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Ray Kaskey: public art in Charlotte

6 works by Ray Kaskey in the Mecklenburg County public art register.

The county register credits 6 works to Ray Kaskey. 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
CommerceRay KaskeySculptureExteriorIntersection of Tryon and Trade streets
FutureRay KaskeySculptureExteriorIntersection of Tryon and Trade streets
IndustryRay KaskeySculptureExteriorIntersection of Tryon and Trade streets
QRay KaskeySculptureInteriorTerminal Lobby Expansion
Queen Charlotte PlinthRay KaskeySculptureInteriorTerminal Lobby
TransportationRay KaskeySculptureExteriorIntersection of Tryon and Trade streets

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.