KAWARTHA LAKES-The That’s a Wrap Traffic Control Box call for submissions has launched for the final year of its three-year program.
Starting in 2022, the municipality has been working with local artists to help beautify the landscape by wrapping municipal traffic control boxes with themed artwork. Currently, there are 19 wrapped traffic control boxes across the community, you’ll find them in Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, Argyle, Omemee and Lindsay. In total, 29 traffic control boxes will be wrapped by 2025.
“In partnership with the Kawartha Arts Network, the Economic Development Division of Kawartha Lakes is proud to work with its artistic community to showcase the amazing talent we have here in our own community. Wrapping the traffic control boxes with juried work, celebrates the high caliber of artistic work in a really accessible and interesting way,” explained Donna Goodwin, Economic Development Officer, Arts and Culture.
Visual artists and graphic designers in Kawartha Lakes are invited to submit digitally created artwork, or scans of original artwork through our online form. This year’s theme, agriculture and rural life, has been chosen to support the International Plowing Match and Rural Expo (IPM) coming to Lindsay from October 1 to 5, 2024. Submissions can represent a range of activities from hanging clothes on a clothesline to horses out to pasture. They could portray sitting around a campfire, swaying stands of corn or flowers down a country lane.
Ten (10) works of art are required to wrap ten (10) municipal traffic control boxes. Successful traffic control box submissions will receive a $200 honorarium for their work. In addition to the (10), another three (3) are required to fill out the monthly requirements of the 2025 Municipal Calendar, including the front cover. Please note that the three artists chosen for the municipal calendar only, will not receive an honorarium.
Submissions are due by June 20, 2024. Artwork will be juried with successful applicants contacted on July 29, 2024.
We can’t wait to see what the artists of Kawartha Lakes submit!
That’s a Wrap is a temporary public art initiative to wrap select traffic control boxes in the municipality with art. The program enlivens the landscape, helps to reduce graffiti and visually connects the communities of Kawartha Lakes for area residents and visitors. You can browse last year’s submissions and artist bio’s on That’s a Wrap webpage, or in the 2024 Municipal Calendar. If you’d like to see the wrapped traffic control boxes in person, you can find each location on the That’s a Wrap map.
