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Michael Belmore commissioned for The Nogojiwanong Project

Artist Michael Belmore has been selected to create the public art piece for The Nogojiwanong Project. Nogojiwanong is an Anishinaabe word meaning “place at the foot of the rapids,” is the name given to the gathering place at the bottom of a turbulent stretch of the Otonabee River, which would later become Peterborough.

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Ursula Johnson Listed as Artist Who Deserves a Major Public Art Installation In Halifax

How has Johnson—who blends installation, sculpture, performance and traditional Mi'kmaq basket-weaving—not been given carte blanche to build something challenging and beautiful in a public space in Halifax? Since she’s one of the biggest names in art at a national level, we should be sick of seeing Ursula Johnson’s work around Halifax.

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Joi T. Arcand's ᐲᔦᓰᐤ ᐚᓴᑳᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Thunderbird House) in Edmonton.

Joi T. Arcand’s ᐲᔦᓰᐤ ᐚᓴᑳᐦᐃᑲᐣ (PÎYÊSÎW WÂSKÂHIKAN), is a site specific installation in a dedicated Indigenous space within Edmonton's Stanley Milner Library built for ceremony and gatherings. Joi T Arcand is an artist known for working with Plains Cree syllabics, using her art to explore the colonial hierarchy of languages in the land we currently call Canada.

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Adrian Göllner Bayview LRT Station Artist

Adrian Göllner's As the Crow Flies is a public art installation at Ottawa's LRT Bayview station. The 120-metre installation of tubular steel and fencing suggests the topography of the Gatineau Hills and rooftops of Mechanicsville as it mimics a crow's flightpath. Sandra Abma for CBC News.

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Michael Belmore Carved Erratics, Public Art Installation at Woodsy Park

Concord Park Place's Woodsy Park to Feature Public Art, Ebb and Flow by Sculptor Michael Belmore. Large erratic boulders, unearthed during construction were carved on site. In embellishing these stones Belmore speaks to the stone's original state of liquid fire, and the ebb and flow effect of ancient glacial forces of ice and water.

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