		Community Services	City of Vancouver Search Help
		Cultural Services

CITY OF VANCOUVER

Public Art Program

Vancouver’s Public Art Program seeks to incorporate contemporary art practices into city planning and development. The program supports art-making of many kinds - emerging and established artists, in new and traditional media from stand-alone commissions to artist collaborations. The program is part of Cultural Services and oversees development of public art opportunities throughout the city. Civic projects at civic buildings, greenways, parks and other public spaces are funded through capital budgets. Private sector projects are funded by developments in the rezoning process.

Projects

The Public Art Registry provides information on completed public artworks located throughout Vancouver. The Public Art Projects page provides highlights of recent works.

Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program

As Host City for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver has initiated an Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program to commission public artworks that reveal, surprise, challenge and celebrate Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Games. See Artist Opportunities (below) for current calls to artists and curators.

Artist Opportunities

Are you are an artist looking for an opportunity to work on a Public Art project? View information on upcoming deadlines. To have this information delivered electronically to your mailbox, subscribe to the Public Art Listserv.

Current News

Top Headlines

May 2008

Public Art Review: A conversation with the Manager of the Public Art Program reveals the importance of reviewing the program and planning for the future.
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/culturalservices/newsletter/may08/story2.htm

Public Art Planning: See the plans that Translink has for Public Art along the Main Street corridor of Vancouver:
http://www.translink.bc.ca/files/pdf/urban_showcase/Main_St_UTS_Art_Plan.pdf (PDF, 4.08MB)

The Aperture project at the Public Libray: Read about the first installment (PDF, 21KB) of Memory Palace [Three Artists in the Library] by local artist Carol Sawyer.

November 2007

Woodward’s Murals: With all the construction in Vancouver, many sidewalks are flanked by wooden hoardings covered with posters and notices. Not so at Hastings and Abbott, thanks to the talents of 36 community artists. Watch the video - Woodward’s Mural (9.5 MB .wmv)
Intersection celebrates the City of Vancouver’s new Carrall Street Greenway with a month-long potpourri of projection art, video art, installations, and workshops. The Intersection project will open to the public on Friday, November 9th, with exhibitions openings at Centre A and Interurban galleries at Hastings and Carrall, dovetailing with the start of Diwali, the South Asian ‘Festival Of Lights’. The grand finale will include projections in the windows and will take place on Saturday, December 8th, coinciding with Hanukkah, the 8-day Jewish ‘Festival Of Lights’. Check the website for details of artist’s projects by Koki Tanaka, Alex MacKenzie and Paul Wong (PDF, 545KB).

Want to learn more about Public Art?

Get the story behind public art as GVTV tours several Vancouver pieces with insight from the artists and the Public Art Program Manager, Bryan Newson.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check out the questions most often asked about the Public Art Program and its activities.

[top]

Questions or Comments? E-mail: oca@vancouver.ca