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Project Updates

Public Art is a reflection of our community's history and identity. Local, regional and national artists are commissioned to create public art for our open spaces and public buildings. Below are ASC public art projects in process.

Little Sugar Creek Greenway - Along Kings Drive in east Charlotte, work crews rapidly transformed the wide ribbon of land that became a vast linear park with plazas, walking paths and access to the creek. Residents and visitors now have a renewed natural environment for exercise and enjoyment adjacent to uptown and nearby neighborhoods.  Sculptor Masayuki Nagase enhanced the segment between Morehead Ave. and Baxter St. with carved granite benches and boulders, and mosaic inlays for the plazas. Fabrication is completed and installation is scheduled.

Romare Bearden Park - Artist Norie Sato, has collaborated with the landscape and planning firm of LandDesign, to design Charlotte’s largest Center City park using the themes of Romare Bearden’s artwork.  Bearden spent his early years in nearby Third Ward, and his paintings and collages are infused with color and memories of gardens and the historic neighborhood.  Sato applied the themes and spirit of his work to the forms and identity of the park’s major design elements.

The North Carolina Arts Council awarded the ASC Public Art Program a “Creating Place” grant of $10,000 for FY 11, and artist Kendall Buster, a noted sculptor, public artist and professor of art at Virginia Commonwealth University, was selected following an extensive review process.   Buster has designed a grouping of balloon-like bronze wire sculptures to be sited in the Childhood Muse area of Bearden Park.  Members of the selection panel commented that the sculptures possess a sense of magic and at the same time are futuristic and allow park visitors of all ages to experience space and interact with them in very unique ways.

Central Avenue/Briar Creek Bridge - Central Avenue on Charlotte’s eastside is a heavily trafficked corridor with concentrations of Asian and Latino businesses and residences. This changing demographic has meant that the area is now referred to as Charlotte’s “International District.”  For motorists driving east, Briar Creek passes under Central Ave. just before the entry to several neighborhood business parks. Sculptor Jim Gallucci has forged new bridge railings to identify the creek and beautify the entry to the district.  Continuing along Central, ASC’s Public Art Program is collaborating with a Knight Foundation Creative Catalyst work group to sponsor an artist residency that will address rebranding the Central Ave. corridor and contributing updated streetscape elements such as trash cannisters and banners.  CMS students at Garinger High School will participate in the design efforts.