Blumenthal Fellows Program

The Music Yard

A celebration of the universal language of music through interactive replicas of musical instruments, inspired by cultures from across the globe, using sustainable materials.

📍Levine Avenue

Sponsored by WasteQuip

SYNC

Sync was conceived as an unfinished piece — one that invites the audience to interact with it. Each gesture influences and reshapes the colors and rhythms, as the view provides the missing piece and completes the work as a co-creator of the art itself.

📍Blume Studios

Quilt Cube

Largescale vinyl reproductions of portraits painted on damaged vintage quilts. Festivalgoers will be encouraged to donate worn, torn, or stained garments for use in art instead of thrift stores where items may end up in trash piles around the world.

When coming out to Blume studios, please bring your well worn, torn, or stained clothing to place in the Springclean donation box near the giant Quilt Cube. "You clean out your closets, We make beautiful things."

📍Blume Studios

Sponsored by Springclean

Partners:
- Wild West Lighting
- Kristen Gurri, Caple, Inc.

Together

Together is an interactive sound sculpture that transforms human touch into harmony. When participants join hands to bridge two larger-than-life figures, a chorus of voices can be heard— celebrating empathy and unity through the simple, shared gesture of holding hands. 

📍 The Green

Partners:
- Fabrication - Hasheem Halim

Torito de Pucara

A colorful, giant replica of the traditional pucará bull, a sacred symbol of his native Peru, standing tall as a vibrant, interactive public sculpture and imaginative children’s play space.

📍 The Green

Partners:
- Quynh Vu & Cheeks - Sculptors

THE FOURT™

a memory garden inspired by homegoing services and woven from the rich cultural fabric of charlotte’s black community. it honors the people and places that are often forgotten and serves as a moment of reflection and a celebration of life.

📍 The Green 

Partners:
- Backspinz
- Black Charlotte Project
- Mixed Metaphors Production
- The Arts Empowerment Project

Mix & Match Magic

A three-part, revolving interactive structure featuring animals with patterns inspired by alebrijes, a colorful form of Mexican folk art. The idea for this piece came from a childhood pastime with my dad, where we’d pass a drawing back and forth during church sermons, each adding wild details until it filled the page. This piece is an invitation for others to see that same creative spark within themselves.

📍 Levine Avenue

Partners: 
- Adam Jochim- Fabricator
- Will Rudolph- Lighting,
- Sound & Programming
- Caple Inc- Vinyl

Art Safari – Line It Up!

Stacked rotating cubes with vibrant images of birds, animals, food and famous architecture from countries represented by our CIAF communities. When the correct alignment is created, a conduit activates a rewarding light!

📍 Levine Avenue 

Born Rich, Black As My Soul…

A visual storytelling series celebrating the richness, resilience, and radiance of Black identity.

📍 Knight Theater Lobby Windows

Sponsored by MD Boutique

Partners:
- Makeup artist- Brenda Pinkston
- Stylist/designer- Will White
- Production Assistant- Chloe Anderson