Reynolda Guide: Spring/Summer 2022 by Reynolda

SPRING/SUMMER 2022

Director’s Letter Dear Members and Friends, As we embark on a new year, I’m struck by the resilience that has shaped all of us since our lives took on a new level of normal almost two years ago. It’s through this resiliency that our team has persisted to help us grow and achieve. I’m proud of our enduring commitment to inspire and excite every visitor who crosses our paths at Reynolda. At the end of last year, the journey to rehabilitate the bungalow’s 104-year-old roof was completed as Reynolda received the Robert James Award for Preservation Excellence from the North Carolina Preservation Consortium. We also celebrated the expansion of our staff through the hiring of Owens Daniels as a Fellow in community and art engagement, Freida Mitchell as Events Manager, and Vitali Prokhnitski as Facilities Coordinator. We have been eagerly anticipating the opening of Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite since Reynolda joined this nationally acclaimed exhibition’s touring schedule almost three years ago. This remarkable artist brought to life the heart of a movement celebrating African-American style and identity in the 1960s through his striking photographs, defining a pivotal moment in Black visual history. Museum members will once again have an opportunity to visit the exhibition before it opens to the public with the return of our members’ preview on February 4. As you experience these moving works and travel back in time through the music in the Babcock Gallery, consider how meaning is cultivated through shared experiences that connect every voice. While we can’t always predict what shape our paths ahead will take, we can choose to be humbled by life’s simple joys and define our ways of being. At Reynolda, every day offers an opportunity for exploration and small joys are abundant. From our collections to our programs to this magnificent estate’s grounds and gardens, myriad discoveries await. I invite you to pause, relax, and close your eyes as you take in the cherry tree allée in the Formal Gardens this spring. Think about what feelings arise as you encounter a work of art. You’re a part of what makes Reynolda so special, and your support is invaluable to us as we move forward—together.

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

For Your Reference Throughout this guide, you will see references to “Members” and “Friends.” Members have Museum memberships, which support the educational mission of Reynolda. Members get a variety of perks, like being first in line to see exhibitions, members-only invitation to special programs and events, unlimited free admission to the Museum throughout the year, and a Museum store discount. Friends are Friends of Reynolda Gardens and help sustain the day-to-day operations of maintaining all 134 acres of Reynolda’s outdoor grounds, including the Formal Gardens, meadow, and trails. Friends of the Gardens benefits include early access to plant sales, a subscription to Cultivate, and more! Cover Image: Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, circa 1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Exhibitions New Acquisitions

by Allison Slaby

J U ST F OR KI DS

Early Childhood

Youth & Family SP R I N G P R OG R A M S

February

March

April

May

June

In Memoriam M EM BER SHI P

Spotlight on Benefits

Reynolda Society

Stewards of Reynolda

Shopping & Dining Directory

Exhibitions

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Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite BABCOC K W I N G G A L L ERY

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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 MAY career—tells the story of a central figure of the second-wave Harlem Renaissance. In addition to his work in photography, Brathwaite co-founded two key organizations: the African Jazz-Art Society 2022 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 creative collective of Black women, founded to challenge white beauty standards. through

Known within his activist circle as the “keeper of the images,” Brathwaite deployed his photography from the late 1950s throughout the 1960s as an agent of social change. Brathwaite’s work, which harnessed the power of music, style, and community to advance social justice, deepens our understanding of the Black Arts Movement and the Black Freedom Movement and is now becoming part of that era’s visual canon.

This exhibition was organized by Aperture Foundation, New York and Kwame S. Brathwaite. The exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite and the accompanying Aperture publication are made possible, in part, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles.

E XH IBITION SP ON SOR S

Major Sponsors

The Cathleen and Ray McKinney Exhibition Fund

Lead Sponsor Mr. Olle and Dr. Emily Rostlund Contributing Sponsors Lisa and Alan Caldwell Terrie and John Davis Scottie and David Neill Wake Forest University

Exhibition Partners Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Dr. Amy McMichael-Thomas and Mr. Ralph Thomas Taylor & Taylor, Attorneys at Law, PLLC

Black Is Beautiful Opening Events FEB

P REVI EW PA R T Y

5:30– 7:30 p.m. For exhibition sponsors, Sustainer, and Reynolda Society Members Invitations will be mailed

Celebrate the opening of Black is Beautiful with light hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, and the sounds of Winston-Salem State University’s jazz ensemble. Guests are encouraged to wear black as a contrast to models who will be dressed in colorful African prints inspired by the exhibition. FEB

