Artist-run co-op gallery in the heart of downtown Winston-Salem since 1984
Jazz and Blues, Owens Daniels Photography, &“Spring to Life” all member’s exhibition
Dates: April 1 – 30, 2022
Gallery Hop: Friday, April 1st, 7 – 10 pm
Reception: Sunday, April 3rd, 2 – 4 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 30th – February 26th, 2022
Gallery Hop: Friday, February 4th, 7 -9 pm
We’ve had some great press about our current 1000 Cranes COVID-19 Public Art project. Check out these two great articles:
In a project aimed at bringing hope during these difficult times, Artworks Gallery and the Forsyth County Department of Public Health have teamed up to display 1,000 origami cranes to honor healthcare workers and people affected by COVID-19.
Members of Artworks Gallery in Winston-Salem folded the paper cranes that are now hanging in the public entrance of the health department at 799 Highland Ave. in Winston-Salem. The public art project is called the Thousand Cranes Project.
A statement on the wall near the origami cranes says, “The origami crane represents healing, hope, joy and prosperity. Legend says that if a person folds 1,000 cranes, they get a wish. Therefore, folding the cranes represent our wishes for hope, health and well-being to all healthcare workers and those people who have been affected by COVID.”
Lakecia Owens, coordinator of health services for the Forsyth County Department of Public Health, approached Jessica Tefft, president of Artworks Gallery, on behalf of the health department this past spring to find out if Artworks artists would come together to assemble a paper-based art project.
Owens said the goal was to honor front-line workers and their families, as well as people in the community who had COVID-19, lost their lives to COVID-19 or had a relative who was affected by COVID-19.
Tefft said Owens told her that the health department had COVID-19 fact sheets in different languages that could be used for the project. Read more.
More than 500 people in Forsyth County have lost their battle to Covid 19 leaving many families heartbroken. Now a local art group has teamed up with the Forsyth County Health Department hoping to honor the lost loved ones and healthcare workers fighting to keep people alive.
Jessica Tefft, president of Artworks Gallery says it’s those people who deserve to be remembered in a beautiful way.
“I really do believe in the power of art,” said Tefft.
That’s why you’ll see 1000 origami cranes hanging in the Forsyth County Health Department. The origami may be small but artists say they carry a big meaning, the meaning of hope.
Each crane was created with meaning and made with love. Read more
Artworks member Owens Daniels exhibit featured in the Winston-Salem Journal Sunday June 27 with a review by Tom Patterson: Long time coming: A highlight of local Juneteenth celebrations, Owens Daniels’ exhibition remains on view at the Milton Rhodes Center
Studio portraiture, street photography, content-charged texts and digital technology make for a potent combination in the work of Owens Daniels.
Daniels has been producing powerful, text-augmented photographic pieces for several years. Recently he has compiled a strong body of work documenting local street protests. Prolific and persistent, he has exhibited his work in a number of local shows.
His art emphasizes African American culture and identity, so it’s fitting that it was highlighted in this month’s local celebration of Juneteenth, marking the anniversary of slavery’s end in the United States in 1965.
Daniels’ exhibition “When the Revolution Comes” opened in mid-June at Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts. It brings together selected pieces from at least four bodies of work, including several images he has shown locally within the past two years. These range from proud portraits of ordinary people to more journalistic shots of protesters and police on the streets.
Those insensitive or hostile to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and so-called “critical race theory” aren’t likely to give the show much of a chance. But I suspect most viewers will sympathize with the artist’s socio-political point of view. In addition to its thematic aspect, Daniels’ work also carries a purely visual charge. The combination is crucial to what is evidently his primary aim — stimulating thoughts that extend beyond the image.
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 27, 2121
Read an interview with July’s featured artist Seth Moskowitz by Fran Daniel in the Winston Salem Journal: Once Winston-Salem artist finds that “wow” pattern, the digital manipulations really begin
Artist Seth Moskowitz, who lives in Winston-Salem, takes a lot of pictures but doesn’t consider himself a photographer.
“The pictures that I do take, I wind up playing with and using in artworks that I produce and are made from multiple pictures that very rarely look like photography,” Moskowitz said.
Through July 31, Artworks Gallery on North Trade Street in the Downtown Winston-Salem Arts District will present Moskowitz’s “NEWds — New Interpretations of the Female Form” exhibit along with Karen Moran Kopf’s “Memories Downtown” exhibit.
In their shows, Moskowitz’s artwork focuses on nudes to create pieces that use many of the same compositional elements in different ways in different pieces. Kopf’s exhibit depicts people and locations the artist either observed or events in which she participated.
“I’ve always been fascinated by the beauty of organic forms and how the interplay of shapes, and the mosaic of hue, tone and texture, affect the emotions evoked by my interpretations of the human body and the natural world,” Moskowitz said.
