The school was one of a number of Art Institutes, a franchise of for-profit art colleges with many branches in North America, owned and operated by Education Management Corporation.
EDMC owned the college from 1999 until 2017, when, facing significant financial problems and declining enrollment, the company sold the Art Institute of Charlotte, along with 30 other Art Institute schools, to Dream Center Education, a Los Angeles-based Pentecostal organization.
[1][2][3] Dream Center permanently closed 18 Art Institute schools, including the Art Institute of Charlotte, at the end of 2018.
[6] The Art Institute of Charlotte was located at 2110 Water Ridge Parkway in Charlotte, North Carolina and is accredited by The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC).
Some of The Art Institute of Charlotte's students, alumni and professors have been interviewed or profiled in media outlets such as The Charlotte Observer, [8] The San Jose Mercury News, [9] and NBC affiliate WCNC-TV.