12th & Main Artlet

In 2020, VDA’s Design Committee was awarded a grant from the City of Vancouver’s Culture, Arts & Heritage Program. This grant supported a project a project conceptualized by VDA’s Design Committee: 12th & Main Artlet. 

The improvements emphasize creative art treatments to develop a gathering space that enliven an intersection that was once devoid of any specific public art. The improvements are designed to tie together both the north, south, east and west sides of the intersection, by utilizing artful treatments throughout.

The Arlet includes:

– New bulb-outs painted on the asphalt of the intersection’s four corners and connected to painted crosswalks. Designed and painted by Colin & Mia Behr with Gombehr LLC, as a mural to highlight safe pedestrian crossing areas.

– Enhancement of the blank walls of the above-ground parking garage (“Menashe Building”) at the intersection’s southeast corner with public art that range from mural(s) underneath the west-facing side of the parking garage, designed and painted by Gombehr LLC, and a mural panel installation on the south-facing elevator tower wall of the parking garage by the name of Bramble, painted by local artist, Jane Degenhardt.

– A new gathering area at the southwest corner designed as an extension of the painted bulb-outs to bleed the art onto the adjacent sidewalk and “no parking area.”