Newspapers / Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / July 12, 2012, edition 1 / Page 6
Part of Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Arts & Lifestyle Of Interest... ACS to benefit from art show "Spectrum: The Art of Blaine Willis" is being fea tured this month at the Ember Gallery, which is inside Ember Audio and Video at 690 Trade St.. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibit will ben efit AIDS Care Services of Winston-Salem (ACS), a non-profit organization com mitted to counseling, educat ing and supporting members of the community and their families living with AIDS. In this series of acrylic abstracts, Willis has applied extremely thin layers of pri mary colors to create the illu sion of all the colors in the spectrum. This method also creates multiple fields of depth not typically found in A piece by Willis. acryhc abstracts, making most ot his paintings respon sive to anaglyph 3-D glasses (provided at the gallery). Willis, who lives in Chapel Hill, has been painting throughout his life. His recent works are figurative acrylics that focus on the emotive power of color. Willis is committed to using art as a way to give back to the community, whether through supporting charita ble events, organizing festivals, or participating in public art projects. He was inspired to donate a portion of the proceeds from this exhibit to ACS in honor of his sister, who is living with HIV. Groups sought for holiday performances The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and Uptowne High Point Association are seeking vocal and instrumental performance groups, theatrical and dance troupes interested in performing as part of the "Uptowne Holiday Stroll: A Dickens Christmas," tak ing place Saturday, Dec. 1. School, churchy and community M| groups are invited X IfcW flf ft IMT to consider per-0 IZj|Af? Iflk- Efl forming sets with NORTH CAROLINA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL a Christmas theme of between 30 and 45 minutes during the hours of the Stroll, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. / NCShakes is also seeking small musical groups to perform 30-minute sets of Christmas music in the lobby of the High Point Theatre during its 35th anniversary production of "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol." Performances by music groups will be scheduled at 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, and 1:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, from December 7 to 23. Selected performance groups will also be invited to enjoy the performance of A Christmas Carol. Interested group coordinators are asked to contact Paul Siceloff at NCShakes at 819-6322 or paul .siceloff @ ncshakes .org. Talented art student's work featured at Capitol U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Republican who repre sents the Fifth Congressional District, recently wel comed Watauga High School rising junior Noah Padgett to the United States Capitol to celebrate his winning submission to the 2012 Congressional Art Competition. Noah met.Foxx and joined champion high school arusis irom throughout the United States for a ceremony in their honor and a tour of the Capitol grounds. "I'm so happy that the Congressional Art Competition gives students like Noah the opportunity to come to Washington for recognition and to have a front row seat for the work that goes on in the People's House," Congresswoman Foxx stated. "Noah is a talented artist Submitted Photo Noah Padgett poses with Rep. Foxx at the Capitol. and I congratulate him on winning this year's Art Competition for North Carolina's 5th District. I'm con fident that the thousands of visitors who see his art work displayed in the Capitol this next year will be just as impressed." Noah writes that his original piece, titled "Homeland." "captures [his] views of the mountains in Boone and the cabin [he] hope[s] to one day build and live in." It was sketched by hand in ink. This was the second year that the winner of the North Carolina 5th District Art Competition was decided by a popular vote of Congresswoman Foxx's Facebook audience. "The event was extraordinary," Padgett said. "I got to see firsthand the history of our nation and know bet ter how our nation is run. One of the highlights was going on the floor of the House of Representatives. It was amazing to meet Congresswoman Virginia Foxx because she was very nice and helpful with everything we did. I feel very honored to get this acknowledge ment and know that so many people will get to see my piece for the year." Art competition winners are selected from each Congressional District within the United States. For the year following their recognition at the Capitol, winners' artwork is displayed in the Capitol complex. Big names to perform at Coltrane Fest CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT The Second Annual John Coltrane International Jazz & Blues Festival will take place on Sept. 1 at Oak Hollow Festival Park in High Point. Tickets are now on sale for the much-antic Duke lpated event, which is presented by Friends of John Coltrane, a group dedi cated to preserving the musical legacy of the onetime High Point resident. Grammy Award winners George Duke, Stanley Clarke and Poncho Sanchez are slated to perform, as will Kirk Whalum, who performed at last year's inaugural event. Whalum will also serve as co-host of the all-day event. Notable musicians Lao Tizer, Karen Briggs and Shemekia Copeland round out this year's stellar line-up. Advance general admission tickets are $50. They are $60 at the doorvV!P tickets are $100 and include VIP parking, seating in front of the stage and access to a VIP Tent offering light refreshments. Tickets are now available online at Etix.com. Tickets may also be purchased in-person at the High