Reynolda House Museum of American Art Offers “An American Story” Class to the Public for the First Time

Elizabeth Chew, Ph.D.

"WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (April 14, 2015) – Reynolda House will offer to the public in May a class previously offered only to museum docents. “Reynolda: An American Story” will be held Tuesday and Thursday afternoons in May, starting May 5. The course will be co-taught by Elizabeth Chew, Ph.D., the museum’s Betsy Main Babcock Director of the Curatorial and Education Division, and members of the museum’s curatorial, program and education staff.

This lecture course will examine the Reynolda estate and the Reynolds family through the lens of 20th-century American history, considering topics like tobacco, the post-Civil War “New South,” the American Country Place Era, women’s history, progressive agriculture and ways that Reynolda reflects social changes of the 20^th century.

“The full story of Reynolda is an American story and not merely a regional one,” says Chew. “This is the course for anyone interested in how the histories of Reynolda and Winston-Salem connect with the larger picture of American history.”

Chew added that the course will bring together numerous important aspects of post-Civil War and 20^th-century American history and culture including industry, race, women’s education, philanthropy, and many other topics.

Classes will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, May 5-May 21. Registration is $150 per person, or $120 for members of the museum. Advance registration is required and available online at reynoldahouse.org. 

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events.  The museum is located at 2250 Reynolda Rd. 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. Connect at Facebook.com/rhmaa or @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Reynolda House Museum of American Art Breaks Attendance Record with ‘George Catlin’s American Buffalo’ Opening Weekend

George Catlin, Buffalo Bull, Grazing on the Prairie,

1832-1833, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art

Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art set a new museum attendance record for an exhibition opening weekend with its debut of “George Catlin’s American Buffalo”  in North Carolina.

The museum welcomed more than 450 visitors over the Saturday and Sunday of the exhibition’s opening weekend, Feb. 14-15. The previous record was 408 visitors for the first Saturday and Sunday of an exhibition, when the museum opened “American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell” in February 2014.

“The response to this exhibition has been overwhelming,” said Allison Perkins, Reynolda House executive director. “We’ve seen visitors from across the state and across the street, all who know George Catlin, love Western art, and feel a special connection to the stories of Native American life that Catlin tells in these paintings.”

“George Catlin’s American Buffalo” is the first exhibition of Western art hosted by Reynolda House since it opened the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing 10 years ago. For the exhibition’s opening weekend, Reynolda House offered a ticket package that included admission to the museum, a custom exhibition t-shirt, a 10% coupon for Village Tavern and a photo opportunity at the Museum. Total attendance of 463 visitors over the two days included approximately 200 people who purchased their ticket in advance as part of the package.

The museum employed a marketing campaign for the exhibition inspired by a piece of its own history. Billboards, posters, and advertisements leading up to the exhibition’s opening proclaimed, “The buffalo are coming.” The campaign was inspired by the advertising campaign for the launch of Camel cigarettes, one of the first nationally known brands in the United States. In 1913, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company introduced Camel cigarettes to the world, supported by a set of teaser advertisements in popular national magazines and journals with a similar message: “The camels are coming.” Reynolda House is the 1917 country estate of R.J. Reynolds, the founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.

“We are always seeking new ways to share and connect the history of Reynolda with those who experience Reynolda today,” said Sarah Smith, director of external relations. “This campaign was a nod to our past.”

The museum is open Tuesday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., and Sundays 1:30-4:30 p.m. Several programs and events are planned in conjunction with “George Catlin’s American Buffalo,” including gallery talks, a symposium, classes for children and adults, and a free community day. The exhibition is on view through May 3. Information is available online at reynoldahouse.org/reynoldabuffalo.

“George Catlin’s American Buffalo” is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by Mary Anne and Richard W. Cree, and Lynn and Foster Friess. Additional support for the exhibition and the publication was provided by William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund and the Smithsonian Council for American Art. Support for “Treasures to Go,” the Museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia.

