Tag: Wendy Hickey

ArtPop Street Gallery – Wendy Hickey Talks History and Future

Insider appreciates those people who dedicate their career and time to support others and our industry.  Wendy Hickey, Founder and Executive Director if ArtPop Street Gallery, has always been one of our favorites.  We noticed this terrific new YouTube video and we thought we would let Wendy speak for herself. […]

ArtPop’s Upcycled Fashion Show

Insider heard from Wendy Hickey, Founder and Executive Director of ArtPop Street Gallery on their annual fundraiser coming up in September.  Here are the details. Who – ArtPop Street Gallery, a 501c3 OOH arts nonprofit. What – 10th Annual Fundraising Event and 3rd Annual Upcycled Fashion show When – September […]

Out of Home Finds a Kidney

ArtPop Street Gallery’s Wendy Hickey tells Billboard Insider a heartwarming story of how out of home found a kidney for a young woman… For one year of 2020/21 we had a chapter of ArtPop in Atlanta. One of our #ArtPopATL artists is Mark Alberhasky.  His partner Laura, her daughter, Izzy was […]

ArtPop Street Gallery Charlotte Announces 2023 Artists

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Dec. 2, 2022) – ArtPop Street Gallery, a 501c3 organization that gives artists and communities across the region greater access to art and art opportunities, has announced its Cities Program Class of 2023 artists. The 20 artists, which include 19 adults and one senior high school student, will […]

ArtPop to Stage Fashion Show Using Upcycled Billboard Vinyls

Charlotte, NC (August 12, 2022)- ArtPop Street Gallery is back with more fashion, hosting their second annual Upcycled Fashion Show and ninth fundraiser event to support local artists and small businesses. The fashion show will feature 12 Charlotte regional artists from a variety of media backgrounds in including textile, multi-media, digital, […]

Wendy Hickey on What’s New at ArtPop

ArtPop works with billboard companies to put art on vacant billboards.  Billboard insider talked with the company’s Founder and Executive Director Wendy Hickey to find out what’s new. What did ArtPop accomplish in 2021 ArtPop Street Gallery is now exclusively operating in the Greater 13 county Charlotte North and South […]

Out of the Office – Charlotte NC, ArtPop and Wendy Hickey

If you are in Charlotte, North Carolina this weekend, a fun way to spend the day is this weekends ArtPop tour.  Insider spoke with Wendy Hickey, the founder of ArtPop. Yes, we have all new artists for 2021 our 8th year in the Charlotte Region & have created a walking […]

IBO Public Service Initiatives

On last week’s Billboard Insider podcast Chris Cowlbeck talked about 4 IBO  public service initiatives.   The first one that comes to mind is one that we’ve had for a couple of years…Operation Christmas shoebox…They pack these shoeboxes and send them to kids in third world countries.  Everybody feels good about […]

Wendy Hickey on What’s New at Artpop

Artpop works with billboard companies to but up art on vacant billboards.  Insider talked with Artpop’s founder Wendy Hickey. What’s new at Artpop? We made our goal of securing our funding for our ArtPop Charlotte Region for our 2021 year 8 return and wanted to share that good news with […]

An ArtPop Update

You might remember our article on Wendy Hickey and ArtPop and their challenge on meeting their fund raising goals.  Wendy was nice enough to provide us with an update and we wanted to pass along her message.  I wanted to catch you up on our fundraising efforts since we last […]