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Cliff Garten: public art in Charlotte

3 works by Cliff Garten in the Mecklenburg County public art register.

The county register credits 3 works to Cliff Garten. We publish what the register records — the work, its type, its setting and where it is — and nothing about the artist that we have not separately verified.

WorkArtistTypeSettingWhere
BeaconsCliff GartenSculptureExteriorSouth Bv at Sharon Rd W
Brooklyn StoriesCliff GartenSculptureExterior1200 Baxter St
Levine LanternsCliff GartenLight sculpturesExterior550 S Tryon St

Why these exist

Charlotte City Code Chapter 15, Article IX — Ordinance No. 2308, adopted 27 May 2003 — sets aside one percent of the cost of eligible city capital projects for public art, with exclusions and a threshold below which it does not apply. Transit art runs separately, to the Metropolitan Transit Commission’s own guidelines. Title in the artwork vests in the city, and the ordinance sets out a removal procedure in which the city’s decision is final. That is why so much of the work here is publicly owned, and why so much of it is attached to a building or a station rather than standing in a park.