Upcoming August Events

African American Atelier Presents: 25UNDER25
Through August 6 - Greensboro Cultural Center - Greensboro
25under25 highlights a diverse group of eclectic and vibrant young artists from the Triad Community. An extensive range of expression and media will be showcased, integrating the experiences and perspectives of the members of the millennial generation.
333.6885 or info@africanamericanatelier.org

Pathway to Freedom
Through August 20 - 8 PM - Snow Camp Outdoor Drama Site - Snow Camp
An exciting account of the struggles and heroism of the 1840's and 1850's along the "Underground Railroad" from NC to Indiana. Both individuals and some organized religions fought slavery in the legislature and on the farms, while some, led volunteers and free slaves in clandestine efforts to help escaping slaves to freedom. Music in the play is the music of the period and enriches the emotions of the play.
800.726.5115 or snowcampot@aol.com

Alternate Roots Annual Meeting
August 10 - 15 - Lutheridge Conference Center - Arden, NC
In 2010, Alternate ROOTS launches a three-year initiative, The Aesthetics of Diversity. It will explore issues and opportunities to advance a progressive agenda in the South through the lens of the South’s newest citizens, immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries, India, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Aesthetics of Diversity will examine questions of art and culture focusing on place in 2010, people in 2011, and traditions in 2012. The goal is to build bridges across and among diverse communities and inform discussions such that members of various communities have a lens through which to view how they may positively impact change in their community.
404.577.1079

Photography Dialogs: John Rosenthal and Linda Foard Roberts
Wednesday, August 11 - 5:30 PM - Green Hill Center for NC Art - Greensboro
Rosenthal will speak about his latest series of color photographs of New Orleans taken one year and a half after Hurricane Katrina. Roberts will present her large format digital photographs "Simple Truths" portraying her family and home. Both photographers will then discuss the nature of their medium.
333.7460 or liz.busch@greenhillcenter.org

Recycle Labyrinth Swap-a-Thon
Saturday, August 14 - 2-5 PM - SECCA Grounds - Winston-Salem
During the Swap-a-Thon event, volunteers from Piedmont Craftsmen will help guide visitors through creating and experiencing the labryinth.The community is asked to bring useable household items (non-clothing) that they can incorporate into the labyrinth while walking through it. (Please limit the size of the items to be no larger/heavier than a microwave oven. If you can't carry it easily, then it is too big.)Visitors may also select one item to take home that they can use, making the labyrinth an ever-changing installation as items are added and taken away.At the close of the project, the labyrinth will be disassembled and left-over items will be donated to local non-profit organizations, such as Habitat ReStore, Rescue Mission, and Goodwill Industries.
Free. 725.1904 or seccainfo@ncdcr.gov

Again and Never Again: Can We Coexist with Ourselves?
August 19 - September 1st - Guilford College Art Gallery - Greensboro
Environmental artist Bryant Holsenbeck will create, with community participation, a monumental installation made entirely from recycled materials, Aug. 19-Sept. 1. (316-2483 to schedule time.) She will discuss her endeavor to live one year without using disposable plastic products at the reception in the Guilford College Art Gallery, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 5-7 p.m. as part of 'green & beyond', the college-wide theme year on sustainability. Exhibition runs through Oct 1.

Lanterns of Hope
Saturday, August 28 - 6:30-9 PM - Summer on Trade - Winston-Salem
During Summer on Trade at the corner of Sixth and Trade Streets, the Forsyth County Public Library will be providing attendees with peace lanterns to decorate with their own art.
Free. E-mail esparze2@forsyth.cc.

Alternate ROOTS Annual Meeting in NC!

Alternative ROOTS Annual Meeting Website: Click Above

New Year's Resolution: Utilize the Art Roads and Farm Trails of NC

Having stumbled upon a motivating website today called Homegrown Handmade, I decided to make a New Year's resolution to better support and understand North Carolina culture. Homegrown Handmade is a collaboration of artists, farmers, and rural creative entrepreneurs. It promotes sustainable tourism in rural areas of North Carolina through self-guided driving tours. It's an economic and tourism development project, but it also helps us understand how agriculture, rural living, and art have all come together to form specific and different pockets of North Carolina culture.

When one visits Homegrown Handmade's website, you are given the option of exploring one of three trails: Foothills, Piedmont, or Coast. Each "trail" is really a wealth of information on festivals, art studios, wineries, and farms to help a potential tourist to plan a trip.

