McColl Center (formerly McColl Center for Art + Innovation) is an artist residency and contemporary art space located at 721 North Tryon Street in

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.McColl Center for Art + Innovation
Alliance of Artists CommunitiesMcColl Center for Visual Art names Brad Thomas Director of Residencies and Exhibitions
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: News, June 13, 2013 Residencies last from two months to eleven months and are available to visual artists as well as creative people in other disciplines. The mission of McColl Center is to encourage collaboration and interaction between artists and the community at large in an immersive atmosphere.
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' Allworth Press, April 1, 2005, McColl Center is a 501(c)(3) organization.

Art space

Opened in 1999, McColl Center contains nine individual artist studios, a large scale sculpture facility, many common-use areas, and more than 5,000 square feet of exhibition space. In addition to studio space, McColl Center provides tools and materials for fiber arts, jewelry making,

metal fabrication Metal fabrication is the creation of metal structures by cutting, bending and assembling processes. It is a value-added process involving the creation of machines, parts, and structures from various raw materials. Typically, a fabrication sh ...

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techni ...

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

photography Photography is the visual art, art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It i ...

ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcelain, ...

, digital media and

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. The galleries are open on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Admission is free. Numerous public events include residency openings, exhibitions, and other events for the community and artists to engage.

History

The building housing McColl Center was originally a

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Church built in 1926. The historic, brick and stone

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structure was an active church until 1950 when the church's membership was dissolved. The building stood empty for many years until November 14, 1984, when an accidental fire gutted the interior, leaving only an empty shell. In 1995,

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bought the property with the intention of establishing an

artist residency Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...

. The bank, with the help of Charlotte's Arts & Science Council, redesigned and rebuilt the interior as a place for artists to live and work. The renovated structure was designed by FMK Architects and was built by Rodgers Builders. It opened on September 16, 1999, as the Tryon Center for Visual Art.

Hugh McColl, Jr. Hugh L. McColl Jr. (born 18 June 1935) is a fourth-generation banker and the former Chairman and CEO of Bank of America. Active in banking since around 1960, McColl was a driving force behind consolidating a series of progressively larger, mo ...

, former CEO of Bank of America, was the primary patron and in 2001, to honor him, the name was changed to McColl Center for Visual Art. A third name change occurred in 2014 when it became McColl Center for Art + Innovation. In 2021, the organization announced a renewed direction to put artists first and a new visual identity under the name McColl Center.

Alumni artists-in-residence

The McColl Center has served as a working space and studio for over 400 artists including:20 years of Artists-In-Residence
McColl Center * Opal Palmer Adisa *

Deborah Aschheim Deborah Aschheim is an American new media artist. She has exhibited her work internationally, in the United States and in Europe. She is best known for her exhibition ''Involuntary Memories''. Her work includes video sculptures and focuses on memo ...

* Xenobia Bailey *

Joan Bankemper Joan Bankemper is an American artist living and working in New York City. Her early 'social practice' or site specific garden/art installations blurred the boundaries of art and life. Bankemper is a 'situationist' and her ceramics are artifacts o ...

Endia Beal Endia Beal (born February 8, 1985) is an African-American visual artist, curator, and educator. She is known for her work in creating visual narratives through photography and video testimonies focused on women of color working in corporate environ ...

Sharif Bey Sharif Bey (born 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is an African American artist, ceramicist and professor. He produces both functional pottery and ceramic and mixed- media sculpture, using a variety of forms and textures. His body of work r ...

* Ambreen Butt *

Margarita Cabrera Margarita Cabrera (born 1973) is a Mexican-American artist and activist. As an artist, the objects and activities she produces address issues related to border relations, labor practices and immigration. Her practice spans smaller textile-based s ...

Rob Carter Rob Carter (born 1949) is an American professor of typography and graphic design at Virginia Commonwealth University. Personal information Rob Carter was born in 1949 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, USA. ...

Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, C ...

