September 19 to 30, 2012

4 parking spaces on Lakeshore Road within Port Credit BIA

Mixed Media

As a demonstration for how the street's vibrancy could be improved, the City of Mississauga and the Port Credit Business Improvement Association (BIA) jointly launched the initiative to temporarily and artistically transform on-street parking spaces into public space for 10 days.

Sculpture Court - north wall

acrylic latex masonry paint and premium spray paint

The large scale public art mural depicts a series of silhouettes of a skateboarder performing a backside flip alongside technical-style drawings of ramps. The work is intended to re-animate public space and reflects both the grace and complexity of skateboarding.

Mississauga Celebration Square

Road sign blanks and vinyl

2 temporary art installations installed for 2 weeks to coincide with City SoundBites event on MCS

Bradley Historic House

Coloured vinyl

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

City-wide (14 locations in total)

Mixed Media

pop up Artist in Ward interventions in celebration of the TO2015 Pan / Parapan Am Games

Oak trees along Hurontario at Burnhamthorpe Rd W

Military-grade paracord

By connecting the oak trees along Hurontario Street with 50,000 feet of bright paracord of gradient tones, the artists construct a reminder of vital energy while nature is deceptively in stasis.

For a third year in a row, a public art competition was held to ask the arts community to create wraps for the oak trees which line the center of Hurontario Street. Artists Amy Mailloux and Tony Di Nardo's design was selected entitled CAN Colours 150, which celebrates Canada's 150th anniversary. This temporary public art installation celebrates the diversity of cultures and ethnicities that unites us all as a nation.

Our national diversity is emphasized through an abstract visual representation of world flags with a bold red and white colour signifying Canada at its core. Thirty-two oak trees along Hurontario Street will be wrapped using 57,000 strips of plastic fabric - each strip represents the millions of people that make Canada beautiful. Standing tall and at the centre of the artwork is the Unity Tree; intertwining and merging all the world's flag colours in one.

Back for the fouth consecutive year, the Winter Tree Wraps are installed along the centre median of Hurontario Street and the median of Burnhamthorpe Road West and Promontory Drive. Artists Michaela MacLeod and Nicholas Croft of Polymetis have created a design that features a vibrant sunset spanning the 52 oak trees. In addition to signalling a new dawn for the City of Mississauga in the face of new projects, Sun-SET addresses the theme of environmental stewardship and our appreciation of it.

Portrait of M highlights the cultural and demographic diversity of Mississauga and seeks to communicate the stories of its residents. Over 110 portraits were shot by Dan Bergeron, a selection of which were printed and displayed on banners in the downtown core. The artwork conveys the idea that people are complex and that there is no one way we should look at each other or ourselves.

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Reborn is a functional sculpture made in part from recycled vinyl banner material from a previous City of Mississauga public art project. This up-cycling project is unique in its design and provides shade, seating, and a glimpse of some city residents. Dan Bergeron is a public artist whose work reflects upon issues of personal identity, social relationships, and the spaces that we collectively inhabit.

Aluminum hoarding art, located on Burnhamthorpe Rd W.

In The City Builders, viewers are invited to spot Mississauga's many cultural and architectural landscapes. The work references the people of Mississauga, who give the city its liveliness, purpose, and vitality, and the idea that cities are something we all build together. This hoarding surrounds the construction area where underground infrastructure is being built for the Burnhamthorpe Water Project.

This PATCH project was a collaboration between the City of Mississauga, Region of Peel, and STEPS Initiative.

Photo credit: Sharon Mendonca.

Water pipes, installed on Lakeshore Rd W

Part of the 10-day contemporary art festival "The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea", Hydra was installed along the edge of the Petro Canada brownfields as well as the land adjacent to the CRH Cement Plant. The installation consisted of a network of water pipe systems connected to above-ground swimming pools equipped with electrical pumps that pushed water through the pipe system. Hydra grappled with the crisis of near-irreversible environmental damage-- its water configuration and circulation alluding to the complex and intricately balanced water networks that sustain the Earth. The installation also made reference to the circulatory systems of living beings and to our collective vital dependence on water, while the swimming pools attested to privilege, excess, and waste. Hydra's overall configuration and working system pointed to extraction, and the intentional leakage of the system recalled the endless episodes of leaked pipelines and sunken oil tankers marking the surface of the Earth.

Environmental Reflection + Wonder is a two-part installation featuring digital artwork printed on vinyl and installed on back-lit display cases, near the west entrance of Civic Centre.

Environmental Reflection is inspired by Mississauga's natural heritage and the architecture of Civic Centre.

Wonder commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Mississauga Train Derailment. On the evening of November 10, 1979, 24 rail cars derailed on CP train #54 from Sarnia to Toronto. The resulting explosions could be seen more than 100 km away. The emergency response saw an evacuation of more than 226,000 residents. Some refer to this night as the "Mississauga Miracle" - no loss of life and no permanent scarring on the land, the people or the collective psyche.