Our Permanent Collection

Cyanotype butterflies from the Swarm piece of art by Leah Sobsey. Pictured from the RCC Main Lobby.

The Raleigh Convention Center is pleased to showcase artworks from the City of Raleigh Municipal Art Collection. The Municipal Art Collection holds more than 600 fine art and public art pieces by local, state, and national artists.

Displayed throughout Raleigh in public buildings, parks and other city-owned property are works that include:

  • paintings, prints, drawings, textiles, posters,
  • and large-scale sculptures as well as artworks used for education purposes at the Pullen and Sertoma Arts Centers.

Featuring Work By

Bland Hoke
Bob Rankin
Ely Urbanski
George McKim
Jason Craighead
Leah Sobsey
Mariam Stephen
Mario Marzan
Peter Marin
Saba Taj
Stephen Hayes
Susan Toplikar
Thomas Sayre

Bland Hoke

Wooden Banjo pieces comprise this mobile, which is suspended from the ceiling of the RCC. Banjo parts create curved arcs in a cascade to the bottom level of the building.

Plume

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Leah Sobsey

Hundreds of cyanotype butterfly reproductions swarm across the Grand Staircase wall of the Raleigh Convention Center lobby.

Swarm

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Bob Rankin

 

First panel: Red abstraction of the Shimmer Wall; Second panel: Yellow abstraction of the Raleigh skyline; Third panel: Blue abstraction of the State Capitol

Primary Raleigh

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Ely Urbanski

A white outline of a woman's blouse appears on a royal blue fabric backdrop.

Blouse

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George McKim

 

Two vertical pieces comprise this work. The left panel shows colorful bricks with the right panel showed blue and black versions of the bricks surrounding a hollow geometric square.

The House That Klee Built

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Jason Craighead

A mixed-media abstract scattered collection of dark lines and splashes of sky blue and orange.

Forward to Everything

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Mariam Stephan

This horizontal black and white india ink drawing depicts a hole rupturing in the middle of the canvas with layers of organic objects from light in color to shadowy and dark being swallowed up.

Sink Hole

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Mario Marzan

This acrylic and pencil drawing depicts a rainbow of vertical stripes going toward the center of the canvas. The stripes are above and below and warped grid, with a prism refracting aqua lines along the final vertical third of the canvas. Fractal-like gray clouds are show in the background. These shapes become colorful as they get closer to the warped grid.

Laguna No. 2

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Peter Marin

With hundreds of geometric shapes ranging from triangles to rectangles to parallelograms, this bright and colorful canvas bursts with reds, yellows, greens, oranges, and blues.

New Construction Technique

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Saba Taj

A woman with brown eyes and tall hair is silhouettes in baby pink. She stares at the viewer. Another silhouette behind her shows her eyes and is washed in gold glitter. Behind that is another silhouette made of smoke-like wafts of gray moving upward. In the foreground, teardrop shapes shift into ornate red gems.
Liminal Beings

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Stephen Hayes

A circular hand-woven tapestry is made of black wooden panels stitched together to create a circle with a beige woven border. A circular design in beige ink shows circles and overlapping circles around the border.

Calendar Tapestry

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Susan Toplikar

 

Two triangle compositions depict detailed drawings of St. Augustine's Chapel. The first triangle shows the aisle view facing the back of the church, which includes a door, window, and vaulted ceilings. The second panel shows the view facing toward the altar. A red carpet and brown pews are seen in both renderings.

St. Augustine's Chapel Interior 1 and 2

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Thomas Sayre

 

This large format mixed media painting shows brown narrow and bare tree trunks against a white background. The trees move vertically on the canvas.

North Maroon

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