Held monthly, our Artist Talk + Tour offers visitors a chance to gather alongside McColl Center’s current Artists-in-Residence inside the studios where their work is actively unfolding.
Join us on Thursday, September 10th, and experience the artists’ studios, their processes, and their ideas. This is the place where art is made.
Thursday, September 10 | 6-8 pm
McColl Center | 721 N Tryon
The evening begins informally, with a casual mix and mingle (drinks available at the cash bar), creating space for conversation before moving through the studios together where artwork is unfolding in real time.
Because the program is artist-led, no two tours unfold in quite the same way. Some artists speak openly and narratively about their lives and influences. Others focus on material or technical experimentation. Visitors might encounter painters, ceramicists, installation artists, filmmakers, social practice artists, sculptors, writers, or multidisciplinary practitioners whose work stretches across categories entirely. What connects them is the residency itself: a period of concentrated time, support, and risk-taking within a shared creative environment.
Artist Talk + Tour also reflects a larger philosophy at McColl Center: the idea that artistic practice grows through exchange and mentorship. Emerging artists share space with established voices. Community members enter conversations that are often hidden behind institutional or academic walls.
In this way, the Artist Talk + Tour becomes part of an ongoing ecosystem of mentorship, dialogue, and mutual influence: what we often describe as an “artist ladder,” an interconnected network of people learning from one another in real time.
This is where art is made.
Images from our most recent Talk + Tour by @mrlo__
Mark your calendars to meet our upcoming artists on October 8 and November 12.
Please note that Talk + Tour will not be held in December 2026.