Reynolda House is grateful for the generous support of the exhibition from Major Sponsor First Tennessee Bank. Additional support is provided by Major Sponsor the Charles H. Babcock, Jr. Arts and Community Initiative Endowment; Lead Sponsors Phoenix Packaging | Pam & Tom Skinner; Contributing Sponsors Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Babcock and Telos Furniture | Michael & Elizabeth Felsen; Exhibition Partners Teresa & Don Caine and The Ecology Wildlife Foundation; and Program Partners Anna McCoy Smith, Citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and Vernon & Frankie Winters.

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events.  The museum is located at 2250 Reynolda Rd. 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. Connect at facebook.com/rhmaa and @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Reynolda House Museum of American Art Announces $5 Million Campaign with Leadership Gift from Reynolds American Foundation

'Reynolda at 100’ will Position Museum for Next Century

"WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Jan. 30, 2015) – Reynolda House Executive Director Allison Perkins last night announced a $1 million commitment from the Reynolds American Foundation to the museum’s campaign, Reynolda at 100.

More than 50 donors and friends of the museum gathered in the historic 1917 Reynolda House reception hall for the private event announcing the $5 million capital campaign and the leadership gift from the museum’s long-time supporter the Reynolds American Foundation. In announcing the campaign, Perkins acknowledged the foundation’s gift and the importance of others like it to ensure the future of Reynolda.

“For nearly 100 years, Reynolda has fostered a community where all are welcomed and inspired to learn,” she said. “The vision behind this extraordinary historic site and museum has been supported by Mary and Charlie Babcock, Barbara and Nik Millhouse, and Wake Forest University over the course of two generations. Now, it’s our turn. It’s our community’s turn to help launch the next century of Reynolda; and the Reynolds American Foundation has set the bar.”

Alan Caldwell, director of corporate and civic engagement for Reynolds American Inc., and executive director of the Reynolds American Foundation, added that Reynolda House is a true asset to the community.

“This is our house, too,” he said.  “As the home of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company’s founder, employees feel a special connection to Reynolda House and the role it continues to play in our community.”

“There aren’t many places you can go in Winston-Salem where you can’t see the transformational role Richard Joshua Reynolds played in making this city what it is,” said Susan M. Cameron, president and chief executive officer of Reynolds American Inc.  “Perhaps nowhere is his presence more strongly felt than in his own home. As the successor in the role he created 140 years ago, I take special pleasure in the Reynolds American Foundation’s investment in keeping the house and museum vibrant for its next 100 years.”

The campaign called Reynolda at 100 is timed to end with the estate’s centennial and the museum’s 50^th anniversary, both marked in 2017. The campaign will help pay for a variety of essential projects and endowment to support the museum’s continued commitment to excellence into the next century, serving visitors and scholars of all ages. To date, Reynolda House has raised 83% of its $5 million goal.

“Reynolda House is a powerful place that encapsulates some of the most beautiful aspects of living in Winston-Salem—strong families, important history, beautiful art, and lush green spaces,” said Dianne Blixt, co-chair of the Reynolda at 100 campaign and president of the museum’s Board of Directors. “There is no other Reynolda, and we know that. My husband, Chuck, and I have great trust in the possibilities Reynolda holds for its next century; we consider our gift to Reynolda House as a gift for future generations.”

Campaign fundraising priorities fit into three distinct funding categories: Funds for the Future ($2.5 million), Preserve Our Place ($2.3 million), and Celebrate our Centennial ($200,000). Projects include capital improvements like restoration and preservation of the historic landscape; critical updates to heating, ventilation and cooling systems; a catalog featuring new scholarship on the museum’s collection and new tools for sharing the Reynolda story throughout the estate using technology and signage; and a series of public events planned to celebrate the centennial.

One campaign project is already nearly complete: the restoration of the indoor pool house. Started in June 2014, the restoration is the first since Mary and Charlie Babcock added it along with other indoor recreation in 1937. During the restoration, the glass framework has been replaced, deck tiles and pool tiles have been cleaned and brought back to their original colors, the birdcages have been repaired and restored, and the electrical and plumbing systems have been repaired and replaced where needed. The pool will reopen this spring and be available for students in the museum’s Summer Adventures camps and for private events. A blog and photo series document the project on the museum’s website reynoldahouse.org, searchable by #ReynoldaPool.

