Raleigh is a city built on craftsmanship and creativity. Its legacy of textile mills, makers, and innovators continues to shape a culture where artistry and industry are beautifully interwoven. Inspired by that spirit, Hub Raleigh was designed by the Core Spaces in-house design team in partnership with Harken Interiors, with art curation by Johalla Partners, to reflect the city’s rich creative fabric through layered textures, bold color, and locally rooted storytelling.
Throughout the community, art is more than an accent. It’s part of the experience. Custom installations, textile-inspired works, and pieces from local and regional artists create moments of discovery from the lobby to the rooftop. In this guide, we’re spotlighting some of the artists and artworks that bring Hub Raleigh to life.
At Hub Raleigh, you’ll find a place to weave your own story into the fabric of this dynamic community.
Artist Name: Mia Forrest
Location: Level 1 Annex
The Details: These three works were custom made for Hub Raleigh. Forrest cuts digital photographs into strips and then weaves the center of the photo into a textile-like pattern. Her multi-disciplinary practice spans textiles, pigments, digital, metalwork, and works on paper.
Artist Name: Mary Tkachenko
Location: Level 1 Annex
The Details: These custom works for Tkachenko explore the connection between color, memory, and atmosphere. Working with acrylic on canvas, Tkachenko builds each composition from softly shifting gradients arranged in geometric grids. Inspired by light, emotion, and fleeting moments in time, her paintings transform color into immersive visual experiences that feel both structured and deeply sensory.
Artist Name: Aaron Brochardt
Location: Entrance and Annex
The Details: Borchardt is a digital mixed-media artist whose work explores the intersection of photography, glitch aesthetics, and abstraction. His work obscures narratives to invite viewer interpretation.
Artist Name: Andrea Jablonski
Location: Leasing Office
The Details: Andrea Jablonski is a multidisciplinary artist, fabricator, and painter whose work spans textiles, fiber, sculpture, murals, and site-specific installations. She produced the leasing gate and commons panels by engaging with texture, pattern, color, and abstract composition. This work was custom made for Hub Raleigh.
Artist Name: Johalla Projects In-house Creative Team
Location: Level 1 Annex
The Details: These two works were custom made for Hub Raleigh. They are made from Lego blocks and are inspired by the famous artist Piet Mondrian’s 1942-43 paintings.
Artist Name: Ryan Fox
Location: Leasing Office
The Details: Award-winning watercolor artist, Fox captures the famous Gyre rings at the Museum of Art in Raleigh, one of Raleigh’s most iconic public art sculptures.
Artist Name: Micah Mullen
Location: Leasing Office
The Details: Mullen is a Raleigh-based acrylic painter whose work embodies a painted mosaic of landscapes and cityscapes. This piece captures the view from Boylan Street Bridge.
Artist Name: Johalla Projects In-House Creative Team
Location: Level 1 Fitness Center
The Details: The Iconic “Wolfpack” nickname for athletics at NCSU is captured on vintage racquets and surrounded by vintage NCSU sports materials and other sports objects. This work was custom made for Hub Raleigh.
Artist Name: Maria Molteni
Locations: 1st Floor, 2nd Floor, and 12th Floor Elevator Lobbies
The Details: With roots in the South and a history of exhibiting in North Carolina, Maria Molteni creates work that blends public art, craft, and community engagement. This photo series documents Molteni’s installation of hand-knit and crocheted basketball nets on empty urban hoops, transforming everyday athletic spaces into colorful works of art. As the founder of the New Craft Artists in Action collective, Molteni uses fiber arts to reimagine public spaces, encouraging connection, creativity, and play through collaborative making.
Artist Name: Lose the Trail
Location: 2nd Floor Elevator Lobby
The Details: This photography artist collective is based in North Carolina. This photograph captures a fall sunset at Wooleyback Overlook in North Carolina.
Artist Name: Jeff Wilson
Location: Mailroom
The Details: Local Raleigh artist Jeff Wilson reimagines the city’s landscape through this intricate map of West Raleigh. Using layers of color, pattern, and geometric forms, Wilson transforms familiar streets and neighborhoods into a vibrant abstract composition. The work celebrates Raleigh’s identity and interconnected communities, offering a contemporary interpretation of the city from above.
Artist Name: Judith Larzelere
Location: Mailroom
The Details: Larzelere has a 35 year long career as a contemporary quilt maker and artist. She combines her quilt, making history into abstract patterns and compositions.
Artist Name: Brandon Thomas
Location: Mailroom and 1st Floor Elevator Lobby
The Details: Southern artist Brandon Thomas creates bold, expressive works inspired by iconic symbols, local culture, and community pride. After beginning his career in marketing, Thomas discovered a passion for painting through custom commissioned artwork and has since built a creative practice centered on vibrant color and energetic storytelling. Featured throughout Hub Raleigh, these works celebrate NC State’s Wolfpack spirit while reflecting Thomas’s distinctive artistic style. A portion of proceeds from his artwork supports sending children to YMCA summer camps, helping build confidence and life skills for future generations.
Artist Name: Jennifer Bell
Location: 12th Floor Elevator Lobby
The Details: Bell’s Woven Family Tree – Still Waters is a mixed-media artwork that combines photography and handwoven elements, physically interrupting the photographic landscape to create a layered exploration of memory, ancestry, and personal perspective. By blending traditional craft techniques with photography, Bell creates a richly textured piece that invites viewers to reflect on the ways we weave our own experiences, memories, and identities into the world around us.
Artist Name: Steve Kuzma
Location: Level 7 Trophy Room
The Details: Kuzma is known for his contemporary style, combining impressionistic brushwork with dynamic sports imagery. His paintings capture athletes in motion through expressive layers of color, texture, and movement rather than precise detail, emphasizing the energy and emotion of competition. Featured in the Trophy Room, these works celebrate athleticism, determination, and the spirit of sport while bringing a vibrant, modern perspective to traditional sports art.
Artist Name: Johalla Projects In-House Creative Team
Location: Level 7 Trophy Room
The Details: Cyanotypes of sports imagery on embroidery hoops. These works were custom made for Hub Raleigh.
Artist Name: Emma McKee AKA “Stitch Gawd”
Location: Level 7 Trophy Room
The Details: Emma McKee, AKA Stitch Gawd, is a cross-stitch artist who has worked with Chance the Rapper, JC Rivera, and others within Chicago’s rap community. She designed the composition in the Trophy Room, capturing the wolf-pack moving across a moonlit scene in a cross-stitch pattern. This work was custom made for Hub Raleigh.
Artist Name: Andrea Jablonski
Location: Rooftop
The Details: Jablonski is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans textiles, fiber, sculpture, murals, and site-specific installations. For Hub Raleigh’s rooftop mural, Jablonski executed the intricate color pattern that wraps the structure in a vibrant composition inspired by Raleigh’s rich textile history. Embracing the city’s legacy in the textile industry, the mural captures a weaving of colors through bold stripes and geometric forms, transforming the architecture into a large-scale celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and design.
