Public Art
The City of St. Catharines is commissioning a work of public art for the future Kiwanis Aquatics Centre and new Grantham Branch of the St. Catharines Public Library.
Submission have been narrowed down to three finalists. City Council will approve a winner later this summer. St. Catharines will welcome its first-ever commissioned work of public art in 2011.
Models of the three finalists are on display on the second floor of City Hall.
Click here to view the three works of art that are shortlisted for consideration
Tell us what you think
The City of St. Catharines values the opinions of its residents.
Once you have had an opportunity to review the finailsts, take five minutes to participate in a survey to tell us your favourite.
Click here to take the Public Art Competition Survey.
Where will the winner be located?
This work of public art will be situated either inside the in the main entry lobby, or on the roundabout immediately outside the main entrance.
How were the finalists chosen?
The selection team includes aquatics community and St. Catharines Public Library representatives, members of the Public Art Advisory Committee and City staff. This team used an evaluation process to select the three final art projects, and asked whether the artworks would successfully:
- Intrigue viewers, and stimulate imagination
- Be suitable for all ages
- Resonate with the Niagara public and distinguish St. Catharines
- Be innovative, durable and long-term in intent
- Respond to both the particular and general environment through
- awareness of the site’s history and/or the history of Niagara
and/or - expression of the facility uses and users
- relationship to the architectural design of the facility