The streets of Charlottetown have come alive with vibrant light and colour as the City launches Your Community in Bloom, the second lightbox exhibit of 2024.
The artworks will be displayed in double-sided lightboxes installed on lampposts in downtown Charlottetown from
Aug. 26 to Nov. 8, 2024. The exhibit will help celebrate the City of Charlottetown's hosting of the 30th annual
Communities in Bloom National Symposium and Awards Ceremony (Oct. 17 to 20, 2024).
This new lightbox exhibit celebrates the natural beauty of Prince Edward Island through the lens of community. From stunning portraits to intricate landscapes and from cyanotypes to digital quilts, each artwork offers a unique interpretation of the Island’s complex and varied communities of humans, plants, and animals.
The exhibit features the work of 20 PEI-based artists, including Angela Rowlings, Ann Winslow, Ashley Anne Clark, Barb MacLeod, Brenda Whiteway, Debra Wellner, Erin Arsenault, Kristen Moore, Lorna Mullen, Maurice Burgoyne, Monica Kani, Monica Macdonald, Nia Phillips, Omar Broderick/Slickphotography, Paige Dudley, Renée Laprise, Rosalie Bourque, Sandra MacGillivray, Sarah Nicole Dart/Ukee Cruthu and Susana Rutherford/Firehorse Studios. An independent jury selected 20 artists through an open call process, which received 202 artwork submissions from 113 artists.
Visit
charlottetown.ca/publicart to learn more about the artworks and artists and to view an interactive map showing the location of each lightbox.