MEMB ER S’ C EL EBR AT I ON

9:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. For all Museum members Invitations will be mailed

Members are invited to drop in anytime between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. to view the exhibition before it opens to the public. The celebration begins at 3 p.m. with light bites, a cash bar, and live music compliments of Winston-Salem State University’s jazz ensembles after 4 p.m. Opposite: Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite wearing a headpiece designed by Carolee Prince, African Jazz-Art Society & Studios (AJASS), Harlem, circa 1968; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019), Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles

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The O’Keeffe Circle: Artist as Gallerist and Collector N ORT HEAST A N D N OR T HW EST B E D R O O M G A L L E R I E S

This two-room exhibition explores O’Keeffe as a gallerist in New York and as a 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 promised gift, O’Keeffe’s Cedar Tree with Lavender Hills, is joined by works by Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. Reynolda House is grateful for the support of The Robert and Constance Emken Fund of the Winston-Salem Foundation.

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Still I Rise: The Black Experience at Reynolda MASTER BED R OOM G A L L ERY

This exhibition examines the lives of the Black women and men who helped shape Reynolda as it evolved from a Jim Crow era working estate into an American art museum.

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From 1912 through the 1950s, during one of the most repressive climates for Black people in North Carolina history, Black men and women navigated Reynolda’s segregated spaces—farming the 2022 land, constructing buildings, and working as domestic staff. The discriminatory laws of the Jim Crow era denied Black people their rights, subjected them to public humiliation, and perpetuated their economic and educational marginalization. Segregation, anti-Black laws, and the exploitation of Black labor affected the lives of everyone at Reynolda, where there was separate housing, separate schools, and jobs often divided along racial lines. While the struggle for equality did not end with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the story of Reynolda pivoted to one of a public cultural institution that invited artists such as Maya Angelou, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden to share their craft. Still I Rise highlights Reynolda’s first fifteen years as a museum for American art by examining the events that shaped the evolution of the museum and the projects that uncovered the history of Reynolda’s past. This exhibition has been made possible in part by the Winston-Salem (NC) Chapter of the Links, Incorporated and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Flora Pledger and Lillie Hamlin standing in Five Row, circa 1930 8

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2022 through JUL

31 2022

substrata: the spirit of collage in 76 years of art WEST BED R OOM G A L L ERY

Beginning in 1912, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris were the first artists to explore collage in a self-consciously modern way, in relation to both the history of art and to the culture of their time. Their Cubist collages were a radical break with the “window on the world” depictions of Renaissance painting. But after the Cubists’ defiant, “punk” attitude of those early years, they returned to painting. Looking back, in 1948, Picasso himself could not say why:

We must have been crazy, or cowards, to abandon this! We had such magnificent means. Look how beautiful this is (...) we had these means yet I turned back to oil paint (...) It’s insane! With select works from Reynolda’s collection and several borrowed ones, substrata seeks to “peel back” some of their layers to see how collage, as an artistic approach, has formed the basis for artworks that are not collages. The exhibition includes work by Robert Motherwell, Romare Bearden, Robert Rauschenberg, Stuart Davis, and Jasper Johns, among others. Substrata has been curated by Paul Bright, Director of Art Galleries and Programming at Wake Forest University Art Galleries and Collections. APR

Louise Nevelson: Architect of Light and Shadow NORTHW EST BED R OOM G A L L ERY

2022

Sculptor Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) described her artistic goals in this way: “My total conscious search in life has been for a new SEP seeing, a new image, a new insight. This search not only includes the object, but the in-between places, the dawns and dusks, the objective world, the heavenly spheres, the places between the land and the sea.” This statement captures Nevelson’s strikingly personal 2022 iconography—often centered around celestial or earthly bodies or phenomena such as moons, night, dusk, dawn, tides, skies, rain, light, wind, shadows, and stars—as well as her interest in structure, exploring, in her large-scale wooden assemblage pieces, the “in-between places.” through

Louise Nevelson: Architect of Light and Shadow has been curated by Dr. Jennifer Finkel, the Acquavella Curator of Collections at Wake Forest University. In addition to works from Reynolda’s collection, the exhibition will include artworks from Wake Forest University’s art collection, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and two private collections. This exhibition has been made possible in part by The Robert and Constance Emken Fund of the Winston-Salem Foundation and Richard Pardue. 9

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, 1890, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Baker