In September 2014, Reynolda House started another significant capital project—restoration of the historic landscape surrounding the house. The project focuses on areas of the landscape adjoining the historic house and will include using original planting plans to restore beds, partial restoration of the vista toward the Lake Katharine Wetlands, and clearing understory and extensive pruning. Creating a pedestrian link from the historic house to Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University and Reynolda Village is also a major goal of the project.

The museum’s campaign is part of Wake Will: The Campaign for Wake Forest, announced in 2013. Reynolda House formally affiliated with Wake Forest University in 2002. The museum’s campaign co-chairs are Blixt, president of the museum’s Board of Directors, and Tom Lambeth, former president of the Board of Directors.

Donations to Reynolda at 100 may be made on the Wake Will website at wakewill.wfu.edu/reynolda-house. Named giving opportunities exist within the museum’s campaign. Businesses and corporations interested in being involved in the museum’s campaign should contact Stephan Dragisic, director of development, at 336.758.5595.

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events.  The museum is located at 2250 Reynolda Rd. 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. Connect at Facebook.com/rhmaa or @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Holidays at Reynolda Features Candlelight Tours, Decorations, and Exclusive Overnight Packages

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art will celebrate the 2014 holiday season with decorations throughout the historic house, after-hours candlelight tours, a performance by the Carolina Brass and a play by Truman Capote.

Through Dec. 31, the historic 1917 home of R.J. and Katharine Reynolds will be decorated with magnolia leaves, nandina berries, and other natural greenery inspired by the decorations that Katharine Reynolds might have used. Holiday greeting cards from the museum archives will be on display, and carols will be played on the original Aeolian organ Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday afternoons at approximately 2:45 p.m. Group sales for tours of the museum for eight or more visitors are available at a discount admission rate. Call 336.758.5394 to arrange a guided tour during the holiday season.

New this year, starting Dec. 4, the museum will display a full place setting of Katharine Smith Reynolds’s Tiffany & Co. china in the historic house’s dining room.

Candlelight tours of the historic house will be Thursday Dec. 4, Friday Dec. 5 and Saturday Dec. 6. Tours begin on the half-hour from 5 to 8 p.m., are guided by museum staff and docents, and feature stories about the Reynolds family holiday traditions, period decorations and an organist playing carols on the historic home’s original Aeolian organ.

The ticket price for the candlelight tours includes light refreshments and live entertainment each night by a children’s chorus. Tickets for the candlelight guided tour are $15 for members and students (18 and under) and $20 for non-members. Advance purchase is recommended.

Reynolda House will present the popular Carolina Brass for a holiday concert on Thursday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. From the elegance and grace of classical pieces to the hard-driving sound of the Big Band era, Carolina Brass takes audiences on a musical sleigh ride through favorites of the season. Formed in 1997, the group engages the audience through humor and virtuosity infused throughout their performance. Admission is $15, $10 for members and students.

Finally, a longstanding Reynolda House holiday tradition returns, the one-woman play “A Christmas Memory” on Sunday, Dec. 14 at 3 p.m. Children and adults are sure to be warmed by Truman Capote’s tale of his own humble childhood holiday traditions. Admission is $15, $10 for members and students.

Advance purchase to all holiday events is recommended; tickets are on sale now at reynoldahouse.org or by calling 336.758.5150.

For visitors looking for an overnight getaway for the holidays, Reynolda House is partnering with Old Salem Museums & Gardens to offer the “Make Your Holidays Historic” package. Visitors can choose from two accommodations—the Graylyn Estate or Historic Brookstown Inn —and included in the package is admission to both Reynolda House and Old Salem, along with several added amenities. For more information on the package and to book, visit holidaysinwinstonsalem.com.

