Here’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to leave your mark on a Vancouver SkyTrain
Here’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to leave your mark on a Vancouver SkyTrain
If you’re an Indigenous artist from the Metro Vancouver region, we’re looking for you! This exciting opportunity will bring your unique artistic masterpiece to life on transit!
What is it: TransLink is launching a call for Indigenous artists to create captivating artwork for the windscreens adjacent to the doors on the interior of the new Mark V SkyTrains.
We will select five Indigenous artists to feature their artwork on the new Mark V SkyTrain cars, scheduled to enter service in 2024. We will then convert the chosen designs into vinyl decals and install them on the windscreens inside the SkyTrain cars, enhancing the commuting experience. The artwork will be on display for 5-7 years (with licensing for 10 years).
What we’re looking for: We are encouraging artists skilled in 2D forms that can be digitized, such as illustration, painting, printmaking, or photography. Both abstract and non-representational designs are welcome. Eligibility is open to artists from various Indigenous Nations within Metro Vancouver.
Compensation: Each chosen artist will receive a fee of $3,000 for their contribution.
How to apply: For full artist call details, including how to apply, please review the TransLink Mark V SkyTrain Call for Artists package.
This initiative aims to connect transit and art, offering Indigenous artists a platform to infuse their perspectives into the urban landscape. So, if you’re a passionate Indigenous artist from the Metro Vancouver area, don’t miss this chance to leave your mark on the city’s transit system!
Why the need for more artwork on the windows? How are we going to see where we are with more blockage on the windows. I’m of the Musqueam and it’s nice to see our expression shown through art but onto the modes of transportation is starting to get old and it’s fading away the objectives of the process of truth and reconciliation.
Why not just make it a livery all over the outside of the train (like the Burrard Chinook), instead of only on the windscreens?
I would rather translink choose an artist and pay them, than a contest where everyone does the work for nothing and *might* be chosen to “win” $3000. Indigenous artists are professionals who deserve to be treated like professionals. Do they choose non-Indigenous artists by contest usually?
Stop treating people differently based on things they cannot control, like ethnicity and birthplace. We are perpetuating racism.
Is this a joke?
I would like to be a artist in this project I am Kitasoo/Haisla desent living and working in Vancouver Harbour, I carve and paint along with other mediums,I look forward to hearing back from you.
Gary Neasloss
You need to get their application package, then apply…the link is posted above.