Greg Hall’s steel “Laurel Live Oak” sculpture and Jill Webb’s “Loggerhead Labyrinth” floor design will be part of the new terminal at ILM. (Port City Daily/Courtesy of ILM)
WILMINGTON—As travelers hustle through Wilmington International Airport’s new terminal expansion, they’ll also be welcomed by the talent of local artists, thanks to its partnership with the Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover County. Three new installations will go up in July 2021, created by muralist Jill Webb, as well as sculptors Paul Hill, Greg Hall and Jeff Hackney.
The ILM terminal expansion began in November 2019, though art work proposal requests launched in June 2020 and asked artists to capture the spirit of coastal North Carolina. The arts council put a call out to state, regional, national and international sculpture organizations, and marketed it to reach artists across the Southeast—Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Charleston, and Columbia. By the Aug. 1 deadline, 33 entries shuffled in from North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.