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EXPLOREWINNIPEG’S
PUBLIC
ART
We need art, in the arrangements of cities as well as in
the other realms of life, to help explain life to us,
to show us meanings, to illuminate the
relationship between the life that each of us embodies and the life
outside us.Jane Jacobs
Public Art in Winnipeg
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The Public Art Program develops artwork in public spaces, facilitates community-based collaborations, integrates artists into City facilities through the Artist-in-Residence program and organizes public events. Winnipeg’s Public Art Policy was adopted by City Council in 2004 and is managed by the Winnipeg Arts Council on behalf of the City of Winnipeg. The public artworks covered in this booklet do not list all the public artwork in Winnipeg, but rather those projects completed through the policy and program since 2004.
Public Art in Winnipeg
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lost_landscapeCollin ZippLiving Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Avenue
Agassiz IceGordon ReeveAssiniboine Park, north of walking bridge
Close CommonsGurpreet SehraAdsum Park, 434 Adsum Drive
Elwick Community CentreDimitry Melman with the Elwick CommunityElwick Community Centre, 30 Maberley Road
The WRENCHDimitry Melman with the Winnipeg Repair Education and Cycling HubThe WRENCH, 1057 Logan Avenue
Table of Contentsspmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski)Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, Portage Avenue between Home Street & Canora Street
The Spence Community Compass: Finding HomeLeah Decter with the Spence Neighbourhood AssociationFurby Park (on Furby Street, north of Ellice Avenue)
city.block.stopDavid PerrettEllice Avenue, between Spence Street and Colony Street
From Here Until Nowspmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski)Osborne Street Bridge, Osborne Village
Marbles at MayfairErica Swendrowski Mayfair Community Centre (River Ave. at Donald St.) and Air Canada Park
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This non-linear narrative video installation reflects the rich prairie landscape through abstracted images of its flora and fauna. The moving, abstract paintings are interactive, allowing the viewer to control their experience of the artist’s representation of the Living Prairie Museum, a 12 hectare tall grass prairie preserve.
Interactive installation of digitally manipulated video works
Photo by Robert Tinker
Living Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Avenue
lost_landscape (2007)Collin Zipp
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Agassiz Ice recalls glacial Lake Agassiz that in prehistoric times covered most of the province of Manitoba. The sculptures appear to be massive chunks of ice, reminiscent of the tips of icebergs. These stainless steel pieces reflect light and the surrounding landscape, changing their appearance through the cycling of days and seasons.
Stainless steel
Assiniboine Park, north of walking bridge
Agassiz Ice (2008)Gordon Reeve
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Community consultation made it clear that the vibrant Adsum Park community cared passionately about welcoming and functional public spaces. The crescent-shaped benches create a space for dialogue and the carved stone and bur oak leaf-shaped backrests represent the relationship between new immigrant communities and Manitoba’s landscape.
Aluminum, granite
Adsum Park, 434 Adsum Drive
Close Commons (2015)Gurpreet Sehra
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The artist engaged community members of all ages to reclaim the Elwick Community Centre. The colourful mosaic mural they created together covers the outdoor walls of the Centre, creating a spirited community and aesthetic impact on an otherwise unremarkable building, and revitalizing the activities within.
Mixed media and mosaic
Elwick Community Centre, 30 Maberley Road
Elwick Community Centre (2008)Dimitry Melman with the Elwick Community
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Exploring concepts of community, the relationship between humans and bicycles, public space and the city, consumerism, teamwork and personal empowerment, Melman and The Winnipeg Repair and Education Cycling Hub (WRENCH) created dozens of artworks from salvaged bicycle parts, including a functional sign and bike rack.
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Mixed media and mosaic
The WRENCH, 1057 Logan Avenue
The WRENCH (2014)Dimitry Melman with the Winnipeg Repair Education and Cycling Hub
Photo by Lindsey Bond
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This 40-foot aluminum sculpture also functions as a community table. A “landscape of language,” it is inscribed with text which reflects upon the importance of the park, the natural environment and the history of the area, and represents a number of languages including Tagalog, Portuguese, French, English, and Braille.
Aluminum
Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, Portage Avenue between Home Street & Canora Street
Table of Contents (2006)spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski)
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This community-created artwork reflects upon ideas of home, place and belonging. The concentric rings include prairie plants, the words of the Seven Grandfathers set in tile, mosaic from children’s drawings of their community, and a compass with arrows pointing to all the places in the world that Spence residents call home.
Photo by cam bush
Tile mosaic, concrete, text, indigenous plants
Furby Park (on Furby Street, north of Ellice Avenue)
The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home (2008)Leah Decter with the Spence Neighbourhood Association
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Conceived as a “gateway” to the University of Winnipeg campus, the shelter and sculpture are inspired by local geology and the geography of the city. The 16,000 pound tyndall limestone cube has been carved to represent the Red, Assiniboine and Seine Rivers and the surrounding topography.
