Every year since 2025, through an independent juried selection process, four P.E.I. artists are 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!
2026
Sofia Cervantes Romero, Bodies in Motion
Location: Prince Street/Kent Street
Artist: Sofia Cervantes Romero
Title: Bodies in Motion, 2026
Medium (original): Acrylic on paper
Description: This artwork features two abstract acrylic paintings that play with the concept of gravity and magnetism. Two suns and three moons outline powerful paths. Separate but in communion with each other. On the sides, we see currents being pushed and pulled. Gravity of large bodies moving in the sky.
Large Bodies in Motion.
Celestial bodies dance
– their path – powerful motion.
A gravitational pull – outlined.
Felt sometimes –
at the edge of our senses.
Maybe – a convergence –
where our spirits intertwine.
Bhreagh Krszwda, Vesper Vulpines
Location: Prince Street/Euston Street
Artist: Bhreagh Krszwda
Title: Vesper Vulpines, 2026
Medium (original): Digital illustration
Description: Inspired by the rolling hills and shifting skies encountered on my daily commute to and from Charlottetown, Vesper Vulpines captures the quiet magic of Prince Edward Island landscapes. This illustration was born from observing the way the clouds rest on the horizon, mirroring the playful forms of the foxes I often spot wandering through fields along the drive home. By bringing these cloud foxes to life on a grand scale, I hope to share the sense of wonder I feel during those commutes, turning a familiar drive into a shared dream.
Trudy Spooner, Here I Come
Location: Upper Prince Street/Allen Street
Artist: Trudy Spooner
Title: Here I Come, 2026
Medium (original): Acrylic on canvas
Description: "Here I Come" depicts a quiet evening swim on the western shore of Prince Edward Island, where a boy plays in the water with his dad, enjoying the last rays of sunshine. It conveys the simple, joyful freedom of being immersed and fully present in a fleeting summer moment. The movement of the surface shapes the composition, with ripples and shifting light creating a sense of motion. Painted in acrylic, layered colours and glazes enhance the warm glow of the sunlight.
Maggie J. Whitten Henry, Nemtaqaq
Location: North River Road/Beach Grove Road
Artist: Maggie J. Whitten Henry
Title: Nemtaqaq, 2026
Medium (original): Quilted cotton (machine pieced, hand quilted), cotton thread
Description: NEMTAQAQ (BEING ABLE TO SEE NEMTAQAQ: (BEING ABLE TO SEE STRAIGHT UP OR ALONG UNTIL DISAPPEARING FROM VIEW)
Nemtaqaq (nem-da-hahq) is the Mi’kmaq name for the North River, who is our ‘main character’ in this piece. Using maps and local history as guides, the piece explores how the land and water harmonize and exist together. The green patchwork reflects aerial views of the region, and features big-stitch quilting to examine how the natural landscape overlaps with arbitrary (colonial) borders. The blue honours Nemtaqaq as a vital habitat and shared resource, while the light blue squares mark public freshwater fishing spots, symbolizing both abundance and consumption. Made by combining a modern “improv” technique and traditional quilt blocks, the original quilt was designed to cozily wrap around the traffic control cabinet and blend or disappear into its surroundings as the seasons change.
2025
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.