WSSU Permanent Collection on Display
Diggs Gallery director Belinda Tate
Time: 11 am - 5 pm
Summary: Permanent art collection of WSSU on display.
Description:
Diggs Gallery opens In the House: Selections from the WSSU Permanent Collection on June 24, 2011, featuring over 100 works of art by artists from Europe, Africa, America, and Asia. The show highlights more than 20 years of collecting art. Visitors will be able to enjoy paintings by John Biggers, Juan Logan and Al Loving; prints by Romare Bearden, Howardena Pindell and Robert Rauschenberg, textile art by Delia Grieg and Aloke Buraimoh; sculptures by Elizabeth Catlett, Selma Burke and Charles Alston; traditional African art and much more.
The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, also acknowledges generous gifts by patrons such as Gordon and Helen C. Hanes, Robert Brown, Dr. Maya Angelou, George N’Namdi, Kathleen Spicer, Darrell Walker, Dr. Jim Lankton, Mary Ann Rose and many others. The exhibition will be on view through March 3, 2012.
By the way, Diggs Gallery was recently featured in a video commissioned and promoted by the North Carolina Department of Commerce, Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development. The video celebrates the National Black Theatre Festival and African-American arts in Winston-Salem. It will be distributed through the North Carolina's local and national marketing efforts.
Diggs Gallery, one of the South’s leading showcases dedicated to African and African-American art, is located on the lower level of the O’Kelly Library on the Campus of Winston-Salem State University, 601 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Winston-Salem, NC 27110. It is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
The gallery is a major cultural center at Winston-Salem State and offers one of the largest exhibition spaces dedicated to the arts of African and the African Diaspora in North Carolina. In 2007, the gallery was identified as one of the top 10 African-American galleries in the nation.
For more information on this exhibition or to schedule a tour, call Diggs Gallery at 336-750-2458, e-mail diggsinfo@wssu.edu, join us at www.wssu.edu/diggs, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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