The Winnipeg Arts Council will receive no money for public art from the City of Winnipeg in 2024, according to a CBC news story. The move marks the end of a 20-year program that saw large installations added across the province’s capital city.
From 2004 to 2018, the City of Winnipeg provided the council with $500,000 per year for public art. According to the news story, the grant was halved in 2019 and then further halved, to just $125,000 in 2022.
News of the grant’s end was not communicated to the council before the budget’s release this week.
Colin Fast, a spokesperson for Winnipeg mayor Scott Gillingham, told CBC that “some funding remains for public art elsewhere within the capital budget.”
Source: CBC