It's Summertime at Reynolda House!

SAVE THE DATE Reynolda After Hours Summertime Social: Backyard Barbecue and Brews Thursday, June 7 | 6-8 p.m. Garden parties were all the rage in the Country Place Era, when industrialists escaped the city for fresh air and open spaces. Join Reynolda After Hours for a fun and festive summertime social on Reynolda's north lawn, featuring live music and the release of a new CD by the Americana acoustic band Red June, winner of the 2010 WNCW Regional Top 20 Contest. Enjoy garden games, art activities, barbecue provided by Bib's Downtown, and a beer tasting courtesy of Red Oak Brewery. Members/students $8, non-members $10 (cash only). RSVP and invite your friends on Facebook. A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era is on view at Reynolda House through August 5. For a complete list of upcoming events, visit the Calendar of Events. facebook.com/RHMAA Reynolda House Museum of American Art 2250 Reynolda Road • Winston-Salem, NC 27106 336.758.5150 • 888.663.1149 toll-free reynoldahouse.org Affiliated with Wake Forest University Supported by the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County Click here to join this list and receive future mailings | Unsubscribe View email as a webpage

Crossroads @ SECCA

Come see Dean & Britta provide soundtracks for Andy Warhol's 13 most beautiful Screen Tests this Friday night at SECCA. It will be an unforgettable night of muti-disciplinary revelry and trip-inducing music. Please see the poster below and SECCA's website for more details.

Avenue of the Arts- 2012 Symposium

The Wake Forest School of Law Journal of Business and Intellectual Property invites you to attend the annual symposium, Avenue of the Arts: Connecting Creativity, Economics and the Law, on Friday, March 23rd, from 10 AM until 3 PM.

Inspired by Winston-Salem’s reputation as the “City of the Arts & Innovation,” this year’s symposium will focus on the intersection of intellectual property law practice and the arts, with special attention on the employment of artistic ventures as engines for economic development in local communities.  In the field of the arts, intellectual property law provides artists and entrepreneurs with the tools to protect their original works, while the business-end of the industry deals with the monetization of such ventures.  By exploring the intersections of these forces at work within the arts, we can come to a better understanding as to how to facilitate artistic expression in a way that both protects creators and disseminates the work to a large audience for maximum economic benefit.  Panelists, including Wake Forest Business School alumna and North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources Linda Carlisle, Wake Forest Professors Steve Virgil, Simone Rose, and Woodrow Hood, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Arts Council President Milton Rhodes, professors Mike Mireles from the Pacific School of Law and Jeff Slattery from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Robert Rehm, will present on a variety of issues, including extension of protection for copyrighted works that have fallen in the public domain, the reach of personal liability for infringement of artistic works under the doctrines of contributory and vicarious liability, intellectual property issues related to public organizations, and programs designed to employ arts as an engine for economic development.

For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://ipjournal.law.wfu.edu/symposia/ or contact Greer Benge at bengge9@wfu.edu.  Admission is free, and interested persons can attend any portion of the panels they may choose.  The keynote address by Secretary Linda Carlisle will begin at 12:30, with a lunch served by Triad Community Kitchen.

We look forward to seeing you on Friday for this exciting introduction to the intersections of the arts, economy and intellectual property!

Interested in getting involved with The Arts Council?

Here in Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, we are fortunate to have so many wonderful volunteer and leadership opportunities for young professionals. But if you are still searching for a volunteer role you are really excited about, then perhaps The Arts Council is the place for you!

Volunteering with The Arts Council is more than just learning about what is happening in the arts- it's for people who are passionate about economic development in our city, for people who care deeply about education and a well-rounded curriculum, and for people who want to learn more about how we can ensure a vibrant cultural community. It's also for people who want the training and experience to become effective board members going forward.

Between now and the end of the year, we hope to host two large events to engage the local "Under 40" community. Be on the lookout for more information coming soon! Along the way, we will also be alerting people as to the exciting opportunities, performances, gallery openings, and concerts happening within the arts community, in the hopes that we can encourage attendance at some of these fun events.

If you would like for us to include you in our events, communications, and information, please email Kate Reece, Director of Major Gifts for The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, at kreece@intothearts.org.

2012 Art Nouveau Society Committee

Greer Benge

Tyler Burr

Jigar Desai, Committee Co-Chair 

Trina Erickson

Weatherly Gordon

Sterling Kelly 

Susan Maier

Matt McChesney, Committee Co-Chair 

Allison McWilliams

Elizabeth Nolan 

William Palmer

Caroline Trapeni
Anna Sweigart

David Williams 

See you at La Lunch!

You have to eat lunch, so why not grab a friend or co-worker and head downtown to join Piedmont Opera at La Lunch on Thursday, March 8  for a lunch filled with music, drama, and excitement? 


Join Piedmont Opera and other arts enthusiasts for a behind-the-scenes lunch at the Piedmont Club. Maestro James Allbritten and several of the principal cast members will be on hand for a close up look at The Crucible. Please call the Piedmont Club to RSVP at 336.724.7077. Space is limited. Cost is $15.00 per person and includes tax and gratuity.


