Public Art on the Flight Deck

“Postcards from North Carolina,” a series of six murals in cut aluminum, can be seen from the escalators between ticketing and baggage claim.

The North Carolina mountains are one of the “must-see” features of the state featured in the artwork.

Beautiful scenes and features of North Carolina mountains are captured throughout the artwork.

Ben Premeaux's work experiments with optical illusions and “impossible” perspectival views to provoke a sense of wonder and questioning of the world in which we live

Nellie Ashford is a self-taught folk artist. Much of the cloth used to dress the people in her work reflects real-life experiences.

Much of Nellie Ashford's work is rooted in memories of life as experienced by Charlotte’s African-American community during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation in the American South.

Jonathan Grauel found inspiration in the region’s textile and stock car racing legacies for his airport murals.

Symbolic reminders such as yarn spindles, smoke stakes, textile mill machinery and race cars are whimsically placed in the villages Jonathan Grauel created in his murals.

Charlotte artist Nico Amortegui's airport murals are a celebration of women.

“It’s amazing just to have more art,” Amortegui told Charlotte Observer. “That’s the biggest thing, to have it in an airport which is so busy. Sometimes it helps to break through the craziness.”

“The whimsical theme I chose is to give a simple smile to the busy travelers and perhaps a moment to mesmerize,” Charlotte artist Ráed Al-Rawi said.

“Traveling is... also traveling in our mind and thoughts,” Ráed Al-Rawi said. “I consider it as our journey in life (with) the imagination of flying creatures representing freedom from gravity.”