McColl Center (formerly McColl Center for Art + Innovation) is an artist residency and contemporary

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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.
Artists Communities: A Directory of Residences That Offer Time & Space
' 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

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, printmaking,

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, 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

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. 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., 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 *

Xenobia Bailey Xenobia Bailey (born 1955) is an American fine artist, designer, Supernaturalist, cultural activist and fiber artist best known for her eclectic crochet African-inspired hats and her large scale crochet pieces and mandalas. She has said that h ...

* Joan Bankemper * Endia Beal *

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 Ambreen Butt (born 1969) is a Boston-based Pakistani American artist best known for her drawings, paintings, prints, and collages, and has been recognized for her labor intensive, painted self-portraits that portray feminist and political ideas ...

* Margarita Cabrera *

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 *

Mel Chin Mel Chin (born 1951 in Houston, Texas, USA) is a conceptual visual artist. Motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances, Chin works in a variety of art media to calculate meaning in modern life. Chin places art in landscapes, ...

* Andrea Chung *

Sonya Clark Sonya Clark (born 1967, Washington, D.C.) is an American artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Clark is a fiber artist known for using a variety of materials including human hair and combs to address race, culture, class, and history. Her beaded he ...

* Joël Mpah Dooh *

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 * Bill Gaskins * Mark Steven Greenfield * Greg Haberny * Hollis Hammonds * Michael Harrison * Heather Hart *

Ralph Helmick Ralph Helmick (born 1952) is an American sculptor and public artist. Early life and education Helmick was born in Pittsburgh, PA, the middle of three sons of an electrical engineer and a homemaker. While in elementary school he partook in the ...

* Joseph Herscher *

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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 daughter of ...

* Marcia Jones * Rebecca Kamen *

Sheila Klein Sheila Klein is a sculptor and public artist living and working in Bow, Washington and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her practice straddles the worlds of architecture, sculpture, installation and traditional women's crafts. She is particularly noted for ...

Alix Lambert Alix Lambert is an American documentary filmmaker and television writer. She has been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on '' Deadwood''. Biography Alix Lambert's feature-length documentary '' The Mark of Cain'' was n ...

Robert Lazzarini Robert Lazzarini (born September 22, 1965 in Denville, New Jersey) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. He has been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1995 and is included in major collections such as the Hirshho ...

* Shaun Leonardo * Stacy Levy * Willie Little * Juan Logan * Nava Lubelski * Bradley McCallum * Beverly McIver * Aiko Miyanaga * Franco Mondini-Ruiz * Liz Nielsen * Ed Osborn * Winnie Owens-Hart *

Fahamu Pecou Fahamu Pecou (born June 25, 1975) is an American painter and scholar. He is known for producing works that combine aspects of Fine art and Hip-hop. Most of his works engage representations of black masculinity and identity. Early life and educa ...

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 continuou ...

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 * Aurora Robson * Salvatore Scarpitta * 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 Joyce J. Scott (born 1948) is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, Scott is best ...

Bayeté Ross Smith Bayeté Ross Smith (born 1976) is a contemporary African American multi-media artist, film maker and educator, working at the intersection of photography, film & video, visual journalism, 3D objects and new media. He currently lives and works in H ...

* Cedric Smith *

Renee Stout Renee Stout (born 1958) is an American sculptor and contemporary artist known for assemblage (art), assemblage artworks dealing with her personal history and African-American heritage. Born in Kansas, raised in Pittsburgh, living in Washington, D ...

Anna Torma Anna Torma (born 1952) is a Hungarian-Canadian fibre artist. Work Torma specializes in large-scale hand embroideries, and her work draws upon multiple artistic and textile techniques, including appliqué, felting, photo transfer, collage, and ...

* Mary Tsiongas * Elizabeth TurkElizabeth 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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Arts organizations established in 1999 1979 establishments in North Carolina Culture of Charlotte, North Carolina 1999 establishments in North Carolina Former churches in North Carolina Buildings and structures completed in 1999