McColl Center for Visual Art

When Artists 'Stick' In Charlotte

Briana Duggan — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:29:51 +0000

Those who don’t go beyond the first floor of the McColl Center for Visual art might just think it’s a gallery. But the top floors hold the real machinery of the organization - the artist-in-residence studios.

The McColl hosts the city’s only artist-in-residence program.

'Fundred' Dollar Project Blends Art And Advocacy

Briana Duggan — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:56:04 +0000

Since 2008, Mel Chin has traveled the country and collected over 400,000 of what he calls “fundred” dollar bills. They are hand-drawn interpretations of hundred dollar bills, using a template he created. He collects from individuals, schools, and community organizations.

“Our mission is to have everybody who wants to contribute can contribute a drawing,” Chin explained on WFAE’s Charlotte Talkss. “A drawing of currency they see it in the form of like a hundred dollars, it’s a “fundred”. They’re like, we’re having fun and to fund something.”

McColl Center Exhibit Questions American Identity

Briana Duggan — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 14:45:34 +0000

For the last four years, Randy Shull has spent part of his year in Mexico.

He moved for the culture, the language, and the inspiration it gives him as an artist. All around him he saw the local artists defining what it meant to be Mexican.

"I felt like, well I could come to Mexico and have this experience that is really different than what I have in Asheville, but in the end I’m still from the United States.” Shull says. “So I began to ask myself, what is it to be uniquely American?”