In 2025, through an independent juried selection process, four P.E.I. artists were commissioned to create original designs for traffic control cabinets at local intersections. The artworks have been reprinted on vinyl and are expected to last five years.
Learn more about the artworks below!
Erin Juli Arsenault, A Walk Downtown
Location: Kent Street/Great George Street
Artist: Erin Juli Arsenault
Title: A Walk Downtown, 2025
Medium (original): Gouache, colour pencil
Description: Downtown Charlottetown has been my home for the past twenty years. Despite constant change, new additions become familiar after several walk-bys and the places that stay the same are comforting markers along the way. This artwork encompasses my appreciation of the old and the new in a city that is constantly evolving and where the feeling of home stays the same.
Chester Hewlett, A Path Through Time
Location: Euston Street/Weymouth Street
Artist: Chester Hewlett
Title: A Path Through Time, 2025
Medium (original): Digital illustration
Description: A Path Through Time captures the history of the Euston-Weymouth area through a vivid, dreamlike lens–where fishing boats glide across glassy, blue waters, serving as a tribute to the island’s deep maritime roots and shipbuilding past. Rolling green hills cradle clustered colourful homes, evoking the resilience and warmth of early settlers. The sky, alive with Northern Lights, feels like a memory suspended between past and present. The rhythmic rise and fall of the abstract waves, carrying stories of trade, tradition, and sport, come together in a reach towards a future of cultural consideration and inclusivity. Through bold silhouettes, radiant hues, and chromatic illustrations, I reinterpret history–not as documentation, but as something contemporary, fluid, alive, and deeply felt.
Nancy Cole, Busted Guts
Location: Kensington Road/Exhibition Drive
Artist: Nancy Cole
Title: Busted Guts, 2025
Medium (original): Hand-tinted braided nylon thread embroidery on canvas print
Description: Busted Guts is an ‘embroidery embellished’ photo of this common and vital piece of industrial equipment. A story about how each one busts its guts to keep pedestrians and motorists safe. As for my process, this is photo embellishment using French knot embroidery. The main focus is the much-abhorred but critically important excess threads that all embroidery artists spend time hiding. There would be no textile art without all those loose ends. And there would be no orderly movement of pedestrians and vehicles without the guts in this Kensington Road traffic control container.
Hilary J. MacDonald, Coalescence
Location: St. Peters Road Roundabout at Belvedere Avenue
Artist: Hilary J. MacDonald
Title: Coalescence, 2025
Medium (original): Acrylic on canvas
Description: The Belvedere Corner was once a main hub connecting farmland, trade routes from the shore, and the city centre. This piece is an abstract interpretation of the coalescence between these three important factors shaping Charlottetown into the city it is today. The soft elements and the warmer colours depict aspects of Mother Nature, relating to the Indigenous peoples who first inhabited this land. This is juxtaposed with the contrasting cooler colours and the subtle nod to current-day technology through the motherboard circuits, which can also be interpreted as the countless connections that our modern world has to the rich history of the land and its people before us.