NoDaRioty
Mission: Keep NoDa freaky! Facilitate dialog among NoDa businesses, the Charlotte artist community, and patrons everywhere, to provide exposure for our artists and create a memorable artistic presence for all visitors.
Meetings
Check the NoDa NBA Calendar of Events
Know of any Art Happenings? Interested in joining NoDarioty? Email kristen.ford@noda.org
What we do:
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Host the NoDa Bizzare!
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Support and commission art projects around the neighborhood through grants
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Promote local artists and events in and near the neighborhood
Current Projects
"Let's Stand Together" Mural
Major support provided by the City of Charlotte and the Charlotte is Creative team through the 2025 Creative Growth Grant.
The NoDa Neighborhood Association has received a Creative Growth Grant to create a mural in the historic North Davidson business district celebrating the solidarity and community of Charlotte’s early 20th-century mill workers. Titled “Let’s Stand Together, Workers, and Have a Union Here,” the mural will honor the lives, labor, and activism of the textile workers who shaped NoDa’s history. Through vivid imagery and community storytelling, the project will recognize their struggles for dignity, justice, and a better future—preserving the legacy of Charlotte’s mill village communities for generations to come.
We're currently accepting applications for muralists for this
project throughout November & December 2025.
Check out the RFP below for details on how to apply.
Site Location: 3040 N. Davidson Street, NoDa
NoDa Crosswalk Murals
Major support provided by the City of Charlotte Placemaking Grant Program.
The NoDa Neighborhood Association has been awarded a placemaking grant for 2025. The project will feature two mural installations: a community crosswalk mural and a large-scale mural along the Cross Charlotte Trail. The NBA is excited to work with Jamil Dyair Steele (@dyairart) and Nico Amortegui (@nico_malo1) on these projects! Crosswalk artwork renderings below.
@nico_malo1
@dyairart
Recently Completed Projects
NoDa Butterfly Highways
With the Charlotte Placemaking Grant, the NoDaRioty and Greenification committees created two art-filled butterfly highways, to both promote the arts in NoDa and to support our city's pollinators. Featured artists for this project include Nony (@nony_clt), Ingrid Swanson (@artbyingridswanson), and Claire Kiester (@clairekiester_art).
NoDa News Stands
With the Charlotte Neighborhood Matching Grant, the NoDaRiotiy committee commissioned two newsstands to be designed by local artists Evan Plante and Makayla Binter. The newsstands are a home for our local newspaper, NoDa News! A digital copy is available to read HERE!
