McColl Center
   HOME





McColl Center
McColl Center (formerly McColl Center for Art + Innovation) is an artist residency and contemporary art center, art space located at 721 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Alliance of Artists Communities
McColl Center for Visual Art names Brad Thomas Director of Residencies and Exhibitions
The Mint Museum: News, June 13, 2013
Residencies last from two months to eleven months and are available to visual artists as well as creative people in other disciplines. The mis ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Artist Residency
Artist-in-residence (also Writer-in-residence), or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs that involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs that provide artists with space and resources to support their artistic practice. Contemporary artist residencies are becoming increasingly thematic, with artists working together with their host in pursuit of a specific outcome related to a particular theme. Definitions History Artist groups resembling artist residencies can be traced back to at least 16th century Europe, when art academies began to emerge. In 1563 Duke of Florence Cosimo Medici and Tuscan painter Giorgio Vasari co-founded the , which may be considered the first academy of arts. It was the first institution to promote the idea that artists may benefit from a localised site dedicated to the advancement of their practice. In the 17th century, the state of France funded the , a ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Bank Of America
The Bank of America Corporation (Bank of America) (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank and Bank of America (1904–1998), Bank of America in 1998. It is the List of largest banks in the United States, second-largest banking institution in the United States and the second-largest bank in the world by market capitalization, both after JPMorgan Chase. Bank of America is one of the Big Four (banking)#United States, Big Four banking institutions of the United States. and one of eight systemically important financial institutions in the US. It serves about 10 percent of all American bank deposits, in direct competition with JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Its primary financial se ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Nick Cave (performance Artist)
Nick Cave (born February 4, 1959) is an American sculptor, dancer, performance artist, and professor. He is best known for his ''Soundsuit'' series: wearable assemblage fabric sculptures that are bright, whimsical, and other-worldly, often made with found objects. He also trained as a dancer with Alvin Ailey and often incorporates dance and performance into his works. His later sculptures have focused on color theory and included mixed media and large-scale installations. He lives in Chicago, Illinois, and directs the graduate fashion program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to work on ''Soundsuits'' as well as works completed as a sculptor, dancer, and performance artist. His first career retrospective museum exhibition was at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 14, 2022–Oct 02, 2022, and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, November 18, 2022 – April 10, 2023. He received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Rob Carter
Rob Carter (born 1949) is an American professor of typography and graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University. Personal information Rob Carter was born in 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, USA. Residencies and awards Carter has received numerous awards for his work from organizations such as the American Institute of Graphic Arts The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) is a professional organization for design. Its members practice all forms of communication design, including graphic design, typography, interaction design, user experience, branding and identity. The ..., New York Type Directors Club, Society of Typographic Arts, Creativity, and Print regional annual. Bibliography * ''American Typography Today'', Rob Carter (1989) * ''Working with Type'' five-volume series * ''Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces'', Philip B. Meggs, Rob Carter (1993) * ''Meggs: making graphic design history'', Philip B. Meggs, Rob ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  




Margarita Cabrera
Margarita Cabrera (born 1973) is a Mexican-American artist and activist. As an artist, the objects and activities she produces address issues related to border relations, labor practices and immigration. Her practice spans smaller textile-based soft sculptures to large community-involved public artworks. In 2012 she was a recipient of the Knight Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, North Carolina. Cabrera was also a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. Early life and education Cabrera was born in the city of Monterrey in the state of Nuevo Leon, México. She moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in the United States at around the age of 10, when her family was in search of better opportunities. She describes this period of life as very isolated and would do art in her free time. Her inspiration to become an artist began in her childhood, when she was exposed to the Montessori system of education. In high school her family moved to El Paso wh ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Ambreen Butt
Ambreen Butt (born 1969) is a Boston-based Pakistani American artist best known for her drawings, paintings, prints, and collages, and has been recognized for her labor intensive, painted self-portraits that portray feminist and political ideas through traditional Persian art. She now resides in Dallas, TX. Education Butt obtained her Bachelor’s of Fine Art in traditional Indian and Persian miniature painting from the National College of Arts in Lahore. She later moved to Boston in 1993 and in 1997 she received her Master’s of Fine Arts in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art (now Massachusetts College of Art and Design). Art Butt's work is rooted in her bi-cultural identity and retains the intricate, decorative patterning that characterizes Indian and Persian miniature painting. One such work, ''I Am My Lost Diamond (2011),'' created for her ''Realms of Intimacy'' exhibition at thCincinnati Contemporary Art Center combined more than 20,000 sculpted fingers and ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


picture info

Sharif Bey
Sharif Bey (born 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an African American artist, ceramicist, and professor. He produces functional pottery as well as ceramic and mixed-media sculptures using various forms and textures. His body of work reflects his interest in the visual heritage of Africa and Oceania and contemporary African American culture. With his colorful large-scale bead sculptures, Bey explores the cultural and political significance of ornamentation and adornment. Education As a high school student, Bey completed a ceramics apprenticeship at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild. The Manchester Craftsmen's Guild played a formative role for Bey throughout his teens, giving him a foundation of skills, extensive ceramics-world connections, and exposure to various visiting masters – including Jun Kaneko, Karen Karnes, Judy Moonelis, Paul Soldner, and Akio Takamori. Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, Bey studied sculpture at The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  


Endia Beal
Endia Beal (born February 8, 1985) is an African-American visual artist, curator, and educator. She is known for her work in creating visual narratives through photography and video testimonies focused on women of color working in corporate environments. Early life and education Endia Beal was born on February 8, 1985, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is the daughter of Frank Beal and Sheila Beal. Beal took her first photo class at University of North Carolina Greensboro. In 2008 Beal graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolling students in 1795 ... with a double bachelor's degree in Art History and Studio Art. As an undergraduate student, she attended the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy focusing on classic Art ...
[...More Info...]      
[...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]  



MORE