Pallas Lombardi
Art-in-Transit Program Manager
Charlotte Area Transit System

In 2001, Pallas Lombardi moved to Charlotte, NC, from Cambridge, MA, where she had been a public art administrator for two decades. Charlotte’s McColl Center for Visual Arts hired Lombardi to direct their visual artists’ residency and exhibition program. Lombardi was lured from the center in 2003 by the Charlotte Area Transit System to build its Public Art-in-Transit Program. Throughout the '80s, Lombardi successfully directed the Cambridge Arts Council and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s nationally funded, award-winning, public art-in-transit program, Arts On The Line. Subsequently, she directed the Cambridge Arts Council’s One Percent for Art Program and in 1991 became executive director of the Cambridge Arts Council, serving in the position until her move to the Southeast. In addition to her contributions to the field of public art and her successful directorship of the Cambridge Arts Council, Lombardi has served on numerous visual art selection panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts; organized national and international public art forums, conferences, and symposia; lectured on public art and arts administration; and produced visual art exhibitions. Lombardi earned a B.A., with honors, from the State University of New York at Albany and her master’s degree from Goddard College in Plainfield, VT.

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