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Tyndall limestone, Mariash limestone, sandstone, steel, glass
Ellice Avenue, between Spence Street and Colony Street
city.block.stop (2010)David Perrett
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This unique and playful project was initially conceived as Marbles on Portage. By enlarging these common play-things the artist created a whimsical, almost magical piece on one of Winnipeg’s busiest thoroughfares. Originally a temporary artwork for the downtown region, most of the sculptures now reside at Mayfair Community Centre.
Fibreglass, plants, light
Mayfair Community Centre (Donald St. and River Ave.) and Air Canada Park
Marbles at Mayfair (2012)Erica Swendrowski
Photo by Robert Tinker
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This design celebrates the two distinct neighbourhoods on each side of the Assiniboine River. The sidewalk integrates the neighbourhood’s physical map, the handrails have lit panels of text drawn from consultation with the citizens of Winnipeg, and the panels celebrate four important archi-tectural moments in the neighbourhoods’ histories.
Stainless steel, aluminum, concrete, LED lighting
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Osborne Street Bridge, Osborne Village
From Here Until Now (2012)spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski)
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DIY FieldGermaine KohCentral Park, near the corner of Ellice Avenue and Edmonton Street
Picturing a Bright Future: The Eritrean Women’s Photography ProjectSarah Crawley with the Eritrean Community in WinnipegQuilt installed at The Immigrant Centre, 100 Adelaide Street
Poster Boards in the ExchangeMichael Carroll, Laurie Green and Judith PansonFifteen locations throughout the Exchange District
YOU YOU + YOUJacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew (Muse Atelier)United Way Building, 580 Main Street
Light ThroughBernie MillerDisraeli Active Transportation Bridge High FiveJennifer StillwellWaterfront Drive, behind Shaw Park
Untitled Cliff EylandMillennium Library (entrance), 251 Donald Street
The IlluminationNicholas WadeMillennium Library (near elevator), 251 Donald Street
emptyfulBill PechetMillennium Library Park, 251 Donald Street
Sentinel of TruthDarren Stebeleski Millennium Library Park, 251 Donald Street
Bike Racks on BroadwayJessica Koroscil, Vanessa Kroeker and Paul Butler, and Paul RoblesBroadway Avenue and area
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Recalling game and sport devices, this interactive grid of 38 light posts is controllable by park users, with colourful LED lights and three buttons to turn each colour channel on and off separately. The project communicates a vision of public space that is shaped by how it is used and negoti-ated by citizens in real life, as much as by how it is planned.
Central Park, near the corner of Ellice Avenue and Edmonton Street
Metal posts with interactive LED lights
DIY Field (2011)Germaine Koh
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Sarah Crawley mentored recently immigrated Eritrean women in the art of traditional and digital photography over a period of eighteen months as they continued to build their lives in Winnipeg. Images by project partici-pants were printed on fabric to create a quilt, which now hangs in Winnipeg’s Immigrant Centre.
Photographs, quilt (cyanotypes on cotton)
Picturing a Bright Future: The Eritrean Women’s Photography Project (2010)Sarah Crawley with the Eritrean Community in Winnipeg
Quilt installed at The Immigrant Centre, 100 Adelaide Street
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Designs by Winnipeg artists have turned the functional poster boards of the Exchange District into unique works of art. The images range from a witty “on” light switch, to a crowd applauding a stage event, to a silhouette reflecting the architectural gems for which the Exchange District is so well known.
Fifteen locations throughout the Exchange District
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Poster Boards in the Exchange (2009)Michael Carroll, Laurie Green and Judith Panson
Photo by cam bush
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An instrument played with others and informed by the idea of community participation, each handprint triggers a note on the pentatonic scale. A melody is created as more peo-ple join in and many notes are played. The handprints are linked to lights on the fin wall, the music becoming visible with the lights forming the Braille for ‘YOU’.
Cast aluminum, LED luminaries, interactive media for sound and light
United Way Building, 580 Main Street
YOU YOU + YOU (2010)Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew (Muse Atelier)
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These sixteen stainless steel structures that cover the four piers of the Disraeli Active Transportation Bridge contain photographs depicting the history of the bridge and its surroundings. When light shines through the perforated panels, the photographs are distinctly revealed, and picture the lively public interaction with the bridge since 1959.
Stainless steel
Disraeli Active Transportation Bridge
Light Through (2013)Bernie Miller
Photo by William
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High Five is situated between the river and the baseball diamond. Depending on your movement and perspective the artwork changes meaning—when moving past on the road it looks like ‘wings’ or ‘fins’ in formation; when considering it from directly across the street or from inside the baseball stadium it transforms into an abstracted human hand.
Stainless steel,paint
Waterfront Drive, behind Shaw Park
High Five (2014)Jennifer Stillwell
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Composed of over 1,000 3" by 5" paintings, the size of traditional library catalogue cards, the work reads at a distance as an abstract pixellated surface to reference digitized computer information. The individual paintings can be inspected through the retro telescope/viewfinder installed on the second floor walkway.
Mixed media on wood
251 Donald Street, in the Millennium Library (entrance)
Untitled (2005)Cliff Eyland
Photo by William
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Comprised of the letters T, H, and E locked in an archi-tectural embrace, this sculpture speculates on our culture’s preoccupation with language, on the origins of form in typography, and the influences on form in architecture. It references illuminated manuscripts, suggesting the space of the library as a three-dimensional page written by a scribe.