Fran Daniel, Winston Salem Journal Sunday June 27th 2021
Read the full article here, read more about Seth’s current exhibit here, and shop Artworks Gallery online in our shop
We will turn the Covid-19 health forms into folded cranes that will be displayed at the Health Department building iat the end of the Summer.
The folding of 1,000 cranes comes from an ancient Japanese legend promising anyone who folds 1,000 cranes will be granted happiness, peace, and eternal good luck.
Come to the Gallery on these days and help:
Saturday, June 26, 2-4pm
Friday, July 2, 7-9 pm ( Art Hop)
Friday, August 6, 7-9 pm ( Art Hop)
Event is free and open to the public
Artworks Gallery, Inc.
564 North Trade Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Gallery phone: 336-723-5890
July Gallery Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 11-5; Sunday 1-4
Or by appointment at shop@artworks-gallery.org
Check the Sunday, June 20th edition of the Winston-Salem Journal for an insightful review of our current exhibit, Tooth and Nail: Fragments featuring new work by artist and artworks member Woodie Anderson.
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“Industrious and enterprising are the first words that come to mind when seeing Woodie Anderson’s solo exhibition at Artworks Gallery. … Anderson is a talented, resourceful artist whose specialty is printmaking, and her exhibition “Tooth and Nail: Fragments” leaves no doubt she’s been busy. She’s also clearly had a lot on her mind.”
“There are of course no real knives in sight, and nothing else potentially dangerous, but if close attention is paid, this exhibition promises to sharpen eyes and minds.”
Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, June 20, 2021
Read the full article: “Gnashing teeth and sharpened knives: Woodie Anderson’s solo show at Artworks Gallery reveals an industrious, enterprising artist with a lot on her mind” online here or in PDF form here. This exhibit is on display through June 26th, 2021, and you can read more about the exhibit here or shop some of the pieces in our online shop through the end of the month.
Triad City Beat writes about Barbara Mellin’s exhibit Lunaria: Carborundum Mezzotints and Original Haikus
“With glowing daydreams, translucent lunaria brighten my morning.”
Winston-Salem artist Barbara Mellin emphasizes her carborundum print images of the lunaria plant’s silvery, translucent seed pods by writing corresponding haikus for each image.
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Mellin began working on the project in January 2020. She didn’t work continuously, finishing just a few prints before taking a break at the beginning of the pandemic. At its height, she completed the rest of the images. For that, she calls the show a “quarantine creation.”Inspired by her love of mezzotints from the Baroque Period, Mellin used her own press in her home studio to create the carborundum print collection. She values printmaking because of the labor required to do it.
Traid City Beat, By Michaela Ratliff – March 18, 2021
The show available to view at Artworks Gallery until March 28. To learn more about Barbara, visit BarbaraRizzaMellin.com. Lunaria prints are available to purchase from Artworks Gallery’s online shop: artworks-gallery.org/shop
Read the full article at https://triad-city-beat.com/barbara-mellin-lunaria/
Chris Flory was born in Philadelphia. She has a BFA in Printmaking from Philadelphia College of Art, now University of the Arts (1972), and an MFA in Painting from UNC-Greensboro (1992). She has been a member of Artworks Gallery since 1993. She lives in Winston-Salem with her husband and two cats.
The works in the “All Fall Down” exhibition are all graphite on paper, drawn in 2020. Most are about the anxiety and frustration which Chris Flory has been experiencing in Covid times. The “Breath” series is loosely based on some pastel drawings from 1995.
From the heart of North Carolina, Susan Smoot studied fine art at Appalachian State University, earning a BA in Painting. After years in the corporate world of advertising, she has returned to making art as her primary focus. She has studied with locally and nationally recognized artists to further her talent and add to her skills to develop a straightforward painting style, elevating the commonplace to art. Smoot is an award-winning artist who teaches classes when possible. In addition to watercolor, the artist also works in pastel, acrylic, and fiber art.
“Roadside Compositions” is Susan Smoot’s collection of original watercolor paintings. The works focus on long-standing architecture of utility. Farmhouses, sheds, barns, are depicted, showing evidence of their usefulness and the disrepair of time. These rural scenes and buildings, observed locally, were rendered to celebrate the details of age, tarnish, patina, and rust on these witnesses of the past.
The artist says, “As a child, I always wondered about the abandoned farmhouses and barns I spotted while traveling through rural areas. I pictured, in my mind, walking through and around them. I wanted to understand more about their stories. By painting their images I intend to know them better and interpret their pasts – or make up my own version.”
A special thank you to one of LEAD Girls supporter and Executive Director Kim Varnadoe for leading the collection process. Thanks to Kim, many Artworks artists have donated works to the silent auction for this event. All details can be found at: www.leadgirls.org/2021-soiree/. Together we are changing girls’ lives! Follow on instagram at @leadgirlsofnc and view the silent auction starting 3/15/2021 here.
