Did you know the City of Gastonia has a new Arts Committee?
The City of Gastonia Arts Committee is working to support artist growth and expression in our City. The committee is working to advance both visual and performing arts in our community for everyone to participate in and enjoy the arts and experience all they have to offer.
Our goals are to ...
- Increase public art throughout the City.
- Provide educational and cultural arts opportunities to citizens.
- Help our civic non-profit arts organizations through small grants.
- Attract more economic dollars and opportunities through arts events.
Explore public art throughout our beautiful city
CALL FOR LOCAL ARTISTS
Rotary Public Art Project Call for Artists
FY 2024/2025 Art Committee Accomplishments
Funded through the Arts Committee for a year-long lease and located at Walker E. Reid III Park (1001 S. Marietta Street, Gastonia) Celestial Serenade was created by Lawrence Feir in 2024. It weighs approximately 250 lbs.
Lawrence Feir is of Canadian origin and currently lives in Greensboro, NC. He attended Parsons School of Design in New York and UMASS, Amherst, where he studied painting, drawing, jewelry design, and photography. Lawrence enjoyed an earlier career in aerospace photography and became the chief photographer for Airways International magazine, traveling the world to photograph large commercial jets. Since 2011, he has concentrated in welded steel creating copper and stainless kinetic sculptures as well as figurative works.
Funded through the Arts Committee for a year-long lease, Earth Water Wind Fire #2 was created in 2017 by Hanna Jubran. It weighs a total of 2300 lbs.
Hanna Jubran received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is currently a Sculpture Professor at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. Hanna’s work addresses the concepts of time, movement, balance and space.
Next Round of Grants Coming in Summer 2026 - check back for details and application
We welcome arts organizations with 501(c)(3) status to apply for an arts grant. An organization with 501(c)(3) status under the United State Internal Revenue Code is one which maintains a permanent office, practice/performance space, or physical address within the municipal boundaries of the City of Gastonia. North Carolina General Statute Section160A-488 refers to “arts” to include the performing arts, visual arts, and literary arts and includes dance, drama, music, painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, crafts, photography, film, video, architecture, design, and literature, when part of a performing, visual or literary arts program.
Become a Friend of the Arts Committee
Would you like to receive information and announcements from the Arts Committee? Contact Candice Owenby at Candice.Owenby@gastonianc.gov
Check back to see what's coming up and how we are highlighting great arts projects in the City of Gastonia.
Thank you for supporting the arts in Gastonia!
