Concept to Creation: The Discovery Room
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is one of the best museums in the south east, home to some incredible treasures, and we’re pleased to be able to say we’re featured in not one, but two locations. The Discovery Room project was a very special, highly in-depth mural with 3-dimensional features, completed in 2021.…
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Stellar Transportation Constellation
Project Location: Chapel Hill, NCClient: Chapel Hill Transit Authority The Chapel Hill Transit Authority had a job they needed done quickly, and they knew just who to come to: NC Public Art! The window for completion on the job, from concept to execution, was very small, but we were handily up to the task. In…
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Tapstation
Project Location: Apex, NCClient: Tapstation Brewery Take the forgotten shell of Holt & Sons Auto Service shop in downtown Apex, inject care and attention along with a fantastic brewery concept and what do you get? Tapstation! Apex’s newest beer, burgers and bourbon joint. The murals commissioned for the interior and exterior of Tapstation were conceived…
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Lake Norman Light
Project Location: Mooresville, NCClient: On The Nines Clubhouse For the On The Nines Clubhouse restaurant located at the Mooresville Golf Course NC Public Art was given a very specific problem to solve. Patrons of the restaurant had become frustrated with the strong light streaming through the large arched series of windows at the front of…
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Track X Series
Project Location: Hillsborough, NCClient: Track X Technology Corporate branding sounds stuffy. Indeed it can look stuffy. Luckily Track X is not only on the cutting edge of medical tracking technology, but on the cutting edge of taste in decor as well. We love clients that come to us with ideas, and our friends at Track…
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Strong as the Mountains, Broad as the Sea
Project Location: Quorum Center, Raleigh, NCClient: Local Government Federal Credit Union, Civic, Davis Kane In February of 2020 NC Public Art was contracted to create 8 monumental oil paintings telling the story of the people and places of North Carolina to go into the newly renovated Quorum Center in downtown Raleigh, and then…the Pandemic hit.…
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Water’s Perfect Memory
Project Location: Booker Creek Trail, Chapel Hill, NCClient: Town of Chapel Hill What’s a town to do with six concrete cylinder eyesores along a beautiful rambling greenway? Murals! The answer is always murals isn’t it? NC Public Art won the opportunity to decorate these jutting, crumbling structures and turn them into something memorable. These cylinders,…
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The Power of Persistence
Project Location: 140 West Urban Plaza, Chapel Hill, NCClient: Town of Chapel Hill 140 West Urban Plaza in Chapel Hill is the crown jewel of the larger town masterplan initiative to invigorate this college down with a welcoming, pedestrian geared landscape. Encircled by mixed-use development that creates a commercial connective tissue with Rosemary Street and…
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THINK!
Project Location: Chapel Hill, NCClient: Arts Everywhere, UNC Chapel Hill Phillips Hall of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill boasts the interesting bit of trivia that it was the first air-conditioned building in the South! Well, now it is home to a mural that not only invites students and visitors to “THINK!” with a…
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The Discovery Room
Project Location: NCMNS, Raleigh, NCClient: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences What a treat it was to work on this mural! The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is the preeminent scientific destination in not only the Triangle region of North Carolina, but in our estimation, the whole of the South. The extensive museum occupies…
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