Compost Education Centre Public Art Efforts – Community Feedback
September 11, 2025
The Compost Education Centre (CEC), with financial support from the City of Victoria’s My Great Neighbourhood Grant and a micro-grant from the Fernwood Neighbourhood House, has hired an artist (Taylor Pannell) to beautify the exterior fencing of the demonstration site at 1216 North Park Street, to paint a new picnic table for all to enjoy, and to paint a mural on the street surface near the entrance to the CEC demonstration site. We’re working to create a warm, welcoming, and approachable environment for all City residents to come and spend time relaxing in the gardens or learning about hands on regenerative soil practices.
There are three main elements to these efforts:
1. Fence beautification: To beautify the chain link fence while also bringing together community, community members are welcome to paint metal or wooden Flora and Fauna representative of the work we do at the CEC to attach them to the fence. Timeline: October community event
2. Picnic Table art: There is a need for additional seating within the demonstration & allotment gardens at the CEC. In partnership with ReWood we will build a new picnic table, to replace a near fallen apart picnic table to create seating area for people to dwell longer in the gardens The CEC has some milled Eucalyptus wood from a tree that was cut down because of a neighbouring development that will be used as the material. The Artist in Residence will paint a design on top of the table. Timeline: November painting.
3. Street Mural on North Park Street: To create a colourful and welcoming approach for our new neighbours at the Caledonia development and to make the entrance of the CEC & Chambers Community Allotment Garden more noticeable, the Artist will paint a road top mural featuring elements of plants, healthy soil, community cohesion. Timeline: end of April/early May for street mural painting, with a community celebration and garden party to celebrate the mural in the following weeks.
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