Powder-coated steel
The Illumination (2005)Nicholas Wade
251 Donald Street, in the Millennium Library (near elevator)
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emptyful is inspired by the idea that Winnipeg (and the surrounding prairies) is full of emptiness, a boundless space where various phenomena such as weather, light, seasons and human endeavour come and go. This artwork was created as a legacy project of the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada designation in 2010.
Stainless steel, lights, weather (all seasons) Water and fog (summer only)
Millennium Library Park, 251 Donald Street
emptyful (2012)Bill Pechet
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Inspired by the library as protector of truth and ideas, this wall features short excerpts of text from fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all collected from various eras and locations. The words are subtly inscribed in different fonts and sizes to represent fragility and play on the idea that truth flickers in and out of view depending on a person’s perspective.
Weathering steel, stainless steel
Millennium Library Park, 251 Donald Street
Sentinel of Truth (2012)Darren Stebeleski
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The Winnipeg Arts Council collaborated with the Downtown BIZ to bring twenty-one artist-designed bike racks to central Winnipeg. With three different designs cut from steel and rendered in bright automotive paint, this fun public artwork brightens the Broadway area while serving Winnipeg’s many enthusiastic bike riders.
Steel, automotive paint
Broadway Avenue and area
Bike Racks on Broadway (2008)Jessica Koroscil, Vanessa Kroeker and Paul Butler, and Paul Robles
Photo by William
EakinDowntown
The Challenges of Giving Shelter winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/the-challenges-of-giving-shelter The Craftastics: Agents for Social Change winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/the-craftastics-agents-for-social-change Eco Art Action winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/meyn-youth-with-art Empty winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/empty Erica in Technoland winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/erica-in-technoland Live/Life from 95 winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/live-life-from-95 Queer Perspectives winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/queer-perspectives Reliquary/Reliquaire winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/reliquary-reliquaire Sunshine House winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/sunshine-house Sombo A Diba winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/sombo-a-diba Through an Artist’s Eyes winnipegarts.ca/wac/artwork/through-an-artists-eyes
Public artworks exist in many forms. Multimedia and performative artworks created through the Winnipeg Arts Council include:
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ÉcobuagePlain Projects + UrbaninkSt. Vital Park Duck Pond
land/markJacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew (Muse Atelier)Bishop Grandin Greenway (near NW corner of Bishop Grandin and St. Anne’s Road)
The Birthing ProjectJudy Jennings with the Manitoba Maternity Care Action NetworkBirth Centre, 603 St. Mary’s Road
MonumentMichel de BroinLa Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Jardin de sculptures 219 Boulevard Provencher
Archambault Performance PavilionDavid FirmanTranscona Centennial Square, Regent Avenue at Bond Street
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Écobuage (translated as controlled burn) emphasizes the importance of fire to the prairies and provides a gathering space that is durable and suitable for all seasons. It is a celebration of the relationship between human and natural systems through the recognition of the importance of the phenomenon of fire to the landscape we call home.
Weathering steel, prairie grasses, limestone, crushed black granite
St. Vital Park Duck Pond
Écobuage (2014)Plain Projects + Urbanink
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A mythical shed moose antler and a bench incised with markings depicting the city’s rivers and long lot system, land/mark reflects on the physical, conceptual, mythological marks we leave on the land. These elements reinforce the complex relationship between humans and their environ-ment, and are a meditation on both power and fragility.
Aluminum, granite
Bishop Grandin Greenway (near NW corner of Bishop Grandin & St. Anne’s Road)
land/mark (2009)Jacqueline Metz and Nancy Chew (Muse Atelier)
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This artwork provides a vision of pregnancy and birth from many cultural perspectives and was created in glass by the artist, drawn from workshop discussions, sketches and pho-tographs provided by participants. It recognizes childbirth as a joyful social and cultural event, and celebrates the impor-tance of mothers, nurses, midwives and physicians.
Fused and lamp-worked glass, braided steel wire, nylon cord
Birth Centre, 603 St. Mary’s Road
The Birthing Project (2008)Judy Jennings with the Manitoba Maternity Care Action Network
Photo by Ernest Mayer
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For this inaugural sculpture for the Jardin de sculptures at La Maison des artistes, the artist used a classical form and material to create a contemporary reflection on identity and representation. With a nod to traditional monuments, the sculpture remains a mystery onto which the viewer can project their own meaning.
La Maison des artistes visuels francophones, Jardin de sculptures, 219 Blvd Provencher
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Monument (2009)Michel de Broin
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Designed by David Firman and featuring a series of photographs of plant life and sky taken at the Transcona Community Bioreserve, this performance pavilion celebrates Transcona’s designation as “The Park City.”
Steel, concrete, brick, Lexan photographic panels
Transcona Centennial Square, Regent Avenue at Bond Street
Archambault Performance Pavilion (2012)David Firman
Photo by David Firm
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