The Winston-Salem Foundation Supports Innovative Forum Serie

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The Winston-Salem Foundation Supports Innovative Forum Series at Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Tuesday, September 30, 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. (September 30, 2008) – Reynolda House Museum of American Art has received a $7,926 grant from the J. C. Tise Fund of The Winston-Salem Foundation in support of Seeing Our City: The Art of Defining a Place, a series of free public forums the museum will host on October 9, 16, and 23, 2008.

Reynolda House is using its fall exhibition, "Seeing the City: Sloan's New York," as a springboard for the forums. Seeing Our City will focus on discussions about Winston-Salem, efforts to develop and revitalize downtown, and plans for the future of the city.

Each forum will feature a nationally recognized guest speaker and a panel of state and local civic leaders. The public is encouraged to participate in the discussions. Information about Seeing Our City is available on the Reynolda House Web site, reynoldahouse.org.

The Winston-Salem Foundation is a community foundation that supports charitable programs in the greater Forsyth County area. Founded in 1919 by Colonel Francis Fries with a $1,000 gift, it now administers over 1,150 funds with total custodial assets of almost $300 million. In 2007, the Foundation granted more than $30 million to charitable causes, nearly $2 million of which was in competitive grants.

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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