By Jillian Mueller Although design student Unique Patton will head back to N.C. State University in the fall, she isn’t done making her mark on Charlotte yet. Patton has been involved in the Queen City’s cultural scene since writing a poem in middle school that inspired the words that embellish the Tom Hunter light rail …

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By Michael J. Solender As a young man of 19, Chris Miller had a chance encounter as a day laborer working construction on a large residential home in Denver, Colo., that would turn out to shape and influence the trajectory of his professional career. “I was on a summer job which got me into plasterwork,” …

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By Jonathan McFadden Don’t put limits on Kenya Templeton. She doesn’t believe in them and will do her best to defy them anyway. That’s because she’s spent much of her career honing her various artistic talents and working stints across an array of industries that include theatre, marketing, fashion and retail. Today, she teaches cyclists …

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By Jillian Mueller Murals have been popping up on walls all across the Queen City in the past few years, but certain neighborhoods—especially those further away from the Center City area with larger minority and immigrant populations—seem to get less attention than others. Inspired to make a change in this inequality, Davidson-based artist and 2020 …

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