Carmella Jarvi | Canyon Lake, TX
Carmella Jarvi is a full-time artist and entrepreneur who works with community — transforming spaces — around the theme of water. This McColl Center and Hambidge Center alumna explores water through glass and public art. Her studio practice involves capturing water through kiln glass and painting.
980-253-9170
carmella@carmellajarvi.com
ART HONORS:
Recipient, Arts & Science Council 2020 Creative Renewal Fellowship, Charlotte, NC
Recipient, Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC, 2020
Invited Artist, Hickory Museum of Art & Corning Foundation, Hickory, NC, & Charlotte, NC [How Creativity Happens? Collaboration & Exhibition at HMA, Sept. 2019 - Jan. 2020. Collaborative, site-specific installation, Seeing Light, November 2019 at HMA.]
Atrium Health Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, 2019
Artist-in-Residence, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA, 2018
Artist, CSA [Community Supported Art — artist made 50 glass pieces for shareholders], Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC, 2014 & 2018
Commission - glass, Moonlight Creative Group, Charlotte, NC, Installed January 2017
Commission - glass, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Charlotte, NC, Installed May 2015
Recipient, Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC, 2013
Recipient, Arts & Science Council Packard Place Gallery Curator Grant, Charlotte, NC , 2011
Artist-in-Residence, McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, Summer 2010
Recipient, NC Arts Council Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant, 2008
Recipient, Arts & Science Council Regional Artist Project Grant, Charlotte, NC, 2007
Commission - pastel paintings (3), First Charter Bank [now 5th/3rd], Concord, NC, 2005
PUBLIC ART:
Commissions — 2 wall mounted glass, [Through Skyline Art, Houston, TX], for Atrium Health Union West Emergency Department & Medical Office Building, Stallings, NC, January/February 2022
Commission — wall mounted glass, [Through Skyline Art, Houston, TX], for Houston Methodist, The Woodlands Hospital, Woodlands, TX, February 2022
Circle Together, City of Charlotte Creative Placemaking Grant, Jarvi’s asphalt mural community project [Planned with Garinger High School & Plaza Shamrock Neighborhood Association], Charlotte, NC. Begun 2020/Cancelled in mid-2021 due to low participation
Quiet Water [Temporary exterior glass faux water feature in Healing Garden — created during Atrium Health AiR at McColl Center], Mercy Hospital, Charlotte, NC, 2019
South End Creative Lab public art project, Historic South End, Charlotte, NC, [Called The Urban Eddy on CLT Powerhouse Studio — an urban planning hub] January 2018 - December 2020
ArtPop Artist, ArtPop, Adams Outdoor Advertising, & others, Jarvi glass images on billboard [entire year] & other OOH* media, throughout Charlotte area, 2014 & 2018
Invited Artist, ArtPop, Awedience Media at Ballantyne Village, Jarvi glass art images (2) on large outdoor curved digital display, Charlotte, NC, May 2016 (*again in 2018)
SELECTED EXHIBITS:
McColl Center’s Benefit Art Sale (Juried), McColl Center, Charlotte, NC, Oct. 2020 & 2022
Invitational, metal + glass exhibit 2021, Gallery C3, Charlotte, NC, Sharon Dowell, curator, Feb-March 2021
Winter Invitational, GreenHill Center for NC Art, Greensboro, NC, Edie Carpenter, curator, Dec. 2019
Group show, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, Tom Stanley, curator, 2019
Group show, McColl Center Alumni, Anne Neilson Fine Art, Charlotte, NC, August 2018
CSA exhibiting artist, Celebrating 5 Years of Community Supported Art, Arts & Science Council, Projective Eye Gallery at UNC Charlotte Center City, May - July 2018
Alumni artist, Studio Party 15 & 17 [Fundraiser], McColl Center for Art + Innovation, 2015 & 2017
Group show, Earth, Wind & Fire, Clearwater Artist Studios, Concord, NC, January 2017
Featured Artist - glass, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte, NC, Nov. 2014 - January 2015 & June 2015
Gallery Artist - glass, Sozo Gallery, Charlotte, NC, July 2014 - July 2015
I think I am the Water [glass], MoNA Gallery, Charlotte, NC, November/December 2013
Invitational [glass], Ciel Gallery, Charlotte, NC, August 2013
Recollection & Collaboration, MoNA Gallery, Charlotte, NC, June 2012 & August 2013
Six Women, Six Perspectives, RedSky Gallery, Charlotte, NC, 2011
Halpert Biennial ‘11, Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Boone, NC, Steven Matijcio, juror, 2011
Group show, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC, Lin Barnhardt, curator, 2009, 2011