About Reynolda House
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 collection. Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing 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. Connect at facebook.com/rhmaa or @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Reynolda House Museum of American Art Announces 2015 Exhibitions: George Catlin, American Impressionism

The Artist's Garden: Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931),

The Crimson Rambler, ca. 1908, Oil on canvas; 25 1/4 x 30 3/16 in.,

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Joseph E. Temple Fund,

1909.12 Photo: PAFA/Barbara Katus & Brian van Camerik

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art will host two major exhibitions in 2015, one featuring 40 paintings of the American West by the artist George Catlin and another that tells the story of American Impressionist artists and the growing popularity of gardening at the turn of the 20th century.

“George Catlin’s American Buffalo” will be on view at the museum Feb. 13-May 3, 2015. The exhibition explores Catlin’s representations of the indigenous people of the Great Plains in the early decades of the 19^th century and the centrality of buffalo to their cultures. Catlin was a Pennsylvania-born artist who was one of the first painters of European heritage to depict the Native American tribes of the Great Plains. In vivid canvases often marked by dramatic action, Catlin demonstrated the importance of the buffalo for sustenance, for housing and clothing, and in spiritual ceremonies in the lives of Plains Indian tribes.

Reynolda House will offer a variety of public programs that relate to the exhibition, including a free Community Day & Tribal Pow-Wow on April 11, 2015.

“George Catlin’s American Buffalo” is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by Mary Anne and Richard W. Cree, and Lynn and Foster Friess. Additional support for the exhibition and the publication was provided by William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund and the Smithsonian Council for American Art. Support for Treasures to Go, the Museum’s traveling exhibition program, comes from The C.F. Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia. Reynolda House is grateful for the generous support of the exhibition from Major Sponsor First Tennessee Bank.

In October, the museum will be the third of only four venues nationwide to host “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920.” This visually stunning exhibition will tell the story of American Impressionist artists and the growing popularity of gardening as a leisure pursuit at the turn of the 20^th century. “The Artist’s Garden” will be on view Oct. 2, 2015-Jan. 3, 2016.

Among the artists whose work will be included in “The Artist’s Garden” are three of the most beloved artists in Reynolda House’s collection—William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, and George Inness—along with other major American artists not represented at Reynolda, including Cecilia Beaux, Maria Oakey Dewing, Frederick Carl Frieseke, John Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

Katharine Smith Reynolds’s creation of the Reynolda estate, with its formal gardens and carefully landscaped grounds, coincides with and reflects the American Garden Movement. A complementary exhibition on the gardens and landscape at Reynolda will be on view at the same time in the historic house. Programs planned during the exhibition season will focus on gardens and Impressionism.

“The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement 1887-1920” was organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with leading support from the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Additional support from Mr. and Mrs. Washburn Oberwager. Local sponsorship opportunities are still available. For information, contact Stephan Dragisic at dragissm@reynoldahouseorg or 336.758.5595.

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events.  The museum is located at 2250 Reynolda Rd. 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. Connect at facebook.com/rhmaa and @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Harvest Moon Festival to Celebrate Art, Music, Food on the Reynolda Lawn; Caleb Caudle to Perform

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s second-annual Harvest Moon Festival will feature music by Caleb Caudle, a New-Orleans based singer-songwriter whose new album is receiving high praise from Country Music Television, Paste Magazine, and more. The event, held on the museum’s south lawn the week of the full moon known as the “harvest moon,” will include take-home art activities for children and adults, food, craft beers, and lawn games.

The festival will be held Thursday, Sept. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $10 for students and members of the museum. Advance purchase is suggested and available online at reynoldahouse.org.

Of Caudle’s new album, “Paint Another Layer on My Heart,” “Paste Magazine” writes “…what more could you ask for from an album?” Caudle, originally from Winston-Salem, has toured extensively throughout the Southeast. The Winston-Salem inspired songs of his previous album “Tobacco Town” were described in “Blurt Magazine” as “jaw-droppingly fine songs steeped in classic Earle, Ely, Clark, McMurtry and Van Zandt.” His Reynolda House concert is currently the only live performance booked in the Piedmont Triad.

