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Urban Design Roster Program
This program offers artists and designers an opportunity to be involved in civic urban design and small-scale artwork related to city infrastructure. The Urban Design Roster is a list of artists who wish to be contacted to work with the City’s Culture team and other City departments such as Traffic/Transportation, Engineering and Public Works. Projects are activated on an ongoing basis, in relation to opportunities arising from infrastructure renewals, upgrades and maintenance.
Urban Design Roster Artists 2026 - 2028
A Vancouver-based multidisciplinary artist with roots in traditional art and architecture, creating vibrant, interactive public works that invite play and engagement. Her murals and installations appear across Greater Vancouver to Chilliwack.
Amy Pye's work is joyful, story-rich and largely shaped by the way children see the world. Through illustration, storytelling, and design, she aims to bring a sense of wonder to everyday environments.
Anaïs paints luxuriant and intricate compositions, filled with flora and fauna elements belonging either to terrestrial and ocean worlds. She grows imaginary ecosystems filled with meticulously detailed elements collected from scientific observations.
Angellos Glaros works in a variety of sculptural media and strives to create pieces filled with beauty and life. He draws inspiration from events in his life, history, and current events. But his biggest inspiration is found in nature.
April Lacheur is a full time Nanaimo based artist who works in acrylic paint to capture the beauty of west coast nature in a unique style that uses flowing linework with special focus on the strength and wonder of trees.
Ay Lelum are a second generation Coast Salish Design House from Nanaimo, B.C.
bailey's practice spans a wide range of diverse mediums, from sculpture and textiles to print, installation, and digital works, that often explores the intersections of community, identity, and place.
Bethany Davis is a multidisciplinary artist and tattooist whose practice spans illustration, public art, and large-scale mural work, with a focus on pattern, storytelling, and connection to place.
Chantelle is a visual artist and fine arts teacher based in Nanaimo. She uses acrylic ink and pen to create illustrative artwork inspired by wildlife and the natural world, bringing movement, energy, and spontaneity to her work.
Chase is a queer artist from xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and Tsimshian of Musqueam (Vancouver). His work often reflects on how people navigate identity, digital spaces, and modern online environments.
With a multi-dispensary approach, David gathers impressions of wood’s characteristics to consider its legacy and value within the literal and emblematic framework of our lives, creating connections to develop environmental awareness and accountability.
Denny expresses he is here to push painting, art and creativity into the future. Using art as his weapon to fight against negative energy, he aims to bring more light and happiness into the world.
Eliot White-Hill, whose Coast Salish name is Kwulasultun, comes from the Snuneymuxw. He is a published author and artist. He sees his work artistically as an extension of his storytelling.
Jesse Gray is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice looks at patterns of waste accumulation and explores the underlying histories of human-made objects. Her work deals with the ways that culture and the sciences intersect.
Jolene Hassard is a visual artist who paints finely detailed artworks that feature and celebrate the natural world, often created with thousands of colourful dots in an intricate pattern as a background and the subject contrasting in stark silhouette.
Kristen is an illustrator and graphic recorder who creates both traditional and digital art, with work defined by interconnected imagery that tells stories. She enjoys working in bold, confined colour palettes, drawing inspiration from the unique places.
Laura Timmermans loves to create meaningful work through a variety of mediums: public art installation, graphic design, and illustration. Her hope is that her work invites people to see the world as interconnected.
A professional printmaking artist whose work expands and adapts to other artistic media, allowing him to create diverse installations and artworks. His pieces emerge from a connection with place, materials, and his own visual language.
Mustaali is an independent art director and graphic designer with a multi-disciplinary practice.
Noel Brown is a master carver and member of the Snuneymuxw First Nation. Over recent years, Brown has contributed numerous designs for projects in public space.
Patrick Belanger has dedicated the past 35 years to the graphic design industry, honing his craft across a wide range of visual disciplines. His experience includes painting, vector illustration, watercolour, and traditional drawing.
Pellvetica is a collaborative mural and illustration duo known for creating bold, welcoming artworks for cities, municipalities, BIAs, private brands, developers, design agencies, and interior designers.
Sebastian Abboud is a Nanaimo-based illustrator, designer and artist. He works across several mediums and styles, from playful doodles and geometric vector illustration to expressive hand-drawn and painted work.
Sherri is a Nanaimo artist known for her vibrant, whimsical paintings celebrating the spirit and scenery of Vancouver Island; reflecting her commitment to creativity, environmental care, and supporting the small businesses of the community she loves.
Skyler Dietze collaborates with reclaimed wood as a material with built-in character—letting its grain, scars, and weathering guide the design—then shaping it into bold, contemporary work that gives the wood a third life.
Stephanie Teichman likes to try to achieve curiosity with a side of perfection in her art practice. Exploring different ideas with different canvases and art mediums, she creates experiences.
Drawing from her Afro-Indigenous Brazilian heritage, Tarcila Neves is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice bridges traditional craft, digital technology, and community collaboration to transform public spaces into immersive, inclusive environments.
Yvonne's art practice embraces community, collaboration, education, public art and studio work. In the studio her painting practice moves between figuration and abstraction specializing in acrylic, oil and mixed media.
Urban Design Roster Projects
Design by Kristen Elkow of Elkplan Design Inc. 
For this yearlong series of poetry posters, Poet Laureate, Kamal Parmar, asked for contributions by local community members and the public. A mixture of poems were created and then designs for the posters made by design roster participant Webb Creative. This short term project responded to the conditions of COVID-19 to ensure there would be safe opportunities for the community to connect with poetry as a creative outlet. Poems were presented in civic facilities and shop windows around town. .png)
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Last updated: January 5, 2026
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