Banking, schmanking! Well, we still love our banks here in Charlotte but a new study released today (at the Center!) indicate that the creative sector contributes economic benefit on par with banking and transportation in North Carolina. The NC Secretary of Cultural Resources, Linda Carlisle, pictured above with our very own president, Suzanne Fetscher, was on hand at the Center with the who's who of art & culture in North Carolina to make the results public. Go Art! Go Culture! Read on for more information and for the official results of the study

Artist-in-Residence, Daniel McCormick has been working on a public art installation in the “unlikely site” of Freedom Park. Part of a collaboration with Catawba Lands Conservancy and Carolina Thread Trail, Mecklenburg County Government Park and Recreation Department, Charlotte Nature Museum, Queens University of Charlotte and many other groups and organizations helping with the project, McCormick is creating a site-specific sculpture installation in the park.

As an extension of its current exhibition program, the Center is actively seeking proposals from visual or interdisciplinary artists, curators, architects and designers for exhibitions in one of our main galleries, Gallery 115. We're looking for something new, something unique, something outside the box - maybe even something that redefines the box! Proposals are due by December 15, 2009.