In 1999, I was invited by the North Vancouver Arts Commission (NVAC) to participate on their Public Art Steering Committee. The NVAC is a municipal agency that decides how the local governments spend public money on Arts and Culture. The
I have had quite a lot of experience with the Public Art process. In the 1980’s, I entered many open call civic public art competitions, most of them in the Greater Vancouver area. I was rejected from all of them, and
photo courtesy of greatamericanwest.com I have been rejected from yet another open call public art competition. This makes 119 in my career and I have never won a civic open call competition. I do have several sculpture in public space projects