Catch Up with DWSP

Recently, the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership blog has had several arts-related posts. Check 'em out:

Winston-Salem Bus Shelter Competition!

Charlotte Blog takes notice of efforts in the City of Arts and Innovation

MICD 25 Spotlight on Winston-Salem, NC

Acts of Creation Opening at Enrichment Center

A reblog from Life in Forsyth: Local Acts of Creation.
Don't miss the opening of Acts of Creation at the Enrichment Center this Friday!

DATS 2010: Food for Thought update

DESIGN, ART, TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

An Annual Piedmont Event About Important Ideas

2010: FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Sawtooth Center, Winston-Salem

October 9, 10, 11

(This notice covers my contribution to DATS 2010. Click here for the official site.—Andrew Young)

My paid role is to insure multicultural and alternative viewpoints through the creation of venues and other forums at this year’s event. Food is about culture. It is one of those rare, big tent themes in which everyone in the Piedmont has an interest. Everyone can bring their experience and know-how.
The best gardener I knew was my grandmother. The most flexible cook I knew was my mom. Both were frugal and could do a lot with a little. In my view, those are high standards for designers, artists, and technology innovators, whether in good economic times or bad. (more)
Why I proposed food as the DATS theme (more)
Food Geography (more)
Participate in a venue (more)

Recreation of a UN shelter, food and water at Festival Park.

Grant to Fund Master Plan for Business 40 Bridges

Today the Winston-Salem Journal published new information on the Business 40 bridges project. The Creative Corridors Coalition will administer a grant to the Arts Council and City of Winston-Salem to assemble a team of urban designers, artists, and planners to create a master plan for the two-year construction project.

My hope is that the new bridges will allow for safer, more inviting pedestrian activity. I did some basic research a few years ago on bridges for the Florida Community Design Center in Gainesville, Florida. Here were a couple of my favorites:

One not so practical for two- or four-lane traffic:

By Miro Rivera Architects, this bridge is over Lake Austin in Austin, TX.

Zubizuri Bridge in Bilbao, Spain.

Documentary by WFU Student, Courteney Morris, Now on YouTube

Just got word that a short documentary by Wake Forest University student, Courteney Morris, is now available on the university's YouTube page. Here it is below:

Citizen Artist!

While browsing the Community Arts Network website (pretty much the best resource there is on socially-minded and interactive art), I found a syllabus for a class called Citizen Artist. The collaboration between high school and college students reminded me so much of Transforming Race, a project I posted on earlier, I couldn't wait to get a link to the syllabus up on the blog.

'Conflict Kitchen' Feeds You Public Art in the Form of Food

A delicious sandwich shop has sprung up in Pittsburgh called "Conflict Kitchen." Funded by the Sprout Fund, the Waffle Shop, and the Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon, the restaurant is an experiment in public art. Conflict Kitchen only serves a yummy dish from a country with which the United States is in conflict. Currently, Conflict Kitchen is serving up an Iranian dish called Kubideh. Later in the year, the Conflict Kitchen will serve up dishes from other countries. Check out the great NPR story on the project.

Image from kubidehkitchen.com

Digital Arts & Technology Symposium 2010

There is a bit of information available on the Center for Design and Innovation's website regarding the food-focused Digital Arts & Technology Symposium (DATS) scheduled for this fall, and Greensboro artist and blogger, Andrew Young, has plenty of brainstorming available. Check out his blog to get psyched for DATS 2010.

RECYCLE LABYRINTH SWAP-A-THON

Learned of this cool community art partnership between Piedmont Craftsmen and SECCA via local blog, Life in Forsyth. Scheduled for Saturday, August 14 from 2 to 5 PM. Visit Life in Forsyth for more information!

Upcoming July Events

Art Can! Feed the Hungry
Saturday, July 3 - Mid-Morning to Early Afternoon - Greensboro
Art Can! is a new Fun Fourth attraction, sponsored by the United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro, to create a temporary public art installation made of canned foods items. Architects Shermin Ata of Shermin Ata Architects with Micah Martin and Emily Hinton of Moser Mayer Phoenix Architects have joined forces to design a U.S. Flag public art installation constructed out of Campbell Soup cans. Fun Fourth attendees will be able to watch the installation as well as construct their own designs made out of donated canned goods.
373-7523 or alayman@uacarts.org

Opening: Frau Fiber and Sewing with the People
Friday, July 2 - 6 - 11 PM - Elsewhere Artist Collaborative - Greensboro
Elsewhere is sewing non-stop this June with particularly exceptional visiting artist Frau Fiber. Our fabric workshop has undergone a renovation to become Revolution Textiles, a new site for community convergence around the patterns that thread our times past and present. We're hosting a full month of textile-related events and fabric related programming. Frau Fiber is working with former mill workers, Boys and Girls Club groups, newcomer women, and people like you who want to learn to sew and/or help create a collaborative quilt utilizing Elsewhere's fabrics collection. A special opening event for the collaborative quilt, featuring a free community dinner and ceremonial final stitch.
549-5555

Opening of Happy Hill: Past and Present
Friday, July 9 - 7 PM - Diggs Gallery at WSSU - Winston-Salem
Happy Hill is Winston-Salem’s oldest African American community. For generations, residents have preserved the oral history of the neighborhood and its families. The exhibition documents this important legacy through the art and testimony of community leaders such as Georgiana Paige McCoy, Maurice Pitts Johnson, Kathleen Bitting Mock, Pastor Edith Jones, Nathaniel Tucker, William “Rock” Bitting, Jerry Hanes, Glen Johnson, Ben Piggott, Leander Sales, Kayyum Allah, James Funches and others. The exhibition includes architectural models of area homes embellished by local participants, paintings, photographs, video documentation of the community and a multi-media installation of a juke joint. The show features works by celebrated artists Chandra Cox, Juan Logan, Larry Sass, Leon Woods and Willie Little.
750-2458