Arts & Lifestyle
Murphy Scholarship
The School of Dance at the University of
North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA)
has announced the establishment of the Gillian
Murphy Endowed Scholarship. The four-year
scholarship is named for UNCSA alumna
Murphy, a principal dancer at American Ballet
Theatre.
Murphy returned to
UNCS A in December 2013
as featured guest performer
for The Nutcracker, and
again in May 2014 as
speaker for High School
Commencement, where
she received an honorary
doctorate.
Dance Dean Susan
Jaffe said the first recipient
of the scholarship is Florrie Geller of Savannah,
Ga. The scholarship was offered at the Youth
America Grand Prix (YAGP) Finals in New
York in April. YAGP is the world's largest ballet
scholarship competition. More than 5,000
young dancers compete for scholarships at
YAGP each year.
Geller. who began dancing at the age of
five, won a gold medal in Junior Women's
Classical Ballet and a bronze medal in Junior
Women's Contemporary Dance at the YAGP
Regional semifinals in Tampa, Fla., this year.
She placed in the top 12 in the Junior Women's
category at the YAGP Finals in New York City,
where she danced in the final round at the
David Koch Theater.
Murphy has been a member of American
Ballet Theatre since 1996, when she joined the
corps de ballet upon graduation. She was pro
moted to soloist in 1999 and principal dancer in
2002.
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SSo4 series continues
Sunday. July 13 will be the third event in the
2014 Second Sundays on Fourth series to be
held downtown on 4th Street between Cherry
and Marshall streets. The event will begin with
a 2 p.m. showing of
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"Spaceballs" at
a/perture cinemas.
Admission is $5.
At 3 p.m.. the
free street festival
begins. This year
Summit School has
sponsored Kids's
Zone, with a jumpy
castle, games and
crafts. On stage.
?tiiuc diuuu, an ciciiiimui uancc irio ironieu
by Haydee Thompson, will open. The headlin
ing band will be Mount Moriah. which was fea
tured on NPR's World Cafe.
Mount Moriah s singer Heather McEntire
has a lyrical quiver that recalls Dolly Parton's in
her bluegrass phase, and the soulful twang of
the guitar and the organ backing her make
Mount Moriah one of the best bands of the
Southeast.
The Second Sundays on Fourth series sup
ports local agencies. July's Non-Profit of the
Month is The Gateway YWCA. whose mission
is to empower women and eliminate racism.
For more information. go to
www.sso4.com.
SECCAshow
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary
Art (SECCA) is presenting "Claire Harvey:
Daily Measures" in the Potter Gallery through
Sept. 15.
Harvey's observational drawings transform
everyday experience into fascinating micro
_ cosms, rang
ing in scale
from minia
ture portraits
to larger
t h a n -1 i f e
wall projec
tions.
The
exhibit
explores the
reiationsnip oetween sutiject. object, and medi
um through Harvey's revelatory drawings. The
artist repurposes everyday materials such as
glass slides, sticky-tack. Scotch tape and Post-it
notes to serve as portable canvases. Tiny yet
expansive, these images depict familiar and
fleeting daily scenes and passersby. When
viewed together, they create unexpected con
nection and meaning. "Harvey's artistic ges
tures are at once small and monumental, casual
and carefully orchestrated. They shift our vision
and therefore give us tools to look at the world
anew," says Cora Fisher, the exhibition's cura
tor.
Harvey, originally hailing from the UK, cur
rently lives and works in Amsterdam. For hours
of operations and other information, visit
www.secca.org. Admission to SECCA is free.
New WS/FCS logo selected
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Almost 7,500 people voted for a new logo for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
They chose a design created by artist Colin Cumbo.
Cumbo graduated from Reagan High School in 2013 and was
a student in Stephanie Messer's Commercial Art class at the
Career Center. About 41 percent of the voters chose his design,
/ \ which features blue, red and yellow arches that divide the "WS" and
..pes" in the district's name.
? Students, families, staff and the community
^ were surveyed to pick their favorite of five
W designs. The other designs were created by Leticia
i Gomez, a 2011 graduate of Atkins Science &
Technology High School; Tyler Petrich, a 2013
Reagan graduate who drew two of the designs; and Timothy Porter, the I
graphic designer for the school district. Each of the students was in Messer's classes.
WS/FCS
Colin Cumbo
Quarles to give talk at Delta Arts
CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT
Delta Arts Center, 2611 New Walkertown Rd? will
: hold an opening reception and artist talk with Durham
painter Darius Quarles on Thursday, July 10 at 6 p.m.