* Mel Chin *

Andrea Chung Andrea Chung (born 1978) is an American artist born in Newark, NJ and currently works in San Diego, CA. Her work focuses primarily on island nations in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean sea; specifically on how outsiders perceive a fantastic re ...

* Sonya Clark *

Joël Mpah Dooh Joël Claude Mpah Dooh, born in Nkongsamba (Cameroon) in 1954, is a visual artist who lives and works in Douala. Biography Joël Claude Mpah Dooh is a graduate of the Conservatoire Municipal des Beaux-Arts of Amiens (France). His first works ...

Javier de Frutos Javier De Frutos is a Spanish director, choreographer and designer (born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1963) was named by the Evening Standard as one of 2016 most influential people in London. He is one of only three artists in the history of the Olivi ...

* Carlos Estévez *

Fallen Fruit Fallen Fruit is a Los Angeles based artists' collaboration composed of David Allen Burns and Austin Young. The project was originally conceived by David Allen Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young in 2004. Since 2013, David and Austin have c ...

Bill Gaskins (born May 25, 1953) is an American photographer and academic. His work explores the intersection of black hair and critical analysis of the portraiture in the 21st century. In his book ''Good And Bad Hair: Photographs'', Gaskins tackles the ...

* Mark Steven Greenfield *

Greg Haberny Greg Haberny (born 1975) is an American artist and filmmaker based in New York. Haberny's artist residencies include The Fountainhead Residency and McColl Center for Art + Innovation. In 2016, Haberny held an exhibition called 'Py•r•o·glyp ...

Hollis Hammonds Hollis Hammonds is an American artist and academic, who is associate professor of art and chair of visual studies at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. Hammonds specializes in drawing and sculptural installations. She is author of the dra ...

* Michael Harrison *

Heather Hart Heather T. Hart (born May 3, 1975) is a visual artist who works in a variety of media including interactive and participatory Installation art, drawing, collage, and painting. She is a co-founder of the Black Lunch Table Project, which includes ...

* Ralph Helmick *

Joseph Herscher Joseph Herscher is a YouTube personality known for his channel Joseph's Machines. Herscher is a kinetic artist who specializes in making comical chain-reaction machines. He made his first machine, the ''Lolly Machine'', when he was five. He was ...

* Sara Hughes *

Kellie Jones Kellie Jones (born 1959) is an American art historian and curator. She is a Professor in Art History and Archaeology in African American Studies at Columbia University. She won a MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. Biography Jones is the daughte ...

* Marcia Jones *

Rebecca Kamen Rebecca Kamen (born 1950) is an American artist. Kamen's artwork is influenced and inspired by scientific work in many areas, from medieval alchemical manuscripts to the periodic table, to theories of black holes. Informed by science, her wor ...

* Sheila Klein * Alix Lambert * Robert Lazzarini *

Shaun Leonardo Shaun El C. Leonardo is an American artist and performer best known for his work exploring the relationships between masculinity, sports, race, and culture. Early life and education Shaun Leonardo was born and raised in Queens, New York. His ...

Stacy Levy Stacy Levy (born 1960) is a sculptor who works with ecological natural patterns and processes, often using water and water flows as a medium. Many of her works address environmental problems at the same time that they make the functioning of th ...

Willie Little Willie Little (born December 25, 1961) is a conceptual, multimedia, installation artist and storyteller, whose work is strongly influenced by traditions of rural North Carolina. Early life Little was born and grew up on a tobacco farm in Pact ...

Juan Logan Juan Logan (born August 16, 1946) is an American artist from Nashville, Tennessee. His paintings, sculptures, and installations are reflective of his experiences of racial and institutional power structures in the South and prompt viewers to cons ...

Nava Lubelski Nava Lubelski (born 1968 in New York City) is a contemporary artist who works and lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Background and education Lubelski was born in 1968 and grew up in the SoHo section of New York City. She graduated from Hunter Co ...

