Seeing Our City Through Our Students Culminates With an Exhi

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"Seeing Our City Through Our Students" Culminates With an Exhibition at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Sharyn Turner
336.758.5580
sturner@reynoldahouse.org
or Sarah Mansell
336.758.5524
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (November 27, 2008) Works of art created by students in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System will be on view at Reynolda House Museum of American Art beginning December 5. The collection is titled, "Seeing Our City Through Our Students," a collaborative exhibition using the museum's fall exhibition, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York," as inspiration. "Seeing Our City Through Our Students" has included art from students in the Sawtooth School for Visual Art's 2008 Summer Honors Program, on view during Reynolda House's fall Community Day, an exhibition of middle and high school art on view at Delta Arts Center October 23–November 8, and an exhibition of elementary school art on view at the Children's Museum November 16–30.

The final exhibition in the series will be on view at Reynolda House from December 5–January 4, 2009. This show will feature selections from each of the previous exhibitions, representing elementary, middle, and high school students and how they view Winston-Salem.

According to Reynolda House Assistant Curator Allison Slaby, "The students were so imaginative in their treatment of the city. I love the different media—collage, paint, pencil, and crayon—and the different styles, from realism to abstraction. Most of all, though, I love seeing the varied ways the students interpreted the assignment. Some show the city exactly as it appears before them, while others present a scene that captures their hopes for the future of the city. Still others concentrate on people—our neighbors, who make Winston-Salem so dynamic. It's inspiring to have young people participating in a dialogue with us about the place they call home."

"Seeing the City: Sloan's New York" is on view at Reynolda House through January 4, 2009. Organized by the Delaware Art Museum, Reynolda House is the final stop on a four-city tour and the only venue in the South.

The student exhibition is a result of collaboration among several community partners, including the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools' art teachers and students, Arts Education Program Manager Lynn Foltz, and NBCT Lead Teacher for Visual Art Heidi Wicker.

"The talent among our teachers and students in the local school system is stunning, and we are glad to be able to showcase their work," said Allison C. Perkins, Reynolda House executive director. "We are also grateful to Delta Arts Center and The Children's Museum, who opened their doors to host this exhibition with us."

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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Media Note: Members of the media are invited to attend the opening reception for "Seeing Our City Through Our Students" at Reynolda House Friday, December 5, 4:30–6:30 p.m. Photography will be allowed in the gallery for this event.

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