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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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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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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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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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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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Project Location: Apex Public Works Building, Apex, NCClient: Town of Apex This project was an adventure to paint! As can be seen, the mural on the side of the Apex Public Works building presides over a large water retention area, meaning the project necessitated the use of a boom lift to access. As such, we…
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Project Location: Hillsborough, NCClient: Town of Hillsborough As the very first mural in historic downtown Hillsborough the owners of Volume Records and Beer, and the building owners at Margaret Lane Gallery knew that they needed something special. Luckily Anthony, record slinger extraordinaire at Volume, already had an idea to feature the one and only Billy…
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Project Location: Durham City Hall, Durham, NCClient: City of Durham Located at Durham City Hall, the Office of Planning had a dilemma: a giant bright wall in the atrium was hit by the sun every day and blinded anyone in the office. Enter NC Public Art with a colorful mural to break up the wall,…
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Project Location: Watergate Hotel, Washington, DCClient: George Washington University, Watergate Hotel In 2019 NC Public Art was contacted for a very special project: a series of two large-scale paintings were commissioned to flank the entrance to the new George Washington University offices located in the world-famous Watergate Hotel. The paintings had to be speak to…
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Project Location: Roxboro, NCClient: Private Tiger Tears is an early NC Public Art mural commissioned to call attention to the plight of big cats in the world. The bold colors and iconic design create a sense of peace, but remind the viewer to keep these disappearing wonders close in mind, for one day soon we…
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