Three city-funded public art projects will be created in Richmond next year – at West Richmond Community Centre, at Thompson Community Centre and at Terra Nova Rural Park.
Richmond-based artist Sandi WanJun Liang was chosen for the West Richmond Community Centre project. She will hold a series of public workshop to encourage intergenerational storytelling and cultural exchange in her project named Hello!
Thompson Community Centre will get a new mural. Two artists, Richmond-based Dawn Lo and Vancouver-Based April dela Noche Milne will hold five community workshops to create the mural based on the theme of the “past, present and future of the Thompson neighbourhood and Richmond.”
The third project, the Terra Nova Rural Park artist-in-residence program will be led by Vancouver artist Lori Weidenhammer. The project Victory Gardens for Diversity will include workshops and artist walks raising awareness about native plant species.
These three artists were chosen out of 18 that applied to work on the community-based art projects.
The city will contribute $30,000 to the public art projects - $10,000 to each one. In addition, Thompson Community Association will contribute $10,000 for the centre’s mural project.
The Engaging Artists in Community Public Art program has been going on since 2016 – a recent example is the Minoru Manifesto that is currently hanging in the Brighouse branch of the Richmond Public Library.
