Seeing Our City Through Our Students Art Exhibition Featurin

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"Seeing Our City Through Our Students" Art Exhibition Featuring Local Students' Visions of Our City

Monday, October 27, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
manselss@reynoldahouse.org

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (October 23, 2008) – American artist John Sloan is famous for his masterful depictions of life in New York City in the early twentieth century. An exhibition featuring his artwork, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York," is currently on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art. In conjunction with this exhibition, the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Arts Education Department and Reynolda House Museum of American Art have developed a citywide exhibition of K-12 student art called "Seeing Our City Through Our Students."

The works of art in this exhibition show the students' unique vision of our remarkable city and will be on display at the Delta Arts Center, the Children's Museum of Winston-Salem, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

"Reynolda House is delighted to be part of this wonderful collaboration with the students in our local school system," Allison Perkins, executive director of Reynolda House Museum of American Art, said. "Part of our mission is to foster a deeper understanding of American culture through exhibitions and public programs. We are pleased that the current exhibition on John Sloan has inspired the children of Winston-Salem to view their own city in new ways. I can't wait to see the works of art they have produced."

The location and dates of the exhibition venues are listed below with a brief description of the art displayed:

Delta Arts Center                   October 23–November 8, 2008
     Artwork created by WS/FCS middle and high school students.

The Children's Museum                   November 16–30, 2008
   Artwork created by WS/FCS elementary school students.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art       December 5, 2008–January 4, 2009
A selection of approximately 25 pieces from all the works on view in the exhibitions listed above, representing K-12 students in the WS/FCS system.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art opened its fall exhibition, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York" on October 4, giving us all a chance to observe John Sloan's vision of that great metropolis in the early part of the 20th century through his paintings, drawings, and photographs. His work reveals the public parks, theaters, store windows, elevated trains, buildings and monuments through the eyes of the city dwellers that inhabit those spaces. The exhibition will be on display through January 4, 2009, and Reynolda House is the only venue in the South.

The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Arts Education Department provides a challenging and exciting discipline-based arts education program, which includes art history, studio work, the development of individual aesthetic understanding, and learning how to view and respond to art. The department entails more than 100 visual arts teachers, who deliver an articulated curriculum to the more than 50,000 K-12 students. The goal of the program is to provide guidance for students as they respond to stimuli in the classroom that are intended to promote individual and unique expressive reflections in response to the world around them.

Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of the nation's premier American art museums, with masterpieces by Mary Cassatt, Frederic Church, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe and Gilbert Stuart among its permanent collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features traveling and original exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings, and other events. The museum is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the historic 1917 estate of Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband, Richard Joshua Reynolds, founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. Reynolda House and adjacent Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda Village feature a spectacular public garden, dining, shopping and walking trails. For more information, please visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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