It’s All Right Now was a 2020 public art project co-organized by The Bentway Conservancy and Cossette, that invited Toronto based artists to respond to a simple inquiry during the pandemic: “What words are you living by?”, and create powerful responses in their own artistic style.

Artwork by Ani Castillo, for It’s All Right Now.

The project was able to use donated digital billboards across the city of Toronto, normally used for consumer marketing, and turn the city into a canvas where the messages of participants were exhibited. Important places in the city such as the Gardiner Expressway and Yonge-Dundas Square were transformed into a public gallery.

This long-term public art project attracted many participants, generating meaningful and positive encouragement when the city needed it the most. In 2021, one year after the first submissions, the project asked participants to reflect back on their original pieces. You can find their comments and some new submissions on their website section, One year later.