Goodyear Arts: Year 2

While in residency, Micah Cash created a new photo series focused on bus stops in Charlotte to explore the impact that transportation has on economic mobility.

Chris Thomas produced a short film and created a site specific installation to be viewed at the residency showcase.

Ramya created an interactive audio tour that asked the audience to engage in thought response activities through their smartphones. The tour culminated in a window box that could be seen by those passing by on the street.

Artist in Residence Renee Cloud created the work "Out of Context". This piece consisted of 640 small works which the audience was invited to take home with them. The piece became more and more sparse over the course of the exhibition.

Photographer Andy McMillan made large-scale, performative, black and white photographs and videos that were shown at the residency showcase.

Novelist Jeff Jackson explored how visual art and installations could inform his writing practice.

During her residency, visual artist Grace Stott, created new 2D and 3D multi-media works.

Musician Dylan Gilbert created an immersive "Sound Forest" that invited participants to create original tracks through interacting with various components in his studio.

Andrea Vail used her residency to create several new large scale works including tapestries, a site specific installation, and a community based project.

In December, we saw a large scale collaboration between current and past Goodyear Arts residents on an original musical called "All the Dogs and Horses".

Created and Performed by XOXO
original score by Dylan Gilbert
Set and Properties Design by Jon Prichard with Todd Stewart
Costume Design by Sarah Ingel
Directed by Matt Cosper
Performers: Kadey Ballard, Karina Caporino, Matt Cosper, Justin Evans, Dylan Gilbert, Jon Prichard, Bill Reilly, and Todd Stewart.

Wall Poems (Amy Bagwell and Graham Carew) installed a new mural/poem on the back wall of the building.

Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale
Dan Albergotti

Measure the walls. Count the ribs. Notch the long days.
Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires
with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals.
Call old friends, and listen for echoes of distant voices.
Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Look each way
for the dim glow of light. Work on your reports. Review
each of your life’s ten million choices. Endure moments
of self-loathing. Find the evidence of those before you.
Destroy it. Try to be very quiet, and listen for the sound
of gears and moving water. Listen for the sound of your heart.
Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope,
where you can rest and wait. Be nostalgic. Think of all
the things you did and could have done. Remember
treading water in the center of the still night sea, your toes
pointing again and again down, down into the black depths.

Grace Stott created a multimedia mural entitled "a Cat's Dream", complete with three dimensional braces on the teeth.

Renee Cloud created a door mural that could be viewed from both inside the gallery and outside the building.

Sarah Ingel performed her piece "the limits" in the window box, visible from both inside and outside the building. This piece was a durational piece that went the full length of the event.

Over 1200 people came to celebrate at Goodbye, Goodyear #2 and give the College Street building a send off before the project relocated to its third location at Camp North End.