date: Saturday, December 13th
when: 12:00-8:00pm
where: The Gallery @ Warehouse
“Charlotte-based painter and sketch artist Jonathan Grauel has returned to the Charlotte art scene after tragically slicing three fingers off his drawing hand with a table saw in December 2007. Grauel’s new show, “Villages,” explores the process of creating his work from before and after the [...]
videography: Justin Ritchie, production: Justin Ruckman; watch this video on Vimeo
Yesterday was crystal clear and unusually warm in Charlotte. At the NC Music Factory ribbon-cutting ceremony, around 150 shuffled inside for live music and hot apple cider.
Watch the video above for highlights from the event, including an interview with Ken Thomas, VP of Entertainment at [...]
date: Saturday, Novenmber 15time: 5-10 pmwhere: Ink Floyd @ 1030 Louise Avenue, Charlotte, NC
“Various Artists” is a live screenprinting event brought to you by Kitschworth & Ink Floyd. It will showcase the designs of 6 artists that are based in North Carolina. Their original artwork will be screenprinted live on t-shirts and high-quality paper only [...]
Nikolas Schiller is a digital artist and cartographer. He’s 28 and lives in Washington, DC. These pictures of Charlotte are just the beginning of the immense body of work he’s produced, sampling satellite photography around the world and making some incredibly complex, beautiful, trippy geo-industrial artwork.
You can see the rest of his Charlotte and Raleigh [...]
A couple weekends ago I had the opportunity to check out some fantastic films and some, um, less than fanstactic films at the third annual Charlotte Film Festival. It featured several short films, documentaries, and feature length narratives. As an extra bonus they held panels featuring various film industry professionals discussing, among other things, new technology.
Matt Tyndall [...]
All photographs taken and provided graciously by Mitchell Kearney.
A little over a week ago, on September 25th, Petra’s Cabaret and Piano Bar hosted Charlotte’s first Pecha Kucha Night. Guests packed the main room, as fourteen presenters (or, in some cases, teams) did show and tell on the topic of their choosing. The presentations were diverse, [...]
In 1791, George Washington called Charlotte, N.C., a “trifling place.” In 1941 an author scoffed that the city had as much use for high-rises “as a hog has for a morning coat.” By 1991, Charlotte was still a minor-league city without major-league sports, a cultural wasteland with a central business district that died every weekday [...]
Starting this fall, Charlotte’s most ambitious entertainment district will begin opening its doors to those in the QC who crave a taste of something far from the often corporate feel of Uptown. While there are many quality options within the city limits for a night out, nothing will revolutionize CLT more than the addition of [...]
The Charlotte Chamber is holding its annual CLT skyline photo contest!
Entries must be submitted via 35mm slides, transparencies or hi-res digital files on CD by September 30th at 5pm. You can either deliver them in person at 330 S. Tryon St. or mail them to PO Box 32785, Charlotte NC 28232 Attn: Art Director.
The winning [...]
It’s the time of year when people break out the Superman outfit and head to the Charlotte Convention Center for the 16th Annual Heroes Convention, presented by Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find. The convention took place Friday though Sunday.
Heroes Con has a ton of stuff to do whether you are a comic book fanatic or [...]
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