The State of North Carolina purchased or commissioned artworks for state buildings beginning in 1982. Between 1989-1995, artworks were commissioned using one-half of one percent of a state building's construction budget. Through the Artworks for State Buildings Program, 61 projects around the state were completed. The last contracted project was installed in 2000. The program is documented in a published catalog Creating Place: North Carolina's Artworks For State Buildings (6.6 mb).

North Carolina A&T State University Art Department

Greensboro, NC
Guilford County
Web site: http://www.ncat.edu/

 

NORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO
Campus information:
336/334-7500

Location
Dudley Hall

Artists
Charles Joyner and Connie Floyd

Biography
Joyner received his B.S. degree in Art Design from North Carolina A & T and his M.F.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is currently the head of the Department of Environmental Design at North Carolina State University. Connie Floyd has a B.A. from the Atlanta College of Art and an M.F.A. from Clemson University. He is currently a visiting professor at North Carolina Central University.

Title, date
DameDame, 1998

Artwork, media
Floor, ceramic tile


Project Description
A tile floor design for the main entrance lobby based on symbols from the Adinkra language was incorporated into the abstract, classically symmetrical building architecture. Adinkra is a visual code of conduct that guides and governs the personal and collective behavior of the Ashanti people of West Africa.

Pre-selection panel
Douglas Burns, architect, Heery International; Bill Barlow, NC A&T, university engineer; Dr. C.F. Ndege, director, African Heritage Center, NC A&T; Timothy Hicks, associate professor of art, NC A&T; Dr. Watkins, Music Department, NC A&T

 

NORTH CAROLINA A & T STATE UNIVERSITY, GREENSBORO
Campus information:
336/334-7500

Location
School of Technology

Artist
David Judelson

Biography
Originally trained as an architect at M.I.T., David Judelson has been a practicing artist since the late 1970s. He has completed several large-scale public commissions, including a sculptural roof-top terrace for Scholastic, Inc., in New York. He has exhibited his work in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Title, date
Cubic Mambo and Partner
1998

Artwork, media
Sculpture, mixed media


Project Description
Influenced by the school's technological mission, Judelson created a kinetic sculpture for the main entrance lobby of the building. The work consists of two motorized sculptural elements suspended from a 110 foot long steel track in the upper level of the lobby. A perforated aluminum cube with an interior light and a square of perforated aluminum with a colored fluorescent light tube move in an irregular, rhythmic pattern across the track. When the objects meet at random intervals, their meeting is celebrated in a show of colored lights. Computers control the sequence of movement.

Pre-selection panel
William Barlow, university engineer; Victor Vines, architect, The Freelon Group; Timothy Hicks, associate professor of art, NC A&T; Brooke Davis Anderson, director, Diggs Gallery, WSSU; Earl Yarbrough, Dean, School of Technology, NC A&T; Russ Rankin, Assistant to the Dean, School of Technology, NC A&T.

North Carolina Central University Department of Art

Durham, NC
Durham County
Web site: http://www.nccu.edu

Artworks for State Buildings

NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, DURHAM
Location
Jones Building
919/530-6100

Artist
Chandra Cox and Charles Joyner

Biography
Cox, a professor at the School of Design at NC State University, received her B.A. degree from Hampton University and her M.F.A. degree in painting and drawing from Ohio State University.

Joyner received his B.S. degree in Art Design from North Carolina A & T and his M.F.A. degree from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He is currently a professor in the School of Design at NC State University.

Title, date
The Fabric of Life, 1997

Artwork, media
Painting, acrylic on canvas

Project Description
This large wall mural painted on canvas is located in the lobby of the Jones Building. The artists used imagery from the Adinkra language of the Ashanti people as a design source for the mural. Adinkra is a visual code of conduct that guides and governs the personal and collective behavior of the West African culture. The Adinkra symbolism connects the African ancestry of the past with many of the school's students and faculty of today.

Pre-selection panel
Melvin Carter, chairman, Art Department, NCCU; Ruth Rogers, architect, O'Brien/Atkins; Acha Debela, full professor, Art Department, NCCU; Isabel Chiquor, associate professor, Art Department, NCCU; Gloria Haynes, director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, Office of Development, NCCU; Norman Pendergraft, director, NCCU Museum of Art, upon Pendergraft's retirement, replaced by new Museum Director, Kenneth Rogers (ex-officio); Mozell Robinson, director of Administrative Services, Office of Financial Affairs, NCCU; Molton Smith, student representative, NCCU.

 

Fayetteville State University Dept of Business Administration

Fayetteville, NC
Cumberland County
Web site: http://www.uncfsu.edu

 


FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY, FAYETTEVILLE
Campus information:
(910) 672-1111

Location
Health, Physical Education and Recreation Complex, Langdon Street

Artist
Herb Cohen and Jose Fumero

Biography
Cohen, a ceramist, gained experience with industrial applications for ceramics while working for the Hyalyn Porcelain Company. Later, while working for the Mint Museum of Art as director of exhibitions and then acting director, he became familiar with large-scale conceptual projects.

Fumero, a fiber artist and painter, creates his work interweaving fabric, paper and other materials. He spent 20 years working for the Collins and Aikman Corporation as a carpet and chief automotive and airline fabric stylist.

Title, date

Artwork, media
Interior floor and wall surface treatments, hallways, pool, arena and lobby mural using paint, vinyl floor tile, carpet, ceramic tile

A pattern based on the rhythmical weave of African Kente cloth covers the floor and wall surfaces of the building. This particular cloth was chosen because its geometric pattern complemented the architecture of the building and referenced the African-American heritage of the school. The artists' pattern and color palette became the design of the sound baffles in the gymnasium area, as well as the design scheme for the ceramic tile, carpet, paint and vinyl tiles in the building.

Pre-selection panel
Pre-selection panelists Terrence Corbin, visiting assistant professor, Fayetteville State University; Vanessa Greene, executive director, Afro-American Cultural Center, Charlotte; Mitzi Shewmake, director, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University; Benson Otovo, principal user; Robert Gunn, architect.

University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill School of Dentistry

Chapel Hill, NC
Orange County
Web site: http://www.dent.unc.edu

 

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
Campus information:
(919) 962-2211

Location
School of Dentistry addition, exterior pedestrian plaza at main entrance

Artist
Wopo Holup

Biography
Holup received a CAPS Fellowship by the New York Council on the Arts in 1984 and a NEA Artist in Residence Grant in 1981. The artist has a BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA degree from Mills College. Her work has been commissioned for seven subway stations for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York, NY, for New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM, the Philadelphia Zoo, and for the Jim Thorpe School, P.S. 370 K, New York, NY.

Title, date
Hygeia's Stream, 1997

Artwork, media
Plaza, concrete with inlaid bronze


Project Description
Over one hundred cast bronze inlays are set into the concrete paving of the pedestrian plaza that leads to the entrance of the new addition to the School of Dentistry. The forms create the image of a moving stream circling the plaza in an oval shape. Hygeia's Stream is inspired by the Greek goddess of health. The goddess, who is represented as a maiden offering a serpent a drink of water from a saucer, is sandblasted into the concrete at the far end of the plaza. At the entrance to the building, a bronze inlay depicts Hygeia as she has been found on the face of an ancient Greek coin.

Pre-selection panel
Marley Carroll, architect, Odell Associates, Inc.; Dr. Theodore R. Oldenburg, School of Dentistry, UNC-CH; Dr. Lana Henderson, associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences, NC Central University; Paul Tesar, professor of architecture, School of Design, NC State University; Laura Kreps, Ackland Art Museum, UNC-CH.


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