The Window Art Bomb Contest runs until Sept. 28 with winners being picked on Sept. 30. (submitted photo/Kayanna Wirtz)

By Dawson Thompson

Community Art Contest

Window art contest in Prince Albert

Sep 18, 2020 | 5:00 PM

A fun new initiative aims to add some colour to Prince Albert streets. As part of Culture Days, the city is running a contest inviting the public to decorate their windows, fences, or sidewalks in the Window Art Bomb Contest.

After decorating their windows, residents can take a picture of their art project and send it to @culturedaysPA on Facebook to enter, explained Kayanna Wirtz, arts and culture coordinator for the city of P.A.. Participants can submit their photos until Sept. 28.

“We will post it on the Culture Days Facebook page so that everyone can see it and share and still be a Culture Days community even if our Culture Days events don’t look the same this year,” Wirtz told paNOW.

Wirtz said the pandemic helped with the inspiration for the idea.

“When the lockdown first happened, we were seeing lots of communities decorating their windows and doing cool things like that to make it a little less dreary and sad that we were all locked up inside,” Wirtz said.

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Winners of the contest will be announced on Sept. 30 in two different categories. There will be a business category with the winner receiving $50 gift cards to Sandra’s Framing Gallery as well to a local restaurant. The residential category winner will receive $50 gift cards to a local restaurant and to On the Avenue Artisans Gallery. Submissions will be judged by the amount of likes a post receives.

“We saw some communities that made it up into little contests and got lots of people to decorate their windows,” Wirtz said. “Then we thought Culture Days would be a great opportunity to roll that out since it’s raising awareness for arts and culture.”

According to Wirtz, the idea is a great way for everyone to show off their artistic talents.

“Even if they don’t want to come to in-person events yet, you can still decorate your window at home,” Wirtz said.

Those who do not feel comfortable going to an art gallery just yet, can still enjoy the beauty of art, by walking around their neighborhood and looking at the projects being done by those in their community.

“I would love to see more businesses get involved, I think that would be really cool,” Wirtz said. “I would love to drive around and see one that is decorated.”

Artists who are stuck on inspiration can head to the Culture Days Facebook page for tips, tricks, and DIY window paint and chalk recipes.

Meanwhile the City of Prince Albert is also looking for a local artist to paint a mural on the exterior wall of the Prairie Cannabis building on Second Avenue W.

In another Culture Days public art initiative, the boulder at the downtown transfer station will also be painted.

With files from Alison Sandstrom

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