City Council announces Award Winners from Call for Artwork for RCMP detachment build

Prince Rupert City Council congratulated the successful competitors from a recent call for Art Work for the new RCMP detachment currently under construction at Third Avenue East and McBride.

From a closed session hosted earlier in the day Monday by the Councillors, it was announced that were the three successful artists to honour; with their work catching the eye of the selection committee that had been put in place towards the project.

The three award winners announced Monday  included:

Nicholas John,  Chris Fraser and Kristen McKay*, noted as the first, second and third place prize winners  from the call for Artists.

The amount of the cash awards had previously been set at $10,000, $6,500 and $3,500. 

The call for submissions was issued by the City in May, the criteria for the competition as follows:

In a short comment on Monday, Mayor Herb Pond noted of the structure of the competition and award process

"That was based on unanimous recommendation from the committee that had been appointed to review those submission"

Council did not note how many submissions were received as part of the competition,  nor did they share any samples as to what the successful submissions looked like.

The work on the RCMP detachment has recently seen the foundation put in place and some iron work on the upper floor now installed.

Public art pieces will be incorporated into the design of the
new RCMP detachment currently under construction

No firm opening date has been announced as of yet by the City towards the new detachment.

You can follow the progress for the build from the our Major Civic Infrastructure archive page.

More notes from the Monday Council session can be reviewed here.

Correction: We have corrected the spelling to one of the names (*) above