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Public Art & Murals colour community cores, painting a trail of historical images and urban cultural identity in hundreds of snapshots of Canadian cultural life. Visit Chemainus, known as ‘Muraltown’, to take in one of the most established outdoor art galleries in BC. Chemainus is famous for its open-air murals, bringing new vitality to a town threatened by the collapse of its main economic support, the mill. Chemainus now has over three dozen murals featuring images of historic figures and life in the early years.
Downtown Vernon also boasts one of the largest outdoor public art galleries in Canada with over 25 murals that portray the culture, history and scenery that are Vernon’s cultural identity. Port Coquitlam’s vibrant cultural heritage is reflected in the nine murals that speckle its downtown core, and Surrey boasts Canada’s largest mural by Vancouver’s own Paul Ygartua.
Outdoor art galleries offer a fresh departure from the typical gallery experience. Sidewalk and pavement art is just another way to remind us that art is part of our everyday life – we just have to look for it. Vancouver’s downtown now contains 22 mosaic tiles and the Vancouver Biennial has transformed the city’s parks, beaches and plazas into a 3-D art show.
In walking through these live galleries, we find that each community truly has its own unique cultural footprint. Every year, BC embraces its cultural identity beyond the art visible in our communities through the August-long BC Cultural Crawl. The BC Cultural Crawl now includes over 70 communities that share the work of their cultural creators through self- guided tours of music, theatre, visual arts, festivals, museum and heritage exhibitions, culinary arts, community art walks and more. Visit
bcculturalcrawl.com to find out what’s happening in a community near you!
The crawling shouldn’t stop there! From September 29 – October 2, Culture Days takes over Canada. For three days the public is invited to experience the behind-the-scenes world of artists, creators, historians, designers and more – from CBC’s ‘The Art of Broadcasting’, to ancient crafting techniques, to a curator’s talk about the intricacies of setting up a major exhibit. All activities are interactive and free!
Visit
art-bc.com or
bcculturalcrawl.com to plan your BC Cultural Crawl and Culture Days activities and find hundreds of studios, galleries, cultural centres and outdoor art galleries just waiting to be discovered!
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