Reynolda Guide: Spring/Summer 2021 by Reynolda

SPRING/SUMMER 2021

Reverse: Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904) Tropical Orchids, 1870–1874 Oil on canvas Olana State Historic Site, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation

Dear Members and Friends, As we embark on a new year with continued uncertainty about the future, the profound therapeutic benefits of nature have never been more apparent. Our December program with bestselling author Sue Stuart-Smith showed us how gardening and increased time spent outdoors have a significant beneficial impact on mental health. We remain ever grateful that Reynolda’s gardens, trails, and grounds are able to serve as an outlet for community well-being. Reynolda will feature the exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment on Feb. 19 with a special members’ opening weekend. Visitors to the exhibition will explore the interconnectivity of nature as a web of relationships and examine how artists are always in conversation with each other. I invite you to cultivate your own connection with art and nature on visits to Reynolda and to consider how the two are inextricably linked. At its core, Reynolda is a learning organization, and we look forward to sharing with you new opportunities for personal discovery in the coming months. As you explore the programs in this guide, consider that learning can take place throughout the life cycle and that one can grow to appreciate art, gardens, and history at any moment in time. The only requirement is a bit of curiosity. This spring, we invite you to take in the return of the estate’s original cherry tree allée (more on pg. 44) and experience the beauty of history being re-created. You won’t need to trek to D.C. for cherry blossom time because the largest display in the Carolinas will be right here in Winston-Salem! I hope that you find something that piques your curiosity as you explore all that Reynolda has to offer. With a new year comes a fresh opportunity for growth, and I look forward to hearing about what surprises and inspires you on your visits or virtual interactions with us. Thank you, as always, for your enduring support.

Allison Perkins Executive Director, Reynolda House Associate Provost for Reynolda House & Reynolda Gardens Wake Forest University

For your visit

While much of Reynolda remains open, the Museum will be closed through February 18. Keep in mind that the Gardens are always open free of charge and there are so many ways to experience Reynolda virtually and in-person until our reopening. Please remember to secure a timed admission ticket online at reyynoldahouse.orgg prior to your visit, and face coverings will continue to be required for all visitors over the age of two while inside the Museum. Learn more about the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s COVID-19 health and safety policies at reyynoldahouse.org/ g/visit. Questions? Contact us at reyynolda@ @reyynoldahouse.orgg.

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Exhibitions Promised Gifts

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Upcoming Events Museum Member Spotlight Stewards of Reynolda R ED I SCOV ER R E Y N O L DA

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The Re-greening of Reynolda In Bloom Shopping & Dining Directory

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Family & Intergenerational

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Early Childhood

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Exhibitions FEB

19 MAY

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment Cross Pollination explores pollination as a metaphor for the interconnections between art and science, among artists, and across generations. Taking flight from Martin Johnson Headeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unprecedented series The Gems of Brazil, Cross Pollination creates dialogues between paintings, sketches, and natural specimen collections of fellow Hudson River School painters Thomas Cole and Frederic Church. Heade was influenced by and connected to this group of painters working in the nineteenth century, who in various ways all shared a fascination with art and the natural world. The relationships among these artists influenced new thinking and work by future generations, beginning with Cole and Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own daughters, Emily and Isabel. Developed with artists and scholars across disciplines, the exhibition addresses the continuing relevance of close observations of nature and the critical interconnections between pollinators and their habitats today.

EXHI BI T I ON SP ON SOR S

Presenting Sponsor Art Bridges

Major Sponsors Patty and Malcolm Brown The Charles H. Babcock, Jr. Arts and Community Initiative Endowment Mercedes-Benz of Winston-Salem

Additional major support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation Contributing Sponsor The Ecology Wildlife Foundation Fund Exhibition Partner Parsec Financial 6

Detail. Martin Johnson Heade (1819â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1904), Hooded Visorbearer, c. 1863â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1864. Oil on canvas. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Photography by Dwight Primiano.

FEB

Opening Celebration Weekend of Gratitude Register online at reyynoldahouse.orgg Museum members, first responders, and Wake Forest faculty, staff, and students are invited to view the exhibition before it opens to the public.

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Member Tuesdays

FEB

Tuesday afternoons from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. through the run of Cross Pollination are reserved for Museum members only.

Exhibition Catalogue To purchase the catalogue for Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment contact warrenb@ reynolda.org or visit our store beginning Feb. 19.

Exhibitions FEB

26 MAY

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The Uncertainty of the Times Northeast Bedroom Gallery The subject of the anxiety of our times explores how viewers interact with art and with each other during this time of global crises and pandemic. The exhibition will examine how the type of art viewers have or have not interacted with up until this point has changed, as well as how our behaviors have been affected. The works chosen reflect newfound fears in society and the further social implications of these changes. This exhibition was curated by Wake Forest students enrolled in the course Histories of the Art Museum.

APR

16 AUG

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Paul Cadmus: Etchings West Bedroom Gallery Paul Cadmus mined New York’s parks, cafes, beaches, and gyms for his satirical views of society during the 1930s. Classically trained at the National Academy of Design, his work demonstrated the artist’s mastery of anatomy and perspective, but he applied these skills to the creation of a carnivalesque, at times grotesque, world. In his complex, multi-character images, his exaggerated, Mannerist figures engage in bacchanalian behavior that tips into satire. In quieter studies, the artist introduced a noted erotic charge that was unusual in early-twentieth-century American art. This exhibition is drawn from a private collection in Winston-Salem and sponsored by Bruce McLain.

