I have written several posts on why I feel civic Public Art Programs are a farce. I call the series, The Fallacy of Public Art, and there is Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. Here, I illustrate four examples of
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