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. Since 2022, the City has worked with local artists to help beautify the landscape by wrapping its municipal traffic control boxes with themed artwork. In total, 29 municipally owned traffic control boxes across communities of Fenelon Falls, Bobcaygeon, Argyle, Omemee and Lindsay have been wrapped.

In collaboration with Kawartha Arts Network, the goal of the program is 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.

Through a public call for submissions, visual artists and graphic designers in Kawartha Lakes are invited to submit digitally created artwork, or scans of original artwork through our online form. Themes for the first three years of the program were Nature and the Outdoors, Arts and Entertainment and Agriculture and Rural Life. 29 TBCs were wrapped over the three years, with one special temporary box warped for the 2024 International Plowing Match & Rural Expo (IPM) held in Lindsay. For 2026, the theme People of Kawartha Lakes has been launched to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the City of Kawartha Lakes.