The
Phase II expansion of the
CityLYNX Gold Line will
extend the current line by 2.5 miles and add 11 Stops – 9 west of the
Phase I line, extending the streetcar line to Johnson C. Smith
University and French Street, and 2 east of the original line crossing
over Independence Boulevard and stopping at Sunnyside Ave.
In
2015, 316 artists applied to a national call to artists to compete for
an opportunity to integrate art into the CityLYNX Gold Line Phase
II. Four artists were selected to integrate art into the phase II
project in three zones - West, Center City, and East. In 2016, these
artists researched and developed proposals for the line impacting windscreen glass and concrete paving with art.
George Bates
(West Zone) - Bates is a Brooklyn based artist who has created two
public art projects for the MTA in New York, and has also been
commissioned by RTD in Aurora, Colorado to integrate art into the
FasTracks North Metro Line.
Bates has exhibited work at the Laguna Art Museum in California, in a
variety of group shows in New York City, in a solo show of his sketchbooks in Munich, Germany and his work has appeared
as a temporary public art project in Los Angeles, California. Bates is a
graduate and adjunct professor of Art and Design at Parsons School of
Design.
Jim Hirschfield and Sonya Ishii (Center
City Zone) - Jim Hirschfield and Sonya Ishii are a collaborative team of
artists who have been creating public art for over 30 years. You can
find their public art work throughout the United States having been
awarded over 45 public art commissions nationwide. They were also
awarded the Americans for the Arts Year in Review award in 2003, 2008,
and 2010 and have received awards and grants from celebrated
organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock
Krasner Foundation, the Allied Arts Foundation and the North Carolina
Arts Council. Hirschfield is a professor of Sculpture and serves as the
Chair of the Department of Fine Art at UNC Chapel Hill. He also serves
as a member of the Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Advisory
Council. The artist team has completed works in Charlotte, which you can
see at the Imaginon Library and the South Regional Library.
Amy Cheng (East Zone)
- New Paltz, NY based artist, Amy Cheng has exhibited her paintings
both nationally and internationally and has been included in a number of
corporate and public collections. She has completed public art
commissions at the Seattle Tacoma International Airport, the Lambert-St
Louis International Airport Metro Link station, the Jacksonville
International Airport, the Howard St. El Station in Chicago, IL, and the
Cleveland Street Subway Station and the 25th Street Avenue Subway
station both for the MTA in New York. Cheng was also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil in 2008. She earned her BFA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. She currently is a professor in the Fine Art Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Construction is projected to begin early 2017. The projected opening date is in 2020.