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Art is for Everyone Plaza Midwood

Project partners ArtWalks CLT and Disability Rights & Resources worked with Arts & Science Council grantee Metrolina Association for the Blind to create the "Art is for Everyone" ArtWalk.  Audio description written and recorded by Disability Rights & Resources www.disability-rights.org is paired with nine works of art in the Plaza Midwood area.  You can start this ArtWalk from the Metrolina Association for the Blind office.  For more information on community resources for the visually impaired, check out www.mabnc.org


PARKING:  On street parking available on surrounding streets

TRANSIT: LYNX Sunnyside St stop

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A colorful mural celebrating LGBT pride. Symbols include peace, equality, a triangle, & rainbows.

Continue on Central toward uptown

Title: "Community/Love/Equality"

Location: 920 Central Avenue

Artist: Gil Croy

Date: 2012

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @gilcroy


Story: The White Rabbit is an LGBTQ bookstore and office of Q-Notes, the longest running gay and lesbian newspaper in the Southeast. The artist, Gil Croy, worked with volunteers to paint all three sides of the building.


Key Formal Elements:

  • Visible color spectrum
  • Variety

Make the Connection:

Painted in the six Pride colors, the entire building is a celebration of all things Pride. One of the portraits included is a tribute to fellow artist Carlena Person who died tragically around the time the mural was being planned. Person created a well-known mural at the former Charlotte Art League in South End that was torn down in 2019. 

Audio

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A mural of angry Marvel villain Thanos looking up, Infinity Gauntlet around his clenched fist.

Cross Central to 7th Sin Tattoo

Location: 927 Central Avenue

Artists: Alex DeLarge, Dustin Moates, Southern Tiger Collective

Date: 2018 

Media: Acrylic paint

Artists Info: @alxdlrg, @dstnmts, @southerntigercollective


Story: Both Alex DeLarge and Dustin Moates are artists in the Charlotte mural scene. DeLarge was one of the original founders of the TalkingWalls Mural Festival in 2018 and DeLarge and Moates founded the Southern Tiger Collective, a cooperative group of local artists supporting our street art scene. 


Key Formal Elements:

  • Contour lines in the face
  • Asymmetrical balance

Make the Connection:

Marvel Comics fan? Why yes. If so maybe you recognize Thanos, the villain from Avengers Infinity War. Thanos wears the metal glove called the Infinity Gauntlet with the different Infinity stones in it. If he collects all of the stones, he has the power to rule the galaxy. Cool. 

Audio

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A greyscale mural of a close-up of just the hands of two people holding hands in unity.

Middle Mural at Two Scoops Creamery

Location: 913 Central Avenue

Artist: Nony

Date: 2020

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @nony_clt


Story: Newcomer Nony was inspired watching artists of the Battle Walls mural competition during the summer of 2019. He bought cans of spray paint at WalMart and studied You Tube videos to learn spray painting. With an upgrade to Cheap Joe’s spray cans and many hours spent in his garage perfecting his craft, Nony is ready for the Charlotte art scene! This is his second mural in Charlotte.


Key Formal Elements:

  • Highlights
  • Symmetrical balance

Make the Connection:

Only days after the shooting of George Floyd, Nony knew he needed to use his talent to do something. After reaching out to a mentor, he had a wall! Donating his time, Nony worked to create a mural showing unity with the interlocking black and white hands.  We need more Nony. 

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A grey-scale portrait with gold highlights of a girl with heart sunglasses licking an ice cream cone

Far Left Mural at Two Scoops

Title: “Do the Things that Light you up”

Location: 913 Central Avenue

Artist: Duarte Designs

Date: 2019 

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @duarte_designs


Story: This is the first mural for mother and daughter artist team Duarte Designs! For daughter Sydney, a dream of leaving the corporate world to pursue making art was happening. Eating ice cream and talking with the owner of the store, she described an idea for bringing her artistic vision to their wall. And a project began.  Only a few months later, the artists received a commission for a large wall at Spirit Square which is on our Mad About Murals Artwalk. Dreams do come true! 


Key Formal Elements:

  • Limited palette of colors
  • Grey-scale figure

Make the Connection:

As a contrast to the original, colorful ice cream cone at the far right, the artists rely on a grey-scale self-portrait of Sydney and a limited palette. The artists wish for viewers to not see color, or preconceived ideas when they look at the mural. In that way, viewers are more easily able to see themselves in the image. The Duarte team spreads messages of hope and positivity with the quotes and want many to relate to their message. 

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Mural of a human skull dripping in a puddle of liquid gold. The dark scene is back lit in red.

Go back to intersection, go to other side of 7th Sin Tattoo

Location: 927 Central Avenue

Artist: Jeks

Date: 2018 

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @jeks_nc


Story: Greensboro-based Jeks painted this mural for Talking Walls 2018, the city-wide mural festival. Jeks is a graffiti artist, street artist, and muralist known for his hyperrealist portraits.  His most recent mural in Charlotte is a stunning portrait at Luminous Lane in Uptown. 