Here is a long weekend trip I've already planned from the Foothills Trail for June:

Starting out Friday, leisurely drive to the Mount Airy Fiddlers' Convention. This weeklong festival is filled with old-time music performances and free demonstrations by skilled musicians. Spend the day listening, dancing, and visiting. Saturday morning, visit the Downtown Cinema Theatre for the a.m. taping of the longest-running bluegrass radio program in the United States, "Saturday Merry-Go-Round." Saturday afternoon, take a short drive to Westfield to kayak at the Hanging Rock Outdoor Recreation Center. That evening, enjoy the sunset view and listen to MORE bluegrass and folk music at Round Peak Vineyards. End the trip with a scenic drive back down 89.

That's just one trip of so many across the state. If you're interested in planning a trip, Homegrown Handmade has a great guidebook available here.

Upcoming December Events

Chrome and Stone: Opening Reception
December 4 - 6-8:30 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
This exhibition will feature digitally enhanced photographs of hotrods and muscle cars by Walker Lewis, Jr. and infrared film photographs of England, Cornwall and South Wales by James C. Williams. The exhibition will contrast the vanishing media of infrared film photography with the burgeoning field of digital photography, a media that threatens to replace film. The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble will perform during the reception. The exhibition will remain on display through January 16.
Cost: Free. 777-0076 x238.

Our Journey Your Destination
December 10 - 7 PM - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
The Enrichment Center will present "Our Journey Your Destination," an original performance, on December 10, 7pm in Gateway Gallery. A dress rehearsal on December 9, 11am, will be open to the public. The program, a dramatic blend of dance, acrobatics, drama, and street entertainment with whimsical characters, will feature actors and dancers with and without disabilities and music by the Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble. The show highlights the journey of the main character, "The Fallen Sparrow," a metaphor for the struggle between acceptance and denial suffered by a young woman who loses the use of her legs and is suddenly confined to a wheelchair. The performance was choreographed by Laurette Henry, director of the Enrichment Center Performance Company. A reception and sale of holiday gift items created by the Enrichment Center's artists will follow the performance.
Cost: Free. Seating is limited. 777-0076 x238.

Signing Artist/Gallery Contracts
December 11 - Noon- Associated Artists - Winston-Salem
Steve Virgil of the WFU Community Law Clinic will lead a conversation on the artist contract."The Artist and the Gallery - questions to consider before signing a contract."
Cost: Free. 722-0340.

ArtQuest: Community Arts Sundays
Sundays Through December 20 - 3-5 PM - Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art - Greensboro
Sponsored by Lincoln Financial. Explore the many cultures of your community. Each month features arts and crafts activities of cultures from around the world that contribute to our local community.

The Gallery of the Arts Opens in Downtown Winston-Salem

The Community Arts Cafe recently opened a space at 411 W. 4th Street in Winston-Salem called The Gallery of the Arts, which is part of a larger project to expand interest in local arts. Read up on their future plans at the Winston-Salem Journal. Community Arts Cafe is also an online newsletter with separate editions for Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point.

Image from Gallery of the Arts website

Upcoming November Events

Shoe Shrine: Call for Entries
Through November 13 - 5IVE & 4ORTY - Winston-Salem
Shoe Shrine entries on display at 5ive & 4orty. Entries will be auctioned off on Friday, November 13th. Proceeds will benefit the Kelly Jo Petersen Scholarship at UNCSA School of Design and Production.

Society for the Study of AfroAmerican History
November 13 - 5 PM - Delta Fine Arts Center - Winston-Salem
Cost: Free. 336.722.2625

African Night
November 14 - 7:30 PM - UNCG Elliott University Center Auditorium - Greensboro
The African Student Union at UNCG will hold African Night, which will include fashion, dancing, singing, and more from different African cultures.
Cost: $5 before the day of the show and $7 at the door.

Busy-40 Bridges
November 18 - 11:30 AM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
A software traffic simulation augments discussion of possibilities for public art, considering the upcoming renovations of bridges along the downtown Winston-Salem stretch of Business Route 40.

More Bridges
November 18 - 12:30 PM - Center for Design Innovation - Winston-Salem
Bridges Connecting Communities, Inc. is Winston-Salem's newest social networking venue, wtih both a virtual marketplace and bricks-and-mortar sites.

15th Annual Will-Read-for-Food
November 19 - 7 PM - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Suggested donation to the Glen Haven Community Center: $5 students, $10 general public. The Weatherspoon Art Museum along with the UNCG MFA Writing Program and UNCG Alumni Relations, hosts the 15th Annual Will Read for Food Fundraiser, which last year raised over $1100 for the Glen Haven Community Development Center. Readings begin at 7 PM in the museum auditorium.

Arts for Life Market Gala
November 21 - 5 PM - 823 Reynolda Road - Winston-Salem
Social and shopping event to benefit Arts for Life WS and the hundreds of hours of art lessons provided to young patients and their siblings.