The reception will be preceded by Delta Art Center's
Annual Meeting at 5:30 p.m. The public is invited to
attend both events.
His exhibition, "Unleashed!," opened at the center
on Tuesday, June 24 and will be on view through
Saturdav. Aue. 30 All of his
works are available for sale.
Quarles is well known
artist in the Triangle and has a
unique contemporary style full
of vivid color, pop icons and
dreamscapes. He was bom
and raised in Louisa, Va. and
dreamed of becoming an artist
since he was a little boy.
At the age of five, he
would go outside and find
himself studying the lines
between the trees and clouds. Once he would come
back inside, he would transform those visions into
small sketches on paper. After high school, Quarles
joined the U.S. Navy, but in his free time, he would still
sketch and draw. After his service, he studied color
theory at the American College of the Arts, and after
holding various jobs, he decided to pursue his dream of
becoming an artist.
He is a full-time working artist and part of an
artists' collective called Pleiades Gallery, which fea
tures his work, as well as the works of nine other artists
around the Triangle. His work has also been represent
ed in New York galleries and is collected nationwide.
Delta Arts Center i t open Tuesda\ Friday from
10 am. - 5 pm. and Saturdays from 11 am.- 3 p.m..
Tours of the exhibition can be arranged b\ calling the
Center at 336-722-2625.
Quarles
Darius Quarles' "Beach Hat Passion."
Agencies receive
FCTDA funds
SFBC1AL TO THE CHRONICLE '
The Forsyth County Tourism Development Authority
(FCTDA) approved $51,000 in Arts and Events Marketing
Assistance (AEMA) funding to support eight marketing cam
paigns.
The marketing campaigns of the following agencies will
receive grants:
? "The Art of Seating Winston-Salem Campaign" of Old
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miu IXC^IlUIUtl I'lUUSC
L Museum of American
^Art - $7,500;
Bookmarks
Festival of Books -
m $2,750:
A Piedmont
? Craftsmen's Fair -
I $9,000;
V International Film
|W Festival - $10,250;
? Salute! The
NC Wine
Celebration - $10,000;
? Winston-Salem Air
.Show - 52.0(H);
? Winston-Salem Hispanic
League - Fiesta 2014 - $2,000;
? Winter Holiday Campaign of Old Salem Museums &
Gardens and Reynolda House Museum of American Art - $7,500.
Applications were submitted in this annual funding program
launched by Visit Winston-Salem in 2010. Applicants are
required to submit a comprehensive, criteria-based application to
be considered for funding. Each of the seven members on the
FCTDA's Marketing Committee independently reviews and
grades each application then collectively reviews the aggregate
scores to make their final recommendations to the FCTDA
Board.
"Each of the funded recipients that are eligible for reimburse
ment funds submitted an application that included collaboration
with at least one hotel partner and is in alignment with Visit
See Grants on A7
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'A Glimpse of Africa'
opens at MO A
SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE
Wake Forest University's Museum of Anthropology
(MOA) has opened a new long-term exhibit, "A Glimpse
of Africa: Five Cultures from the Continent."
It explores the remarkable cultural diversity found in
Africa. The selected artifacts, ranging from ceramics to
textiles, offer an in-depth examination of five African cul
tures: Bamileke of Cameroon: Baule of Cote d'lvoire;
Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Tuareg of
the western Sahara and Zulu of South Africa. Although the
artifacts, i 1
which vary
in age, focus
on tradition
al ways of
life, several
pieces pro
vide insight
as to how
tradition can
be trans
formed
through
internal and
external
influences.
Museum of Anthropology student-employees curated
the exhibition. Austin Brown is a junior philosophy major;
Chris Rinker is a second-year Divinity School student; and
Olivia Whitener is a junior anthropology major. Each stu
dent wrote an overview of their chosen cultural groups,
and selected and researched artifacts from MOA's exten
sive African collections.
The five cultures featured in the exhibit showcase the
diversity of Africa, a continent that is home to more than
3,000 distinct ethnic groups and 2,000 recognized lan
guages. which represents more than 25 percent of all spo
ken languages ir the world. The artifacts on display
include ceramics, textiles, baskets, masks, weapons, per
sonal adornment and other objects from daily life
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Learn more
at moa.wfu.edu/visit/.
Museum of Anthropology