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 10, 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.

Along the riverbank

Chapel Hill Town Hall | June 12 – August 12, 2026

Artist: Elizabeth EJ Trefney

Through a series of laser-etched photos, cyanotypes, and pencil drawings, Along the riverbank uses the ever-changing waterways of North Carolina to tell stories of regrowth and resilience. While the use of handwritten, family letters is a direct act of care to my ancestors, my goal is to create meeting place in the present. Armenian proverbs from my great grandfather’s letters and other handwritten notes can be reimagined for our world today. Like pages torn from a diary, these pieces of moral guidance and simple written notes can be used to paint portraits of climate change and resilience, from the Outer Banks to the Haw River.

Learn more in this Instagram Reel.

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