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February HUG Spotlight: Kurma Murrain and Greg Russell Get Published

Tasty Tracks: Kat Holland’s “Imagination”

Our New Best Friend: Lucas Ayres of CLT Shooters

Where Are We In CLT? Canine Café Charlotte

Exploring Charlotte, Where Are We in CLT?, Veronica LeMaster0

Equal Time: Melissa Wineman Reminds Us That Spring Is Coming

Equal Time, Videos, Tim Miner0

Where Are We In CLT? 7th Street Station Interactive Art

Exploring Charlotte, Where Are We in CLT?, Tim Miner0

Giant Postcards Proclaim Love for the Queen City

CLT Creatives, Creative News, Happenings, Tim Miner0

Mashal Fatima Valam Uses Her Flower Power

CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

I’m A Sandwich: Sub One

CLT Creatives, Exploring Charlotte, Videos, Kriska Woods and Manny Carandang0

Our New Best Friend(s): Stephen and Nathan Tucker of Powder Studio Porcelain

Our New Best Friend, Tim Miner0

The Accidental Poet: Kathie Collins on the life-changing art of writing (and reading) poetry

CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

JazzArts Charlotte Charts the Beat of the Future with Songs of the Past

CLT Creatives, Creative News, Happenings, Tim Miner0

Celebrating Valentine’s Day with 7 of Charlotte’s Coolest Creative Couples

CLT Creatives, Amanda Lea0

PODCAST: CreativeMornings/Rewind with Irisol Gonzalez

CLT Creatives, Podcasts, Andy Goh and Tim Miner0

Jay Ward Explores ‘A Labyrinth of Secrets to Unlock’

CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

An Art Walk You Can Sink Your Heart Into

CLT Creatives, Exploring Charlotte, Happenings, Amanda Lea0

How Retailer blis is Weathering the Pandemic

Creative News, Page Leggett0

Cheap Joe’s Art Stuff

Exploring Charlotte, Where Are We in CLT?, Tim Miner0

Lead With Love Billboard

CLT Creatives, Where Are We in CLT?, Porter Metzler0

Equal Time: Nothing But Blue Skies with Xavier Cheek

CLT Creatives, Equal Time, Videos, Tim Miner & Matt Olin0

Brash Bear Bares Everything … But His Name

CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

7 Deadly Sins of Media Relations

Editorials, How To/Resources, Tim Miner0

Charlotte Spoke to Poet Kia Flow. And, She Answered Back.

CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

What’s The Future of Live Performance in Charlotte?

CLT Creatives, Music, Tim Miner0

Our New Best Friend – Demond Richardson

Our New Best Friend, Matt Olin0

5 (Or So) Ridiculous Questions with a (Former) Charlottean We Love … Conrad Ricamora

5 Ridiculous Questions, CLT Creatives, Page Leggett0

We’re Huggers (and Our Hugs Just Got Bigger)

CLT Nonprofits, Creative News, HUG Micro-Grants, Tim Miner0

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Where Are We In CLT?

Explore some of our favorite spots in Charlotte. Use #WhereAreWeInCLT to share where you are in the Queen City. Want to see more? Click here!

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Charlotte Hornets Minor League Baseball

Charlotte Rescue Mission Rebound Center

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Excited to see this new exhibit at @themintmuseum

Excited to see this new exhibit at @themintmuseum ❤️ Posted @withregram • @themintmuseum See our newest exhibition for free! "W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine" opens at Mint Museum Uptown tomorrow, Feb. 24, with a celebratory evening of complimentary admission from 5–9 PM.

“W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine,” is divided into six sections: Delineation, Defense, Deterrent, The Divine, Decoration, and The Invisible. While many of the images in the exhibition focus on division, some show unity, beauty, and resilience. In Ami Vitale’s “Ripple Effect,” neighbors converge before the stepwell wall in Jaipur, India. Another photograph depicts how the artist Swoon converted an addiction treatment center into a monumental art project that celebrates community.

Through 132 photographs and a 26-minute documentary, the exhibition details the structures of walls and their ever-changing uses throughout history: while walls may be built for one reason, they often stay up for another. The Moroccan city of Essaouira and the Croatian city of Dubrovnik once fortified their ports for protection; today, tourists visit them for their picturesque quaintness. The Western Wall in Jerusalem started as a retaining wall for King Solomon’s Second Temple, but it has become one of the most holy sites for the Jewish people and is considered hallowed by many other religions.

“W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine” is generously presented by @pncbank, with additional support from @mintauxiliary. Individual support from Laura and Mike Grace, Deidre and Clay Grubb, Leigh-Ann and Martin Sprock, and Betsy Rosen and Liam Stokes.

Free Wednesday Evenings are sponsored by Bank of America, Publix Super Markets Charities, and Mint Museum Auxiliary.

