Artist Zachary Noble was selected by the Public Art Commission to do the public artwork for the new Fire Station #42 on Central Avenue. Noble fabricated two 1300 pound gates that represent both the fire station and the community in which the fire station resides.
Hear Noble explain his inspiration and talk about the gates below.
The artwork was paid for by the City of Charlotte’s 1% for art ordinance.
By Emily Rapport Education Intern Camp Director Crystal Lail would have graduated college with a degree in business had her roommate not needed a tutor. Lail had a knack for helping her roommate learn the material. “I was really good at helping people understand things in different ways,” she says. Lail switched her major to […]
By Donna Scott Executive Producer, Donna Scott Productions Donna Scott Productions and Civilized Films are thrilled to have the support of an Arts & Science Council Cultural Project Grant for the current theatre project, “Least Likely Friends,” a new play by Charlotte playwright Tonya Bludsworth. Non-musical theatre productions typically cost an average of $12,000-$15,000 and […]
By Kristopher Steele, MPA ASC Planning and Innovation Manager In Search of a New Funding Model For nearly 40 years, Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s cultural sector has been supported through a public-private fundraising model that includes running fundraising campaigns in the workplace and partnering with local and state government to earn and raise the necessary dollars that support […]
By David Currence Marketing Manager Exhausted from a full day of classes at West Mecklenburg High School and an unusually long wait for the bus, Jasmine Santos still has a warm smile as she exclaims “The bus was over an hour late,” to her patient-yet-anxious instructors at Studio 345. It’s an hour before the Mecklenburg County […]
On May 19, the North Carolina Senate released its 2013-2015 state budget recommendations, which included debilitating cuts to the North Carolina Arts Council. In addition to administrative cuts, the Senate proposed a $500,000 cut to the grants program in 2013/14 and a $780,000 cut to the grants program in 2014/15. What is even more unsettling […]
