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If you’re looking for an art adventure, Vaughan has 37 public art stops waiting to be explored!

Discover 10 new urbanWILDERNESS series designs, along with 27 favourites from the previous Group of Seven REMIXED and ART of HEALING series.

The urbanWILDERNESS is the 2026 theme for the ARTonBOXES Program. urbanWILDERNESS explores the harmonious integration of natural and built environments – where concrete and steel meet urban green infrastructure, including rewilded parks, trails, wetlands, wildlife habitats, and forest canopies – to support the flora and fauna sharing these spaces.

Ten new original designs themed around urbanWILDERNESS have been installed on traffic signal boxes around Vaughan. More than 125 submissions were received from artists in Vaughan and across the Greater Toronto Area.

The artworks can be viewed on the traffic signal boxes at the following locations:

Ward 1:

• Melville Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive – Maureen O’Connor, Godsend

• Entrance of North Maple Regional Park at 11085 Keele St. – Jennifer Raetsen, Untitled # 1 Vaka

• Jane Street and Fredrick Banting Street – Sandra Scarpelli, Floral Healing

• Major Mackenzie Drive and Keele Street – Maria Suzdaleva, The Calmest Hour

• Melville Avenue and Springside Road – Hailey Shema, Joy

Ward 2:

• Islington Avenue and Napa Valley Avenue – Alex Bray, In Bloom

• Highway 7 and Kipling Avenue – Ziyi Jiang, Song of the Phoenix

• Highway 7 and Islington Avenue – Frank Mazzuca, Solus Par Aqua

• Woodbridge Avenue and Clarence Street – Cailin Sadecka, Ethereality

• Woodbridge Avenue and Islington Avenue – Alessandra Raso, The Hunt

• Woodbridge Avenue and Kipling Avenue – Allyson Safran, Mountain Vast

• Woodbridge Avenue and the Market Lane Shopping Centre – Kaitlyn Hsieh, Wilderness

Ward 3:

• Weston Road and Ashberry Boulevard – Andre Kan, Fragment/Renewal

• Major Mackenzie Drive and Lawford Road – Joanna Katchutas, Iridescent Signs

• Ansley Grove Road and Windflower Gate – Meegan Lim, Eternal Bloom, Endless Flight

• Chrislea Road and Northview Boulevard – Daniel Zhang, Muskoka Woods

• Famous Avenue and Colossus Drive – Anna Ladizginsky, Twine

Ward 4:

• Bathurst Street and Rutherford Road – Vridhhi Chaudhry, Paper Boat Letters

• Interchange Way in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre – Thelia Sanders Shelton, Love Superheroes

• Apple Mill Road and Jane Street in the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre – Ron Wild, Flower of Life

• Apple Mill Road and Millway Avenue – Marni Pellicane, Beauty of Banff

• Ilan Ramon Boulevard and Lebovic Campus Drive – Caia Rotman, Peggy

Ward 5:

• Clark Avenue and Hilda Avenue – Danielle Cole, Plant Ladies

• Atkinson Avenue and Clark Avenue – Ashley Dadoun, River Healed

• Yonge Street and Clark Avenue – Rina Gottesman, Home is Where the Heart Is

• Clark Avenue and New Westminster Drive – Lorenzo Pereira Misiunas, The Lone Boat

• Yonge Street and Centre Street – Rana Silakhori, Snowy Serenity

Links

• ARTonBOXES program vaughan.ca

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City of Vaughan

With a population of more than 340,000 residents, Vaughan is one of the fastest growing communities in Canada, home to more than 217 ethnic or cultural origins with 113 different languages spoken. It is a vibrant, diverse, inclusive and equity-based community that recognizes and celebrates arts, culture and heritage.

We recognize that Vaughan is situated in the Territory and Treaty 13 lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We also recognize the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee. The City of Vaughan is currently home to many First Nations, Métis and Inuit people today. As representatives of the people of the City of Vaughan, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and live in this territory.

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