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
Recent Acquisitions: The 1st Biennial Exhibition from the UNC Charlotte Art Collection
On view June 1-Sept. 4, with a reception Sept. 3, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Curated by Professor of Art History Jim Frakes and students in the Spring 2026 art history curatorial seminar, this exhibition showcases recent acquisitions of visual art by five University colleges, Atkins Library, the University Foundation and the Lemmond-Helms Artist Residency House. The 38 works on view speak to the University’s local and regional collaborations, faculty research, and its ongoing arts leadership in the state of North Carolina. Featured artists include current and emeritus faculty from the Department of Art & Art History and artists such as Romare Bearden, Maud Gatewood, Audrey Flack and Ben Owen III.
Litmosphere: Exhibition of Artwork by Amy Hart for the Journal of CharlotteLit
On view Sept. 14 – Oct. 16, with a reception and reading Sept. 24, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
In Spring 2026, Charlotte Center for Literary Arts (Charlotte Lit) released its sixth issue of Litmosphere, a biannual online journal of literary and visual arts. Along with original prose and poetry from writers nationwide, this issue features photography by Amy Hart, creative photographic director at UNC Charlotte. Hart worked with Charlotte Lit Press editors to pair her work with the issue’s poems and stories, leading to a dynamic conversation between the visual and literary arts. This exhibition extends that conversation on a larger scale, showing how one medium can deepen and enrich the experience of another. 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, just a few blocks from the DuBois Center, it offers more than 100 events annually for writers and readers. Amy Hart, in addition to her work at UNC Charlotte, is 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 BA at Bennington College and her MA at Queens University. She previously taught as an adjunct professor at New York University and currently teaches a humanities course at UNC Charlotte’s Honors College that explores global artists who are also activists.
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..