Robert Colescott, Famous Last Words: Death of a Poet, 1989. Wake Forest University Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art. © 2020 Robert H. Colescott Separate Property Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

JULY

16 DEC

CO M I N G S OON

The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response In this exhibition drawn from Reynolda’s renowned permanent collection, three centuries of American art will illuminate the chapters of every individual life. Each of us “plays in his or her time many parts,” attaining awareness as children, striking out as individuals, embracing or avoiding change during adulthood, and learning new ways of being in old age. Works by artists including Lee Krasner, Robert Colescott, Keith Haring, and Grant Wood will reveal critical moments in the voyage of life, with its heydays, rough patches, and new starts. Community members of all ages will make correlations between the art and their own experience, and these observational epiphanies will accompany curatorial descriptions throughout the exhibition. New acquisitions and promised gifts will also be featured, demonstrating the Museum’s goal of increasing representation by artists of color, and select loans from Wake Forest University will complement Reynolda’s holdings, mirroring the city’s remarkable collecting legacy. 9

JULY

23 NOV

CO M I N G S OON

The O’Keeffe Circle: Artist as Gallerist and Collector Northeast and Northwest Bedroom Galleries The innovative paintings and drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe found their greatest early advocate in Alfred Stieglitz, the gallerist and photographer whom she married in 1924. Through Stieglitz, O’Keeffe was introduced to critics, collectors, and a collegial community of avant-garde painters with whom she showed her newest works. In time, several artists came to trust her to hang their shows at the galleries with the same careful, unerring eye that she brought to her own annual installation. In effect, O’Keeffe functioned as co-curator with the oracular Stieglitz, often moderating his enthusiasms with a dispassionate exactness. Quoting extensively from her letters, this small, two-room exhibition will explore O’Keeffe as a gallerist in New York and as collector in her New York apartments and residences in New Mexico. She was highly judicious in selecting the art that shared her home, claiming that “My home is simple, but I aim to make it simpler!” The recent promised gift, O’Keeffe’s Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills, 1937, will be joined by works by Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove.

Exhibitions

Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, ca. 1968. Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.

FEB

2022

Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite Organized by Aperture Foundation, New York, and Kwame S. Brathwaite.

MAY

2022

Throughout the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite used his photography to popularize the transformative idea that “Black is Beautiful.” This exhibition—the first dedicated to Brathwaite’s remarkable career—tells the story of a central figure of the second-wave Harlem Renaissance. In addition to his work in photography, Brathwaite founded two key organizations: the African Jazz-Art Society and Studios (AJASS), a collective of artists, playwrights, designers, and dancers, and the Grandassa Models—the subject of much of this exhibition’s contents—a modeling agency for black women, founded to challenge white beauty standards.

Promised gifts Reynolda’s founding director, Barbara Babcock Millhouse, has generously promised a gift of three works of art to the Museum. Georgia O’Keeffe’s Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills, 1937, is one of the artist’s iconic New Mexico landscapes. In 1934, O’Keeffe began staying at Ghost Ranch, a dude ranch on the eastern edge of the Jimenez mountain range of New Mexico, buying a home there in 1940. The intensely colorful geological stratification of the cliffs provided endless fascination. She said New Mexico was “a painter’s country.” At Ghost Ranch, she turned to reds, pinks, and purples to paint hills and mountains, and pinks and yellows to depict the stony cliffs visible from her house. This chalky, nearly Fauvist palette is contrasted in the foreground by the desiccated cedar tree, which is more sharply defined, stretching to three edges of the canvas in marked counterpoint to its particolored surroundings. Cedar Trees with Lavender Hills will be on view beginning July 23 as part of The O’Keeffe Circle: Artist as Gallerist and Collector (see pg. 10). 12

Millhouse has also proposed the gift of two collages by the celebrated African American artist Romare Bearden. In Alto Composite, 1974, the artist conveyed his deep love for jazz and blues. Using highly saturated colored paper, Bearden created a stylized, Cubist-inspired saxophone player. Unlike other collages in his 1974 Of the Blues series, which are populated with multiple figures playing music and dancing, Alto Composite includes just one musician, monumentalized against a multi-hued background. The high contrast of colors creates a sense of energy and dynamism that reflects the music that inspired the artist. Moonlight Express, 1978, demonstrates the way that Bearden, over and over again in his work, turned to a complex set of symbols. They included masks, large hands, trains, suns and moons, “conjur” or medicine women, music and musicians, and animals of all kinds. Moonlight Express features several of these motifs. At left, the artist’s iconic train carried African Americans from their native South to new lives in the North, and sometimes back south again. In a dark forest, white birds spread their wings, which glow in the light of a full moon. And, in the lower left, Bearden has included the figure of a woman. Her nudity and her presence in the forest mark her clearly as a conjur woman, a kind of voodoo priestess who lends a note of mystery to the scene. 13

E A R LY C H I L D H O O D

Early childhood programs are supported in part by the PNC Foundation.

