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Museum receives
grants for its NYC exhibit
Reynolda House Museum of American Art has
received a $10,000 Arts and Audiences grant from
the North Carolina Arts Council and a $7,926
grant from the J. C. Tise Fund of The Winston
Salem Foundation in support of the fall exhibition,
"Seeing the City: Sloan's New York," and educa
tional programs associated with the exhibition.
"Seeing 6ur City: The Art of Defining a Place"
is a series of free public forums which the muse
um will host on Oct. 9, 16, and 23. Sunday in the
Park Community Day Festival will be held on Oct.
19 from 2 to 4 p.m.
"Seeing the City: Sloan's New York" features
the works of John Sloan, who created early 20th
century images of New York City from the city -
dweller's point of view in paintings, drawings,
prints, and photographs. The exhibition was
organized by the Delaware Art Museum, and
Reynolda House is the final stop on a four-city
tour and the only venue in the South.
Reynolda House is using the fall exhibition as
a springboard for the forums. "Seeing Our City"
will focus on discussions about Winston-Salem,
efforts to develop and revitalize downtown, and
plans for the future of the city.
Each forum will feature a nationally recog
nized guest speaker and a panel of state and local
civic leaders. The public is encouraged to partici
pate in the discussions.
Sunday in the Park Community Day Festival
will feature live music, art activities for children,
refreshments, and free admission to the historic
house and the exhibition gallery.
Information about "Seeing the City: Sloan's
New York" and all the programs associated with
the exhibition is available on the Reynolda House
Web site, www.reynoldahouse.org.
Professor wins Douglass prize
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Stephanie E.'
Small wood, associate professor of history at the
University of Washington in Seattle, has been
" selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick
Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book
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slavery or abolition.
Smallwood won for her
book, "Saltwater
Slavery: A Middle
Passage from Africa to
American Diaspora"
(Harvard University
Press).
The book examines
the transatlantic slave
trade and the relation
ships between Africa
and the new world. The
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University's Gilder
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition, sponsored by the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History.
In addition to Small wood, the other finalists
for the prize were Anthony E. Kaye for "Joining
Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South"
(University of North Carolina Press); Kristin
Mann for "Slavery and the Birth of an African
City: Lagos, 1760-1900" (Indiana University
Press); and Chandra Manning for "What this Cruel
War was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil
War" (Alfred A. Knopf Publishers).
The $25,000 annual award is the most gener
ous history prize in the field. The prize will be pre
sented to Smallwood at a dinner in New York City
in February 2009.
This year's finalists were selected from a field
of over 75 entries by a jury of scholars that includ
ed Barrymore Anthony Bogues (Brown
University), Christopher Clark (University of
Connecticut), and Rebecca J. Scott (University of
Michigan School of Law). The winner was select
ed by a review committee of representatives from
the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History, and Yale
University.
Deans named at UNCSA
Chancellor John Mauceri of the University of
North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) has
appointed Jill Lane as dean of the High School
Academic Program and Richard "Rick" Miller as
dean of Undergraduate Academic and Graduate
Programs. Both Lane and Miller have been serv
ing in these positions as interim deans for the past
few years.
TTie appointments were made following exten
sive national searches by two separate search com
mittees.
Lane has been acting as interim dean of the
High School Academic Program since July 2006.
She came to UNCSA (formerly known as the
North Carolina School of the Arts) in the fall of
1994 as a math teacher. Prior to coming to
UNCSA, she taught for five years at North Forsyth
High School and one year at Salem Academy.
Miller, who has been acting as the interim dean
of Undergraduate Academic and Graduate
Programs since August 2006, began teaching phi
losophy at UNCSA in 1972. In 1995, he received
the University of North Carolina Board of
Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Ailey II dancers will visit Greensboro
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
"The Ailey 11 dancers can
jump improbably high and land
improbably softly, pour their
bodies like cream into back
bends and lifts, ripple their tor
sos and turn like tops."
Not even a reviewer for The
New York Times could help
from falUng^pempl^tely in love
with the graceful moves of the
aclaimed dance troupe Ailey II.
Triad audiences will get to
see the dancers in action
Saturday, Nov. 1 when they per
form at Greensboro's Carolina
Theatre at 8 p.m.
One of the many branches
of the sprawling tree that is the
New York-based Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater, the
Ailey II troupe is comprised on
some of the nation's best young
dancers. They are known for
captivating audiences with their
strength, agility and grace.
Their body-and-soul-stirring
performances are guided by
Artistic Director Sylvia Waters,
a former Ailey dancer who was
personally appointed to the
position by the renowned Alvin
Ailey Dance Theater Photo
Members of the Ailey II Dance Troupe.
Ailey in 1974.
