Winnipeg Arts Council Public Art Guide Winnipeg’s Public Art Public Winnipeg’s We need art, Public Art in the arrangements in Winnipeg of cities as well as in 1 the other realms of life, West to help explain life to us, 2 to show us meanings, Downtown to illuminate the 18 relationship between East the life that each of us 34 embodies and the life Multi-media outside us. & Performative Table of ContentsTable Jane Jacobs 42 Public Art in Winnipeg 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. 1 West LIVING PRAIRIE MUSEUM 3 Burrows Ave 1 Social Seed Inkster Blvd Gurpreet Sehra with NorWest Co-op Ness Ave NorWest Co-op Community Food Centre, 103-61 Tyndall Avenue 2 Opening Doors Sturgeon Rd Bruce Ave Dimitry Melman with the Spence Neighbourhood Association Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre, 430 Langside Street Mountain Ave Moray St Moray Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide 3 lost_landscape Collin Zipp Lodge Ave Living Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Avenue Portage Ave 13 4 Agassiz Ice Gordon Reeve Assiniboine Park, north of walking bridge Adsum Dr Pipeline Rd 5 Close Commons Gurpreet Sehra 5 McPhillips St Adsum Park, 434 Adsum Drive Elwick Community Centre McGregor St 6 7 Dimitry Melman with the Elwick Community Dufferin Ave Elwick Community Centre, 30 Maberley Road Jefferson Ave 7 The WRENCH Dimitry Melman Dr Mandalay 6 Arlington St The WRENCH, 1057 Logan Avenue Inkster Blvd 8 Table of Contents spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski) Maberley Rd Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, Portage Avenue between 1 Home Street & Canora Street 9 The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home Leah Decter with The Spence Neighbourhood Association Furby Park (on Furby Street, north of Ellice Avenue) 9 Colony St Spence St city.block.stop Overdale St 10 Ellice Ave Portage Ave 4 David Perrett Langside St 10 Ellice Avenue, between Spence Street and Colony Street 2 11 Marbles at Mayfair Furby St ASSINIBOINE Erica Swendrowski PARK Mayfair Recreation Centre (Donald Street and River Avenue) St Matthews Ave Sherbrook St Maryland St 12 From Here Until Now Osborne St spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski) Osborne Bridge, Osborne Village Portage Ave 13 SKATE 363 R VE 11 RI Mayfair Pl Ursula Neufeld with the North Y Youth Centre INE IBO Broadway SSIN North Y Youth Centre, 363 McGregor Street 12 A 8 River Ave 2 Donald St Canora St Home St West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide k.m.a Photo by by Photo Photo by by Photo Winnipeg Arts Council Social Seed (2017) Opening Doors (2016) Gurpreet Sehra with NorWest Co-op Dimitry Melman with the Spence Neighbourhood Association NorWest Co-op Community Food Centre, 103-61 Tyndall Avenue Magnus Eliason Recreation Centre, 430 Langside Street Painted in bold colours on ceramic tiles wheat-pasted with Acrylic paint, textile, This youth-led, community-created mural references sports, Ceramic tile mosaic printed fabric, this mural celebrates the history of the Burrows- ceramic tile music, art, learning, creativity, teamwork, development, Keewatin area. The imagery is based on a map from the early growth, and opportunity. Through this work, the artists and 1970s centred around the NorWest Co-op, an organization community members honour the five volunteers who started that has served to fuel the development of the neighbourhood the Spence Neighbourhood Association by including five since that time. open doors and five figures. 4 5 West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide Mathias Reeve Mathias Photo by by Photo Photo by by Photo Robert Tinker lost_landscape (2007) Agassiz Ice (2008) Collin Zipp Gordon Reeve Living Prairie Museum, 2795 Ness Avenue Assiniboine Park, north of walking bridge This non-linear narrative video installation reflects the rich prairie Interactive Agassiz Ice recalls glacial Lake Agassiz that in prehistoric times Stainless steel landscape through abstracted images of its flora and fauna. The installation of covered most of the province of Manitoba. The sculptures moving, abstract paintings are interactive, allowing the viewer digitally manipulated appear to be massive chunks of ice, reminiscent of the tips to control their experience of the artist’s representation of the video works of icebergs. These stainless steel pieces reflect light and the Living Prairie Museum, a 12 hectare tall grass prairie preserve. surrounding landscape, changing their appearance through the cycling of days and seasons. 