Public Art Program
Jennifer Anne Kelly, Rewilding (installation detail), 2025, Trend-Arlington, photo: David Barbour
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New Public Art: Rewilding by Jennifer Anne Kelly
This public art installation focuses on the positive future for rewilding the Trend-Arlington community following the devastating storm of 2018. Representing the year of the storm, 18 butterflies are suspended from the Trend-Arlington Pavillion in celebration of community and regrowth.
A community collaboration day in Spring 2025 resulted in a vibrant assembly of paper cutout butterflies from which the designs for the steel wings were amalgamated; the reclaimed wood, saved by community members after the storm, was formed into the butterfly bodies.
Rewilding is the practice of reintroduction, strength and resilience – characteristics demonstrated by those calling the Trend-Arlington community home.
Natasha Mazurka, Sum of Parts (detail), 2025, oil, latex, and gesso on birch panel, 25 x 25 cm, courtesy of the artist, photo: House of Common Studio
Natasha Mazurka – Space Created by Distance
September 18 to November 30, 2025
Finissage: Thursday, November 13, 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Joint event with Remco Volmer at Karsh-Masson Gallery.
Event access is limited to the Laurier Avenue after-hours entrance.
Artist tour: Sunday, November 30, 2 pm
Presented in English.
Event access is limited to the Laurier Avenue entrance.
Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West
Open daily from 9 am to 5 pm, excluding holidays
Free admission. Wheelchair accessible.