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SER I ES

Read-Aloud

Reynolda Roundabout Stroller Tours

Repeats Friday, February 19; March 19, Friday, April 23; Saturday, April 24; Friday, May 21; Saturday, May 22; and Friday, June 18

Repeats Friday, April 30; Saturday, May 1; Friday, May 28; Saturday, May 29; Friday, June 25; and Saturday, June 26

10–10:30 a.m. Ages 2–5, accompanied by an adult; younger siblings are welcome. Free; weather permitting.

10 a.m. Free for members, $10 general admission (price includes N.C. Sales Tax) Advance registration required.

This storytime will be offered as a physically distanced outdoor activity on the Reynolda lawn unless noted otherwise. Visit rey ynoldahouse.org/ g/readaloud to register for an invitation or receive details, see program updates, and find previous Read-Aloud videos. This storytime for pre-readers includes stories, songs or fingerplay, and suggested activities to do at home. Each month will focus on a different theme.

Parents and caregivers are invited to bring their very young learners (0–3 yrs) in a stroller, front carrier, or backpack for a relaxed, socially distanced, and fun walking tour of the Reynolda grounds. Meet at the circle in front of the Museum’s front entrance.

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Growga

Repeats Saturdays; March 27, April 10, May 8, and June 12 10:30 a.m. Intergenerational class for ages 3+ and their families Free; donations encouraged. Join us for a time to move, breathe, and connect with yoga and mindfulness. Growga’s evidence-based curriculum is rooted in social-emotional learning competencies, taught through the lens of mindfulness in an engaging way that kids and families love. Classes will take place outdoors. See reynoldahouse.org for updates. NE W SERI ES!

Outdoor Discovery Lesson Repeats Fridays and Saturdays, April 16 and 17; May 14 and 15 10–11:30 a.m. $15 member/$20 not-yet-member, per family, per session. Single session of outdoor, in-person learning for 3-5 year olds and a caregiver Registration required at reyynoldahouse.orgg. To promote reading readiness and visual literacy, preschoolers and their caregivers will explore Reynolda through activities that encourage dramatic play, music, movement, and art-making, taking a work of art or item from Reynolda’s collection as a starting point. The program will take place outside on the grounds; families are encouraged to bring a blanket upon which to sit and play. Sanitized materials will be provided per family group and participants may walk and collect their own natural items.

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The Artful Family: Visual Literacy for Caregivers Repeats February 25 and March 25 7–8 p.m. via Zoom Webinar for parents or caregivers to young children Free; advance registration required. Looking at art with children builds life skills. Join Reynolda’s early childhood specialist, Janie Bass, for a virtual workshop in which parents and caregivers can learn more about Visual Literacy and how activities and conversations can promote skills for pre-readers. Participants will become acquainted with some of Reynolda’s virtual resources for caregivers to use with children ages 2-5.

Online Family Resources Families seeking to learn together with Reynolda’s history and art collection can find a collection of PDF and video resources at reyynoldahouse.orgg/ athome.The Reynolda Pop-Up Studio video series provides suggestions and directions for art activities. Explore Reynolda cards offer questions for conversation with objects and works of art with simple activities for all ages as well as guided discovery lessons for pre-K audiences. 15

FA M I LY & I N T E R G E N E R AT I O N A L

SE R I ES

Family First Workshops These two-hour workshops begin at 2 p.m. the first Sunday of each month for children in grades 1 through 6 accompanied by an adult. $12 members/$15 non-members per person unless otherwise noted; art materials are provided. Unless fully virtual, the workshops will take place outdoors in the front of Reynolda. Families will receive a pass to visit the Museum at another time. For in-person workshops, there is also the option to pick up materials and complete the activity at home. Advance registration required. FEB

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11 MAY

JUNE

VI RTU A L VA L EN T I N E C A R D WOR KS H O P

Collage and Drawing Valentine kit: $12 member/$15 not-yet-member Watercolor Valentine kit: $15 member/$18 not-yet-member This February, order a kit full of materials for making valentines. You’ll receive an assortment of materials for collage and stencilling, or you can select the special watercolor valentine set which will include a watercolor set, watercolor paper for cards, and oil pastels. Workshop will take place virtually. VI RTU A L F L I P BOOK WOR KSHOP

Are you interested in animation and making drawings move? As artist Juan Fontanive took inspiration from 18th- and 19th-century artists’ drawings of hummingbirds, we will take inspiration from his clockwork Ornithology series to create our own story through pages of illustrations. P OL L I N ATOR S OR N A M EN T/P I N WO R KS H O P

Stitch your own felt butterfly, hummingbird, or bumblebee and a flower that can become either brooches or ornaments for display. Kits with pre-selected colors will also be available for completing this project at home. TER R A R I U M WOR KSHOP

$20 member/$25 not-yet-member As seen in Cross-Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment, artist Paula Hayes created terraria as a way of bringing nature inside. In this workshop with Reynolda Gardens and Reynolda House, you can create your own mini-terrarium and a figurine to inhabit it. PA P ER KI T E WOR KSHOP

In this workshop, create two different types of kites and then test them out in Reynolda’s expansive front meadow. Kits will be available for completing this project at home.