Festival-goers will have a chance to enjoy samples as well as purchase products from a variety of local and regional vendors including Café Gelato, Homeland Creamery, Horne Creek Living Historical Farm, McRitchie Winery & Ciderworks, Butt Bros. BBQ, and Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery.  

“Reynolda was the original sustainable farm,” says Phil Archer, director of public programs. “This event is an opportunity to tap into all that Katharine Smith Reynolds envisioned for her country estate – a place for the community to learn, play, and share together.”

Blankets and lawn chairs are encouraged. In case of rain, the event will be held inside the museum. For more information, visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing 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. Connect at Facebook.com/rhmaa or @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

Harvest Moon Festival to Celebrate Art, Music, Food on the Reynolda Lawn; Caleb Caudle to Perform

   

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s second-annual Harvest Moon Festival will feature music by Caleb Caudle, a New-Orleans based singer-songwriter whose new album is receiving high praise from Country Music Television, Paste Magazine, and more. The event, held on the museum’s south lawn the week of the full moon known as the “harvest moon,” will include take-home art activities for children and adults, food, craft beers, and lawn games.

   The festival will be held Thursday, Sept. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $15, or $10 for students and members of the museum. Advance purchase is suggested and available online at reynoldahouse.org.

Of Caudle’s new album, “Paint Another Layer on My Heart,” “Paste Magazine” writes “…what more could you ask for from an album?” Caudle, originally from Winston-Salem, has toured extensively throughout the Southeast. The Winston-Salem inspired songs of his previous album “Tobacco Town” were described in “Blurt Magazine” as “jaw-droppingly fine songs steeped in classic Earle, Ely, Clark, McMurtry and Van Zandt.” His Reynolda House concert is currently the only live performance booked in the Piedmont Triad.

   

Festival-goers will have a chance to enjoy samples as well as purchase products from a variety of local and regional vendors including Café Gelato, Homeland Creamery, Horne Creek Living Historical Farm, McRitchie Winery & Ciderworks, Butt Bros. BBQ, and Buffalo Creek Farm and Creamery.

“Reynolda was the original sustainable farm,” says Phil Archer, director of public programs. “This event is an opportunity to tap into all that Katharine Smith Reynolds envisioned for her country estate – a place for the community to learn, play, and share together.”

   Blankets and lawn chairs are encouraged. In case of rain, the event will be held inside the museum. For more information, visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

   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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing 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. Connect at Facebook.com/rhmaa or @CurateReynolda."

- A Press Release

CHILDREN’S HOME FARM CART NOW SELLING HOMEGROWN FRESH PRODUCE

Winston-Salem, NC--The Children’s Home Farm Cart began operations on Thursday,

July 17 selling homegrown fresh produce. The Cart is located on the campus of the Children’s Home, 1001 Reynolda Road in Winston-Salem and will travel to select locations during summer and fall harvest seasons. Current produce available includes tomatoes, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, and eggs.

This coming week, in addition to Krankies Airstream, where the Cart will be parked each Thursday, Friday and Saturday, the Cart will be at the YMCA located at 775 West End Boulevard, adjacent to Hanes Park, Monday from 8:00am until 12noon and Tuesday from 4:00pm until 7:00pm. For more information or a schedule of locations, please contact Kim Macpherson at 336-721-7623 or kmacpherson@tchome.org.

Children’s Home Farm Market Cart schedule

Thursday (weekly)            8:00am – 6:00pm Krankies Airstream/Coffee Park, Reynolda Road

Friday (weekly)                   8:00am – 6:00pm Krankies Airstream/Coffee Park, Reynolda Road

Saturday (weekly)             8:00am – 6:00pm Krankies Airstream/Coffee Park, Reynolda Road

Monday 7/28*                    8:00am - 12noon William G. White YMCA, Hanes Park

Tuesday 7/29*                   4:00pm - 7:00pm William G. White YMCA, Hanes Park

*Future dates and times for the YMCA and other locations to be determined. When not on location, the Cart will be on site at the Children’s Home campus.

