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1992 |
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- Former Town Council member Nancy Preston makes a donation to the Town of Chapel Hill to create a fund for public art and requests the establishment of a Public Art Endowment Fund Committee. Town Council unanimously approves.
- Funds are raised to purchase and install a hanging system and display case for exhibitions at Town Hall.
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1993 |
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- At the request of the Public Art Endowment Fund Committee the name of the organization is changed to the Chapel Hill Public Arts Commission.
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1994 |
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- The first exhibition is displayed in Chapel Hill Town Hall.
- CHPAC begins working on (what eventually becomes) the highly controversial Gun Sculpture public art project with artist Thomas Sayre.
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1996 |
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- CHPAC sponsors Public Art Month in Chapel Hill which includes several lectures, a special exhibition, and a proclamation from the Mayor.
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1997 |
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- CHPAC hires a part-time contractor.
- Funds are raised to purchase and install a hanging system for exhibitions at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
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1998 |
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- Funds are raised to purchase and install two additional display cases for Town Hall.
- CHPAC begins jurying art exhibitions.
- The first exhibition is displayed at the Chapel Hill Public Library.
- Sharing the Education by Riley Foster is installed outside the Chapel Hill Public Library.
- HPAC sponsors the second Public Art Month in Chapel Hill which includes several lectures, a special exhibition, and a proclamation from the Mayor.
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2000 |
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- Undergraduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill work with the CHPAC and Jim Hirschfield, UNC-Chapel Hill Art Department Director of Graduate Studies, to develop a Master Plan for Public Art in Chapel Hill.
- Anita Wolfenden is commissioned to create a tapestry for Chapel Hill Town Hall titled Crossroads.
- CHPAC collaborates on the development of the Pritchard Park Art Garden.
- CHPAC hosts Sculpture on the Green 2000, a two-day sculpture exhibition on McCorkle Place in conjunction with AppleChill.
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2001 |
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- Several pieces from the Sculpture on the Green 2001 exhibition are selected to remain on view in public sites throughout Town for a Summer Select exhibition.
- A call to local performing artists is issued and a roster of musicians is compiled for CHPAC events.
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2002 |
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- The CHPAC proposes a Percent for Art Ordinance for the Town of Chapel Hill which is adopted unanimously by Chapel Hill Town Council.
- With a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council, a consultant is hired and a planning team is formed to develop a Five Year Strategic Plan.
- Mike Roig is selected to create an outdoor sculpture, Promethean Honor Guard, for the Town's first Percent for Art project at Firehouse #5.
- Arlene Slavin is selected to create the Franklin Street Benches for the Streetscape Percent for Art project.
- Arts in Education programming started with the first bus-card project collaboration with Chapel Hill Transit, the public schools, and the CHPAC.
- CHPAC participates in review and selection of artists for AppleChill.
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2003 |
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- www.chapelhillarts.org is launched.
- CHPAC hosts a one-day arts festival Arts 'Round Town.
- CHPAC begins cataloguing the Town's art collection and making recommendations for restoration and de-accessioning.
- Sculpture on the Green and Summer Select are expanded into SculptureVisions, a six month temporary sculpture exhibition in public spaces throughout Chapel Hill.
- CHPAC hires a full-time contractor.
- David Wilson is selected to create a series of murals for the Hargraves Community Center Percent for Art project.
- Sally Erickson is selected to create a broken-tile mosaic for the IFC Community House Percent for Art project.
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2004 |
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- CHPAC sponsors an artist in residence program at Phillips Middle School to create the temporary public artwork THINK. The program is made possible with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
- Larry Kirkland is selected for the Town Operations Center Percent for Art project.
- Ray King is selected for the Homestead Park Aquatic Center Percent for Art project.
- Laura Haddad and Tom Drugan are selected to join the design team for the new Southern Community Park Percent for Art project.
- As an outgrowth of the Arts 'Round Town Festival, the CHPAC sponsors a Community Art Project of self portraits, which are displayed in public places throughout Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
- First CHPAC newsletter is published in the Chapel Hill News.
- Establishment of a CHPAC Public Art Fund.
- CHPAC begins the process of establishing 501c3 non-profit status.
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2005 |
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- CHPAC hosts a public education forum The Art of Place Making: Strategies for Thinking about Urban Design and Public Art with guest speaker Ronald Lee Fleming, Founder and Principal of the Townscape Institute. The Forum is sponsored jointly by the CHPAC, the Foundation for a Sustainable Community, and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
- On the Road Again, an exhibition organized by the North Carolina Arts Council and the Center for Craft Creativity and Design is co-sponsored by the CHPAC and the Orange County Arts Commission during its installation at the Chapel Hill YMCA.