6 7 West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide William Eakin Photo by by Photo Photo by by Photo k.m.a. Close Commons (2015) Elwick Community Centre (2008) Gurpreet Sehra Dimitry Melman with the Elwick Community Adsum Park, 434 Adsum Drive Elwick Community Centre, 30 Maberley Road Community consultation made it clear that the vibrant Aluminum, The artist engaged community members of all ages to Ceramic, Adsum Park community cared passionately about welcoming granite reclaim the Elwick Community Centre. The colourful mosaic porcelain and glass and functional public spaces. The crescent-shaped benches mural they created together covers the outdoor walls of the tiles, sanded grout, create a space for dialogue, and the carved stone and bur Centre, creating a spirited community and aesthetic impact acrylic paint oak leaf-shaped backrests represent the relationship between on an otherwise unremarkable building, and revitalizing the new immigrant communities and Manitoba’s landscape. activities within. 8 9 West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide William Eakin Photo by by Photo Photo by by Photo Lindsey Bond Lindsey The WRENCH (2014) Table of Contents (2006) Dimitry Melman spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski) The WRENCH, 1057 Logan Avenue Vimy Ridge Memorial Park, Portage Avenue between Home Street & Canora Street Exploring concepts of community, the relationship between Mosaic This 40-foot aluminum sculpture also functions as a community Aluminum humans and bicycles, public space and the city, consumer- table. A “landscape of language,” it is inscribed with text which ism, teamwork and personal empowerment, Melman and The reflects upon the importance of the park, the natural environ- Winnipeg Repair and Education Cycling Hub (WRENCH) created ment and the history of the area, and represents a number of dozens of artworks from salvaged bicycle parts, including a func- languages including Tagalog, Portuguese, French, English, and tional sign and bike rack. Braille. 10 11 West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide Robert Tinker Photo by by Photo Photo by by Photo cam bush The Spence Community Compass: Finding Home (2008) city.block.stop (2010) Leah Decter with The Spence Neighbourhood Association David Perrett Furby Park (on Furby Street, north of Ellice Avenue) Ellice Avenue, between Spence Street and Colony Street This community-created artwork reflects upon ideas of home, Tile mosaic, Conceived as a “gateway” to the University of Winnipeg cam- Tyndall limestone, place and belonging. The concentric rings include prairie plants, concrete, text, pus, the shelter and sculpture are inspired by local geology and Mariash limestone, the words of the Seven Grandfathers set in tile, mosaic from chil- indigenous plants the geography of the city. The 16,000 pound tyndall limestone sandstone, steel, dren’s drawings of their community, and a compass with arrows cube has been carved to represent the Red, Assiniboine and glass pointing to all the places in the world that Spence residents call Seine Rivers and the surrounding topography. home. 12 13 West West Winnipeg Public ArtWinnipeg Public Guide Photo by by Photo Robert Tinker William Eakin Photo by by Photo Marbles at Mayfair (2012) From Here Until Now (2012) Erica Swendrowski spmb (Eduardo Aquino and Karen Shanski) Mayfair Recreation Centre (Donald Street and River Avenue) Osborne Bridge, Osborne Village This unique and playful project was initially conceived as Marbles Fibreglass, This design celebrates the two distinct neighbourhoods on Stainless steel, on Portage. By enlarging these common playthings the artist plants, light each side of the Assiniboine River. The sidewalk integrates the aluminum, created a whimsical, almost magical piece on one of Winnipeg’s neighbourhood’s physical map, the handrails have lit panels of concrete, busiest thoroughfares. Originally a temporary artwork for the text drawn from consultation with the citizens of Winnipeg, and LED lighting downtown region, most of the sculptures now reside at Mayfair the panels celebrate four important architectural moments in the Recreation Centre. neighbourhoods’ histories. 14 15 West Photo by by Photo Winnipeg Arts Council SKATE 363 (2017) Ursula Neufeld with the North Y Youth Centre North Y Youth Centre, 363 McGregor Street Over one hundred children and youth helped to create dynamic Mixed media life-size mosaic figures on the wall of the indoor skate park using mosaics unconventional materials. Stained-glass panels hung along the windows celebrate the importance of the North Y in their lives, and a welded sign welcomes you to SKATE 363. 16 Downtown Waterfall #2 1 Theresa Himmer Millennium Library