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Let’s Talk About Art! Repeats Tuesdays, February 16 and March 16 4 p.m. via Zoom Intergenerational; for ages 2–110 Free; registration required. Enjoy looking at art but not sure how to talk about it? Join educator Julia Hood for a virtual, interactive, family-friendly conversation using works of art from Reynolda’s collection.

Registration Register for all family programs online at reynoldahouse.org. Contact Julia Hood, reynoldahouse.org Manager of School and Family Learning, at 336.758.5599 or hoodje@reynolda.org with questions. Programs for young children are supported in part by the PNC Foundation. Outdoor classes will be held weather permitting while adhering to physical distancing guidelines. Adults should wear masks and children over 2 are encouraged to wear masks when possible while in the program space. All in-person, outdoor programs subject to change.

Take Home Studio Visit the Reynolda House Museum store to purchase kits for Reynolda-based art projects to complete at home.

FA M I LY & I N T E R G E N E R AT I O N A L

Introduction to Reynolda, Class of 2017.

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Introduction to Reynolda Repeats Thursdays, February 11, 18, 25 ; March 4, 11, 18, 25; April 1 3 p.m. $45 members/$60 not-yet-members. Register online or by contacting bhoover@ @reynolda.orgg. Designed for lifelong learners who want to become acquainted with the history of Reynolda, this virtual class provides an exhilarating introduction to the estate, gardens, former working farm, and the fine art and object collections of Reynolda House Museum of American Art. Each session will center on a specific theme and involve discussion with Reynoldaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s educators, curators, and historians. Art/history background not required, only an interest in learning about Reynolda!

S POTLIGHT

50th Anniversary of Docents 2021 marks 50 years of the docent-volunteer program at Reynolda! This special group of volunteers is essential to Reynolda’s mission to help visitors learn and find meaning through the art collections and historic site. If you’ve ever attended a group tour or event at Reynolda, you’ve benefited from a docent-volunteer’s knowledge and experience. To celebrate this milestone, Reynolda plans to honor past and present docent-volunteers. Stay tuned in the months ahead for information on getting involved and opportunities to honor a docent-volunteer who has made an impact on your life. For more information, contact Stephan Dragisic at 336.758.5595 or step phan@ @reyynolda.orgg.

February

Program Registration All program registration information is available on reynoldahouse.org or reynoldagardens.org. reynoldagardens.org

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African American Read-In

MON

Free; virtual, videos will be released online throughout the month.

Join a community of more than one million readers observing the annual African American Read-In. People from around the world will share their favorite passages from the writings of contemporary and historical black authors. The event is organized by the National Council of Teachers of English in recognition of Black History Month. To participate, record a passage from your favorite book or poem and mail the video with subject â&#x20AC;&#x153;National Read-Inâ&#x20AC;? to albertac@ @wfu.edu. Be sure to include your name, city, title of the work or passage you recorded, and why you chose it.

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SERIE S

WED

Cross Pollination Book Club

Wednesdays in February at 4 p.m. Free; virtual Get excited about the spring exhibition at Reynolda by reading and discussing A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade by Christopher Benfey. Using the image of a flitting hummingbird as a metaphor for the gossamer strands that connect these larger-than-life personalities, Christopher Benfey re-creates the summer of 1882, when the four suddenly find themselves caught in the crossfire between the Calvinist world of decorum, restraint, and judgment and a new, unconventional world in which nature prevails and freedom is all. Contact retail manager Beth Warren at warrenb@ @wfu.edu to purchase your copy from the Museum store.

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FRI

SERIE S

Outdoor Walking Tours Repeats March 26, April 30, May 28 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. $10 Museum members and Friends of the Gardens; $15 not-yet-member In person, outdoors (weather permitting) Explore the historic Reynolda estate on an outdoor walking tour. Thanks to new ListenTalk mobile devices, guests will be able to use sanitized headsets to hear their tour guide and still maintain physical distance. All tours will highlight themes of preservation and conservation. Technology provided by Art Bridges.

March

TUE

TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Are They Better or Just New? 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual With so many new perennials released every year, it can be difficult to distinguish legitimately better cultivars from those that are simply marketable. Through production trials, garden visits, vendor visits, and collaborations with other growers, Paul Westerveldt, Chief of Container Operations at Saunders Brothers Nursery (Piney River, VA), has learned how to select the true winners in the region and will share his best practices for perennial success.

TUE

TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Get Your Lawn Off Drugs and Save the Pollinators 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Lisa Bartlett, Gardens Manager at Smith Gilbert Arboretum, will explain how a 16-acre public garden went from chemically dependent to rehab and how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healthier and more beautiful than ever. Lisa will show you the benefits of ending your lawnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chemical dependency and how life-changing it can be for all living things.

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THUR

SERIE S

Rose Pruning Clinic Repeats Friday, March 12 10:30 a.m.—noon Free; in person Enjoy hands-on learning with members of the WinstonSalem Rose Society in Reynolda’s modern rose garden. Bring pruners and heavy gloves. This program is part of Rose Care Week and co-sponsored by the WinstonSalem Rose Society.

SAT

Rose Care Clinic: About a Dozen Things You Need To Grow Good Roses 10 a.m.—noon Free; in-person Jimmy Speas, Winston-Salem Rose Society, will offer tips for ongoing rose care and selection success. This program is part of Rose Care Week and co-sponsored by the Winston-Salem Rose Society.

