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Public art at Charlotte Convention Center

10 works in the county public art register are installed at Charlotte Convention Center.

The county’s public art register records 10 works at Charlotte Convention Center. This page lists all of them, with the artist, the type of work and whether the register marks it as interior or exterior.

10 of the 10 are recorded as interior. An interior work sits inside a building, and the register does not say whether that building is open to the public or whether the work is on display. Check with the venue before making a trip for one.

Recorded owner: City of Charlotte.

WorkArtistTypeSettingWhere
CelebrationJohn BiggersMuralInterior501 S College St
Charlotte: Diversity and HopeRobert TynesMuralInterior501 S College St
Homage to North CarolinaRichard LippoldSculptureInterior501 S College St
Home MoviePaul RoussoMuralInterior501 S College St
I’ve Known RiversJuan LoganMuralInterior501 S College St
Nature Made, Hand Made: Icons on Level 768David DahlquistRailingInterior501 S College St
Oculus ReflectorJames CarpenterSculptureInterior501 S College St
Remembrances of Charlotte's Second Ward: Brooklyn and Blue HavenT.J. ReddyMuralInterior501 S College St
SkylineSusan NarduliSculptureInterior501 S College St
The Goodliest LandRuth Ava LyonsMuralInterior501 S College 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.