Sixteen Bells

This record comes from the Arts & Science Council’s public art register, which is the authority for what is installed and who owns it. The register does not say whether a work is currently on display, and interior works may not be publicly viewable.

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.

This one is recorded as interior. It sits inside a building, and the register does not say whether that building is open to the public or whether the work is currently on display. Do not make a trip for it without checking with the venue.

What else is close

• Light Bridge · about 100 ft away · Attractions & public art
• Buddy Bear · about 350 ft away · Attractions & public art
• Before Dawn · about 350 ft away · Attractions & public art
• North Carolina Medical College Building · about 450 ft away · Historic places
• Carolina Theatre · about 450 ft away · Historic places
• Settlers Cemetery · about 0.1 mi away · Historic places

Distances are straight-line from the recorded coordinates, not walking distance — there may be a creek, a rail line or an interstate in between.