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Diggs Gallery, Library dedicated in twin ceremonies Thursday, October 11, 1990 Winston-Salem Chronicle Page A3 gyi'blanche carter to the Chronicle Winston-Salem, known nation ally for its commitment to the arts, has grown in stature even more since Friday, Oct. 5, when Winston- 1910. Shortly afterward, the guests—among them aldermen Larry Womble and Virginia Newell—moved through the library and wended their way to the gallery, which is named for a former chair T. Diggs Gallery stands as a monu ment to him as a symbol of the great esteem in which he is held.” Inside the gallery, a contempo rary facility accented with track lighting above the nearly 7,000 square foot area, guests were treated |L Pilislng at The Kneeling Figure" oil painting at the Diggs Gallery opening are (left to right): Lewis Claytor, Eric Claytor, Natalie Claytor, Mary L. Diggs, and Janifer Diggs-Claytor. ^alcni State University dedicated its new art gallery and the library addi tion that houses it. “Your presence here this man of the art department and a professor emeritus, James Thacker ay Diggs Jr., who taught at Win ston-Salem State for more than 40 evening symbolizes your positive relationship with this institution and your support of our development into a regional university with mul tifaceted offerings,” Robert A. Emken, chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees, told the 200 ^ests who attended the evening i|jila to mark the opening of the James T. Diggs Gallery and the addition to C. G. O’Kelly Library. |ln grand fashion to honor the occasion, university officials held twin ribbon-cutting ceremonies, and touts of the facilities and the inau gural art exhibitions. Doing the honors for the library was Fay Ash of High Point, a rela tive of the late Cadd Grant O’Kelly, diebniversity’s second chief admin istrator, who served from 1904- years before his retirement in 1979. Diggs, who died in April 1989, also was co-founder of the Associ ated Arts of Winston-Salem and helped establish what is now SECCA, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Cutting the ribbon were his wife, Mary Louise Diggs, and Gor don Hanes, a former trustee and noted arts patron, “No one deserves this honor more than ‘T’ Diggs, who breathed life into art,” Hanes said. Chancellor Cleon F. Thompson Jr. called Diggs a “talented, colorful and caring human being.” “James T. Diggs was the con summate artist, who enthusiastically taught and deeply appreciated his craft,” Thompson said. “The James Delta reading program Delta Sigma Theta was invited to be the lead national organization in collaboration with the Barbara Bush Foundation to implement a national family reading program. In this effort to establish literacy as a value in every family in America, the Winston-Salem alumnae chapter launched School America, a mas sive drive to register readers in our communities. IA registered reader is anyone who pledges to read to a child aged one through 10 one story a week throughout 1990-91. Each regis tered reader receives a reader regis tration card and a reader button. At be'Jjelta National Convention held n Miami, Fla., in June, the sorority iresented First Lady Barbara Bush I plaque documenting over one mil- ion registered readers. In Winston- ialem over 8,000 readers have been ngistered. For the remainder of this year tnd.throughout 1991, Deltas will be cgistering readers. However, this 'car the focus will not only be on ndividuai readers but also on the development of quality reading Joups. Every effort will be made !> identify children and adults who tave reading problems. Reading roups will be organized and meet n a regular basis at the Delta Arts -enter using the feeder groups list- d below to conduct the sessions. School America will be *panded into the more advanced utriculum of read-a-thons, reading urties and read-ins. The read-ins '' be a retreat-styled day where ■Idren and adults can come *gether and read about a particular >Picand discuss local storytellers, ddren’s book authors wi : be '''ited to participate in some of the read-ins. Efforts will be made to estab lish church reading centers and fam ily learning centers for registered readers. Deltas will coordinate mall storytelling hours, adopt reading families in the community and work with local bookstores and libraries to provide afternoon reading for children. Card parties will be scheduled at local libraries to help children experience the wonder and excitement of getting their first library card. Youth “reading pan els,” with a group reading a particu lar book and discussing various themes and characters in a panel type discussion group, will be held twice a year. Annually, a story reading and storytelling festival will be sponsored. Signers will be included at all activities to accom modate the hearing impaired. Bethlehem Center already has been adopted, and once a week a registered reader will read out loud to the children. Books will be given as gifts at all scheduled activities. Throughout the year, there will be used book sales where the only price for a book is the presentation of a reader registration card. In order to fulfill this year’s goals, the sorority will be network ing with other literacy organiza tions. Some of these partnership organizations are the Delta Fine Arts Reading Achieves Positives (RAP) group. Jack & Jill of Ameri ca Inc., Family Services and the public library system. School America is intended to help every family in the nation understand that the home is the child’s first school, that the parents are the child’s first teachers and that reading is a child’s first subject. sloti 'Winston-Salem Chronicle is published every Thursday by the Win- Chronicle Publishing Co. Inc., 617 N. Liberty St. Mailing address: “StOffice Box 3154, Winston-Salem, N.C. 27102. WinM ^^2-8624. FAX: (919) 723-9173. Second-class postage paid at "itision-Salem, N.C. 27102. 'W'hston-Salem Chronicle is a charter member of the Newsfinder ser- |£ ine Associated Press and a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, national Newspaper Publishers Association, the North Carolina Press Asso- and the North Carolina Black Publishers Association. [g^i $18.52 per year, payable in advance (North Carolina sales out-of-town delivery. PUBLICATION USPS to a retrospective of Diggs’s works. The 25-piece collection features a variety of media, including abstract paintings, landscape watercolors, etchings and drawings. They also glimpsed the gallery’s main show, “Through African Eyes: The Rhythm of African Life and Arts,” featuring about 80 objects from the African Heritage Center at N. C, A&T State University and the North Carolina Museum of Art, as well as from Gordon Hanes’s private collection. In addition, the gallery opening featured large pencil drawings by Glenda Wharton-Little, a Winston- Salem artist and sculptor. Mrs. Wharton-Little created the drawings for an .ancient African folktale she has illustrated about the origination of the sun. The nine surrealistically styled works are reproduced, accor dion-style, in a booklet, “The Chil dren and the Sun: A Bushman Tale,” that children will receive when they tour the gallery. Large color photographs from the Elisofon Archives at the Smith sonian Institution were also on exhibit, depicting African tribal life. “We have a splendid gallery and a splendid exhibition,” said Mitzi Shewmake, a Winston-Salem State art professor and the gallery director. “It’s taken nearly 20 years to see this become a reality and now that it is, the community and people from all over should take advantage of what we have here now and in future exhibitions. It’s simply mag nificent and an asset for the univer sity.” The free exhibition runs through Dec. 16 during the hours of 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sundays. The library addition, which opened in May, is nearly double the size of the original building and boasts a three-story atrium that floods the entrance area with natu ral light. The addition features the latest in library technology, including a computerized network that links O’Kelly with libraries at the 15 other University of North Carolina campuses. The library contains 158,000 volumes and subscriptions to 1,300 publications. The original library is sched uled for renovation. Gantt-Huberman Architects in Charlotte designed the four-story project, which has taken two years to complete. 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