March SUN

Concert of Gratitude 3 p.m. Live-streamed from Watson Hall; $10 per household; free for UNCSA and WFU faculty, staff, and students with advance registration Tickets will be available at uncsa.edu/performance uncsa.edu/performance. The Reynolda Quartet returns for a concert reflecting on the strength of the human spirit in this second collaboration between the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and Reynolda House. Experience this rare opportunity to hear renowned faculty members from the UNCSA School of Music from the comfort of your home as they perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 and Smetana’s Quartet No. 1, “From My Life.” With its beloved “Heiliger Dankgesang” (“Holy Song of Thanksgiving”), the Beethoven quartet— written towards the end of his life—is a musical offering of thanks after recovering from a grave illness, where Smetana’s quartet was written just after the composer lost his hearing as a reflection on his own life. Each work provides an opportunity for audiences to contemplate the renewal of strength and gratitude for the gift of life, themes that are of particular resonance as our community navigates the COVID-19 pandemic. The Reynolda Quartet features violinists Ida Bieler and Janet Orenstein, violist Ulrich Eichenauer, and cellist Brooks Whitehouse, all of whom serve as faculty at UNCSA.

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TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Bee Inspired by a New Season with Samantha Foxx 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Samantha Foxx, farmer at Mother’s Finest Family Farms, beekeeper, and stalwart of Cobblestone Farmer’s Market, will share essential planning tips necessary for spring garden success.

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Reynolda On the House Repeats Thursday, May 20 4:30–7:30 p.m. Free, donations welcome; in-person Enjoy evening hours at the Museum “on the house” (free of charge)! In conjunction with Cross Pollination, join Reynolda and our community partners to learn about birds native to the local environment. After touring the exhibition, guests are encouraged to stroll the Gardens and participate in family-friendly activities that will take place on the front lawn, weather permitting. Advance timed registration required.

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TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Birds of Reynolda 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Did you know that Reynolda’s greater Gardens and its wooded trails are among the best places to see birds in Winston-Salem? Kim Brand, engagement director for Audubon North Carolina and local resident, will share stories of the birds that call Reynolda home or stop by during their long migration journeys, with an eye toward the plants they need to thrive.

SUN

American Roots in Art and Ecology 3 p.m Free; virtual Explore how art and conservation contribute to our American identity during this virtual panel discussion alongside art historian Maggie Cao; a Wake Forest University biodiversity scholar; local environmental activist Jamie Maier; and a surprise living artist featured in the exhibition. The panelists will foster a deeper understanding of Cross Pollination’s “roots” in American art while simultaneously tackling regional environmental challenges of the twenty-first century. Attendees will have the opportunity to submit questions for a lively panelist discussion following the formal presentation. Support provided by Art Bridges.

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TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Spring Bulbs and Beyond 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Adrienne Roethling, Director of Curation and Mission Delivery at Ciener Botanical Garden, will teach you how to extend your spring bulb season by incorporating early, mid and later bulb varieties and creating layers of color, size, and texture.

April

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TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Orchids and Their Culture 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Feeling inspired by those Cattleya orchids in Martin Johnson Heade’s paintings? Join Will Bottoms, Vice President of the Triad Orchid Society and Student Judge with the American Orchid Society, as he discusses how to grow and flower orchids in your home or greenhouse. Learn about what makes an orchid special in the flowering plant world and the basics of care to keep your plant happy for years to come.

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Reynolda Salon Repeats each Wednesday through May 12 4 p.m. Free; virtual Can’t get enough Reynolda? Join this digital series—from our sofa to yours—to learn more about the art and history that make this place so special. Inspired by Katharine Smith Reynolds’s 1920s “salons,” this interactive series is intentionally designed to stimulate conversations about contemporary issues as they relate to American art and local history. Each week features a surprise guest host.

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American Gardens in the Arts & Crafts Movement 2 p.m. Free; virtual* Co-presented by the Institute for Classical Art and Architecture (ICAA), North Carolina Chapter and Bookmarks. Presented as part of the Bunny Mellon Curricula at theInstitute for Classical Art and Architecture. The ICAA is very grateful to the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation for its generous support, along with the Curricula’s Lead Co-Sponsor Edmund D. Hollander Landscape Architecture Design and Continuing Education and Public Programs Co-Sponsor Charlotte Moss. In Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement, landscape scholar Judith B. Tankard surveys the inspirations, characteristics, and development of garden design during this iconic movement. Tankard will focus this special presentation on American examples of this truly distinct approach to garden design for Reynolda and ICAA audiences. Judith B. Tankard is a landscape historian, author, and preservation consultant. *Following the online presentation, members of ICAA and Reynolda Gardens will be invited to a special in-person opportunity.

TUE

Highlights of the Upcoming Spring Plant Sale 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual The Gardens team will highlight favorites from this year’s Spring sale and provide some background on plants that you’ll want to add to your list.

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T U E S DAY G A R D E N I N G S E R I E S

Landscape Potential: Approaches to Design 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual Would you describe the performance of your home landscape as a fit and functional work of art that reflects your lifestyle and encourages outdoor activity? If not, join Durham-based landscape architect Preston Montague for a design conversation that will help you reimagine and reboot your outdoor space.