- CHPAC redesigns logo.
- CHPAC launches redesigned website.
- CHPAC co-sponsors a workshop for artists Thinking Bigger: Expanding Your Career to Public Art with the North Carolina Arts Council and the Durham Arts Council.
- CHPAC co-sponsors a workshop for artists Thinking Bigger: Expanding Your Career to Public Art with the North Carolina Arts Council and the Durham Arts Council.
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CHPAC becomes a 501c3 non-profit organization and a Special Commission of the Town of Chapel Hill.
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Mikyoung Kim is selected as the lead artist for the Downtown Development Initiative, a public-private partnership between the Town of Chapel Hill and Ram Development Corporation.
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Consultant Gail Goldman is selected to guide the development of a Public Art Contextual Plan for the Town of Chapel Hill.
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2006 |
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- Sculpture Visions program increases from six to eleven months of the year.
- As part of the Artists in Residence program, CHPAC sponsors Artists@Work, a program designed to teach students about the work of a local artist and to have the artist and the students create a public artwork for the school. Peg Gignoux works with the fourth graders at Scroggs Elementary to create a fabric artwork for the school’s main staircase titled Wacky Wonderfulation.
- CHPAC presents a Draft Public Art Contextual Plan to Chapel Hill Town Council. The Draft Plan is received and referred to various groups for review.
- CHPAC organizes a Black History Month exhibit comprised of material submitted by the local African-American community.
- The theme for the Community Art Project is Lost & Found.
- Through the Town Hall and Library Exhibition Series, Luna Lee Ray curates an exhibition at the Chapel Hill Public Library titled Mixed Media in the Triangle.
- Lynn Wartski works with third and fourth graders at Seawell Elementary through the Artists in Residence Artists@Work program to create a metal repousse wall hanging titled Pop Art Recycled. The piece hangs at the Kidzu Children’s Museum before moving to its permanent home at the Seawell cafeteria.
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2007 |
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- CHPAC begins working with Town Council and Town Staff to transition administration of public art program into Town operations.
- Janet Echelman is selected for the Library Expansion/Pritchard Park Art Garden Percent for Art project.
- CHPAC holds a second Black History Month exhibit in Chapel Hill Town Hall, collecting and exhibiting new material from the local community.
- The theme for the Community Art Project is Why?
- Undergraduate design students at NC State work with the CHPAC to develop and revise the CHPAC’s graphic identity.
- Local potter David Gould is selected to be the Artist in Residence at McDougle Elementary to work with the fourth grade as part of CHPAC’s Artists@Work program. Gould leads students and parent docents in the creation of Visionary North Carolina Face Jugs, which are exhibited at McDougle’s Library.
- Paul Penny’s Pillar of Fire is selected by the Coker Woods Neighborhood Association for purchase and eventual gift to Town.
- Larry Kirkland’s Percent for Art projects Around Town and In Our Hands are unveiled at the Town Operations Center opening celebration.
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2008 |
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- Mikyoung Kim presents the Arts Masterplan for the Downtown Redevelopment Initiative and the preliminary design of Art Area I to Town Council and the citizens of Chapel Hill.
- Gordon Huether is selected as the artist for Art Area II of the Downtown Redevelopment Initiative.
- A display of the Visionary North Carolina Face Jugs Artists@Work project is exhibited at Kidzu Children’s Museum February through May.
- CHPAC presents the Black History Month exhibit in Chapel Hill Town Hall
- The CHPAC’s Community Art Project committee commissions local environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck to lead the community in the creation of a temporary public artwork – The Labyrinth – out of invasive plant materials at Community Center Park as a kickoff event to the 2008 Community Art Project, themed Elements.
- CHPAC is a sponsor of the Public Art 360 Symposium held in Chapel Hill and leads conference attendees on a tour of Chapel Hill’s Percent for Art projects.
- CHPAC co-sponsors the Painted Walls project to restore the murals of Downtown Chapel Hill. CHPAC funds the restoration of The Pencil and Primitive Cave Paintings by the original artist Michael Brown.
- The Town hires a Public Art Administrator.
- The CHPAC ceases its function as a separate non-profit corporation and becomes an advisory commission to the Public Arts Office.
- Larry Kirkland’s Percent for Art projects Around Town and In Our Hands are recognized as two of the top 45 public art pieces of 2007 by The Americans For The Arts and The Public Art Network.
- The Public Art Coordinator position with the CHPAC becomes a Town sponsored position and that CHPAC employee becomes a Town employee.
- Ray King completes the Percent For Art project, Eddies of Light, at the Homestead Park Aquatics Center
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