Our Philosophy - Vision at Work

In addition to being visually appealing, art in your company's workplace performs two critical functions: it has the power to stimulate and to challenge your employees, encouraging them to think in new ways; and it helps to define and reinforce your company's image. The selection of appropriate art that complements your offices' overall design and architecture can humanize surroundings from corporate board room to break room. Art can strengthen the bond between your employees and their place of work, leading to a more harmonious and inspiring environment. Additionally, the art selected--- whether paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, or some combination thereof---- reflects more than just pride in your organization. It personalizes your company by reinforcing its distinctive character. It conveys your corporate image to clients, prospects and the community-at-large.
 

Our Consulting Team

			Christie Taylor, Managing Partner Christie Taylor has managed art galleries for over thirty-five years, including Art Gallery Originals in Winston-Salem, McNeal Gallery in Charlotte, and since 1980, Hodges Taylor Gallery in uptown Charlotte. Taylor received her B.A. in Art from Queens University in Charlotte and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia. In 1989, she curated Nine from North Carolina, an exhibition that opened at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D. C. and toured North Carolina for twelve months. A native of Winston-Salem, Taylor currently serves on the boards of St. Peters Chamber Music, the YWCA Women in Transition and on the Advisory Committee for Community School of the Arts. Past community involvement includes serving on the boards of the Women Executives, Charlotte Junior League, Habitat for Humanity, Central Charlotte Association, YWCA of Central Carolinas and The Light Factory. Taylor was awarded the 2005 Business Woman of the Year sponsored by Wachovia Bank and Queens University of Charlotte. She was also awarded a 1999 Business Journals Women in Business Achievement Award.   Contact: 704.334.3799 or email  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
			Dorothy Hodges, Partner A native of Monroe, North Carolina, Hodges has been active in the arts for more than forty years as a professional as well as a volunteer. Hodges' education includes a French degree from Sweet Briar College and an art degree from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In addition, she trained as a docent at the Fogg Art Museum in Boston (1959), the Ackland Museum in Chapel Hill (1968) and at the Mint Museum in Charlotte (1987). In 1975, Hodges and two partners opened HOF Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida, before opening Hodges Taylor Gallery with partner Christie Taylor in 1980. Hodges has served on the boards of North Carolina Art Society, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Penland School of Crafts, and the Organizational Grants Review Panel for the Mecklenburg County Arts & Science Council.
			Elizabeth Love Maddrey, Associate Maddrey, a Charlotte native, with over fifteen years of professional experience in arts management is a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate with a BA in Art History. Post-graduation, Maddrey worked in New York at Sotheby's auction house in the African and Oceanic Art Department. Later, she worked with a private art dealer in New York whose specialty was pre-Colombian art. In 1997 Maddrey began working for ArtsTeach in Charlotte, NC, a national model for creating partnerships between arts organizations, artists and schools. Maddrey has been active as a community volunteer as co-chair of the Mint Museum of Art's Artitudes young collector's group, for the Charlotte Chamber's Involvement Forum 2010 Project, and as a grants panelist for the United Way of Central Carolinas.