That’s a Wrap Program

The Kawartha Lakes’ That’s a Wrap Traffic Control Box (TCB) art program is a temporary public art initiative to wrap select traffic control boxes along the Kawartha Lakes road network with artist created imagery. Starting in 2022, the City has worked with local artists to help beautify the landscape by wrapping its municipal traffic control boxes with themed artwork. Currently there are 19 wrapped traffic control boxes across the community: Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, Argyle, Omemee and Lindsay. In total, 29 traffic control boxes will be wrapped by 2025.

In collaboration with Kawartha Arts Network, the goal of the program was to enliven our downtown landscapes with eye-popping artwork that captures and displays the individual and collective experiences of our community on traffic control boxes around the municipality.

Visual artists and graphic designers in Kawartha Lakes were invited to submit digitally created artwork, or scans of original artwork through our online form. Theme's for the three year program were Nature and the Outdoors, Arts and Entertainment and Agriculture and Rural Life. 29 TBC were wrapped over the three years, with one special temporary box warped for the 2024 International Plowing Match & Rural Expo (IPM) held in Lindsay.