North Vancouver Public Art

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Equestrian statue: horse-drawn supplies, brought up Lonsdale Avenue

North Vancouver Public Art reflects North Vancouver’s  spirit and identity

  • with over 150 pieces in 12 neighbourhoods, North Vancouver Public Art is
  • integrated in parks and plazas, municipal buildings and commercial developments
  • along walkways, greenways, roadways, rockways, laneways
  • in wordplays, sculptures, mosaics, murals and digital art.

Discover and delight in North Vancouver Public Art

We start at Central Lonsdale’s Victoria Park (#102 on your map)

The Long Ascent by V. & E. Dam de Nogales

The Long Ascent, a turn-of-the-19th-century tough haul,

as we wind our way along the Green Necklace

Clematis colonnades with a message on top

via clematis-collonades, in quartet,

crowned in stories, illuminated, linking and weaving us west

Enduring Love

 

Some of 200 stencils along 3km of the Green Necklace

to Coho Creek mosaic–

salmon,

spawning

Local youth tie in our industrial history

Centennial Mural and its garden, circling back

The Chief by Natraoro and Harry

via View,

its glass-gated town homes

to The Chief

a Squamish-Nation legend

of a two-headed serpent and its slayer…

Ancient Sun by Wade Baker

up the lane to view Ancient Sun, rising in the east, lighting our way

Coho Creek by Bruce Walther

into City Hall where Integrated Plane reminds us of our topography.

Fallen Tree and 35 Rings root us in our past 

Wilbur’s Web by Alan Storey “No, my webs were no miracle, Wilbur. I was only describing what I saw.” Charlotte to Wilbur, Charlotte’s Web, E.B.White

 

to Tree Fragments, stone insets…

Wilbur’s Web,

light-wells,

we drink in.

Keri, our cultural guide, keeps us on a Continuum-North Vancouver Public Art

Inspired by Chief Dan George with West Coast petroglyphic imagery by Marianne Nicolson, My People Will Rise Up Like a Thunderbird from the Sea,

 

Looping back to Continuum, we encircle it, and head south

on Lonsdale’s east side past The Lady (camel) and Grizzly,

Grizzly by Ken Clark

full of art,

 

 

 

full of community spirit.