Windsor 125 Public Art Installation

The City of Windsor unveiled a special new public art installation on Canada Day, July 1, 2017 at the transformer casing wall in the shared parking lot of the Chimczuk Museum, Art Gallery of Windsor and Adventure Bay Family Water Park Presented by WFCU Credit Union.

The City of Windsor, with generous funding from the Canadian Department of Heritage, Building Communities Through Arts and Heritage program invited Windsor artists to apply to create a Public Installation to Celebrate Windsor’s 125th Birthday. The artists were asked to create a work that would celebrate our birthday in a way that would become a permanent part of the stories told to Windsor residents and visitors for generations to come.

Photos of the final Public Art Installation and unveiling on July 1, 2017.

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Large Wall

Artist: Christy Litster
Title: Windsor Snapshots

Windsor Snapshots highlights a few interesting people, places, things, and events that have shaped the history of The City of Windsor.

Small Wall

Artists: Alaa Elbarbary and Kristina Bradt
Title: Yesterday and Tomorrow

Thinking about the atmosphere of city environments, we have come to understand that the best ones embody a sense of evolution and change from the successes of the past. To us, Windsor is a place where the potential for collaboration and development gives our city its core appeal and its ability to flourish. In our design we want to incorporate that vision, depicting Windsor literally from the bottom up.

By highlighting the impact that our past has on our famous rose city, we immortalize Windsor’s past from its roots throughout the prohibition era and the auto industry. The middle panel of our installation depicts the current skyline of Windsor. Aligning it with the heart of the rose, we signify the people living within it, the moving, breathing core of the city. Having separate panels in our design works to emulate segments of past, present and future, while still fitting together to create a complete image of Windsor. This compilation of imagery speaks to the collective nature throughout the history of our city that we would like to unfold.

Alaa Elbarbary is a multimedia artist primarily focused on sculpture and painting. She explores a wide variety of themes that revolve around the human condition as a whole. As an Egyptian, raised in Saudi Arabia, and currently now living in Windsor, the multiculturalism that Alaa has been exposed to from a young age has inspired and is exhibited in much of her artwork.