The Sarjeant Company, in conjunction with the MacLaren Art Center, commissioned a local artist to visit four local schools and design art for our concrete mixer drums.
The Sarjeant Design Project was launched in the Spring of 2011 and strengthens the MacLaren's and Sarjeant's commitment to fostering the creative talents of young people in the Barrie community.
Sarjeants enabled the Gallery to hire regional artist Tim Laurin to lead workshops with 85 high-school students at five Barrie high schools. In May of 2011, each design was displayed in the MacLaren's Molson Community Gallery on an inventive "drum roll" that showed the 360-degree designs off to best effect. Ultimately, four designs were selected for transfer to the truck drums and the beginning of this new fleet.
Four winners were selected by a jury of professional artists and Autotrim Barrie produce digital vinyl prints on 4 full sized Sarjeant 9 cubic meter concrete trucks.
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