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ART MUSEUMS

Winston-Salem is home to several signi cant arts museums and folk art through furniture, paintings, textiles, ceramics, silver, and
cultural centers. The City’s premiere art attraction, the Reynolda other metal wares made and used in the Southeast. The museum
House Museum of American Art, is housed in the restored 1917 contains the most extensive collection of Moravian decorative arts
estate of Katharine and Richard J. Reynolds, the founder of R.J. and o ers an exhibit dedicated solely to this area’s early settlers.
Reynolds Tobacco Company. The epicenter of the Reynolda Housed in the Frank L. Horton Center, MESDA is open for guided tours
Historic District, the museum opened in 1967 and has gained a six days a week. MESDA is also home to the nationally acclaimed
reputation for having the Southeast’s nest collection of American MESDA Research Center, which contains vast object and craftsman
art. It features art in an array of mediums ranging from the colonial databases.
period to the present. A 300-piece permanent collection is housed The Delta Arts Center is an art gallery, cultural center and rental
in the historic mansion, which also includes restored interior rooms facility. Since 1972, the Center has enriched the City’s art scene by
to re ect the periods in which the Reynolds family lived there. A showcasing visual and performing arts with an emphasis on the
modern addition, the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing, includes contributions of African-American artists. Open to the public two
educational space, a gallery for temporary exhibits, an auditorium, days a week or by appointment, the center features regular exhibits,
and ne art and archival space. The permanent collection includes concerts, performances, special events, youth camps and educational
works by Frederic Church, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Kee e, Grant programs, most of which are free and open to the public.
Wood, Stuart Davis and Jacob Lawrence. A liated with Wake
Forest University, also located on the original 1,000-acre Reynolds As the cultural center of Winston-Salem State University, Diggs
estate, Reynolda House is a self-tour museum that also hosts Gallery is recognized as one of the top 10 African-American
concerts, lectures, classes, lm screenings and other events. The galleries in the nation. It showcases the premier collection of
adjacent Reynolda Gardens of Wake Forest University and African and African-American art in the South, which includes a
historic Reynolda Village include lush formal gardens, restaurants, unique sculpture garden and murals by the acclaimed artist John T.
shops and wooded walking and running trails. Biggers. Diggs also hosts an impressive collection of works on
paper by well-known European and American artists such as Jean
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), also Francois Millet, Joan Miro and Robert Rauchenberg. Exhibitions
located in the Reynolda Historic District, is housed in the former and programs address a broad range of artistic expression, with
estate of industrialist James G. Hanes. It provides various ways to special concentration on African-American and regional art.
experience the art of our time through visual exhibits of
international and American contemporary artists in all mediums. The Enrichment Center is a non-pro t organization that develops
SECCA o ers year-round education programs and hosts a number artistic talent, education and employment for adults with
of community events. It is an a liate of the North Carolina Museum of intellectual and developmental disabilities. It o ers programs in
Art, a division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. visual and performing arts as well as opportunities for public
exhibitions and performances. The Center’s Gateway Gallery
Winston-Salem is home to the world’s only museum dedicated o ers exhibition and sales space for its students, the Artists of Gateway
to collecting, exhibiting and researching the decorative arts Studios, who create original paintings, digital photographs, ceramic
and crafts of the early South, The Museum of Early Southern and multi-media pieces. The artists receive commission from
Decorative Arts (MESDA). As part of Old Salem Museums & gallery sales, giving them the opportunity to earn a living from
Gardens, MESDA galleries showcase a diverse array of ne art to
their art.

THE REYNOLDA HOUSE, the restored
estate of Katharine and Richard J. Reynolds,
founder of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,

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