Bradley McCallum Bradley McCallum (born August 2, 1966) is an American conceptual artist and social activist. He is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installation art, installations made in collaboration with artist Jacqueline Tarry, with whom he has wo ...

Beverly McIver Beverly McIver (born c. 1962) is a contemporary artist, mostly known for her self-portraits, who was born and raised in Greensboro, NC. She is currently the Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies at Duke Univ ...

Aiko Miyanaga Aiko Miyanaga (born 1974) is a contemporary Japanese artist known for sculpture and installation works that give visual form to time by revealing the evidential traces of its passing. Miyanaga has made many works using Napthalene which leads ...

Franco Mondini-Ruiz Franco Mondini-Ruiz (born 1961) is an American artist who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas and New York, New York. He is of Mexican and Italian descent. According to art critic Roberta Smith, his work "questions notions of preciousness and ...

Liz Nielsen Liz Nielsen is an American photographer based in Brooklyn. Career Nielsen prefers using traditional analog photography methods with hand-made negatives and natural lighting. She graduated with a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicag ...

Ed Osborn Ed Osborn is an American sound artist and visual artist. Life Osborn was born in 1964 in Helsinki, Finland. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in 1987, where he studied with Alvin Lucier, and a Master of Fine Arts degr ...

Winnie Owens-Hart Winnie Owens-Hart (born 1949) is an American ceramist and sculptor. Life Born in Washington, D.C., Owens-Hart received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, followed by a Master of Fine Arts degree fro ...

* Fahamu Pecou *

Endi E. Poskovic Endi Poskovic (born as Elvedin Pošković on January 29, 1969) is a Bosnian-born American visual artist, printmaker and educator. His graphic work merges visual representation with text, often shifting the reading of the imagery through continuo ...

Kate Rich Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist and trader, currently living in Bristol, United Kingdom. Her practice includes sound art, video art, social practice, hospitality, and sport art. Work In the 1990s Rich co-founded the Bureau of Invers ...

Erin M. Riley Erin M. Riley (born 1985) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work focuses on women and women's issues primarily in hand-woven hand dyed wool tapestries. Riley's work challenges society's comfort level by displaying shocking images including nudity, d ...

Aurora Robson Aurora Robson is a Canadian-American artist who works in sculpture, installation, painting and collage focusing on themes related to the environment. Early life and education Born in Canada in 1972, Robson grew up in Hawaii and now resides in New ...

Salvatore Scarpitta Salvatore Scarpitta (23 March 1919 – 10 April 2007) was an American artist best known for his sculptural studies of motion. Life and artistic career Scarpitta was born in New York City in 1919 to a Sicilian father, sculptor Salvatore Cartain ...

* Anthony Schrag *

Dread Scott Scott Tyler (born 1965), known professionally as Dread Scott, is an American artist whose works, often participatory in nature, focus on the experience of African Americans in the contemporary United States. His first major work, ''What Is the P ...

* Joyce J. Scott * Bayeté Ross Smith * Cedric Smith * Renee Stout * Anna Torma *

Mary Tsiongas Mary Tsiongas (born 1959) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work often addresses human relationships to technology and the natural environment. Her New media art, new media work delves into themes of metaphysics, time, games, chance, and memory ...

Elizabeth Turk Elizabeth Turk is an artist and native Californian known for her marble sculptures and community installations. She splits time between a studio in Santa Ana, CA and NYC, where she has been represented by Hirschl & Adler Modern since her first exh ...

Elizabeth Turk Wins 2010 MacArthur Award
The Mint Museum * Sam Van Aken * Marion Wilson *

Pamela Z Pamela Z (born 1956) is an American composer, performer, and media artist who is best known for her solo works for voice with electronic processing. In performance, she combines various vocal sounds including operatic bel canto, experimental ex ...

References

External links

Official Website

Alliance of Artists Communities
2019
Inside the McColl Center Transformation
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