Make Art While Apart - Vancity
When Covid-19 forced businesses to close their doors and board up their storefronts, Vancity reached out to a long-standing partner, the Vancouver Mural Festival. By joining forces with local artists and businesses, together we turned these blank spaces into murals, supported over 40 muralists, and brought colour to the streets of Vancouver during a difficult time.
As the lead for this project, I was responsible for conceiving the program, negotiating the partnership, and promoting the project across all Vancity channels.
The Ellis Building
After the murals began to gain traction across the city, we connected our boarded-up business members to local artists to help make a tough choice a little more beautiful. One of our members, The Ellis Building, had a particularly rough go when their boarded-up business caught fire. We partnered them with an artist and worked with them to tell their story in support of their GoFundMe.