Enrichment Center Sculpture Garden
Through November 21 - Enrichment Center - Winston-Salem
On the corner of S. Marshall Street and Salem Avenue. The garden includes three cast aluminum sculptures entitled "Things That Fly" created by six of the Center's artists: Trip Collins, Mindy Kistler, Meredith Lamy, Jonathan Lindsay, Paul Quinn, and Valarie Williams.
336.777.0076 x209

Community-Wide Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving
November 22 - Dana Auditorium at Guilford College - Greensboro
Piedmont Interfaith Council in collaboration with the Human Relations Commission of Greensboro, presents 26th Annual Community Ecumenical Celebration of Thanksgiving "Our Community Kaleidoscope" featuring the E. Gwynn Dancers, the First Young American Dancers, Triad Tapestry Children's Chorus, Louis Allen, and representatives from a dozen local faith traditions. Supported in part by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Cost: Free. Contact info@piedmontinterfaithcouncil.org


We Are OneART
Through December 10 - Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center - Greensboro
We Are One, Caldcleugh Center's performing arts program extends its scope with its new visual arts program for youth ages 10 and older. Instructed by Floyd Newkirk, nationally known muralist and illustrator, will guide young artists in an exploration of medium, technique, and forms. This semester young artists will create backdrops for We Are One's winter performance.

Upcoming August Events

All-Arts, Sciences & Technology Camp 2009
July 26-31 - UNCG Division of Continual Learning - Greensboro
A weeklong, residential summer camp for ages 7-15. Designed to give in-depth and experiential instruction in the arts and sciences, the camp also includes recreation, multi-cultural entertainment, and a wide variety of activities that suit individual tastes and preferences. Find 866.334.2255

Authoring Action
July 30 - August 2 - 7 pm - Bethabara Moravian Church - Winston-Salem
Authoring Action (formerly the Winston-Salem Youth Arts Institute) presents its Commencement Engagement by the Authoring Action Ensemble. Authoring Action is a live experience, where teens present uncensored, original and true works of poetry, monologues, raps, lyrics and short films from their perspective. We engage our audience, not for applause, or standing ovations, but to change your life and make a difference. The thirty teens participating in this Summer's Institute invite the public to experience their words as a force for change. Admission is $10 and tickets will be available at the door. Reservations are recommended.
336.749.1317

Bearing Witness: The Tree
July 31 - 7 pm - Reynolda House Museum - Winston-Salem
Opens with a reception and ballet performance by the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet, a new funded partner of the Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. Bearing Witness is choreographed by Gary Taylor with music by North Carolina composer Rob Sharer. It celebrates the tree, a symbol of permanence arching over generations of our lives. R.s.v.p. to Claudia Clark.
336.758.5889 or clarkcm@reynoldahouse.org

Culture of Color Saturdays
August 1-August 29 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, August 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, (2:00pm) Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art.
336.574.2898

National Black Theatre Festival
August 4 - 8 - Various Times - National Black Repertory Company - Winston-Salem
The festival is an outreach program of National Black Repertory Company, which unites African American theatre companies across the country and showcases over 100 performers. Performances to be held at the Reynolda House, Reynolds Auditorium, the Stevens Center, Wake Forest University campus, Salem College campus, UNCSA campus, Benton Convention Center, Winston-Salem State University campus, etc. Accompanying activities include the NBTF Film Fest, Youth Celebrity project, National Youth Talent Showcase, TeenTastic program, Readers' Theatre, Artist Networking Showcase, NBTF Poetry Jam, workshops and seminars, International Colloquium, vendors' market and celebrity receptions. Full schedule online.
336.723.2266

SECCA Presents Inside Out with artist Kianga Ford and the music of Turbo Pro Project
August 5 - 6 pm - The Garage - Winston-Salem
As part of its 2009 public art program Inside Out: Artists in the Community II, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is proud to launch Kianga Ford’s 34 x 52 x 40. In the next chapter of Ford’s ongoing The Story of this Place series, the title of this project refers to Forsyth County as the 34th County of North Carolina (in slang, the “Tres-Fo”) and its evolving relationship with the major North / South highway (52) and the major East / West highway (40) of Winston-Salem. In conjunction with the National Black Theatre Festival, and in ongoing partnership with the Delta Arts Center, the special August 5th launch event will celebrate the work’s provocative marriage of theatre, music, and spoken word. Over the past half-year, Ford has explored Winston-Salem to research its history, speak with members of the community, walk its neighborhoods, and imagine lives shaped by the city’s patterns of settlement, desegregation, and industrialization. She will shape this material into a series of audio-guided routes/walks, and on Wednesday night audiences can hear a selection of these narratives set to musical accompaniment. As part of 34 x 52 x 40, Ford has collaborated with the experimental, North Carolina-based band The Turbo Pro Project, described as a fusion of Americana, Bluegrass Banjo, Hip Hop, and R&B.
336.725.1904

