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NCSA to hold Open House
for prospective students
The Office of Admissions at the North Carolina
School of the Arts will conduct a Spring Open House
for prospective students and their families on Friday,
April 4. The Open House will allow prospective appli
cants to experience the campus for a day and discover
why NCSA is the place for talented students to train.
Professional training programs are available in the
Schools of Dance, Design and Production (including a
Visual Arts Program), Drama, Filmmaking, and
Music.
An Information Fair will start the day off at 11:30
a.m. Registration begins at noon and will be followed
by a welcome session at 1 p.m. At 2 p.m., prospective
students will be able to visit the arts school of their
choice, and meet with deans, faculty members and
current students. Campus tours, from 3:45-5 p.m., will
conclude the Open House.
The Spring Open House will begin and conclude
earlier for students interested in NCSA's Visual Arts
Program. Registration will take place from 9:15-9:45
a.m. and the scheduled events will conclude at 3:30
p.m. ^
Registration is required for the Spring Open
House. For more information, visit
www.ncarts.edu/openhouse, or call 336-770-3290.
AAWS plans Boone trip
Associated Artists will travel to The Turchin
Center for Visual Arts at Appalachian State University
in Boone for a private tour of the exhibition "If you
c^n kill a snake with it, it ain't art! Selected works
from the collection of Jonathan Williams."
The April 14 trip will include curator Tom
Patterson. Travel to Boone will be by motor coach,
which will leave Winston-Salem at 9 ajii, and return
ing at 4 p.m. In addition to the guided tour, partici
pants will have time on their owa to see other gal
leries or sites in Boone.
Patterson is a writer, critic, independent curator
and the author of several books on contemporary folk
art and artists and has cu rated a dozen exhibitions
since 1985 for institutions across the United States.
Patterson has curated a unique showing of Jonathan
Williams' wide ranging collection of art for the
Turchin Center.
Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929 - March 16,
2008) was a North Carolina Poet closely associated
with the Black Mountain School of Writing. The
founder of Jargon Press, he was also a publisher, visu
al artist, photographer, collector and iconoclastic
champion of the Avante Garde.
The cost is $35 for AAWS members and $45 for
non-members. For more information, contact
Associated Artists at 336-722-0340 or
staff@associatedartists.org.
Arts group to launch event series
Art ? For Arts Sake, Inc. (AFAS)
www.theafasgroup.com will kick off "Arts on
Sunday", its new sidewalk
arts and crafts festival on
April 6 from 1 - 6 p.m. . The
free, family^friendly event
will take place along Trade
Street in ^owntown Winston
Salem evefy Sunday through
June 28.
In addition to art the
exhibitors, the first Arts on
Sunday will feature a free
blues concert with perform
ances bv Bie Ron Hunter.
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Possum Creek and several others. The event is free
and open to the public.
The AFAS Group was formed in the fall of 2007
by a group of business professionals for the purpose
of aiding burgeoning artists in the marketing and
promotion of their art. AFAS's mission is to devel
op a series of events, including but not limited to,
yearly arts festivals held in downtown Winston
Salem to give these artists professional exposure in
their field.
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Bethania walking tour planned
A walking tour of historic Bethania is slated for
Sunday, April 6 from 2-6 p.m.
The event, sponsored by Preserve Historic
Forsyth, Inc., is part of the 250th anniversary celebra
tion of the historic Moravian town of Bethania, which
was founded in 1759. An Opening Ceremony will be
at 2 p.m. at the Historic Bethania Visitor Center. It will
feature refreshments and live music.
The tour is self-guided. It will feature 20 of the
town's original 18th and 19th century sites, where tour
participants will meet the stewards who continue to
preserve the land and structures of Bethania. Four his
toric properties that now being rehabilitated by private
owners are on the tour. These include three log hous
es built in the late \170\ and the historic Bethania
mill (1899), now being converted to office space and
retail shops.
Bethania's 500-acre Historic District, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, is Forsyth
County's largest historic district.
