Celebration Square screens

Films

In response to an international open call for silent film, video and animation in all genres. Up to three minutes in length.

Celebration Square screens

Silent films

Experimental, narrative-based, interactive short films. A total of 8 works were selected and helped define, broaden and contribute to the philosopher Jacques Lacan's concept of distinguishing between the eye's look and THE GAZE. Partnership between City of Mississauga and Art Gallery of Mississauga.

Lee Blalock
SoJin Chun
Carolyn Doucette
Michael Hansen
Lee Henderson
Francis LeBouthillier
Laura Taler
Sumaira Tazeen

Sculpture Court - doorway

Premium spray paint

Mural installation on doorway leading to municipal parking lot depicting skateboard "tricks" in text.

Oak trees along Hurontario at Burnhamthorpe Rd W

Coloured fabric and yarn

11 municipal trees were wrapped using fabric for the winter months.

Bradley Historic House

Coloured vinyl

Artist designed coloured vinyl installed on the facade of the Bradley Historic House. Collaboration with Museums of Mississauga.

Lakeside Park

Reclaimed wood and epoxy

Commissioned by the City of Mississauga and funded by the Community Celebrations Fund for the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games through Canada Heritage. An abstract collection of sculptural objects that pay homage to outdoor fitness trails.

The Blue Trees is an international award winning, temporary public art installation which raises questions about global deforestation through social action and community participation. Using an electric-blue coloured pigment, living trees will be transformed for a short time into a surreal landscape. The water-based colorant is biologically and environmentally safe, causes no damage and is meant to inspire conversation and action within the community. This artwork was completed in September 2016 at Mississauga Celebration Square.

Video produced by Matt Campagna

Celebration and Reflection: A Day in the Life is a temporary public art installation by artist Gary Taxali, inspired by the Poet Laureate Program. The artwork is a visual response and interpretation of the poetic works of 2016 Youth Poet Laureate Rebecca Zseder. Taxali's artistic design features his signature pop art style, iconic characters, vintage graphics, and typography in a composite of layered graphics, generated by the themes in Zseder's poems: "Skin", "Pieces", and "Symphonies".

The artwork references struggles with self-worth, identity and human complexities such as humour and angst of everyday life. These themes are a way to express a visual dialogue between the artwork and the messages in the poetry.

The utility boxes serve as canvas for the Mississauga community to appreciate the intersection of poetry and art in a unique, meaningful and inspiring way. Urban landscapes through its architecture, street signs, traffic lights, electric wires, and of course, utility boxes inherently all contain a somber beauty.

Dear Mississauga is a public art project that brings poetry to the heart of our civic space. Wali Shah, Mississauga's Poet Laureate, asked residents to finish the sentence "I belong to Mississauga because..." and weaved their answers into a poem that reflects the city's values and sense of belonging.

Dear Mississauga is a collaboration between the City's Poet Laureate and the Public Art Program.

Finding Home is a collaborative public art project involving artist mentor Mango Peeler and nine emerging artists: Sofia Nicolis, Khaula Mazhar, Linh Thai, Ray Vidal, Jenna Polla, Geraldine Svic, Reiley Whelan, Tennille Dowers, and Rachel Tham. The artists co-created a series of murals at Sculpture Court Skate Park, inspired by a poem written by Mississauga's Youth Poet Laureate Pujita Verma. Through screen-printing, painting, and wheat-pasting, Finding Home explores what Home means to each of these artists, all of whom are from Mississauga.

Photo by Reg Vertolli. Courtesy of Mississauga News.

Child's Play is a public art project that highlights our journey in Mississauga. Digital collages depicting children playing with local buildings, objects, and landscapes were printed on banners throughout Mississauga's downtown core. Through humour and juxtaposition, Jacqueline Mak challenges our views on the critical issues that we seldom pay attention to but which affect our daily lives. Child's Play will be on display along Living Arts Drive, Princess Royal, and City Centre Drive from June to November 2019.

Aluminum, LED lights, located at Small Arms Inspection Building

The Spark connects the future creative use of the Small Arms Inspection Building with its past as a firearms inspections facility. Based on a dodecahedron (twelve-pointed) star, the nucleus is "embedded" into the core of the building, with six points radiating from the rooftop beyond the facade edge. Periodic glitches in its LED lights mark the passing of time. The illuminated form acts as a beacon for visitors approaching the building from Lakeshore Road East and Dixie Road.

Natural, chemical-free & stain-free wood. Jack Darling Memorial Park.

Solo Park is a temporary public artwork and bee hotel that functions as nesting habitat for native pollinators. Referencing the surrounding area's settler history as a resort, amusement park, and cottage community, Solo Park reimagines the former Lorne Park gates that once enclosed the site. The work instead acts as a marker of shared public space, and encourages the pollinators that are essential to restoring local biodiversity to inhabit its various enclosures. In recognizing the invaluable work that solitary bees do, particularly as human activity continues to contribute to habitat loss and climate change, Solo Park offers a much needed retreat.

We are all here is an outdoor public art installation in Erindale Park featuring flags of watercolour paintings of various species found in the Credit River Watershed.

There are twelve digitally printed 32" x 32" two-sided vinyl flags hung in trees spread throughout the park. Each flag is based on a watercolour of a species found in the Credit River Watershed, currently and historically, including six at-risk species, species whose numbers are declining to the point of concern about their potential disappearance from the region. The species at-risk include the Eastern Ribbonsnake, Eastern Milksnake, Blanding's Turtle, Rapids Clubtail Dragonfly, Atlantic Salmon, and Snapping Turtle. The other species featured are the Wood Duck, Osprey, Green Heron, Northern Spring Peeper, Leopard Frog, and Spotted Salamander.

This six-piece banner series by Pranavi Suthagar, an artist born and raised in Mississauga, celebrates Mississauga's diversity and cultural identity. Utilizing a futurist and abstract illustrative style, the artwork showcases how Mississauga will grow and interact with our lived experiences. The artwork creates a bright and positive message around Mississauga's future, contributing to a sense of hope, optimism and local pride in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an effort to foster support for local businesses and support local artists, #MississaugaMade banners by Tourism Mississauga accompany Pranavi's artwork and encourage local residents to stand together and support local. Mississauga Made is an online movement designed to promote local Mississauga products, businesses, artists, stories, activities and experiences within our community.

The series of artist banner work has been commissioned by the City of Mississauga Public Art Program, in collaboration with Tourism Mississauga.