April SAT

Spring Plant Sale 8 a.m.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 p.m. Front Lawn of Reynolda House Shop Reynolda and find specialty and hard-to-find annuals, perennials, tropicals, and whatever else might catch our fancy. These are not your run-of-the-mill big box store selections. All have been selected by Reynolda Gardens horticulturists for their performance in our area. Friends of the Gardens will have the opportunity to pre-order plants a week in advance.

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TUESDAY G A R D EN I N G SER I ES

Hydrangeas: More than Mopheads 12:30 p.m. Free; virtual We all are familiar with the now ubiquitous Endless SummerÂŽ hydrangea but there is a whole world out there of amazing flower forms, leaf colors, and species just waiting to be discovered. Several different hydrangeas highlighted in the talk will be available for sale orders afterwards.

May

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Pollination Station: Reynolda Community Day, 2021 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Free; virtual and in-person This year’s Community Day will focus on themes of nature and art. Guests who are comfortable visiting in person will enjoy free admission to the Museum and outdoor exploration, weather permitting, along with Reynolda Read-Aloud for families, and take-home art activities. For the first time, Reynolda will offer virtual programming throughout the day, including a community dance performance and “pollination station” educational activities that you can do from home. Advance timed registration required. Support provided by Art Bridges.

Membership Members of Reynolda House of Museum American Art and Reynolda Gardens ensure that both organizations continue to be vital community resources for art, learning, and nature. If you aren’t yet a member, please visit reynoldahouse.org/support or reynoldagardens.org/support for more information on the benefits of membership.

Reynolda Society New and Upgraded Members June 10, 2020—November 25, 2020 NE W

Lynne Emken, Director’s Circle

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Benefactors’ Event 7 p.m. Invitations will be mailed Join members at the Benefactor level and above for a conversation with Dr. Michele Gillespie, Presidential Endowed Chair of Southern History and Dean of the College at Wake Forest University. Dr. Gillespie will share her current research into the many lives of Libby Holman, second wife of Smith Reynolds. As well as being a singer, Holman was a philanthropist who supported the civil rights movement, a friend to modernist writers like Jane and Paul Bowles, and a celebrity in film circles that included actor Montgomery Clift and avant garde producer Hans Richter.

Celebrate Reynolda Due to continued uncertainty surrounding large gatherings, an in-person Celebrate Reynolda will be postponed until a later date. While we wait to safely gather again, a dedicated group of board members is dreaming up exciting new ways to toast Reynolda! Be on the lookout later this spring for more information about how you can participate. 32

Stay cool this summer with exclusive hand fans from the Museum store with each of your favorite facades of Reynolda.

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Members’ Shopping Days March 10 from 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. March 11 from 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Museum members can save up to 20% in the Museum store, plus 50% off one item. To shop in person, please reserve your timed admission ticket online at reynoldahouse.org reynoldahouse.org.

Personal Shopping Available exclusively for Reynolda members— one-on-one personal shopping with Retail Manager Beth Warren! If you are having trouble finding the perfect gift or aren’t yet ready to visit the store in person, please contact Beth at 336.758.5005 or by email at warrenb@reynolda.org warrenb@reynolda.org. She will share options available in the store, giftwrap your purchases, and ensure timely curbside pick-up, delivery, or shipping. If you can’t find what you are looking for in the Museum store, don’t forget that a membership to Reynolda makes the perfect gift for anyone who needs more art, learning, and nature in their life. Visit reynoldahouse.org/support to share a year of Reynolda with friends and family! 33

Membership “We are happy and proud to be members and encourage others to join and become advocates of our city’s rich history and connection to the arts.”

Installation view from The Art of Seating, 2014.

M EET OU R M U SEU M M E MB E R S

Clint and Ken While Museum members Clint Cedillo and Ken Labrie are not natives of Winston-Salem, they discovered a natural place to escape at Reynolda. After moving to the city more than five years ago, the outdoor enthusiasts found themselves spending more and more time on the grounds of Reynolda. As their visits to the greater Gardens began to include Museum experiences shared with family and friends, a Museum membership was meant to be. Clint, a design aficionado with an undergraduate degree in art history, took inspiration from the Museum’s iconic design exhibition, The Art of Seating, the first exhibition he experienced at Reynolda. “Whenever Ken and I go to Reynolda, we can see a piece of art and have a different reaction and connection,” said Clint. “When it’s a collection displayed in someone’s home, the art just becomes more intimate and the viewer is really able to look at it in context.” Clint and Ken have enjoyed the variety of programs offered by the Museum over the years and said they have especially enjoyed taking in movies on the lawn with friends. “We are happy and proud to be members and encourage others to join and become advocates of our city’s rich history and connection to the arts.” 35

Stewards of Reynolda

“Through a gift in my will I am able to give more than I can while I am living, and it is very important to me to support Reynolda House. It is part of the heritage of my wonderful community.” —Sue Wall

With a legacy gift you can share all that you love about Reynolda with future generations. Stewards of Reynolda recognize the transformational power of art and nature by ensuring the Museum and its collections will remain historical and educational resources for the community for years to come. With the variety of legacy giving opportunities available, everyone can make a meaningful impact on the future of Reynolda. To begin a conversation about your legacy giving for Reynolda, contact Director of Advancement Stephan Dragisic at 336.758.5595 or stephan@reynolda.org stephan@reynolda.org. Reynolda looks forward to hosting a special event in June to celebrate our Stewards. Invitations will be mailed. Reynolda is grateful to Piedmont Home Care for their support of this event.

