Public Spaces Art Series

Public Spaces is a long-standing indoor exhibition series bringing art to public spaces around Chapel Hill. This series speaks directly to our values of inclusion and experience by intentionally selecting artists and media and also greeting people in their daily life with art in unexpected places.

Exhibits rotate every two months.

Location & Hours

Chapel Hill Public Library (lower level): Monday-Thursday 10am-8pm; Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm

Chapel Hill Town Hall: Monday-Friday 8:30am-5pm

What's On Display

Theoretical reefs, notional asteroids and improbable crimes

Chapel Hill Public Library | July 10 – September 15, 2026

ARTIST: Aeon

This is a collection of paper collages glued onto plywood, polyvinyl chloride, or paper. They are all made with a similar style of exact cutting, careful and multiple layering, and a bent towards the humorous and absurd. They also have a common phylum of sorts, as they are all attempts to create alternate worlds. Out of the common stock of thrift store ephemera, I’m trying to conjure the phantasms of alternate realities, the theoretical reefs, notional asteroids and improbably crimes. I also made the frames.

Learn more in this Instagram Reel.

Drunk Kitten Cartography

Chapel Hill Town Hall | September 3 – October 26, 2026

Artist: Keegan Hines

Keegan Hines is a local illustrator. He has been living in the state of Denial and been encumbered with an obsession with geography since he was but a wee lad, poring over old atlases and imagining how the different civilizations depicted in them interacted with one another. He draws all his maps by hand, using Pentel Energel 0.3 mm gel pens or Sakura Microns and Arnhem 1618 art paper. Having had too much free time during the pandemic, his obsession with maps grew, and he began making hand-drawn fantasy-style maps of both real and fictional regions. Keegan does commission work in addition to projects of his own and is currently working on a series of fantasy maps drawn from an in-world perspective, about which he is especially excited.

Learn more in this Instagram Reel.

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