The McColl Center for Visual Art.

The McColl Center for Visual Art’s winter session is coming to a close, which means that current Artists-in-Residence (Alix Lambert, Elizabeth Lasure, Crystal Am Nelson, Ivan Toth Depeňa and Jason Watson, as well as Affiliate Artist Linda Luise Brown) will wrap up their time at the McColl Center on March 25. To celebrate their residencies and recognize their accomplishments, the McColl Center is hosting an open house on Friday March 14 from 6-8 p.m. with free admission.

The winter session artists represent a wide variety of styles, disciplines and media, from architecture to photography and ceramics to performance art:

• Ivan Toth Depeňa uses science, technology and traditional media to explore the layering of machine and human, seeking to blur disciplinary boundaries. During his residency, Depeňa worked on an interactive piece and custom software that tracks and records movement of moths and translates the movement into patterns of light and color.
• Alix Lambert is a photographer, documentary film maker and author who has examined many social issues, from murder and corruption to teen suicide and bullying. At the McColl Center Lambert has continued her work on “CRIME USA,” an ongoing project that researches the criminal justice system.
• Elizabeth Lasure is a trained potter who has spent the last 11 years in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. During her residency, Lasure developed and expanded arts education through student and community workshops.
• Crystal Am Nelson explores the complexities of history and identity, and their significance to communities, through site-specific interventions. Her residency at the McColl expanded on her original project in the San Francisco Fillmore District, which addressed issues of urban renewal and neighborhoods in transition to Charlotte’s rapid growth of multi-cultural populations.
• Linda Luise Brown is a painter, writer and teacher whose work is painterly and abstract with bold color fields. During her residency, Brown used the McColl Center’s print studio to expand her artistic practice using digital media to interweave print and paint.
• Jason Watson creates visual assemblages of remnants of our collective past, using sketches of historic statues and portrait busts with other found objects. While at the McColl Center, Watson focused on large-scale drawings and collages inspired by the Gothic architecture of his studio.

McColl Center for Visual Art: 721 N. Tryon St., Charlotte; 704-332-5535; www.mccollcenter.org