A Taste of the Blues
August 6 - 5:30 pm - Millennium Center - Winston Salem
Live Blues Music, Southern Cuisine, NC Wine and Beer Tastings and Tony Award Winning Play Featured at First Annual Event to Benefit Authoring Action Organization and North Carolina Black Repertory Company
Cost: $50/$75
336. 397.5591

Wisteria & HOPE
August 6-7 - Salem Fine Arts Center, Salem College - Winston-Salem
In conjuction with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Black Theatre Festival's feature presentation is drawn from the stunning poetry of Kwame Dawes and the music of Kevin Simmonds, Wisteria & HOPE is a multimedia music/spoken word performance that opens up two disparate worlds—of African American women recalling life in the Jim Crow South, in Wisteria, and in HOPE the struggles and grace of individuals dealing with HIV/AIDS.
336.723.2266

Friends Around the World' Day
August 16 - 1-5 pm - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places.
336.574.2898

Artist's Talk: Sherri Lynn Wood
August 20 - 5:30 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Sherri Lynn Wood’s “Mantra Trailer” is featured in the exhibition Our Subject Is You at the Weatherspoon. In addition to this, her most recent work, the artist has been involved for many years in making participatory art works. Wood’s recent projects include: Passage Quilts, working with the bereaved to make improvisational quilts from the clothing of the deceased; Prayer Banner: REPENT / MERCY / …, a communal mourning project concerning the war in Iraq; The Piñata Anchor of Hope, a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the City of Durham during a time of upheaval and rapid development; and 1200 Hats, a collaboration with residents of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women. Sherri Lynn Wood is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and healer, based in Durham, NC and San Francisco, CA. She combines her knowledge of craft, theology, sculpture, and systems centered theory to invent and facilitate aesthetic vehicles of intervention for healing and social exchange.
336.334.5770

Image from the archives of threewalls

Workshop: Group Stitching Mantra with Sherri Lynn Wood
August 22 - 2 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Join artist Sherri Lynn Wood on an imaginative, communal, meditative journey that merges the Eastern spiritual practices of mudras, mandalas and mantras with the simple act of stitching. These programs are sponsored, in part, by the Hillsdale Fund. Fee: $10 members/ $20 non-members. Register by e-mail: t_dowell@uncg.edu.
336.256.1449

Artist's Talk: Steve Lambert
August 27 - 4 pm - Weatherspoon Art Museum - Greensboro
Steve Lambert talks about bridging the divide between museum visitors and his own practice. Lambert's, I Will Talk With Anyone About Anything, 2006/2009 is currently featured in Our Subject is You.

Image from visitsteve.com

Upcoming July Events

Culture of Color Saturdays
July 11 - 25 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Saturdays, July 11, 18, 25, 2pm Join GCM each Saturday this summer as we celebrate the Eastern Indian culture in our new series called the Culture of Color! Activities may include learning new words, dressing in cultural costumes, sampling different foods, learn dance and doing art. Activities free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898

African American Heritage Day
July 18 - 11 am - 4 pm - Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum - Burlington
Josephus III, local poet; Ohemanna, Gospel Choir; Kummbia African Dancers; Fred Motley, storyteller; and Boo Hanks from Music Maker Relief Foundation will perform WFMY’s Carol Andrews and Sonya Correll Cook will read their children’s books. Numerous demonstrators and exhibitors plus vendors will take part in this exciting FREE event.
336-449-4846.


'Friends Around the World' Day
July 19 - Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro
Join us the 3rd Sunday of each month as we welcome our friends from all around the world to the Museum for a day of fun and play! We will enjoy a variety of multicultural activities, while making new friends from new places. Children’s author, GAMMA JAM, will be here to share her stories. Free with admission/membership.
336.574.2898

Enrichment via the Arts
July 20 - 30 - Creative Learning Center for Very Young Children - Winston-Salem
Summer art activities at CLC allow the children to experiment with a variety of media and forms. Music activities include listening, singing, playing instruments, and even making instruments! Dance delights CLC children, who have opportunities to invent their own dances to accompany music and to watch students at the School of the Arts practice and perform ballet, jazz, or contemporary dance. Othella Johnson began the Creative Learning Center in 1972 on the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts.
336.773.0017

