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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
This entry was cross-posted at DesignCharlotte.org.
The Fat City Lofts developers are sponsoring “The Graffiti Exhibition” on Friday from 6 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. at 3100 N. Davidson St., Suite 104. Visitors can examine graffiti artists’ conceptual ideas for covering a wall of the residential-retail building and vote on their preferences. Five participating artists plan to [...]
This video, produced by the Mint Museum, takes a look at the the projects being built around the new Wachovia tower that collectively make up the Wachovia Cultural Campus: the new Mint Museum, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, the Knight Theater, and the Afro-American Cultural Center.
Via adcharlotte.
These renderings appeared today in the printed program for the Wachovia Championship, as well as on trumpcharlotte.com and Little’s website.
Will it be built? Is it just another rendering of the same old plan that was recently put on hold? Maybe all of the above.
This entry was cross-posted at DesignCharlotte.org.
Off The Wall is the first graffiti-inspired art show in Charlotte and opens this coming Friday at the Charlotte Art League, a Southend art gallery. The exhibit will showcase graffiti and graffiti-inspired artwork, featuring veteran graffiti artist Desism, among others.
gallery crawl & reception: May 2, 6-9 pm
showing: May 2 - [...]
Charlotte Center City Partners released an amazing new vision of Uptown retail at their annual Vision Awards. As the vision emphasizes a drastically different new look for shopping in the Center City, our streets would go from stark to spectacular. The addition of EpiCenter and other non-business components to uptown - like residential towers - [...]
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