Image 1: Ami Vitale. Ripple Effect, 2009. Photographer @amivitale⠀
Image 2: Steve Weinik. Healing Begins Through Connection, 2018. © 2018 City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program / Swoon, 2913 Kensington Avenue, Philadelphia. Artist: Swoon and Kensington Heights Community

Were here for this. Affordable space for creatives

Were here for this. Affordable space for creatives - especially creatives of color - must be a priority. Thanks for staying, fighting and being part of the solution. ❤️Posted @withregram • @greenethumbz There are 14,000 businesses in Charlotte, why doesn’t it feel like it? @mintcityconnect ⁣⁣
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@queencitynerve published an article almost 2 years ago on Charlotte’s leading black female entrepreneur leaving the area. That was pre-COVID. With developers not slowing down their plans, the story continues. ⁣⁣
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@sherrell_dorsey I never got to meet you. I absolutely loved everything you were doing for CLT. I was so new here in 2018, I wanted to be apart. It wasn’t my time yet. Thank you for giving your all! ⁣⁣
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@chefgregcolliertn what you and Subrina are doing for black culinary artists and bartenders, absolutely bananas. ⁣⁣
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@romeosveganburgers I pray you find the perfect space, where you want to be and not where you have to settle. ⁣⁣
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The focus for CLT development can’t be cookie cut designs with a brewery and coffee shop at ground level. Local cut & sew shops, bookstores, upscale billiards bars? Billiards is one of the most socially distanced sports possible! ⁣⁣
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The ideas are endless but there is a disconnect. Buckhead has found a way to house @botanicalsafari and other black owned and minority owned businesses in ATL even if temporary. Why can’t Southpark? ⁣⁣
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Salon Suites concepts have been extremely successful here. Let’s apply this to retail. ⁣
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@jasonthomasclt @cltdevelopment @adamwilliamscre thank you for keeping us abreast on what’s coming up in the City. I’m hopeful @mintcityconnect will be able to relay this information and expedite this solution. ⁣⁣
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Calling black creatives and entrepreneurs who have struggled with leaving Charlotte for being overlooked and undervalued. We need you. We’ll figure this out. ⁣⁣Follow @mintcityconnect.
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#mintcityconnect #greenethumbz #blackownedbusiness #development #clt #cltdevelopment #community #commericialrealestate

To celebrate Charlotte’s music, we’re bringing

To celebrate Charlotte’s music, we’re bringing back a regular feature from the early days of The Biscuit — Tasty Tracks. Each month, we’ll share a new, original song from a local musician and introduce you to the artist behind the work.⁣
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🎼 Up first is singer/songwriter, Kat Holland (@kathollandmusic) and her newest track, Imagination.⁣
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Use the link in our bio to listen to Imagination and read a short interview with Kat!⁣
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🎨 Track artwork by @maceyarts.

Good morning, Charlotte! Meet Eulises Orellana - A

Good morning, Charlotte! Meet Eulises Orellana - AKA @euuuuuli. He’s one of seven artists who created the six giant “Love, Charlotte" postcards now on display along the light rail at 7th Street Public Market through March 15.⁣
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Swipe left for a short video from Euli about how the process he used to create his postcard.⁣ Music in the video from Pure Imagination and Rook1e:
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"Love, Charlotte" was co-curated by Charlotte Center City Partners (@uptown.clt ) and Charlotte Is Creative⁣.

We do love a creative team-up: @cltchalkart, @sunf

We do love a creative team-up: @cltchalkart, @sunflourbakingcompany and @cltdesserts are a treat of a trio. ❤️ Posted @withregram • @cltdesserts 📢 NEW ART!! In front of SUNFLOUR BAKING COMPANY—East Blvd location by artist @cltchalkart created Sunny [the mascot] of @sunflourbakingcompany! SLIDE RIGHT to see photos and a video of the bee-line inside the bakery from @ricomarcelophotography of the beautiful ARTWORK created. One of many to come!

SUNNY [the mascot] SAYS ☀️ FOLLOW THE BEE 🐝 LINE INSIDE @sunflourbakingcompany and [myself] @cltdesserts to find out about ALL NEW DESSERTS in the Queen City!

🚨SNAP A PHOTO and post in your story tagging me for a CHANCE TO WIN some desserts from some of my favorite spots I frequent and partner with.

🎨ARTIST: @cltchalkart
📸PHOTOGRAPHER: @ricomarcelophotography
🌻LOCATION: @sunflourbakingcompany

#WhereAreWeInCLT? When you head Uptown, you expect

#WhereAreWeInCLT? When you head Uptown, you expect the skyscrapers to impress you. But, you don’t expect them to sing to you. Yet, that’s exactly what the 7th Street Station parking garage does.⁣
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When the deck opened in 1998, the team behind it wanted to add a little wonder to the building. 7th Street Station is accented by more than 400 colored panels and 30 plexiglass fins that soar to 30 feet and light up, as well as 30 sensor pads below.⁣
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When you touch the pads, they emit sounds, light and, sometimes, laughter. (We’re not advocating touching the pads, mind you, unless you use your elbow. This was long before COVID-19.)⁣
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All of this is part of “Touch My Building,” an interactive work of public art by Christopher Janney (@janneysound). He created it to disrupt passersby in a surprising and playful way, encouraging them to interact with the architecture of the building … and each other.⁣
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Like a clock, the building “plays” on the hour. A 10-inch plaque on the side of the deck presents a riddle. If you solve it, the building responds with a special sound and light show.