The troupe's diverse reper
toire includes mahy of Alvin
Ailey's timeless classics and
thrilling new works by some of
today's most outstanding chore
ographers. In addition to the
troupe's hectic worldwide tour
ing schedule, members are also
involved in extensive commu
nity outreach programs.
Tickets are $26.50, $23.50
or $18.50. They are available
by calling the Carolina Theatre
Box Office at 336-333-2605, or
online at
www.CarolinaTheatre.com.
Legendary Aggie band
prepares for competition
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
With the Honda Battle of the Bands less than five months away. North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University's marching band is fine-tuning its
instruments, practicing its drum major acrobatics and choreographing the dance
team's routines, all to compete for one of the top spots at the 2009 Invitational
Showcase. This month, the Honda Battle of the Bands kicks off its seventh year
with the 30-city Celebration Tour and the opportunity to help 10 universities go
down in marchings
oana nistory.
North Carolina
A&T \ State
University began its
music program in
1909, with Charles
E. Steward, who
served as the col
lege's first director
of music. He would
later write the music
for the university's
alma mater. Under
W. E. Lew, the
department's next
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program grew to jflg mue ^ CoW Marching Machine performs last year.
include a band pro
gram by 1918. By
the 1930's, band was offered as an extracurricular activity, and N.C. A&T was the
only black college in North Carolina with a band. Even with its humble beginnings,
the Marching Machine, now with over 200 members, continues to be a big draw to
fans as they perform in competitions around the country. The band gained its name.
Blue & Gold Marching Machine under the direction of Jimmy Williams and Dr.
Johnny B. Hodge, Jr. Hodge served in this capacity for over four decades until his
retirement. The band's current director. Dr. Kenneth Ruff, took the reigns in 2003
and fused the tradition of the Aggie legacy of excellence.
See Band on A13
Ludacris in the Kitchen
Photo Credit: Anders Krushcrg/Thc
Martha Stewart Show
Domestic queen
Martha Stewart gets
playful with rap
per/actor Chris
"Ludacris" Bridges
last week during an
episode of the
nationally-syndicat
ed "The Martha
Stewart Show." The
two talked about his
new movie,
"RocknRolla," his
restaurant,
Atlanta's Straits,
and prepared
Origami Sea Bass.
PLAG gala will celebrate inclusion for all
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Businesses, agencies
and individuals who have
shown a commitment to
local gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgender (GLBT)
community will be feted
next weekend.
The Winston-Salem
Chapter of Parents,
Families and Friends of
Lesbians and Gays
(PFLAG) will host its
Fourth Annual
Kaleidoscope Awards
Gala at the Millennium
Center on Saturday, Oct.
1 1 at 7:30 p.m. This year's
celebrations is themed,
"Come Out! Become
Visible! Make Change!"
The Winston-Salem
Publicity Photo
Clare Fader and the Vaude villains.
chapter is one of more
than 500 PLAG affiliate
groups throughout the
nation. PLAG has been
called the "nation's fore
most family-based organi
zation committed to the
civil rights of gays, les
bians, bisexual and trans
gender persons." Founded
in 1973 by mothers and
See PFLAG on AM
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Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway at the 2007
National Black Theatre Festival.
Trade group names
NBTF as one of
nation's top 100 events
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
The trade organization of the more than
1 ,000 motorcoach and tour companies in North
America has again named Winston-Salem's
National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF) as one
of the top destinations of its clients.
The NBTF is one of the American Bus
Association's "Top 100 Events in North
America" for the year 2009. An ABA commit
tee compiles the list after evaluating the hun
dreds of events that
Americans and Canadians
are expected to visit via
motorcoaches next year.
Over the past 25 years,
ABA's Top 100 Events
publication has become an
internationally-recog
nized event directory for
bus and tour operators, the
travel industry and the
general public. A descrip- Hamlin
tion of the 100 events and
contact information is included in the publica
tion, which is included as a supplement to the
September/October issue of "Destinations"
magazine. In addition, the entire Top 100 list
and specific event information will be listed on
ABA's website at www.buses.org.
The next NBTF will be Aug. 3-8 , 2009.
Founded by the late Larry Leon Hamlin in 1989,
this year's festival will mark the event's 20th
anniversary. The very first festival offered 30
performances by 17 of America's best profes
sional black theater companies and attracted
national and international media coverage. The
New York Times called the event "one of the
most historic and culturally significant events in
the history of black theatre and American the
atre in general."
About 10,000 people attended the first festi
val. Over the years, attendance and the number
of offerings has increased tremendously. The
NBTF now regularly attracts more than 60,000
people and features a jam-packed, week-long
schedule of more than 100 performances,
dozens of workshops and seminars and an end
less stream of parties and social events.
For more information about the NBTF, go to
www.nbrf.org.