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The Farm at The Children’s Home preserves the region’s rich agricultural heritage allowing the community to experience an authentic working farm and purchase fresh local farm products. Profits are used to support the programs at The Children’s Home. Eat healthy and support local by purchasing just-picked vegetables raised around the corner.

- A Press Release

Cinema Under the Stars Returns to Reynolda House Aug. 1 with ‘Strange Encounters’ Film Series

"WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (July 16, 2014) – Reynolda House Museum of American Art’s popular outdoor film series returns Aug. 1 with the 1975 summer blockbuster “Jaws.” 

The ninth annual Cinema Under the Stars will be held the first four Fridays in August and is themed “Strange Encounters” for the variety of encounters in city, surf and outer space found in the films. Gates open at 8 p.m. each night, and films will be shown on the front lawn at 9 p.m. In case of rain, films will be shown in the Babcock Auditorium. Filmgoers are encouraged to arrive early and picnic on the lawn; beer and wine will be available for purchase – no outside alcohol is permitted. Well-behaved, leashed dogs are welcome.

Admission is $5 per person, cash or advance purchase only. The museum is also offering two new ticketing options this year: a season pass that includes all four films for the price of three ($15), and a $20 per car option. All tickets are available for advance purchase online at reynoldahouse.org.

Cinema Under the Stars is co-presented by the School of Filmmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Additional information about the film series is available at reynoldahouse.org and on social media by searching #reynoldasummer.

Aug. 1 – “Jaws”
Aug. 8 – “Cabaret” – The museum invites filmgoers to dress in cabaret-inspired attire for this film, which is funded through a grant from The Adam Foundation.
Aug. 15 – “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”
Aug. 22 – “An American in Paris”

About Reynolda House
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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing exhibitions, concerts, lectures, classes, film screenings and other events.  The museum is located at 2250 Reynolda Rd. 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 visitreynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150. Connect at @CurateReynolda or Facebook.com/rhmaa.

About UNCSA
As America’s first state-supported arts school, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts is a unique stand-alone public university of arts conservatories. With a high school component, UNCSA is a degree-granting institution that trains young people of talent in music, dance, drama, filmmaking, and design and production. Established by the N.C. General Assembly in 1963, the School of the Arts opened in Winston-Salem (“The City of Arts and Innovation”) in 1965 and became part of the University of North Carolina system in 1972. For more information, visit www.uncsa.edu."

A Press Release

REYNOLDA HOUSE INVITES VISITORS TO BRING A FRIEND FOR FREE ON NATIONAL ART MUSEUM DAY MAY 18

"Reynolda House Museum of American Art invites local residents to visit the museum with a friend for free on Sunday, May 18. Reynolda House will offer one free admission with the purchase of a general adult admission on this day. The promotion is in celebration of Art Museum Day, a national effort organized by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD). The museum will also offer tile rubbings for all visitors on the sun porch of the historic house.

To receive the free admission and take advantage of the tile rubbings, visitors should inform front desk staff that they are visiting for Art Museum Day. Due to anticipated high visitation on that day, visitors are encouraged to not bring large bags or backpacks; the museum does offer a limited number of complimentary lockers. The museum is open from 1:30-4:30 p.m. on May 18. For more information, visit reynoldahouse.org or call 336.758.5150.

The promotion includes admission to two exhibitions on view in the historic house: “Reynolda Moderns,” featuring work by Georgia O’Keeffe, Stuart Davis and other artists of the early 20^th-century; and “Written with Water: American Watercolors from Homer to Close,” an exhibition celebrates the distinctive qualities of the watercolor medium by examining works from 1881-1979 by artists including Winslow Homer and Chuck Close.

Since 2010, the AAMD has encouraged art museums across the nation to participate in Art Museum Day in conjunction with the International Council of Museums’ International Museum Day, dedicated to promoting the value of museums in society. More than 200 AAMD member museums participate each year.

Reynolda House’s executive director Allison Perkins was invited to join AAMD in 2012. The organization, founded in 1916, maintains a limited membership in order to bring directors into closer contact with peers at a wide variety of leading art institutions.

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 collection.  Affiliated with Wake Forest University, Reynolda House features changing 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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