Arts Features
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Open Door Studios Makes a New Charlotte Home Inside Eastway Crossing
Upon moving to Charlotte in 1997, Jacqueline White arrived at NC Dance Theatre excited by the prospect of a growing…
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Margaret Boykin Talks ‘Werewolves Within,’ Adapting Video Games to Film
In Werewolves Within, a film adaptation of Ubisoft’s popular video game, naïve and lovable forest ranger Finn Wheeler has a…
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Nouveau Sud Traces Migrants’ Route to a New Life in ‘La Bestia’
In a cloud of smoke, the train will fly through the air above the stage as aerialists and acrobats depicting…
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Mint Museum’s It Takes a Village Exhibit Highlights Local Collectives
In a sign of how Charlotte’s oldest arts institution is shifting focus to support more local and diverse artists, The…
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Immersive Van Gogh Charlotte Exhibit Surrounds Itself with Local Talent
Kicking off a preview of the new Immersive Van Gogh Charlotte exhibit, the walls inside Camp North End’s Ford Building…
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Local Actress Maritalyn Frazier Launches Never Too Young Productions
As 2020 came to a close, Charlotte-based actress Maritalyn Frazier was having a conversation with her manager Donna Rentz about…
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Debate Over Arts Funding Continues As Budget Vote Nears
There’s no shortage of things to get engaged with when it comes to current Charlotte-area politics. There’s the overwhelming mission…
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Queen City Nerve Mother’s Day 2021 Gift Guide
After the year small businesses have been through, it’s more important than ever that Charlotteans support local makers. This means…
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Good Times Art Pop-Up Acts as Prep for the Reopening
The Underground hosted a slew of Charlotte’s best visual artists over the weekend with Good Times, a pop-up organized by…
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Virtual Reconstruction Project Rebuilds Black Communities Lost to Displacement
Once a lively neighborhood whose streets were filled with bustling businesses and rich culture, Charlotte’s Historic West End neighborhood is…
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PHOTOS: LOCAL/STREET Art Exhibit Thrives on the Power of the Pop-Up
I had the privilege to go check out Mint Museum’s LOCAL/STREET pop-up art exhibit on Sunday, the last of its…
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Kilee Price Turns Childhood Home Garage Into Stone House Art Gallery
The approach to Stone House Art Gallery (SHAG) is highly industrial in one direction — lumber, trucking, an emptied-out auto…
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City Plan for Arts Funding Raises Discussion Over Value of Creativity
Recent weeks have seen arts funding back at the forefront of people’s minds for the first time since the failure…
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Local Skateboarder Documents Struggle with Schizophrenia in New Book
Fascinated with skateboarding since the age of 5, Jason Waters hopped on his first board at 10. By the time…
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Brooklyn Collective Picks up the Torch of Charlotte’s Black History
There’s a popular t-shirt geared to Black Americans that displays a quote reading, “I am my ancestors’ wildest dreams.” When…
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Rosalia Torres-Weiner Continues Multi-Dimensional Work Through Pandemic
A storybook depicts a little boy unfurling a kite to release the sorrow of losing his father. A portrait of…
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