Winter Stations public art exhibition has returned for its 12th year, bringing creativity, community, and colour to the coldest months of Canadian winter.

This year’s theme, “Mirage,” invited artists and designers from around the world to submit proposals for installations that “play with the boundary of what is seen and what is real in the age of AI,” and explore public art as infrastructure that gathers people in shared reality.

Since 2015, Winter Stations has become an international launching pad for new ideas in public art, offering winners full materials, fabrication labour, and a CAD $2,000 honorarium to support what is often the winners’ first public art commission.