The Projective Eye Gallery in The Dubois Center at UNC Charlotte Center City is the College of Arts + Architecture’s artistic space in uptown Charlotte. The gallery presents major exhibitions and installations by national and international artists throughout the year.
The gallery operates in accordance with The Dubois Center hours: Monday – Thursday: 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.; Friday: 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday: 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.; Sunday: CLOSED. Hours differ in summer months. Please check The Dubois Center website for latest updates.
Current Exhibition
Litmosphere: Exhibition of Artwork by Amy Hart for the Journal of Charlotte Lit
On view through Oct. 16, with a reception and reading Sept. 24, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
The Litmosphere exhibition brings to life a creative dialogue between visual art and the written word. Flipping the traditional paradigm of art inspiring text, this exhibition showcases a creative collaboration where the written word led the way. Litmosphere: Journal of Charlotte Lit, published biannually, featured the artwork of Amy Hart in the Spring 2026 issue. Hart, a fine art photographer and UNC Charlotte Creative Photographic Director, collaborated closely with Charlotte Lit Press Editor-in-Chief Kathie Collins and Managing Editor Paul Reali, to curate the collection and pair her work with the issue’s vivid poems and stories. The result: a dynamic conversation between the visual and literary arts.
This exhibition, designed by Director of Galleries Adam Justice, extends that conversation on a larger scale, showing how one medium can deepen and enrich the experience of another.
The reception on September 24 will include a conversation with the artist and readings from the literary journal by the Charlotte Lit community.
This project marks an inaugural partnership between UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture and Charlotte Lit. Charlotte Lit is a nonprofit literary arts center and literary press founded in 2016. Located in Uptown Charlotte, it offers more than 100 events annually for writers and readers.
Amy Hart is creative photographic director at UNC Charlotte and an award-winning independent filmmaker and photographer. Her documentary films have been shown at 100+ festivals around the world, and she received a Fulbright Cultural Exchange Award for Water First, the film she made in Malawi, Africa. Hart earned her B.A. at Bennington College and her M.A. at Queens University of Charlotte. She previously taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and has taught courses at UNC Charlotte.
Ghosts Over Vestiges: Recent Works of Apocalyptic Glamour
On view Oct. 30-Jan. 22, 2027, with a reception Nov. 19, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Whether religious, mythological, philosophical or theoretical, Erik Waterkotte’s art is inspired by the narratives human beings have created throughout history to explain existence and consciousness. The work in this exhibition attempts to dismantle such anthropocentric narratives by integrating the archetypal with the ecological in a memento mori of handmade paper, print and mixed media. Based on his religious upbringing and life-long fascination with the occult, these artworks are populated with an amalgamation of glyphs, icons and archetypes that confront and question viewers’ ideologies.
Erik Waterkotte is an associate professor of print media in the Department of Art & Art History at UNC Charlotte. Waterkotte received his MFA from the University of Alberta and his BFA from Illinois State University. He is co-founder of Theurgical Studies Press, a modest publisher of weird and occult zines and novelties. He has exhibited his artwork both nationally and internationally including at Sztuka na Miejscu in Wroclaw, Poland, the University of Alberta in Canada, the University of Dallas in Texas, and Saltgrass Printmakers in Salt Lake City, Utah. His artwork is part of several collections including the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, the Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the Purdue University Galleries in Indiana.
