Artwork Details

Banners on Broadway 2

Artist

Jil p Weaving, Jacqui Faubert

Year

1996

Neighbourhood

Mount Pleasant

Location

Broadway, Guelph to Commercial Dr.

Description

The brightly coloured banners that hang along this stretch of Broadway are hand-painted by residents of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Cottage. This street is heavily used by residents and commuters alike and the images beautify the streetscape and intervene in the sometimes negative media depictions of this part of the city. For each project, a committee of people who live and work in these neighbourhoods have identified a theme based on the issues of health, safety and community. The project artist is then responsible for developing a conceptual and compositional framework for the images. The neighbourhood drawing, selection and painting workshops which follow are forums for participants to exchange their thoughts on the theme and to create a set of images. Hung along the busy street, the banners form a widely accessible public expression of the community's thoughts and ideas.

Medium/discipline of Project

Banner

Park Board Funding Program

Neighbourhood Matching Fund

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