The full LEAD Girls Press Release:
LEAD Girls of NC Inaugural LEADher Circle and 5th Anniversary Soiree featuring Original Art from Artworks Gallery Artists at Silent Auction
Winston-Salem, NC (March 9, 2021) — LEAD Girls of North Carolina will host their 5th Anniversary Soiree on Sunday, March 28 in a virtual celebration and awards ceremony honoring the hundreds of participants, supporters, and partners of LEAD Girls over the past five years. Four LEAD girls will be recognized for their accomplishments at 5:30 p.m. All details can be found at: www.leadgirls.org/2021-soiree/.
At 7:30 p.m., the Kimpton Cardinal Hotel will honor LEAD Girls with a pink and teal lighting of their building on Main Street to represent and celebrate the organization. The sponsors for the Soiree are: The Chronicle, Truliant Federal Credit Union, M Creative, Maynard & Harris Attorneys at Law, PPL, Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, and CC Baller Creations, LLC.
In conjunction with the soiree, LEAD Girls has launched the LEADher Circle. This Circle – which is based on the belief that every girl deserves the chance to thrive – was created in partnership with three local leaders and friends of LEAD Girls: Natalie Broyhill, Mary Jamis, and Dr. Paula Wilkins. With a donation before April 1st, supporters can join the inaugural LEADher Circle.
To further support LEAD Girls, a silent auction fundraiser will run from March 15th until March 28th at 6:30 p.m. when the auction winners will be announced. The fundraising goal for this event – to sustain its programs such as Community LEAD, LEAD Academy, the Summer Fashion Entrepreneurship Camp, and three pilot programs that began this spring – is $50,000.
“We are grateful for our village who are committed to girls thriving,” said Joy Nelson Thomas, Founder and Executive Director of LEAD Girls. “We are now halfway toward our fundraising goal. We still need additional support to help us reach our goal and allow more girls to have access to LEAD.”
While this year’s soiree will look different from years past, the virtual celebration will bring together supporters of the organization as well as girls and their families as they celebrate their perseverance and dedication during 2020.
Thanks to a special partnership with Artworks Gallery, the online silent auction will feature a dozen original pieces of artwork donated by the following artists: Wiley Akers, Woodie Anderson, Bonnie Baily-Arden, Owen O. Daniels, Lea Lackey-Zachmann, Diane Nations, Beverly Noyes, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti, Barbara Rizza Mellin, Kimberly Varnadoe, and Mona Wu. A glass fused bowl, linocut, watercolors, letterpress using the cyanotype method, and graphite are some of the mediums used with masterful detail and excellence.
In addition to original artwork featured in the Silent Auction, packages will include Family Day Trips, Date Nights, Hotel Getaways, Parents’ Nights Out, a Car Care Kit, Relaxation Fun, Baby Presents Bundle, Mystery Boxes, and more.
Donations for the silent auction were donated by the following businesses and nonprofits: a/perture, AutoZone, Black Mountain Chocolate, Bookmarks, Brick Oven, Brookstown Inn, Camino Bakery, Canteen Still Life, Cyclebar, Dash Baseball, Duck Donuts, Fiddlin’ Fish, Finnigan’s, Fleet Feet, Flourish Fitness, Greensboro Science Center, Gwen of all Trades, Hampton Inn, Harris Teeter, Hip Chics, Home Depot, Innovative Photography, Kaleideum, Kendra Scott Jewelry, Kimpton Hotel, Living Aura Living Art, Lowes Foods, Marriott, Mast General Store, McCalls, Mellow Mushroom, Mixxer, Denise Moore, Oriental Trading Company, The Porch, Pure Barre, Rack Room Shoes, Raffaldini Vineyards, Reynolda House, River Birch, RiverRun International Film Festival, Rockin’ Jump, Salem Gymnastics, SHARP Cuterie Boards, Sheetz, The Sherwood, Starbucks, Sunny Shoes, Sunshine Beverages, Tanglewood, Trader Joe’s, Tweetsie Railroad, Urbn Grl, Village Tavern, Winston-Salem State University, Wise Man Brewing, and Younique.
About LEAD Girls of NC
Learning Everyday Accomplishing Dreams (LEAD) Girls of NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping every girl thrive because every girl can. Founded in 2015, LEAD Girls works to create a world in which young girls become well-equipped, active leaders. LEAD programs focus specifically on the social, emotional and leadership development of at-risk middle-school girls in Winston-Salem. Since its inception, LEAD’s school-time and summer programs have served more than 500 girls, providing them with critical resources and skills that foster empowerment and confidence. For more information on the 5th Anniversary Soiree or to make a donation to join the LEADher Circle, please visit www.leadgirls.org/2021-soiree/
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