Group show, McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, NC, Ce Scott, curator, 2010
Solo show, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC, Frank Selby, curator, 2010
Group show, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC, Mark Sloan, juror, 2006
RELATED ART:
Commission — 300 water glass droplets, Atrium Health Union West, [Gifts for Teammates/staff celebrating opening], Stallings, NC, January 2022
Purchased abstract water paintings (4), Art Force, New Brighton, Minnesota, for new Multi-Family Development, Charlotte, NC, 2021
Artist, City of Charlotte’s Prequalified Creatives Pool, Charlotte, NC, April 2020 - February 2022
Artist, Arts & Science Council Public Art’s Prequalified Regional Artist Pool, Charlotte, NC, 2020 - 2022
Student, Penland School of Craft, Brian Corr‘s Light Form glassblowing class, August 2016
Commissions, Private patrons, custom kiln glass art in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
Teaching glass artist, SlumpFest 2015, Slumpy’s, Belmont, NC, October 2015
Student, Bullseye Glass, Matthew Day Perez workshop, Mamaroneck, NY, July 2015
Teacher - pastel classes/workshops, Queens University’s Center for Lifelong Learning, 2008, 2011
Painting Water with Pastels Instructional DVD, Artist Palette Productions, 2009
Artist-in-Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, July 2006
RELATED BUSINESS:
Panelist, ASC Public Art Panel, Torrence Creek Tributary Project, Charlotte, NC, 2020
Volunteer, City of Charlotte Planning, Design, & Development, UDO [Urban Development Ordinance] Advisory Committee, April 2018 - September 2020
Attended, Center for Active Design’s Case for Neighborhood Spaces/Assembly: Civic Design Guidelines event, Charlotte, NC, June 2018
Attended, Innovation Challenge: Housing & UDO (Urban Development Ordinance) Summit [with Mitchell Silver], City of Charlotte, Knight Foundation, & others, Charlotte, NC, March 2018
Attended, Launch Greensboro’s Launch Camp Creative workshop, Winston-Salem, NC, May 2018
Attended, NC Arts Council, Arts & Science Council/Creative Capital’s Business Workshops for Artists, Various locations in NC, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2016, & 2018
Panelist, CIVA (Christians in the Visual Arts) Symposium, “Calling & Vocation of a Life in the Arts,” Charlotte, NC, May 2016
Board member, ArtPop [501(c)(3)], Charlotte, NC, July 2015 - July 2016
Consultant/teacher - business of art, variety of local arts groups & individuals, 2007 - present
Presenter, The Artist Entrepreneur Series, RCCC - Business Center (Rowan Cabarrus Community College), Concord, NC, 2015, 2016
Project assistant/artist coordinator, CSA (Community Supported Art), Arts & Science Council, Charlotte, NC, June - November 2013, and April - May 2015
Program creator, Art in the Village, Pop-up gallery in Ballantyne Village, Charlotte, NC, Fall 2014
Creativity session leader, Community Investments Regional meeting, Duke Energy, Nov. 2014
Session leader, Spring Connect: Tap into your Creativity, Deloitte Consulting, LLP, May 2014
Founder, Gallery @ Packard Place, Packard Place, Charlotte, NC, 2011-2014
Project manager, Charlotte Creates @ Packard Place innovation hub during DNC, (Democratic National Convention), Charlotte, NC, September 2012
Session leader, various business of art offerings, Arts & Science Council, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
SELECTED PRESS:
Healing Waters [Atrium Health Union West Commission], Featured project Art and Wellness issue, CODAmagazine, CODAworx, June 2022
Blog Interview, Let’s Talk Art with Brooke Blog, Charlotte, NC, November 5, 2021
Article — Riding the Current, Arts & Science Council Blog, Charlotte, NC, June 1, 2021
Article — Water works, South Park Magazine, Charlotte, NC, April 2020
Included in “A City of Talent” article, QC Exclusive Magazine, Charlotte, NC, Sept./Oct. 2018
Article - The Urban Eddy, Historic South End blog, Charlotte, NC, February 27, 2018
Article, QC Exclusive Magazine, Charlotte, NC, December 2017
Interviewed, Tea Time with Tenya, Charlotte Community Radio, January 31, 2017
Cover artist, Slumpy’s 2015 Catalog, Belmont, NC [& included in 2016 catalog]
The Artist as Entrepreneur: In the Studio with Carmella Jarvi, HappeningsCLT.com, June 2015
ASST Press regarding CSA & ArtPop, late 2013/2014
Packard Place/DNC article, Fast Company, September 4, 2012
Beautiful Dreamers, Today’s Charlotte Woman, September 2010
7 Artists Shaping our Community, University City Magazine, September 2009
Business and the Arts Articles, The Mecklenburg Times, May 19 & June 16, 2009
Published, Studio Visit Magazine, Michael Klein, juror, April 2009