Program areas at McColl Center for Art Innovation
Facility: Mccoll Center offers nine subsidized studios for rental to support emerging local artists in their practice. The rental programincludes access to communal labs for printmaking, 3d printmaking and laser cutting, digital media, woodworking, and sculpture fabrication. Mccoll Center offers our main gallery, balcony and creative hub spaces in our facility and campus to the general public for event rentals. The range of event rentals varies from rehearsal dinners to corporate meetings. These rentals provide earned revenue while extending our reach to the community. Additionally, Mccoll Center owns five condos in a building behind our campus. The condos provide space for our artists-in-residence to live rent free during their residencies.there were 32 volunteers at Mccoll Center (boardof directors, development committee, programming committee, interns, special events)
Artists-in-residence: Mccoll Center's nationally acclaimed artist-in-residence program provided space and time to 13 artists to develop their practice, take risks, and explore ideas within the context of charlotte: chakaia booker (pa), bebonkwe brown (ny), myles calvert (sc), zuzanna dyrda (poland), bree gant (mi), shanequa gay (ga), hong hong (ma), will jenkins (nc), tadeo muleiro (argentina), wanda raimundi-ortiz (fl), phil sanders (nc), k sarrantonio (ny), sarah sudhoff (tx), and shoshanna weinberger (nj).
Public engagement & education:each artist-in-residence above participated in a unique and intentional public engagement opportunity, fulfilling our mission to spark creative, relevant, and accessible experiences to an engaged public. for example, the exhibition material culture featured the works of Mccoll centers fall 2022 artists-in-residence bebonkwe brown (she/her), myles calvert (he/him), bree gant (they/them), and shoshanna weinberger (she/her), who use everyday objects, and the commercial technologies used to manufacture these objects, to trigger memories, examine concepts of beauty, build community, and expand how artists work.