City of Vancouver Issues Platforms 2020 Public Works Call

Image: Phoebe Parsons, Terror Fervor, 2019, animation still.

A new public art program is now being launched on transit shelters, billboards and video screens throughout the City of Vancouver. Platforms 2020: Public Works is a monthly series of public art projects which will be presented from June until the year’s end. Public Works highlights the crucial role of art in our community by sharing the artworks of Vancouver-based artists who continue to work from their living rooms, bedrooms and on the streets of the city at this critical moment.

As part of Platforms 2020, the City of Vancouver Public Art Program invites Vancouver-based artists and artists from the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh) First Nations to submit their art projects that respond to the complexities of the current situation that we find ourselves in. The City is particularly interested in working with artists who have not previously received a public art commission, and from artists whose communities have historically been and are presently underrepresented in the public realm.

For more information about the Platforms 2020: Public Works Public Art Call visit: vancouver.ca/platforms.