The mission of Charlotte Artery is to foster a cohesive art scene, provide studio and exhibition space, and forge cooperative relationships with other art organizations and galleries in the Greater Charlotte Area

Charlotte Artery  is an artist run community that leverages marketing and business resources to provide a venue for emerging and mid-career local artists.  Charlotte Artery brings together a broad network of individuals within the greater Charlotte community, who enjoy visual art as an intrinsic part of their cultural experience. Charlotte Artery nurtures extensions of this network into the broader community includes academia, museums, artist communities, groups in other cities, non-profit cultural organizations, and commercial galleries to create a large web of interest and activity in the visual arts in greater Charlotte.

The original members of Charlotte Artery consist of five mid-career visual artists living and working in Charlotte, NC.  This core group will be expanded by the addition of “working-artist members” from the region based on a review of their portfolios by the board or board designated membership jury.

With the launch of Charlotte Artery , we will create a non-profit artist run corporation to  will develop and maintain an infrastructure within the local arts community and cultivate interest and participation from the public.  It will propose, coordinate and manage non-competitive projects that increase the visibility of regional artists to the community at large, such as community wide Open Studio events or coordinated exhibitions with commercial galleries, artist studios and museums.

The future site of Charlotte Artery  will provide both studio spaces for member and guest artists, as well as gallery spaces for public exhibition. Of the two gallery spaces, one will be a formal exhibition space for curated and juried exhibitions and the other an informal gallery space for local artists to show and sell their work. The formal gallery will be a space for juried shows, exhibitions, and installations, bringing regional and national curators and artists into the gallery. The second gallery space will be available to members of Charlotte Artery for solo and group exhibitions.  These changing collections and exhibitions of two and three dimensional artwork, in combination with opening lectures, artist talks, and open studios, will continue to draw the community to the Charlotte Artery center and will continue to benefit the local artists who share the exhibition and studio space at the center.