fall 2024 art lecture series

SPEAKER: Wendy Hickey is the Founder of ArtPop Street Gallery. You may know ArtPop from seeing local artists' artwork on billboards throughout the region and nation for the past 11 years!

On May 1, 2018, Wendy became a full-time Executive Director of the nonprofit. She is now living out her heart's dream of showcasing local artists through billboard advertising and more, equipping local artists to achieve sustainable success while making art accessible to ALL in the Charlotte Region and beyond. Wendy believes EVERYONE deserves access to art, and local artists need to be seen as valued and paid small business owners.

October celebrates four years of ArtPop’s newest division, Inspiration Projects. Inspiration Projects connects local artists and corporations to work together on public and private art projects. To date, 60 completed projects have made over $625k in commissions possible for local artists!

SPEAKER: Marisa J Pascucci is an experienced curator of art, speaker, art historian, and art educator with a career spanning 25+ years at renowned art institutions and organizations. 

Currently, she is the Gallery and Collection Coordinator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College and an independent curator and historian. 

Before relocating to Charlotte in January 2017, Marisa was the Curator of Collections at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. She graduated from American University with a Bachelor of Arts in art history and earned dual Master of Arts degrees in art history and museum studies from the joint program between Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art.