Want more information? Visit the Piedmont Opera website. 

Festival Stage's Jacks and Jokers Casino Night

See you at La Lunch!

You have to eat lunch, so why not grab a friend or co-worker and head downtown to join Piedmont Opera at La Lunch on Thursday, March 8  for a lunch filled with music, drama, and excitement? 


Join Piedmont Opera and other arts enthusiasts for a behind-the-scenes lunch at the Piedmont Club. Maestro James Allbritten and several of the principal cast members will be on hand for a close up look at The Crucible. Please call the Piedmont Club to RSVP at 336.724.7077. Space is limited. Cost is $15.00 per person and includes tax and gratuity.


Want more information? Visit the Piedmont Opera website. 

Reynolda House hosts "A Genius For Place"

Looking for something fabulous to do this Friday night?  Hop on down to Reynolda House and join for the opening party of "A Genius For Place" from 7 to 9 pm. Inspired by the garden parties Katharine Smith Reynolds hosted at Reynolda in the 1920s, the opening party will feature Japanese lanterns, a jazz combo playing music of the era, hors d'oeuvres, and a cash bar. As a special treat, costumed ice skaters will entertain party-goers on a synthetic pond installed in the auditorium. Visitors also may tour the main floor of the historic house.   $5; members/students free About the Exhibition Beginning in the late nineteenth century, new fortunes in the United States made it possible for many city-dwellers to commission country estates. Wealthy industrialists could work in town, and, by train or automobile, escape deteriorating urban centers to enjoy healthy air and breathtaking scenery, even at the end of each day. A widespread belief in the cultural and salutary benefits of rural life, plus the availability of money, prime land, and growing legions of professionally trained landscape architects, set the stage for ambitious residential landscape designs across the country. From 1895 to the waning years of the Great Depression, thousands of American estates were created from Mount Desert, Maine, to Santa Barbara, California. Together their designs comprise an important, virtually unexamined art movement. Seven such places are the subject of this photographic exhibition.  A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era was organized by Library of American Landscape History, Amherst, Massachusetts. Reynolda House is grateful for the generous support of... EXHIBITION PARTNERS Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Leigh and Gray Smith PROGRAM SPONSORS Henri and Royall Brown Claire and Hudnall Christopher Anne and Andy Copenhaver Mary and Frank Driscoll Cyndi Skaar and Ernie Fackelman Scottie and David Neill Lynn and Jeff Young Gwynne and Dan Taylor

Come see the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection!

THIS WEEKEND ONLY! The Complete RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company Collection   PUBLIC SALE     February 10-12, 2012 Friday, Saturday 10 am - 7 pm, Sunday 12 - 5pm   Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts 251 N. Spruce St., Winston-Salem, NC 27101  $5 Admission    Your admission fee allows you entry for the entire weekend.   Children 6 and under are admitted FREE.  Pieces from as little as $5 to $5,000 and everything in between.  An extraordinary opportunity to buy quality, affordable art, antiques and collectables.  Proceeds from the sale will support Arts Council programs, its Funded Partners and member organizations. For more information contact The Arts Council at (336) 725-8916.    It's finally here and we have been busy moving art and prepping our facility for the public sale!  Take a sneak peek at some of the items you'll find this weekend!           THANK YOU! This sale would not be possible without the assistance of many Arts Council volunteers and staff.  Thanks in advance, it's going to be a busy art-buying weekend!

Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers

Mark your calendars, theater lovers! This spring, March 21-April 7, no rules theatre company will be performing Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers at the Hanesbrands Theater, here in Winston-Salem. This is a dark, adult take on the childhood classic.

If you've never heard of no rules, they are a fresh and innovative new theater company who operates both in Washington, D.C. and also here in Winston-Salem, N.C., as several of the company's staff members are graduates of the University of North Carolina- School of the Arts. They are a recent recipient of a Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company.

So if you want to feel like you live in a big city for the night, join The Art's Council's newly formed Art Nouveau Society, for arts lovers under 40, on Thursday, March 22, as we join other theater goers for a fabulous evening of theater in downtown Winston-Salem. And afterwards? Try a cocktail at Tate's, or perhaps a late-night lemon bar at Camino Bakery, both right around the corner from Hanesbrands Theatre on 4th Street.

Want to buy tickets? Check out the ticket purchasing link: http://www.rhodesartscenter.org/now-showing/peter-pan/.

Enjoy the show!

An Introduction to the Art Nouveau Society

Welcome! We are glad that you've come to check out our blog, Art Nouveau Society. This group is a giving society for donors under the age of forty to The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County's Annual Fund. This blog is for and about our group, and contains upcoming local events, information about The Arts Council, and re-cap of our events.

Art Nouveau Society Mission:

We, the Art Nouveau Society, work together to build awareness and raise funds for The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Annual Fund from donors under the age of forty. By hosting events, we engage people under forty in the cultural vibrancy of our city, and educate a new generation of leaders about the importance of The Arts Council in our community.