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Featured Event: Public Art in Vancouver – the City Approach

VPSN — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 18:39:51 +0000

Out next VPSN monthly meet-up focuses on public art, and in particular, the programs and approaches taken by the City of Vancouver. Public art plays an important role in enriching and enlivening our public spaces, and this session will aim to explore some the many ways that this takes place in neighbourhoods around the city.

The event takes place:

Monday, November 19
7:00-8:30pm
Location: Strathcona Community Centre, 601 Keefer Street

We’ll be joined by Eric Fredericksen, head of Public Art in Vancouver. Eric will provide a short presentation, which will be followed by an open discussion. In addition to looking at the City’s efforts with public art, we’d like to use this opportunity to review previous VPSN initiatives around public art and street art, and talk about potential placemaking, research, and advocacy projects that we can focus on over the next little while.

The event is FREE. To help us with our planning, please let us know if you’re joining us. Email info@vancouverpublicspace to reserve a space.

About the Speaker

Eric Fredericksen is Head of Public Art at the City of Vancouver, BC. He was formerly the Waterfront Public Art Program Manager for the City of Seattle, and the director of Western Bridge, an art exhibition space and collection in Seattle. As an independent curator he has organized exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Or Gallery, and Artspeak, all in Vancouver; the Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, The Netherlands; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and Open Satellite, Bellevue, Wash.

Headline photo: Dustin Quasar, Creative Commons

Valentine’s hearts under the Cambie Bridge

Jill Glover — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:41:12 +0000

Nothing like Valentine’s Day to undertake a heart-shaped intervention – and show a little love for pedestrians and cyclists at the same time!

People walking and biking across the Cambie Bridge this morning were greeted with a series of red and pink hearts – paint-stamped into the underside of bridge.

The stealthy street art was undertaken in the early morning, when it was still dark outside.

And the hearts were painted in non-toxic, washable colours – making for a simple (and likely very temporary) transformation.

A splash of colour to brighten the grey concrete. Especially on an overcast morning.

Happy Valentine’s Day to lovers of public space everywhere!

Laser Graffiti!

VPSN — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:38:53 +0000

As part of Viva Vancouver, VPSN is hosting a few evenings of laser graffiti! Want to know more? Come on out and try your hand at tagging up building walls with digital paint and lasers. Check out the location map to see where we’ll be projecting next: Laser Locations…