TORONTO — Have you ever considered that the empty expanse on the side of your van is really a vast canvas just waiting to be filled with beautiful artwork that moves everybody who lays eyes on it?

Here’s your chance to do something about it. For free.

Graham Curry is the project coordinator of a community-based art project called Art on the Move.

It’s designed to bring artists into contact with local truckers and ultimately morph blank trailers or truck boxes into finished paintings.

The combined effort of two community groups, Lakeshore Arts and Arts Etobicoke will, in Curry’s words, "make people think differently about the people who truck for a living."

She’s hoping several truckers will contact her to see if her ideas jive with theirs. At the moment, she’s vetting artists and hoping to pair the chosen few with vehicles; the first three should be completed by this time next year; five the year after that and then seven more in the project’s third year.

She’s thinking digitized images on wraps. "We’ll be working with a local vehicle wrap company to wrap vehicles in one of two ways — with a white vinyl wrap that will then be painted on by the artist and community group, or with a digitally imaged and inked vinyl wrap."

She (rather, the Ontario Trillium Foundation which is sponsoring the project) will pay to install and to remove the art after a year, if you want. You might also choose to leave it there.

Curry says other arts groups have embraced projects like this, most recently in St. Louis, Missouri.

If you click here, you’ll get an idea of what can be done; and she reassures todaystrucking.com readers that the art that finally finds itself on your vehicles will be tasteful and pretty much g-rated.

"It will be very appropriate for the community as well as for the vehicle it’s on," she says. "It’s an exciting program and a great way for the public to enjoy art."