Key Formal Elements:

  • Highlights
  • Visual texture

Make the Connection:

The skull is a common vanitas symbol. It also looks pretty cool. A vanitas painting has objects that are symbolic of the certainty of death and remind the viewer of the fleeting quality of our lives. Here the sensuous surface quality of the skull draws us into its beauty.

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A cubism-inspired black and white mural with multiple figures and historical Charlotte references.

At Otts & Louise Ave

Title: Advent Co-Working mural 

Location: 933 Louise Avenue

Artist: Nico Amortegui

Date: 2020

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @nico_malo1


Story: During the Fall of 2020, this large building-sized mural was funded in part with COVID funds and help from the NoDa neighborhood and the Belmont neighborhood. Advent Co-Working and Paper Plane Deli worked with the artist to come up with imagery for the mural. Nico Amortegui is an artist, sculptor, and muralist with early murals in Charlotte in NoDa and the Elizabeth neighborhoods. His abstract, Cubism-inspired work is easy to recognize around town.


Key Formal Elements:

  • Heavy use of outline
  • Limited palette of black and white

Make the Connection:

History abounds in the mural so let’s take a look. Scattered around the mural are dates and clues around important events in the history of Charlotte. If you know one or two, tag us in an Instagram post. For example, find the 1985 date and the hornet for a reference to the then new NBA Charlotte Hornets. At the top center of the mural Amortegui paints a black and white profile with a crown as a reference to the mixed heritage of Queen Charlotte. Have fun figuring out all of the references! 

Audio

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A found-item scrap metal 3d wall sculpture of a bunny rabbit blowing bubbles against a blue sky.

On other side of building

Title: “Louise Cotton Bunny” 

Location: 932 Seigle Avenue

Artist: Amy Hart

Date: 2021

Media: Scrap metal, found items, mixed media 

Artist Info: @amyhart0224


Story: This is the second artwork installed at the Innovation Barn and you will want to touch the art for this one. Amy Hart is a “found object sculptor.” She has a BFA from Syracuse University in Surface Design and Metalsmithing and has sculptures on our South End ArtWalk and in the Matthews area. Working with all types of found objects and lots of welding, it took the artist about 5 weeks to complete this sculpture. 


Key Formal Elements:

  • Variety
  • Texture

Make the Connection:

The name “Louise Cotton Bunny” was voted on by the community and honors the name of the original Louise Cotton Mill in the community. 


TRASH TIP: The Bunny is blowing air bubbles, note the bubble wand made of a basketball hoop, to raise awareness that you cannot put bubble wrap in your curb-side recycling. But rather the Innovation Barn accepts your bubble wrap and recycles it with the original manufacturer. 

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A depiction of the Greek goddess Gaia holding the Earth in one hand and exhaling a rainbow.

Around the corner of the building

Title: “Gaia”

Location: 932 Seigle Avenue

Artist: Ann Duarte and Sydney Duarte

Date: 2020

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @duartedesigns, @travelinggypsy


Story: The Innovation Barn is a cool facility that is part of the Envision Charlotte program to create a more competitive, sustainable, and impactful community. It has programs to showcase circular economies, a café, teaching kitchen, composting center and lots more. Ann Duarte and Sydney Duarte are a mother and daughter artist team with murals on our uptown, NoDa, and Plaza-Midwood Artwalks. Their fun, interactive murals with messages of positivity and love are adored all over the city of Charlotte.


Key Formal Elements:

  • Visible spectrum colors in the rainbow
  • Asymmetrical balance

Make the Connection:

Duarte Designs celebrates our planet with a figure of Gaia, the Greek mythological goddess of the earth. Covered in flowers, leaves, and stems, she creates the rainbow flowing across the wall. The artists believe in taking care of our planet and invite you to see all of the color and beauty of our world. 


Also, take note of the sweet mural painting by Girl Scout Troop #1577 on the far right of the building.   

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A colorful mural telling the story of the historic mill neighborhood of Belmont in Charlotte, NC.

Back to Seigle Avenue, Right near train overpass

Title: Belmont Mural

Location: Seigle Avenue

Artist: Rosalia Torres-Weiner

Date: 2021

Media: Acrylic paint

Artist Info: @redcalacastudio


Story: This mural was funded by the City of Charlotte Placemaking Program and marks an important corridor in the Belmont Neighborhood. Rosalia Torres-Weiner is an “artivist,” an artist and activist who loves combining bright colors and shapes to be an activist for feminism, immigration issues, and the uplifting of unheard voices. The Belmont Community is located on Charlotte’s Northeast edge and is surrounded by NoDa, Villa Heights, Optimist Park, and Plaza Midwood. 


Key Formal Elements:

  • Polychromatic colors

Make the Connection:

Much of the public art by Torres-Weiner tells a story. And here the story is about the Belmont neighborhood. The artist anchors the center of the neighborhood with the historic mill and includes some of the mill houses. Flowers, rays of sun, and decorative patterns all point to the revival of the neighborhood. Sadly, a part of the mural was defaced recently. On the right side, the artist added an image of her mother as a protector of her mural. Murals are in public space and occasionally are targeted by vandals. Thank you Rosalia for making this beautiful again! 

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