ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
Smithsonian Scholars to Speak at Symposium
Smithsonian Institute
scholars Ken Bilby and John
Homiak will be featured speak
ers in a series of receptions and
educational discussions held in
association with Winston
Salem State University's Win
ter Art exhibitions, "Redemp
tion Songs: The Self-Taught
Artists of Jamaica" and works
by Jamaican born artist Hubert
Walters. The events will be
held Friday, Feb. 7 through
Sunday, Feb. 9 at the Diggs
Gallery. The Student Govern
ment Association will host a
meet-the-artists reception Fri
day, Feb. 7 from 5 p.m. to 8
p.m. Jamaican artists, musi
cians, visiting scholars and the
curator will be present.
The first symposiums will
be held Saturday, Feb. 8 from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. John Homiak
will do an art presentation on
Jamaican Folklife. His lecture
is entitled "Black Heart/Art
Mon: The Aesthetic Impulse In
Jamaican Folklife." Bilby's
presentation will be on music
in Jamaica and is entitled
"Sighting Through Sound:
Music Art in Jamaica." Ran
dall Morris, the exhibition
curator, will also speak. His
lecture is entitled "The Half
Never Told: An Overlook of
the Self Taught Artists of
Jamaica." Jamaican music will
also be performed. On Sunday,
Feb. 9, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., a
presentation by Jamaican
artists featuring musical per
formances by Everald Brown
and a spiritual performance by
Pastor Geneva Mais will be
held.
"Redemption Songs: The
Self-Taught Artists of
Jamaica" features paintings
and sculptures of more than 20
artists, including Ras Dizzy,
Elijah, Errol McKenzie, Ever
ald Brown, Kapo, Leonard
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rarely seen John Woody !
Joseph, Evadney Cruickshank,
Sylvester Woods, Doc
Williamson and others. The
works are drawn primarily
from the collection of Wayne
and Myrene Cox, as well as
other private lenders. It is the
first time the body of work has
ever been shown exclusively in
an academic setting in the
United States.
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"Redemption Songs" has
all the ingredients for a
"viewer-friendly" exhibition
Three to five pieces of each
artist's work will be exhibited
along wjtji wall documentation
and photographic contextual
ization. Videos of the artists
will be shown. An accompany
ing catalog with an essay by
Randall Morris, as well as
statements by many of the
artists and a bibliography on
Jamaica will document the
exhibition and place the works
in an art historical context. The
catalog will provide some of
the first written documentation
in the country of this important
area of artmaking. Sculpture
and paintings will be featured,
as well as religious banners by
Elijah, who recently held a
one-person show at the Musee
dart Brut in Lausanne,
Switzerland. Some environ
mental elements will be lent by
artists as well.
The art work by Hubert
Walters will feature paintings,
sculptures and figurines. A
commercial fisherman and
boat builder for more than two
decades, Walters was born in
Jamaica in 1931. In 1971, Wal
ters immigrated to the Untied
States, settled in New York and
began working as a carpenter.
Only two years later Walters
and his wife left the city for
North Carolina, where they
settled in Troutman and
worked in textile mills. Want
ing to devote his time to mak
ing art, Walters retired from
mill work, later exhibiting and
selling his art at flea markets.
Thursday through Saturday,
April 10-12 the public is
invited to visit Diggs Gallery
(during regular hours) to watch
Walters build one of his boat
sculptures from bondo and
other materials.
Arts Reach
By CHERYL HARRY
"Redemption Songs" has all the ingredi
ents for a "viewer-friendly" exhibition.
Diggs Gallery to feature L
"Redemption Songs: The Self - L
Taught Artists of Jamaica."
? Funding for both exhibits
has been provided by a grant
from the North Carolina Arts
Council and a Project Assis
tance Grant from the Arts
Council of Winston-Salem and
Forsyth County. Additional
support was provided by the
Henly Paper Company.
Diggs Gallery is located in
the lower level of O'Kelly
Library on the Winston-Salem
State University Campus.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. Tuesdays through Satur
days. Special CIAA Basketball
Tournament hours are 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Feb. 23 through
March 2.
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