Volunteers clean up Propstra Square, bringing ‘instant color’ to downtown Vancouver
Published: May 22, 2021, 8:53pm
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8 Photos Ella Bennett, 11, plants flowers Saturday at Propstra Square in downtown Vancouver. Bennett is part of The International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, a youth group that volunteered at the cleanup and flower-planting event. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
Seeking a sign that spring has truly sprung? Look no further than Propstra Square in downtown Vancouver.
The square, located at the southeast corner of Esther Short Park, exploded with flora Saturday morning as local volunteers and staffers came together for a community planting event. By the time they had finished, the ground was lush with around 1,200 flowers cheery marigolds, bunches of geraniums, spindly stems of salvia and vibrant clusters of impatiens.
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New mural part of downtown Vancouver makeover
Painting brightens walls of trash shelter near City Hall
Published: April 21, 2021, 6:04am
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3 Photos Riff Creative Studio, a design offshoot of LSW Architects, conceptualized and painted this colorful mural, located on a trash enclosure structure across from Vancouver City Hall, last week. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
A freshly completed mural in downtown Vancouver brightens up a trash enclosure building across from City Hall and offers a new eye-catching feature for a district already being targeted by city leaders in a major rebranding effort.
“Groovin’ & Couv’n,” the piece declares in splashes of blue, lilac, mustard and crimson, with an artistic rendering of the Interstate 5 Bridge and a pair of bicycling legs.
Vancouver art aspirations bear fruit with downtown mural
Published: December 31, 2020, 6:02am
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5 Photos Joseph Bailey of Vancouver takes a seat near the new Bramble mural by artist Jane Degenhardt in downtown Vancouver on Monday. The new 30-foot mural is one of the first public art pieces to come to fruition under Vancouver s new Arts, Culture and Heritage Commission. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
There’s just something about the wintertime.
For local artist Jane Degenhardt who treks through the woods in the autumn and winter months, photographing the natural world at close range to find inspiration for her paintings it’s about decay’s place in the cycle of life.