[caption id="attachment_8196" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Yue Minjun's A-Mazing Laughter located in Morton Park. Image courtesy of Sean Cranbury."][/caption] The result from the public consultation in March of the proposed long term loan/donation of “A-maze-ing Laughter” at Morton Park will be presented to the Park Board Commissioners at its regular meeting. Date: April 16, Monday Time: 7pm Location: Park Board Administration Office, 2099 Beach Avenue If you are interested in speaking before the Board with regards to this proposal please register with one of the Meeting Coordinators by noon on April 16, Monday. Barinder Lalli, Telephone: 604.257.8453, Email: ...

Join independent curator and vice-chair of Vancouver's Public Art Committee, Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, for a lively exploration of art in public spaces in selected Vancouver neighbourhoods and Richmond on three different Saturday mornings. We will visit art on transit, art commissioned through the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program - including both civic and private development projects and projects sponsored by organizations such as Other Sites for Artists Projects - and sculptures brought to the city by Vancouver Biennale. Discussions will focus on varied definitions of public art, how ...

[caption id="attachment_4649" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Abundance Fenced by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. Image courtesy of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas."][/caption]   A 43-metre-long steel sculpture has joined Vancouver's streetscape at Knight Street and 33rd Avenue as the newest addition to the City's public art collection. Abundance Fenced by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas features a playful adaptation of contemporary Haida design and runs along the top of a concrete retaining wall beside Kensington Park, serving as a decorative railing beside the pedestrian path. A community celebration of the work will be held on Saturday, December 3 at 10 a.m. ...

Expressions of Interest: Fleetwood Park Gardens sculpture The City of Surrey and Anthem Properties Budget: $40,000 Deadline: January 11, 2012 Expressions of Interest are sought for an art work to be placed in the crossing paths at the centre of the perennial garden in the Fleetwood Park Perennial Garden. The art work will be highly visible and should convey elegance through simplicity; use vertical components; create interest within the horticultural context without direct representation; use materials which complement existing park structures; and be appropriate for installing in an active passageway. THEME Artists answering this call are invited ...

The City of Richmond Public Art Program seeks an artist or artist team to create a public artwork to accompany the construction of the new Steveston Interurban Tram Building to be located at 4005 Moncton St. This call is open to emerging and established artists/artist teams residing in British Columbia and Alberta. Budget: $10,000, all inclusive Installation: September 2012 Deadline for Submissions: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 2:00 pm Find the Call and other details on how to submit on our Call to Artist webpage. *** City of Richmond Public Art Program Arts, Culture and ...

  Across the Spacing Blog Network today we are asking our readers in Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Otttawa, and the Atlantic cities to let us know which work of local public art is your favourite (feel free to name more than one). We want to hear back from our readers on what they like/dislike about our shared public spaces so we plan to run this feature with regularity. If possible, please provide a link to a photo you are commenting about. We suggest using Flickr as the photographers ...

Today, Friday, September 16th, is PARK(ing) Day! In cities around the globe, artists, activists and citizens will transform metered parking spaces into temporary public parks and other social spaces, as part of the annual event. PARK(ing) Day invites people to rethink the way streets are used and promotes discussion around the need for broad- based changes to urban infrastructure. In recent years, PARK(ing) Day has inspired city governments to create legal mechanisms to extend the public realm into the parking lane. In San Francisco, the Pavement to Parks “Parklet” program provides a permit system for businesses, community groups and individuals to transform metered parking spaces into small “parklets” that are open to the public. In New York City the “pop up café” program offers similar permit system for local cafes wishing to offer sidewalk service. A listing of events scheduled for Canadian cities follows. For more information, visit the PARK(ing) Day project website.

Call for Submissions -Proposed Video Art Screen Ontario, Canada Deadline for Submissions: 11:59PM ET on September 30, 2011 Toronto-based Public Art Management provides curatorial, planning and public art project management services to private companies and public agencies in North America. This Call for Submissions is intended to launch an investigation into programming content for a proposed large-scale video screen to be constructed as part of a major Ontario development project.

Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger will be installed on the west wall of the Canada Line at Vancouver City Centre Station on September 12, 2011.   City of Vancouver Public Art Program - Information Bulletin The City of Vancouver Public Art Program announces a new art project for the west wall of the Canada Line Vancouver City Centre Station on Georgia Street. Ecce Homo by Vancouver artist Althea Thauberger will be installed September 12, 2011.The commission is presented by the Public Art Program in partnership with the Canada Line Public Art Program of InTransit BC.

Adorno and Nose by Doupé and Whitman launched into transit shelters August 15 A new project by the City of Vancouver Public Art program invites the public to whistle - or sing - while they wait at bus stops across Vancouver. Adorno and Nose, a series of ten songs composed and illustrated by Barry Doupé and James Douglas Whitman, will be installed from August 15 to October 2, 2011 at 10 locations (listed below) and is one of 13 new public art projects commissioned by the City of Vancouver's Public Art Program for Vancouver 125.