Preserve Historic Forsyth, Inc., a nonprofit organ
ization chartered in 2007, promotes, protects, and
advocates for the historic resources of Forsyth County.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for youths 7-17 and
free for children younger than 7. Advance tickets
available at Moravian Book and Gifts in Old Salem
and at the Historic Bethania Visitor Center.
Registration for the event begins at the Historic
Bethania Visitor Center, 5393 Ham Horton Lane, at
the Corner of Bethania Road and Main Street. The
center's telephone number is 336-922-0434.
Details of the tour may be found at
http://www.preservehistoricforsyth/bethania .
Pics of Darfur youths on exhibit
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
A pholp exhibit featuring
children from the war-torn
Darfur region of Sudan, will be
displayed in High Point through
Saturday (March 29). The exhibit
is presented by Amnesty
International USA. The award
winning photographer Ron
Haviv, who took the pictures,
was slated to speak at the March
24 opening of the exhibit.
"The Children of Darfur" will
be shown High Point
University and is free and open to
the public. The exhibit, part of a
nationwide tour, features 36 pho
tographs and a film, which show
the daily horrors Darfuri children
face as a result of the ongoing
coifflict, now entering its sixth
year. More than 2.5 million peo
ple have been displaced by ethnic
and political violence in the
region and hundreds of thousands
have died. Of the estimated four
million people affected by the
conflict in Darfur, 1 .8 million are
Ron Haviv Photo
"The Children of Darfur" features 36 of Haviv's photos.
children under the age of 18.
"The exhibit places a human
face on one of the world's most
pressing and tragic humanitarian
crises," said Everette Catilla, a
field organizer with Amnesty
International USA who is run
ning the event. "These photo
graphs bring the conflict out of
Sudan and into our conscious
ness. We hop? the program
inspires viewers to press their
elected officials to work harder to
end the conflict in Darfur."
"We are once again watching
systematic murder, rape and dis
placement unfold live belore our
eyes," said Haviv, the photogra
pher. "What more do we need to
know before we truly act as
world citizens to stop it?"
Haviv has covered conflict
and humanitarian crises in Latin
America, Africa, the Middle East,
Russia and the Balkans. His pho
tographs have appeared in Vanity
Fair, Time and Newsweek, and he
has won awards from World ?
Press Photo, Picture of the Year
and the Overseas Pt?ss Club.
Since 2003, Amnesty
International has been working to
stop the human rights atrocities
in Darfur. It has called for the
United States and the internation
al community to press Sudan to
implement the speedy deploy
ment of the full United Nations
African Union peacekeeping
force and to provide funding for
critical land and air transport
equipment, including helicopters.
Visitors to the exhibition will be *
provided information on what
they can do to help.
DELTA ARTS CENTER
Center's
new brand
earns award
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The newly-redesigned image for Delta
Arts Center was honored earlier this month
with a marketing excellence award.
Delta Arts won the North Carolina
Museums Council's Multi-Media Award in
the "Best Identity Package/Full Color" cat
egory for its marketing collateral,
"Heritage. Legacy. Vision." It was judged
among state-wide entrie$?on the merits of
its artistic quality, innovation of design
ana usability, ine
award was pre
sented March 6 at
the Fayetteville
(N.C.) Hotel &
Convention
Center.
Delta Arts
Executive
Director Dianne
Caesar retained
the creative serv
ices of Brio
Visual Art &
Communication
in early 2007 to
develop a new identity brand for the cen
ter, one that embraces the center's history,
culture and tradition. Working closely
with Caesar and the Center's board of
directors, designer Lynne Brown, presi
dent of Brio, led the development of the
new brand identity, which has included
changing the center's old tagline from ,
"The Little House that Grew," to "A Place
Alive with Arts & Culture." The basis of
the graphic imagery for the new brand
stems from murals by John and James
Biggers commissioned by Delta Fine Arts
Center in 1992. The murals, which have
been cornerstones of Delta Arts' identity,
are on display in the O'Kelly Library of
Winston-Salem State University.
