The City of Vancouver is asking local artists to add a splash of colour to city streets.
The City put out a call earlier this week for creative designs that will adorn large, grey utility boxes throughout Vancouver.
The winning designs will be printed on vinyl wraps that will cover 27 utility boxes. Artists who make the cut will be paid $1,000.
In a memo, the City said, “the ongoing project enhances the public realm by adding local artists’ work to surfaces that had often been targeted by vandalism.”
The program is an expansion of a pilot project in Vancouver’s West End last year.
Similar utility box art projects have popped up in cities around the world, including Auckland, San Francisco and Taipei. Since launching the Utility Box Program in 2010, the City of Calgary has given more than 170 boxes the artistic treatment.
The deadline for submission is April 6 at 4 p.m. More information can be found on the City of Vancouver’s website.