A Little Hard Work Always Pays Off

I just learned recently that the City of Edmonton has a One Per Cent Art Policy included in their annual budget. This means that they take one per cent of the budget and designate it towards art projects in the city.
This is a painted glass window in one of the LRT Stations. It was done in recognition of all the labourers and wage earners who have worked over the years in North East Edmonton

[Anne ❀]

very nice stained glass work, great pic.

[bkb in the city]

@sunnygreenwood Thank you

[John]

What a cool window and nicely captured

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Is it stained glass, or a painting on glass made to look like stained glass? Just curious. It's a really nice job and what a great way to keep the arts going in your city!

[bkb in the city]

@olivetreeann It is painting on the glass window

[bkb in the city]

@johnnyfrs Thanks

[Janet Morris]

Great idea to designate money to the arts. Great capture.

[Shanne]

nice idea to have arts sponsored and great stained glass

[karenann]

Beautiful idea and great shot of this!!

[Maaikel]

Nice! Think all stations should have some art!

[Shirley Chetwynd]

wow what a wonderful idea and a great find for you .

[mag]

great idea...hope the economy doesn't kill it...nice find and shot

[Lauren]

funny I never noticed this when i lived in the NE great capture!

[Carolyn White]

Beautiful pic! I think that's a wonderful idea!

[bkb in the city]

@cjwhite Thanks. It is amazing what they have done with this money

[bkb in the city]

@laurentye I am not sure when they did these but I think it is a nice way of brightning the place up

[bkb in the city]

@maggotx Fortuneatly this is something that appears to be a permanent part of the budget

[bkb in the city]

@http365proj Thanks you

[bkb in the city]

@maaikel Some of our other stations have some other murals as well. The city is slowly improving things

[bkb in the city]

@karenann Thanks

[bkb in the city]

@shanne It is a wonderful thing the city is doing

[bkb in the city]

@mummymorris Thank you

[bruni]

Its a beautiful painting portraying the laborers and their work. great find.

[bkb in the city]

@bruni Thank you for your comments

[summerfield]

hmmmm...i should find out what we have here. this is a good project. years ago, they did that, but now most of the street arts have been defaced by punks and nobody's doing anything. well, such is life in the big city. i just might move to edmonton or ajax!

[bkb in the city]

@summerfield It is interesting here in Edmonton we do have a problem with graffiti in the vandelism sense but art work like this they seem to leave alone

[Brenda Baird]

What a great project and great picture!

[bkb in the city]

@doitforfun Thanks. I think it would be great to see cities encourage more young people to do things like this

[Jane]

This is amazing! :))

[bkb in the city]

@aromatic It makes the stations so much nicer