The City of Waterloo supports and commissions public art and to date has 17 large scale works in public spaces, as well as ongoing public art placed within community buildings.At the Clay & Glass Gallery in downtown Waterloo you'll find a public art plaza to the front of the buidling. This open space is ringed by a large public art structure and there are smaller art works in nearby peripheral spaces.

You can take a walk in almost any direction and you'll find public art. On the Laurel Trail behind the gallery for example, across the street inside and outside  the Waterloo Public Library, and in Waterloo City Square on King St.

  As in downtown Kitchener, Waterloo also has large-scale sculptures related to its industrial past. Take a walk to the The former Seamgrams Distillery buidling  located on Caroline St parallel to King St. [approximately two blocks from the Clay & Glass Gallery]. The frontage features the Barrel Warehouse Park, a small-scale urban project by Toronto landscape architect Janet Rosenberg.

The City of Waterloo's website on Public Art provides two pdf maps for locating art: The Uptown Waterloo Art Experience and RIM Park Art Experience. A tabbed search function on this site gives select images and descriptions of each art work, as well as the relevance of the site itself.

And don't forget, new public art is popping up all over the place as new buildings are completed. Here is a recent public art piece on Regina Street, titled 'Aspiring Orchard' by Waterloo artist Catherine Paleczny.