Feature Articles

September Issue 2002

McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC, Offers a 9/11 Remembrance

McColl Center for Visual Art is proud to be able to bring to Charlotte, NC, a film by internationally recognized artist and film maker Monika Bravo entitled, September 10, 2001, uno nunca muere la vipera. This 5-minute film depicts a violent and prophetic thunderstorm deluging the World Trade Center just hours before the attacks of Sept.11. McColl Center will show the video in memory of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) artist-in-residence Michael Richards and the thousands of others who lost their lives that day. "I was part of the World Views studio program at the World Trade Center sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. For three and a half months along with 14 other artists, we shared a studio on the 92nd floor of tower one. One of the artists (Michael Richards) perished during the events, this film is dedicated to him," says Bravo.

The film will be shown from 11am­ 6pm in Gallery 115 at McColl Center, 721 North Tryon Street. The short film will repeat every 10 minutes with a short interval between showings.

While in residence at the World Trade Center, Bravo started filming this time-lapse video originally intending it to be a part of an interactive video installation. For seven hours, the Colombian artist filmed an unusually violent, late-day thunderstorm eerily illuminating the second tower through windows streaked by torrents of rain.

LMCC was founded 30 years ago to develop the area's cultural life, while creating a fertile and nurturing environment for arts groups and artists. LMCC's mission is to provide support for individual artists and arts organizations while fostering public participation in the arts through fee events in the performing, visual and media arts. Now one of Manhattans oldest and largest arts councils, LMCC is committed to serving artists and audiences in the financial district and throughout the diverse neighborhoods and cultural communities of Manhattan.

McColl Center for Visual Art is a progressive, not-for-profit organization committed to freeing artists to be inspired to the highest levels of artistic expression and to enrich the Charlotte community through their presence. McColl Center is partially supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency; the annual fund drive of the Arts & Science Council; The Hearst Corporation; and other private and public funders. McColl Center is also a member of both Alliance of Artists' Communities and Res Artis, national and international consortiums of artist communities, respectively.

For further information, contact Ryan Moses at McColl Center for Visual Art at 704/334-7745, e-mail at (r.moses@mccollcenter.org) or on the web at (www.mccollcenter.org).

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