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Forget the museum, because today’s art is taking to the street. From articulated steel

salmon “swimming” up a water wall to a tractor that transforms into giant fl ower garden over the course of a year, art is everywhere – and espe-cially, increasingly, in the grounds and plazas of new residential devel-opments.

One such development is The Shore in North Vancouver. A long-time leader in the quest to bring art into the public realm, Adera Development Corporation’s most recent achieve-ment is the unveiling of The Shore Art Walk (pictured) – four newly commis-sioned local art pieces located at the new development.

“Over 50 artists from around the world responded to our initial pub-lic art call, but the fi nal selections were all local, BC artists: Michael Vandermeer based on Granville

Island, Coastal Salish carver John Marston, and Coast Salish artist Jody Broomfi eld,” says Norm Couttie, president of Adera. “The art walk sums up Adera’s ‘Live West Coast’ philosophy and allows us to share our appreciation of local artists while helping create a new and vibrant west coast community.”

Changing Face of ArtThere’s a good reason that devel-

opers are increasingly adopting pub-lic art into their public spaces.

“Art adds a diff erent dimension, a unique and distinct vibe, to com-munity spaces because people tend to slow down and linger,” says Don Forsgren, president and CEO of development group Intracorp. Ultimately, that’s got to be good for sales, with even non-residents engaging in the public spaces cre-ated by a new development. Today’s

public art draws in passers-by, encourages conversation or debate, and often sends an open invitation to touch or even sit and climb on it.

“For example, at Metro Place in Burnaby, we commissioned two chrome art pieces – Shed One and Shed Two – that appear to be antlers ‘shed’ by a deer,” Forsgren says. “One faces up so people can sit on it – and they do – the other has the points down so it becomes a shelter.”

He’s also delighted by the prog-ress being made on an Intracorp-commissioned Douglas Coupland sculpture – a gold-coloured replica of the famous Hollow Tree in Stanley Park – that will defi ne the northeast corner of Marine Drive and Cambie Street in Vancouver. “When we commissioned this piece, we want-ed something that would become a landmark, a place where people

might meet before going to the the-atre or out for dinner.” It will also preserve a beloved piece of the city’s history that would otherwise eventu-ally rot away.

Conversation and EngagementEarlier this year, Wesgroup cre-

ated a fl urry of discussion and a few raised eyebrows when they installed a 133-foot neon sign stating “The Sappers Were Here” in their Brewery District master-planned community. Beau Jarvis, senior vice-president of development, notes that while most people now equate Sapperton with a New Westminster SkyTrain station, “sappers” – the engineering division of the British Military – were instru-mental in settling much of the area.

In Surrey, Rize Alliance recently became the fi rst developer to incor-porate a commissioned art piece into a residential community in the

emerging Surrey City Centre neigh-bourhood. Nautilus, by Doug R Yaylor, is an abstract interpretation of the moonshell crab found through-out local waters and the mathemati-cal perfection of the Golden Spiral (Fibonacci).

Challenges of CurationBarbara Cole, an art consultant

and curator, adds that large master-planned communities pose a special challenge. “When you’re looking at multi-phased communities like The Shore that unfold over time, you’re really building an art collection — meaning you need to decide what type of collection you want and what sort of thematic connection the piec-es will have.”

For most though, public art doesn’t need to be complicated… it just need to be something wondrous, inspiring and accessible.

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