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4/15/10 Phil Kline, executive director of the Mint Museum, leads a tour of the new Mint Museum Uptown through the Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium Thursday afternoon. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 The Mint Museum Uptown is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 The auditorium on the second floor of the new Mint Museum Uptown. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 Phil Kline, executive director discusses the entry gallery area where the Royal Blue Mint chandelier by Dale Chihuly will be installed at the new Mint Museum Uptown Thursday. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 (L-R) Phil Kline, executive director of the Mint Museum and principal-in charge architect Rodolfo Machado of Machado and Silvette Associates Architecture and Urban Design lead a tour through the Mint Museum Uptown Thursday. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 A tour passes by posters previously used during the Latin American festival at the Mint Museum Randolph that will be hung in a hallway at the new Mint Museum Uptown. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 Principal-in Charge architect Rodolfo Machado of Machado and Silvette Associates Architecture and Urban Design stands in the Robert Haywood Morrison Atrium in the Mint Museum Uptown. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. Machado and Silvetti Associates have designed new museums, expansions of existing ones, and buildings for prominent cultural and educational institutions. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 A portion of the Charlotte skyline is visible from a gallery window at the Mint Museum Uptown. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 Phil Kline, executive director of the Mint Museum sits in the auditorium on the second floor of the Mint Museum Uptown Thursday. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 The Mint Museum Uptown is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 (L-R) Former Observer Visual Arts writer Richard Maschal is told to stand in place by Principal-in Charge architect Rodolfo Machado of Machado and Silvette Associates Architecture and Urban Design so that he can look through several openings, windows of sorts, that lined up and offered a view from the back gallery to the front gallery at the Mint Museum Uptown. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 The Mint Museum Uptown is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/15/10 Patrons to the Mint Museum Uptown will be able to see portions of the Charlotte skyline from entryways and gallery windows throughout the facility. The museum is a 145,000-square-foot facility in uptown Charlotte scheduled to open in October 2010. The museum will house important collections of American Art, Contemporary Art and Craft + Design. The new facility will be part of the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus located at the corner of First and South Tryon Streets. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Silhouettes of dancers decorate a side of the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The silhouettes were done by local artist Paul Sires and his daughter. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon Street. The new facility is named the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 The main atrium at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Doug Singleton, executive director leads a tour of the North Carolina Dance Theater's main rehearsal and dance theater at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Doug Singleton, executive director leads a tour of the North Carolina Dance Theater's main rehearsal and dance theater at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Executive Director Doug Singleton and public relations Logan McSwain walk in the North Carolina Dance Theater's main rehearsal and dance theater at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 The company lounge at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 A worker caulks an overhang at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 One of the dance studio for students ages 3-adult at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance that has a view of the Charlotte skyline. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 The costume shop at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Administrative offices at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance will feature individual cubes setup in the hive system. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 The girl's locker room ages 3-12 features pink lockers at the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com

4/19/10 Silhouettes of dancers decorate a side of the Patricia McBride and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux Center for Dance in Charlotte, NC. The silhouettes were done by local artist Paul Sires and his daughter. The NC Dance Theater will soon move into its new home on North Tryon St. The facility will have six rehearsal studios, offices and even places where the dancers can wash up at the end of a long day of rehearsing. Construction began in the spring of 2009. The North Carolina Dance Theater hopes to begin moving in after the season is over in late spring. JEFF SINER - jsiner@charlotteobserver.com