Sedgefield Totem

The artwork is a result of the Neighborhoods in Creative pARTnership initiative launched by the City of Charlotte, the Public Art Commission and ASC to bring more neighborhood-based public art to the city. The project required Smith to incorporate feedback she received throughout the creative process – from neighborhood representatives, city and ASC staff and the Public Art Commission – into her work. Sedgefield residents wanted the artwork to be vertical and whimsical, with bright primary colors artist reminiscent of those found in many of the sculptures created by Niki de Saint Phalle (best known locally as the creator of the “Firebird” in front of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art at Levine Center for the Arts).