nearby seaplanes. This work will be highly visible at the entrance to Stanley Park.

Southeast False Creek

(artist's concept)	Name	The Birds
	Location	Southeast False Creek Olympic Plaza
	Artist	Myfanwy MacLeod, Vancouver
	Details	Overlooking False Creek and adjacent to the new community centre. The piece attempts to highlight what can happen when a non-native species is introduced to an environment and how the beauty of birds can sometimes mask their threat to biodiversity.

English Bay

	Name	Vectorial Elevation
	Location	English Bay (Vanier Park, Sunset Beach)
	Artist	Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Canada
	Details	Using 20 large robotic searchlights around English Bay, the canopy of the Vancouver sky is transformed by the local audience or individuals worldwide who design their own patterns via a website . Their light sculptures are visible from a distance of 15 kilometres and the pattern changes roughly every 8 seconds.

Other public art

Public art that is installed at venues or will be on display during the Games but is not part of any official public art funding program.

Venue art

	Name	Luugwiloon totem pole
	Location	Killarney Rink / Lobby
	Artist/Nation	Eric Clayton, Nisga'a Nation from New Aiyansh
	Details	A cedar totem pole featuring Gitmidiik (super natural bear) represents community members of New Aiyansh and the four crests of the Nisga'a Nation (eagle, wolf, raven and killer whale). This piece was donated to the Killarney Community Centre by the artist.
	Name	Piecing Together the Community through Art mosaic
	Location	Killarney Rink / throughout facility
	Artist/Nation	Corinna Hanson & members of the community
	Details	A series of ceramic tile mosaics depict various winter sports and celebrate the Olympic Spirit through art. Funded through Host A City Happening grant.
	Name	Surface
	Location	Online at Roundhouse and False Creek Community Centres
	Artist/Nation	Fiona Bowie
	Details	A live documentary of the rich underwater life of False Creek, transmitted from a camera mounted under the Aquabus to screens located onshore to track the health of False Creek's marine life.

Vancouver International Biennale

The 2009-2011 Vancouver Internal Biennale is a bi-annual public art exhibition that brings sculptures, new media and performance works by international artists to public parks, beaches and urban plazas, transforming the city into an open-air museum. Over two dozen installations can be seen around Vancouver and Richmond.