Art Panel
The Art-in-Transit Advisory Committee recommends art professionals to serve on artist selection panels.  It is the responsibility of these panelists to select artists capable of creating high-quality public art appropriate to each project. 

Art Committees

Art panelists include artists, museum professionals, designers, art educators, public art administrators, conservators, and other art professionals with a broad understanding of contemporary art and the contributions artists can make to an art-in-transit program.

To ensure meaningful community involvement in the Art-in-Transit Program, CATS invites members of station communities to participate in the artist selection process.

Neighborhood representatives, business owners, planners, historic society representatives, transit-users and supporters work with the art panelists, station architects, engineers, lead artists on the design team, urban planners, and CATS staff to compile information about the station architecture, neighborhood, demographics, history, and users to assist panelists in choosing artists.  Artists use the information to create art relevant to the design and station community.

Eligible Artists
As plans for future corridors and stations develop, CATS will continue to solicit artists' materials for its artists' roster and slide registry.  Artists will be encouraged to update their materials on file with CATS.  Students are not eligible.

Professional artists are invited to submit the materials described in the application form (request for qualifications) to CATS to be included in CATS' artists' roster and slide registry.  Artists are chosen by art panelists reviewing their work included in the artists' roster and slide registry.  Artists who have not previously participated in public art projects are encouraged to apply. 

Art Criteria

In keeping with Federal Transit Administration (FTA) guidelines to incorporate art into mass transit, CATS subscribes to the following criteria when artists are involved in planning and designing of transit art projects and/or when artists are commissioned to create works of art:

• Quality of art or design
• Impact on transit users or other public audiences
• Connection to site and/or adjacent community: art that relates, in form or substance to the cultures, people, natural and built surroundings, or history of the area in which the project is located
• Appropriateness for site, including safety and scale
• Durability and resistance to vandalism
• Minimal maintenance requirements

Art-in-Transit Advisory Committee 

The seven-member committee of art professionals is appointed by CATS' CEO Keith Parker to guide and oversee the Art-in-Transit Program.  The advisory committee meets quarterly, or as needed, to advise on commissioning public art, recommending art selection panelists, reviewing artists' proposals, art plans and budgets, ensuring community involvement, public education, and program promotion to keep the community informed.  Members serve for two-year terms, and are nominated by regional and national art professionals knowledgeable about public art.  

Current committee members:

Nancy M. Doll, Greensboro, NC – Director, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNCG

Linda Johnson Dougherty, Raleigh NC – Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art, NC Museum of Art

Carrie L. Gault, RA, Charlotte, NC – Principal, Happy Box Architecture PLLC

Hasaan Kirkland, Charlotte, NC – Associate Professor of Fine Art, Johnson C. Smith University

Cheryl A. Palmer, Charlotte, NC – Director of Education, The Mint Museum

Wim Roefs, Columbia, SC – Instructor, Contemporary African-American Art, University of South Carolina