Three downtown street corners have traffic boxes that are a little less utilitarian looking and a lot more artistic thanks to a handful of artists commissioned by the city’s Arts & Culture Department.
The most recent art installations are part of an ongoing effort to bring color to traffic control boxes around the city. The next wave of artwork will go up in July and a third wave closer to December and January.
Ilana Lydia Holden, Arts & Culture manager with the city’s Community Services Department, said she and others with Community Services were looking for public art that could be shared “at low expense but high visibility.”
Each of the 14 artists participating in the project were given one of three assigned themes: “Mountains,” “Rivers” or “Heritage” and reimbursed $1,200 for their work.
