Call for Submissions: Connextions 2025 Vinyl Window Murals, Town of Oakville

Erin McGean, Rainbow Connection at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Connextions 2023, photo-collage vinyl window mural

Call for Artwork: Town of Oakville, Connextions – Vinyl Window Murals

Deadline: June 1, 2025 11:59pm EDT
Venue: Community Centres, Town of Oakville
Artist Fee: $800 each artwork location (includes HST)
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The Town of Oakville invites professional artists to submit artwork designs to be digitally reproduced as temporary window murals at seven community centres in Oakville. The final artwork will be a digital mural to be printed onto vinyl media that will cover large windows. Artwork can be created in any medium but, if selected, must be provided as high-resolution digital files suitable for large-format printing.

The window vinyl murals will be featured as part of the 2025 Culture Days Festival (September 19 to October 12), a national celebration of arts and culture. In the spirit of the Culture Days, submitted artworks should be vibrant, positive works that celebrate the local community by drawing inspiration from arts, culture and nature.

Artists may submit new work or adapt existing artwork. The town will be responsible for the fabrication and installation of the vinyl media.

Alex Neumann, Summer Connextion Oakville at Glen Abbey Community Centre, Connextions 2023, photo-digital vinyl window mural

This call is open to professional Canadian artists of any experience level (emerging, mid-career and established) living in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas. Artists who demonstrate connections to Oakville will be given priority.

Artists who participated in previous Connextions projects are ineligible for the 2025 program. Artists must be 18 years of age and older.

Proposals will be assessed based on artistic merit, relevance to the themes and the artist’s capacity to complete the project.

Designs can be either site-specific or suitable for any of the locations. There is no guarantee artists will be assigned a requested site. The town reserves the right to assign locations at its discretion. Project locations may be subject to change.

The following Community Centre locations will have window murals:

1. Glen Abbey, 1415 Third Line
2. Iroquois Ridge, 1051 Glenashton Drive
3. Oakville Trafalgar, 325 Reynolds Street
4. Queen Elizabeth Park, 2302 Bridge Road
5. River Oaks, 2400 Sixth Line
6. Sixteen Mile Sports Complex, 2070 Neyagawa Boulevard
7. Trafalgar Park, 133 Rebecca Street

Kayla Whitney, Untitled at Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, Connextions 2022, vinyl window mural

Project Timeline:

• Submission deadline: June 1, 2025, 11:59pm EDT
• Artists selected: June 2025
• Final designs due: July 2025
• Printing and installation: August 2025
• Culture Days launch: September 2025

Interested artists are encouraged to read the full Call to Artists for details including how to apply online, FAQs, and more.

For more information contact: public.art@oakville.ca

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All Town of Oakville venues are fully accessible. All venues include a level entrance or ramp access to enter, an accessible washroom, wide and unobstructed pathways within the interior, an elevator to access multiple levels (except the Oakville Museum), automatic doors at most entrances, and accessible parking nearby.

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