Goodyear Arts is an artist-led, nonprofit residency and multi-disciplinary events program based on this truth: Artists need space, time, money, and community. In underused spaces, we offer paid studio residencies for local artists and present events from visual, performing and literary disciplines. We showcase the work of resident and visiting artists through our exhibition program and give space to worthy but placeless artistic and community endeavors through our public programs.



Since 2015, GYA has broadened the community’s access to artistic practices by supporting artists, curators, and organizers in an inclusive setting which celebrates risk taking. GYA events are almost always free and are presented in an accessible, street-level setting.


HOW WE GOT OUR START

Founded by Amy Bagwell, Graham Carew, and Amy Herman, Goodyear Arts evolved from the artist-led pilot program Skyline Artists in Residence (July 2015 - January 2016) in an defunct Goodyear Tire Center in Uptown Charlotte donated by Crescent Communities. Its second building, a former Sears & later nightclub across Uptown on College Street, was donated by Levine Properties & Lennar LMC (January 2016 - June 2017). Goodyear Arts moved to Camp North End in June 2017 and will remain there through 2021 in space donated by ATCO Properties and Camp North End.