By Jenn Perutka
| Image: Photos by Jenn Perutka and Esther Rausenberg, edited by Jenn Perutka |
Published: August 25, 2010
Vancouver artist Richard Tetrault takes Granville on a tour of his city through the vivid public murals that decorate its walls, and speaks of the funding cuts that threaten the local arts community
As a Vancouverite, you have most likely been in the presence of artist Richard Tetrault’s art. His vivid translations of the city and its culture through his murals are key pieces to the identity of Vancouver.
By Colleen Tang
| Image: Vancouver Convention Centre |
Published: August 06, 2010
Douglas Coupland’s first piece of public art in Vancouver is both beautiful and bizarre
As the sun hangs low above the treetops of Stanley Park, casting the last rays out along the glimmering water, it’s not just the natural beauty of the harbour or the noble North Shore mountains that catches one’s gaze. Where the seawall passes the new Vancouver Convention Centre’s western wall, leaping up toward the sky is the massive figure of an orca whale encrusted with twinkling lights.
By Kristen Gladiuk
| Image: Steve Hornung |
Published: July 05, 2010
What does Vancouver's public art mean for the community? Granville talks with Steve Hornung of The Creative Individual
If you’ve seen one of Vancouver’s more colourful building-sides, chances are you’ve seen
Steve Hornung’s work. Steve is a professional muralist and a Vancouver proponent for painting the city with public art. He's the creative director and artist at the helm of
The Creative Individual Company, a troupe of self-professed “creative individuals” who envision and bring to life some seriously mind-blowing wall art.
By Alex Samur
| Image: Ken Ohrn |
Published: June 15, 2010
Vancouver cyclists can now park their bikes in a more artful way
A bike rack. A solar lamp post. A work of art. Reminiscent of the globe on top of Superman's
Daily Planet, Vancouver's newest bike-themed public art piece, the Solar Bike Tree is all of these things, embodying both function and frivolity.
By
Krista Eide
| Image:
Indigo |
Published: April 21, 2010
Paint Your Faith's collaborative Downtown Eastside mural unites international street artists
By
Andrea Tucker
| Image:
Arsenal Pulp Press |
Published: March 10, 2010
Vancouver locals release inspirational book on crocheted grafitti. Enter to win your own copy!
Yarn bombing is a type of street art (graffiti) that uses knit or crocheted pieces instead of tagging with a spray can. And after reading the book
Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti, I realized that I had actually "yarn bombed" before I even knew that the term existed.
By Amanda Wood
| Image: Matthew Simpson & Amanda Wood |
Published: February 18, 2010
Kids make wishflags to celebrate the richness of Vancouver communities
By Steven Schelling
| Image: Ian Mitchell |
Published: December 01, 2009
Vancouver City Hall spearheads massive public art project
From the uproar over the rusting hulk of French sculptor Bernar Venet’s 217.5 Arcs X 13 (popularly referred to as the “whale carcass”) at English Bay and Sunset Beach, to a group of Coal Harbour residents successfully lobbying to uproot Dennis Oppenheim’s Device To Root Out Evil from their million-dollar views, public art in Vancouver has always been a lightning rod for controversy.
Perhaps hoping that Olympic goodwill will soften the hard-hearted and real estate speculators alike, City Hall is investing in a massive public art project that will encompass temporary installations as well as works on permanent display across the city.
By Steven Schelling
| Image: Ian Mitchell |
Published: December 01, 2009
OK, the squabbling is over. The Olympics are here. Now, let's party!
For those of you who never wanted the Olympics, who decried the commercial appropriation of an ancient Inuit symbol, who erupted in outrage at each new budget overrun, who protested the clearing of Eagle Ridge for a superhighway: you put up a good fight, but you voted No and you lost.
The Olympics are here. No temper tantrum, no matter how spectacular, will keep the party at bay.
You could spend the Olympics cocooned in your home, curtains drawn, seething with impotent rage and occasionally shaking a fist and yelling obscenities at the cheery blatherings of NBC’s Today Show gang, broadcasting live daily from the top of Grouse Mountain. You could mumble “I told you so” at every hint of a glitch or misstep. You could be a sore loser and do your best to make the party a flop.
Or you could get out and take part in the most fun Vancouver has seen in a long time – and is unlikely to see again for years to come, given the prospect of what promises to be a long hangover of debts and funding cuts.
By Granville
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Published: November 16, 2009
Interactive art targets tourists to Vancouver
Local art will infiltrate the city in subtle and not-so-subtle ways during the Olympics, thanks to a handful of public works commissioned by the City of Vancouver.
Tourists will get more than they bargained for when accepting a postcard from uniformed attendants at the slightly off-kilter kiosks of Vanessa Kwan’s “Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver.” Visitors are invited to tear out perforated images of Vancouver landmarks,hold the postcard up to frame an actual Vancouver scene, then photograph the postcard.
Other works include highly subjective transit maps chronicling an artist’s personal journeys, live underwater images of Burrard Inlet displayed on Aquabus roofs and a multimedia dance project.
The eight works comprise the city’s Mapping and Marking Vancouver 2010 project. With a budget of $600,000, it is part of the city’s Artist Initiatives Program, aimed at encouraging artists to reflect their personal connection to Vancouver in site-specific works.
All the works will be on display at locations throughout the city during the Olympics, from February 12 to March 21, 2010. Some will remain as permanent or semi-permanent public artworks.
