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The Ball Is In Your Court, Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, January 2019

Call for Artists: Traffic Control Vinyl Wrapping

Call for Artists: Traffic Control Vinyl Wrapping

EOI Submission deadline: June 12, 2023 at 4:30pm local time  The City of Lethbridge Public Art Program is seeking multiple artists to design artworks to be used to vinyl wrap traffic control boxes located along 13th Street. The boxes themselves are one of two styles,...

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Call for Artists: Indigenous Legacy Commemoration Project

The City of Lethbridge is seeking Expressions of Interests from Indigenous artists to facilitate a community engagement process in support of two commemoration initiatives: Residential School Survivors Commemoration and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Peoples Commemoration.

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Artists invited to think outside the (utility) box

Artists invited to think outside the (utility) box

The City of Lethbridge Public Art Program and the Heart of Our City committee are adding a splash of colour to the city centre by inviting local artists to share their talents in an unconventional way. Utility boxes located in Galt Gardens and at Casa will soon be wrapped in creativity as a way to increase the vibrancy of downtown Lethbridge.

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Takashi Iwasaki Artist Talk

Takashi Iwasaki Artist Talk

Winnipeg-based Japanese artist Takashi Iwasaki is in Lethbridge July 13 to discuss the newest public art piece installed at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens Visitor Centre. Located inside Cleo’s Café at the Bunka Centre, Hinode is a multi-piece wooden sculpture, utilizing Canadian lumber and Japanese textile patterns and woodworking techniques to talk about the complicated history of relocation of the Japanese population throughout southern Alberta

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Takashi Iwasaki Artist Talk

Takashi Iwasaki Artist Talk

Winnipeg-based Japanese artist Takashi Iwasaki is in Lethbridge July 13 to discuss the newest public art piece installed at the Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens Visitor Centre. Located inside Cleo’s Café at the Bunka Centre, ‘Hinode’ is a multi-piece wooden sculpture,...

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Mural Mentee Needed

Mural Mentee Needed

The City of Lethbridge has recently contracted ceramic artist Susan Day from London, Ontario to complete a handmade tile mosaic mural on the Legacy Park picnic shelter located in Legacy Park on the north side of Lethbridge.

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Seeking New Art to Land at the Airport

Seeking New Art to Land at the Airport

Two new Calls for Artists have been announced for projects at the #YQL Airport in conjunction with a series of major renovations which will improve the customer experience and position the airport as a major driver of the regional economy.

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