Reynolda is grateful to the following donors for including Reynolda in their estate plans. Anonymous Anne and Bruce Babcock Frank and Gary John W. Davis, III Hunter and Sandlin Douglas Stephan Dragisic Frank Driscoll Connie Gray Frank Borden Hanes Sue and Doug Henderson Richard Earl Johnson Cathleen and Ray McKinney Blanche Miller Barbara Babcock Millhouse McLean Mitchell Elizabeth Philips Debbie Rubin Susan and Michael Starr Peggy Taylor Louise Thomas Bynum Tudor Sue Wall — In memoriam

This year, the entirety of Reynolda House will be crested by a muted emerald-green roof, identical to the clay tile covering that has shielded it for more than a century. Large forces were needed to build and maintain this brawny bungalow and thousand-acre estate when it thrived as a self-sustaining community. Many skilled roofers will be employed in the precise work of fitting together interlocking tiles, in a dozen different shapes, to form an impenetrable barrier. This year, we invite the Winston-Salem community to join forces in support of preserving this symbol of the region’s industry, community investment, and celebration of the arts. Bungalow? Really? When the final tile was snugged onto its roof in 1917, Reynolda House represented a unique hybrid expressing two ideas of deep emotional resonance for Americans. It was a country house, a self-sufficient manorial seat with galleries, gardens, and farms; and it was a bungalow, a form of house associated with healthful living, indoor/ outdoor permeability, and an open plan that was modern and informal. Family and employees referred to it as “the bungalow,” and though four times larger than the Gamble House in Pasadena its status as the “ultimate East Coast bungalow” has been complicated both by its size and its Colonial Revival style. We are more accustomed to having our bungalows small, and seeing them in Spanish Colonial, California bungalow, or American Craftsman styles. Yet a bungalow it certainly is. It is emphatically horizontal (“squatty” was the term used by one of Mrs. Reynolds’s designers); it is surrounded by covered porches and pent eaves; and it is covered by an expansive roof with a shallow pitch and shed dormer windows (horizontal bands of windows to “shed” water). It is this roof that stands in immediate need of rehabilitation, and, thanks to an ever-growing number of local, regional, and national preservation supporters, it will be replaced in the next year. Reynolda’s clay tile roof by the Ludowici-Celadon Tile Company is at once its most defining architectural feature and its greatest protection against the elements. This protection extends of course to the irreplaceable collections housed within. There are more than 30,000 tiles, weighing over 70 tons or the equivalent of thirteen adult elephants. These will be replaced with nearly identical tiles, in matching colors, manufactured by 38

The Re-greening of Reynolda Phil Archer, Deputy Director

“It takes a great client and a great architect to make a masterpiece, and Reynolda is a masterpiece. I know of no home in the United States like it.” — Mark Alan Hewitt, author of The Architect and the American Country House and The Vintage House

the same company that produced the originals. With a family history of clay tilework reaching back to the Italian Renaissance, Carl Ludowici moved to Chicago in the early 1890s, as the city was rebuilding from the great fire of 1871 and preparing for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The Ludowici Tile Company, cofounded with inventor Cyrus I. McCormick, soon acquired the Celadon Roofing Tile Co. of Alfred, NY and expanded with plants in New Lexington, OH and Johnstown, GA (which promptly and hospitably renamed itself Ludowici, GA). The company eventually moved all operations to the Ohio plant, which has manufactured tiles for numerous historic restorations including, in our state alone, projects at Duke University, the Grove Park Inn, and Old Salem. Why now? Architect of record, Joseph K. Oppermann—P.A., notes that Reynolda’s “white-painted stuccoed walls, a loggia supported by stout columns and a stunning green Ludowici-Celadon tile roof created a distinctive design palette that was replicated through the numerous outbuildings and copied by numerous local residences.” A past recipient of the Palladio Award in historic preservation, Oppermann cautions that “There is no question that the distinctive green tile roof is now in desperate need of attention. Installation of a new roof will be a major undertaking requiring expert craftsmanship, given the complexity of the house and roof design.” The tiles have become brittle; the decking below them is rotting; and vulnerabilities can be seen in copper flashing, gutters, and downspouts. President Kennedy observed that “the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” His adage is apt for public policy, but for an actual roof replacement, we must anticipate that work will continue through wind storms and rainfall. That is why Reynolda is profoundly fortunate to have the Facilities Department of Wake Forest University providing oversight, particularly through the involvement of Samuel Binkley, senior project manager. (The project is a kind of homecoming for Binkley, who first encountered Reynolda in 1990 interning for architect Edwin Bouldin during the enclosure of the lake porch and installation of climate control systems throughout the bungalow and guest house.) Construction management will be led by the Frank L. Blum Company, which 40