Color Texture Abstractions
July 24 - 6 PM - Gateway Gallery - Winston-Salem
Gateway Gallery wil open the exhibit "Color Texture Abstractions" with a reception on Friday, July 24, 6-8:30pm. The exhibition features abstract paintings by Pat Spainour and Jack Hernon and pottery by Kenneth McMahan and Jonathan Lindsay. Guitarist and vocalist Drake Duffer will perform during the reception. The exhibition will be on display through September 19.
336.777.0076 x238

“Our Subject is You” Exhibit
Through September 13 – Weatherspoon Art Museum – Greensboro
“Our Subject is You” is the first exhibition organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum to focus on participatory art. The artists in the exhibition rely on the involvement of the public in order for their work to be realized. They form avenues for meaningful engagement within the context of the gallery, inviting museum visitors to contribute to the creation of artwork through social interaction, collaboration, and/or performativity. Artists included in the show are Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil/UK), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Nina Katchadourian (USA), San Keller (Switzerland), Steve Lambert (USA), Darren O’Donnell (Canada), Sherri Lynn Wood (USA) and Erwin Wurm (Austria). In the exhibition, museum visitors will take part in the formation of artwork and through special live participatory events at the June 19th opening.
336.334.5770

Upcoming June Events

ReCycle-ReUse-ReNew- Group Art Exhibit
June 7 – 29 – Marshall Art Gallery – Greensboro
This group art exhibit features unique way “ReCycle “discarded materials. Metal, glass, wood, paper, fabric and more are “ReUsed” to create “ReNewed” art. Participating artist include: Dawn Ashby, Jerry Cartwright, Dian Felder, Lawrence Fier, Ray Martin and Betty Trotter. Join us for the opening reception on Sunday, June 7th from 1-4PM. This exhibit will run through Monday, June 29th.
336-545-8268

OUT at the Movies presents Pedro
June 13 at 8 pm - UNC School of the Arts - Winston-Salem
OUT at the Movies, Winston-Salem and the Triad’s GLBT Film Series will screen “Pedro” on June 13th at 8:00 PM. “Pedro”, written by Dustin Lance Black (”Milk”) celebrates the life of Pedro Zamora, who found out he was HIV + at the age of 17, became an AIDS activist/educator and starred in MTV’s “The Real World”. All of the proceeds benefit the Adam Foundation and UNCSA’s School of Filmmaking.
Cost: $5.00

My Voice – My Vision 3 Day Residential Teen Girls Summit
June 17-20 – Girls Incorporated of Guilford County – Greensboro
For rising middle through high school girls. Teen Girls will take part in a project where girls explore “points of view”. Girls have the opportunity to address many of the issues that we face today and get answers that will help us make good choices in our lives. If you love creating, we will be expressing our views using journaling, poetry, posters, photography and video. Project will end with presentations and a luncheon on Saturday June 20th with Mayor Yvonne Johnson as our guest speaker. Commuters are welcome on Saturday.
336.790.4214

Greensboro 48 Hour Film Project
June 19-June 21, 2009
The 48 Hour Film Project is coming to Greensboro! In a wild, sleepless weekend, you and a team will make a movie–write, shoot, edit and score it. From scratch. In 48 hours. On Friday, June 19, you’ll get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. By Sunday, June 21, the movie must be complete. It will show at the Carousel Cinema at a screening in the next week.

“Our Subject is You” Exhibition Opening + 6th Annual Summer Solstice Party
June 19, 2009 – Weatherspoon Art Museum – Greensboro
“Our Subject is You” is the first exhibition organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum to focus on participatory art. The artists in the exhibition rely on the involvement of the public in order for their work to be realized. They form avenues for meaningful engagement within the context of the gallery, inviting museum visitors to contribute to the creation of artwork through social interaction, collaboration, and/or performativity. Artists included in the show are Tonico Lemos Auad (Brazil/UK), Harrell Fletcher (USA), Nina Katchadourian (USA), San Keller (Switzerland), Steve Lambert (USA), Darren O’Donnell (Canada), Sherri Lynn Wood (USA) and Erwin Wurm (Austria). In the exhibition, museum visitors will take part in the formation of artwork and through special live participatory events at the June 19th opening.
336.334.5770

Juneteenth Festival
June 20 - 12pm – Winston Lake Park 3535 Winston Lake Road - Winston-Salem
The Triad Juneteenth Festival will be held Saturday, June 20, at Winston Lake Park from noon - 7:00 pm. Juneteenth is the celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. African American Heritage will come alive through live music, dancing, and drama. Festival highlights include: an opening ceremony, performances, youth activities, history, books artifacts, art gallery, food and merchandise vendors. The festival is free and open to the public.