"There's a visual synergy across the
colors and angled forms of the Biggers'
murals, and the angular vaulted ceilings of
the gallery interior space and roofline,
which worked really well when incorporat
ed as part of the updated graphics pro
gram," said Brown. "These elements con
vey the modernity needed to express the
Center's 'vision' aspect. Incorporating
vignettes from preliminary sketches for the
original murals in the printed pieces are a
nod to the 'legacy', and a historical photo
graph of the founders, the African
American women of Delta Sigma Theta
Sorority, pays homage to its heritage."
Rachel Barron of Next Level
Communication and Richard Phillips of
Visionquest also contributed to the project.
"We have been very pleased with our
new marketing materials, which are always
well received," said Caesar. "And we were
happy that the package was completed in
time for The Delta Arts Center's 35th
Anniversary Celebration, as planned."
Caesar
FikdPhoios
Youngsters enjoy themselves at a recent Triad Cultural Arts-sponsored Juneteenth event.
Organizations join Arts Council
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
A local agency that^strives to
promoteyfelack arts and the men and
women who create and preserve it
has been granted membership to the
Arts Council of Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County.
Triad Cultural Arts and the
American Singers Opera Project
were named new members last week
by the council, which was estab
lished in 1949 as the nation's first
locally established arts council.
Founded by Cheryl Harry, who serves as its
executive director. Triad Cultural Arts' mis
sion is to develop the arts and culture of
African-Americans through a wide
range of public and educational pro
gramming. It was formed in
September 2007 after Harry helped
to launch the Winston-Salem-based
Triad Juneteenth Celebration.
. Since then, Triad Cultural Arts
has staged many other events, includ
ing jazz, blues, hip hop and gospel
concerts; art exhibitions; lectures and
workshops and last Christmas'
Kwanzaa Ball.
The American Singers' Opera
See Council on All
Harry
Dance week coming to A&T
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
The Department of Visual
and Performing Arts is gear
ing nip for its first week-long
International Dance & Visual
Arts Festival, here on the
campus of North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical
State University.
Beginning on Tuesday,
April 1, the festivities will
kick off with an opening exhi
bition of Dr. Eleanor Gwynn's
Collection of Nubian
Photographs and Artifacts, 5
p.m. - 7 p.m., in the
University Galleries. This
event is free and open to the
public.
Dance workshops and lec
ture demonstrations conduct
ed by Jamaican guest artists,
Chris Walker and Nicholeen
DeGrasse- Johnson. will take
place on Wednesday, April 2.
There will be Jamaican and
Cuban Master Dance classes
and lectures, 9 a.m. - 10 a.m.
and 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
These workshops will be held
in Corbett Sports Center,
room 101 and the New
Classroom Building, third stu
dio. Each class is $5.
Then on Friday, April 4, at
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Members of the famed E. Gwynn Dancers.
10 a.m. in Harrison
Auditorium, A Children's
Dance Performance will be
performed by the Children's
Multicultural Dance
Experience. Tickets are $4.
The week will conclude
with a spectacular
International Dance Concert
performed by the E. Gwynn
Dancers of N.C. A&T State
University on Saturday, April
5, 7:30 p.m. in the Harrison
Auditorium. Tickets are $15.
Included in that performance
? will be command presentation
of "Bullet Holes in the Wall:
Reflections on Acts of
Courage in the Struggle for
Liberation."
Bullet Holes is an artistic
performance that highlights
the Woolworth's Sit-In, the
Dudley UprisingfA&T
Student Revolt, and the
Nazi/Klan versus the
Communist Workers' Party.
Using dance, music and spo
ken word, it artistically hon
ors the life-changing histori
cal actions of local
Greensboro residents and the
struggle for equal rights
through humanitarian actions.
For more information and
for tickets, call Melanie
Dalton at 336-256-2137.