“While not rivaling Asheville’s Biltmore, Reynolda looked ‘magnificent’ to locals, who also appreciated Katharine Reynolds’s interest in making Reynolda an ‘experiment station’ to improve rural life. It also dramatized the transition from downtown to suburban elite living…Reynolda established [architect Charles Barton] Keen’s cachet in Winston-Salem and the surrounding Piedmont. A Reynolds descendant observed that Reynolda became Keen’s great ‘selling card.’” — Margaret Supplee Smith, author of American Ski Resort: Architecture, Style, Experience and Great Houses and Their Stories: Winston-Salem’s Era of Success, 1913—1940, forthcoming

“There is a modesty on the exterior of the building, a building that for its period was really modern and broke a lot of rules…. Each room gives a different sort of character with different classical orders. It was almost created as a museum with all the different tastes brought together.... This is really a total work of art. The house, the interior, the grounds, the village, the whole thing is part of an ensemble. This is the thing that has intrigued me so many times as I’ve come back to Reynolda House. It escapes definition. It is a really unique artistic creation that must be experienced.” — Richard Guy Wilson, author of The Colonial Revival House and Edith Wharton at Home built the Mary and Charlie Babcock Wing for education and exhibition in 2005, to designs by Beyer Blinder Belle of New York, NY. Blum returned to Reynolda in 2015 to rehabilitate the indoor pool. With three shades of green meticulously selected to match the existing roof, a refreshed Reynolda will harmonize just as graciously with the naturalistic setting at the end of its three-quartermile lawn. Reynolda House received an Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the first year of a program to strengthen the institutional base of the humanities. At $420,000, the grant was the largest in the Museum’s history. Together, Reynolda House and Wake Forest University have raised 97% of the total goal. This spring, original tiles will be available for sale in a commemorative package through the Museum store. Proceeds of the sales of the tiles will support the roof rehabilitation. If you are interested in learning about other ways to support this project, contact Stephan Dragisic, Director of Advancement, at 336.758.5595 or stephan@reynolda.org. stephan@reynolda.org

Reynolda thanks The National Endowment for the Humanities and Wake Forest University for their generous support of this project. Additional support provided by: F O UNDATION SUPP OR T

The Cannon Foundation The John W. and Anna H. Hanes Foundation Hillsdale Fund Richard J. Reynolds, III and Marie M. Reynolds Foundation CO R P ORATE SUP POR T

Mercedes-Benz of Winston-Salem Truist PUBLIC SUP P ORT

Forsyth County INDIV IDUAL SUP P OR T

Anonymous Anne and Bruce Babcock Endia Beal and Alain Lamarque Rhoda and Roger Berkowitz Dianne and Chuck Blixt Chip Callaway Greer and Scott Cawood Iris and Brian Cole Susan and Mark Conger Patsy and Bill Currin Mr. and Mrs. Sandlin M. Douglas Lynn and Barry Eisenberg Helen Hough Feinberg, in honor of Hazel Hough Sheila and John Fox Dr. Laura Gerald Nadine and Mark Hall Ann and Borden Hanes Sue and Doug Henderson Joia Johnson Curtis Leonard Dr. Amy McMichael Barbara and Nik Millhouse Anna and John Munroe

Stuart Parks Stacy and Matt Petronzio Anne and Dixon Pitt Mr. Olle and Dr. Emily Rรถstlund John Salerno Ms. Cyndi Skaar Leigh and Gray Smith Fabina Jorge and Douglas Sosnik, in honor of Marge Sosnik Kim and Stuart Stogner Gwynne and Dan Taylor

In Bloom

This spring, history is being recreated with the revival of the cherry tree allée in Reynolda Gardens to the north, east, and west sides of the formal gardens. The Garden's Japanese cherry tree allée, originally designed by Thomas Sears in 1917 to flank the formal gardens, has historically been a popular Reynolda attraction. The trees have aged out over the years, which is very typical of certain ornamental trees, and with so few mature ones still existing in the garden, the intended effect was no longer present. Forty-four trees have been planted to form the allée— six parallel to the greenhouses and nineteen along the east and west sides of the greenhouse gardens. In 1951 Mary Reynolds Babcock noted "It was said by a Japanese visitor that 44

this (Reynolda's) planting of weeping Japanese cherry trees with boxwood and magnolia soulangeana and cryptomerias is even more beautiful than any in Japan. When the cherry trees are in bloom, thousands of visitors come from all over the country to see it (the Garden).” These new blooms will create the largest display of cherries in the Carolinas, and we can't wait to share them with you. Don’t forget to add #Reynolda to your cherry tree pictures on social media and spread the beauty of spring renewal with others. The cherry tree project has been made possible through the support of Barbara and Nik Millhouse as part of the Grow with Reynolda Gardens campaign. To learn more about how you can help the Gardens impact our community, visit reynoldagardens.org/grow. reynoldagardens.org/grow

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Take a time-out among the estate’s wildflowers like Sweet Betsy or Wakerobin (Trillium), phlox, trout lily (Erythronium) and iris.

Put a spring in your step and experience the more than 30,000 bulbs that were recently added to the Gardens, including primarily daffodils (Narcissus), tulips (Tulipa), and hyacinths (Hyacinthus)!

A trip to visit the delightful peonies at Reynolda might just get you bonus points with that special family member or friend.

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