The City of Lethbridge is looking for community input to help shape its new public art master plan.
The document, which was first passed in 2012, is in need of updating to help reflect the city’s growth, changing public expectations and new trends in public art and planning.
The city will host a range of public engagement sessions to hear from residents about what they’d like to see in the years to come and the direction public art should go in the city.
“The master plan really lays out different roles and responsibilities. It talks about what the purpose of the program is and how we run it, and through that public engagement, it will really define how the committee and the city and the community will invest in public art moving forward,” said Jillian Bracken, City of Lethbridge community arts and culture manager.
“The arts are a very broad sort of scope, right? So, that includes performing arts, that includes a variety of different things. So, (we’re) looking at different ways that we can, again, activate spaces and bring arts in different ways to just make our community a little bit more vibrant,” said Steven Foord, Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge executive director.
Following the public engagement, a draft report will be presented to city council in early 2026.