New Acquisitions — Allison Slaby, curator In January of this year, Reynolda House announced two new Museum acquisitions. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Baker of Winston-Salem have offered the Museum a portrait of Mrs. Augustus Hemenway by John Singer Sargent and an untitled drawing by the self-taught African-American artist Minnie Evans. The most popular portrait painter of the Gilded Age, John Singer Sargent described himself as “a man of prodigious talent.” Painting in Paris, London, New York, and Boston, Sargent invested his subjects with elegance, vitality, and, in his most successful portraits, keen psychological insights. Mrs. Augustus Hemenway, or Harriet Hemenway, was a prominent woman in Boston society, known primarily as the founder of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Harriet’s actions stemmed from her horror at the practice of killing birds for their feathers, which were used to decorate women’s hats. According to John H. Mitchell, writing in Sanctuary: The Journal of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, “One of the seminal events in the history of activism in this country took place in a parlor in Boston’s Back Bay in 1896. On a January afternoon that year, one of the scions of Boston society, Mrs. Harriet Lawrence Hemenway, happened to read an article that described in graphic detail the aftereffects of a 10

plume hunter’s rampage—dead, skinned birds everywhere on the ground …. She carried the article across Clarendon Street to her cousin Minna B. Hall. There, over tea, they began to plot a strategy to put a halt to the cruel slaughter of birds for their feathers.” The result was the Massachusetts Audubon Society, which led to the foundation of the National Audubon Society. According to the sitter’s granddaughter, Augustus Hemenway asked his wife to commission a portrait from Sargent when the artist was visiting Boston. After offering her children as subjects, Harriet agreed to sit for Sargent at his request. Sargent’s wish to paint Harriet’s portrait surprised her, as she was heavily pregnant at the time. Sargent disguised Harriet’s pregnancy in the folds of her black dress and behind the elegant gesture of her hands holding a flower. Harriet’s granddaughter Elvine recalled, “When the head seemed finished, he asked her to put her hands in some interesting way, and as they were trying various positions, he saw a vase of white flowers in the room and gave her one to hold.” According to John H. Mitchell, the flower was a water lily, which was “symbolic language proclaiming her condition [of pregnancy], and a rare, even shocking, public announcement for the period.” In 1916, the portrait of Harriet Hemenway was exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. W.H. Downes, writing in the Boston Evening Transcript, praised the “brilliant, vital, vivid, and animated portrait of Mrs. Hemenway, also dated 1890. [It] is especially remarkable for the rich, glowing, transparent flesh tones, so handsomely contrasted with the fine tone of the black dress. The expression is that of a splendidly alive, normal, wholesome personality whose wide-open eyes look out with boldness, courage, and confidence upon a world that is wellworth living in.” When the Sargent portrait of Harriet Hemenway enters the collection, it will join another painting by the artist. Sargent’s portrait of the Marchesa Laura Spinola Núñez del Castillo from 1903 is on long-term loan to Reynolda from Barbara Millhouse. The opportunity to exhibit the two portraits by the virtuoso artist together is a rich and appealing one.

Born in Long Creek, North Carolina, Minnie Evans was a self-taught AfricanAmerican artist. She began drawing in middle age, and attributed her compulsion to make art to divine inspiration. Her work is characterized by an emphatic symmetry, vivid colors, and imagery that combines human faces and natural forms. Of her work, Evans said, “This has come to me, this art that I have put out, from nations that I suppose might have been destroyed before the flood. No one knows anything about them, but God has given it to me to bring them back into the world.” Scholars attribute Evans’s frequent use of plant forms in her drawings to her employment as a gate attendant at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. 11

She said, “Sometimes I want to get off in the garden to talk with God. I have the blooms, and when the blooms are gone, I love to watch the green. God dressed the world in green.” This piece depicts a mythical creature with eyes, a nose, and a mouth located on a strong central axis. The top of the figure’s head resembles a butterfly, and petal-like forms sprout from the head and neck. Below the figure’s mouth, a sun sets above a blue and green sea on the creature’s chin. Green forms marked by scrolling black lines occupy the figure’s shoulders, while a red-orange and yellow flower blooms in the center bottom portion of the drawing. The effect is mysterious and otherworldly, a product of the artist’s dreams. Works of art by Evans are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This piece was sold to Bud Baker by the St. John’s Museum, now the Cameron Art Museum, in Wilmington. When it enters the Reynolda collection, it will join other pieces by self-taught African-American artists, such as Horace Pippin’s The Whipping and Thornton Dial’s Crying in the Jungle, Crying for Jobs. It will also increase the Museum’s holdings of work by African-American women, currently limited to pieces by Betye Saar and Lorna Simpson. The Museum’s Deputy Director Phil Archer expressed abundant enthusiasm for both gifts. “Sargent’s treatment of Harriet Hemenway is a sterling portrait, and it contrasts in fascinating ways with the painting of the Marchesa; Harriet strikes us as direct, sober, and straightforward where the Marchesa is flamboyant, even operatic.” He added, “and the Minnie Evans packs an enormous punch for its diminutive scale, hinting at a mysterious cosmology. Visionary artists like Evans see constellations where the rest of us see only stars, and she developed the technique to reveal her visions to everyone.”

