Thirteen art projects in The Work of the Wind will take over the waterfront for this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche produced by the City of Toronto.

POSTED: OCTOBER 1, 2015 I PUBLIC ART, DESIGN, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, WALKABLE NEIGHBOURHOODS

This Saturday night, hundreds of art works and installations will take over Toronto. It’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche – one of the city’s most exciting annual events – where we collectively spend one sleepless night wandering around downtown, taking in a host of contemporary art projects.

Artist Rolande Souliere with her assistants in front of her work in progress for the Bala Underpass. (All photos are courtesy of the artist.)

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
BY: REBECCA CARBIN

Have you recently travelled along Queens Quay or exited the Gardiner Expressway at York Street and wondered about the blue windsocks – where they came from, what they’re for, what they represent and why that blue looks so familiar?

By Rebecca Carbin

Check out the new public art that has been installed in Toronto's West Don Lands neighbourhood!

POSTED: JULY 13, 2015 I DESIGN, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES, PUBLIC ART
BY: REBECCA CARBIN

A detail from Sarah Anne Johnson’s giant photographic mural, installed at the intersection of Bay Street and Queens Quay earlier this month.  (Image credit:  Sarah Anne Johnson, Best Beach (detail), 2015, Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto and Julie Saul Gallery, New York)

POSTED: APRIL 27, 2015
BY: REBECCA CARBIN

By remixing Toronto’s monuments, artists Hadley+Maxwell will create a series of sculptures that will animate the generous, pedestrian-friendly sidewalk at Front Street East at Bayview Avenue in the West Don Lands. (Early rendering, provided by the artist.)

POSTED: NOVEMBER 17, 2014
BY: CIARA MCKEOWN

Public art plays an important role in creating the character of a city’s places and spaces – and the cultural, social and economic benefits of public art are real. The public art master plan for Toronto’s new West Don Lands neighbourhood is ensuring that all those benefits are integrated from the start. 

POSTED: MAY 21, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

The proposed public art project for the intersection of Sumach Street and Eastern Avenue will fuse the history of the site – from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day – through a unique kind of visual storytelling.

POSTED: APRIL 7, 2014
BY: CHRISTOPHER MCKINNON

July 17, 2013, Toronto, ON— As part of its public art master plan for the West Don Lands, Waterfront Toronto has selected two proposals for major public art commissions.