Port Moody is looking for artists to adorn two of the city's garbage and recycling collection trucks with original art inspired by the community the vehicles serve.
As part of the city's public art program, PoMo city hall commissioned two artists in 2010 to design vinyl wraps to beautify two of the city's four automated waste-collection trucks and now it's time to dress up the other two.
Kristin Tracey, the city's public art co-ordinator, said that while environmentally minded artworks won out last year and waste-reduction is certainly one part of the judges' criteria for submissions, the city doesn't want to replicate the designs currently cruising Port Moody streets and alleys.
"With the last two trucks, there's the 'super-recycle-man' and the 'reforesting the mountainside,' but we don't want to be hammering people over the head with it," Tracey said. "But that is our initiative - to try and reduce our garbage."
Interested artists are asked to submit a portfolio and artist's statement to the city by Feb. 10. The two winners will work with city staff in drawing up sketches for their preliminary designs before the artworks are finalized on March 24.
Works in various two-dimensional media will be accepted but all final designs must be digitally reproducible so they can be printed onto vinyl wraps to cover the sides of the collection trucks.
For full qualification guidelines, visit portmoody.ca.
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