Point Theatre, wwwJiighpointtheatre.com, 220 E. Commerce Avenue in High Point, and The "B" String, www.bstringguitars.com, 560 N. Trade St. in Winston-Salem. To leam more about the Festival, go to www.coltranejazzfest.com. Photo by Jennifer McCormick Stanley Clarke is coming to the Triad. Chaka Khan Lite PRNewsFot<VMcDonakJ's USA. IXC Newly slimmed down, Grammy winning singer Chaka Khan per forms on July 6 at the Mahalia Jackson Theater in New Orleans at the McDonald's 365Black Awards. The honors are given annually to salute outstanding individuals who are committed to making positive contributions that strengthen the African-American community. Chaka Khan was also among this year's honorees. Reynolda House to debut new Bearden exhibition CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT The first full-scale presentation outside of New York of Romaic Bearden's "Odysseus Series" :n n ij_ II if _r wui ucdui ai ncynoiua nouse iviuseum 01 American Art, 2250 Reynolds Road, on Oct. 13. "Romaic Bearden: A Black Odyssey" will be on view through Jan. 13,2013. In 1977, Romaic Bearden, one of the most . powerful and original artists of the 20th Century, created a cycle of collages and watercolors based on Homer's epic poem, "The Odyssey." Rich in symbolism and alle gorical content, Bearden's "Odysseus Series" created an artistic bridge between classical mythology and African American culture. The works conveyed a sense of timelessness and the universality of the human condition, but their brilliance was displayed for only two months in New York City before being scat "tered to private collections and public art museums. Bearden was bom in Charlotte in 1911; he died in 1988. The new exhibition is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES). It features 55 Bearden works, including collages from the "Odysseus Series," and watercolors and line drawings relating to his interest in classical themes. After its debut at Reynolda House, it will con tinue on a seven-city national tour through 2014. The exhibition is curated by renowned English and Jazz scholar Robert G. O'Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English Komare Hear den s "Poseidon, The Sea God." and Comparative Literature and founder and former director of the Center for Jazz Studies at See Bearden on A7 Work of Latino artists to be featured at Delta Arts 5 CHRONICLE STAFF REPORT ( The work of Latino artists Ale Fuentes, Antonio Villamil, Cedey De Jesus, Ismael \ G6mez Peralta, Gabriel Orenstein, Reinaldo Vargas, Violeta R. de Arana, and Raul R. Montero, who lives in Winston-Salem, will be showcased in "PUZZLE: Master 1 Artists, Friends" at the Delta Arts Center beginning July IS. An opening reception f will be held from 3-5 p.m. on opening day. TTie show displays the rich diversity inherent in the Latin American artistic perspective. The contribu tions of many cultures are visible in the works. Montero, for example, who was born in Oriente, Cuba and moved to Miami in 1998, uses figurative and landscape portrayals in his work. He employs muted colors and does not classify his work as Expressionist, Realist or any particular style. The artists hail from unique professional back grounds. de Jesus, whose work includes digital print on canvas, studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte and lives in Miami, Florida. He has taught visual art and art history for several years. Vargas is also a former educator. After graduating from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in cuoa, ne laugni drawing. Orenstein is one of the non-Cubans featured in the exhibit. He is Uruguayan and ^ studied in Brazil. In addition to painting, he creates in video, film and animation. ( Antonio Villamil also studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte. He has shown his ] art in Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, Spain, Colombia and the United States. UNCSA lands star dancer 1PECIALT0 THE CHRONICLE Susan Jaffe, one of the leading ballerinas of >ur time, will become the next dean of the JNCSA School of Dance. For 22 years, Jaffe danced with American Jallet Theatre (ABT), where, after she retired rom the stage, she joined the faculty of the 'acqueline Kennedy Onassis School. She was 1 - n . 11 . * ?? uuncu a nauei ivnsiress vith the main company in 5010. Jaffe has danced on the vorld's greatest stages - Milan's Teatro alia Scala, he Mariinsky Theatre in 5t. Petersburg, the Vienna State Opera House, and .ondon's Royal Opera louse, Covent Garden, to lame a few - and with ome of the most important Jaffe lancers of our time, from Mikhail Baryshnikov to ormer Dean of Dance Ethan Stiefel and current JNCSA faculty member Frank Smith. During the current ABT season at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Jaffe has performed the roles >f Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and the Jueen in Swan Lake, opposite UNCSA alumna ind principal dancer Gillian Murphy. In addition, affe has worked directly with some of the great :st choreographers of all time, including George Jalanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Poland Petit and Twyla Tharp, recipient of a JNCSA Honorary Doctorate. Jaffe begins her tenure as Dean on Aug. IS and dans to move to Winston-Salem this summer. "I am excited to become part of the School of he Arts family. The UNCSA School of Dance has in incredible reputation and track record for alum li placement and achievement in the dance vorld," she said. "Having run my own school, I >elieve that I'm well prepared to take advantage >f the opportunities that we have before us. I am ooking forward to being part of John Mauceri's Team UNCSA."'
Winston-Salem Chronicle (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 12, 2012, edition 1
6
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75