Minnie Evans, Untitled, 1948, ink and crayon on paper, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Baker

Early Childhood

Register for all family programs online at reynolda.org/family-events. Contact Julia Hood, 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. Please note: some programs, especially indoor ones for children, may require face coverings for all participants regardless of what local mandates may be at the time. All in-person programs are subject to change.

Reynolda Read-Aloud FEB

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10–10:30 a.m. Ages 2–5, accompanied by an adult; younger siblings are welcome Free; weather permitting 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. Storytimes will be offered as socially distanced outdoor activities on the Reynolda lawn. Visit reynolda.org/readaloud to register and find previous Read-Aloud videos. 13

Young Explorers: Guided Nature Walks APR

APR

10 a.m. Free for members and Friends, $10 general admission plus tax Advance registration required On these hour-long guided nature walks, 3–5 year olds and their caregivers will observe the natural world, looking through binoculars and making sketches of things they find. Conversation will promote curiosity and questioning, close observation, and some basic identification. Meet at the Boathouse.

Growga APR

MAY

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 family yoga and mindfulness classes outdoors at Reynolda. 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. 14

Outdoor Discovery Lessons MAR

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10–11:30 a.m. $15 member/Friend, $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; available at reynolda.org 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. In the event of inclement weather, the program may be held indoors; face coverings may then be required for all participants. March session will explore Charles Sheeler’s Conversation Piece in Reynolda Village. April sessions will explore Lyonel Feininger’s Rainbow II at the Boathouse. May session will explore Childe Hassam’s Giant Magnolias. June sessions will explore Worthington Whittredge’s The Old Hunting Grounds in the Reynolda woods.

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Families seeking to learn together with Reynolda’s history and art collection can find a collection of PDF and video resources at reynolda.org/family and reynolda.org/teachers. The Reynolda Pop-Up Studio video series provides suggestions and directions for art activities. Explore Reynolda cards offer questions for conversation using objects and works of art, with simple activities for all ages. Discovery Lessons offer guided explorations for pre-K audiences. 15

Youth & Family

Abstract Sculpture Workshop FEB

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10 a.m.–2 p.m. Limited capacity; advance registration required Two-day workshop for ages 12–18 $50 members, $60 not-yet-members Get ready to build abstract forms and get messy! Participants will use plaster cloth to build an abstract sculpture inspired by the work of artist Isamu Noguchi. The workshop will also include time in the galleries observing and discussing sculptures as well as time for planning and building sculptures. Participants should bring lunch to eat outside if the weather permits. 16

MAR

Homeschool Day

Registration opens 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Activities available 10 a.m.–noon and 1–3 p.m.

$5 plus tax per student, ages 5–15; one adult free per student ticket purchased $3 plus tax per additional adult Members: $3 plus tax per student Pre-registration encouraged Contact Julia Hood at 336.758.5599 with questions Our home is your homeschool, too! Homeschool students and teachers are invited to visit Reynolda House and grounds for art and history-based learning. Self-tour the Museum while learning about the place, having conversations about the art, and engaging with art guides in front of works; then make your own art creation. Download our free app, Reynolda Revealed, for more Reynolda stories before, during, and after your visit! Activities will take place indoors and outdoors, weather permitting.

Family First Workshops

These two-hour workshops begin at 2 p.m. the first Sunday of each month for children in grades 1–6 and a favorite adult. Cost varies by workshop; art materials are provided.

Workshops include time in the Museum to explore a work of art or decorative art and will typically take place in the Reynolda studios; location may vary by workshop. Advance registration required.

FEB

Valentine Card Workshop Collage and Drawing Valentine kit: $12 members, $15 not-yet-members Watercolor Valentine kit: $15 members, $18 not-yet-members In-person workshop for adult-child pairs or family groups; please register for at least one adult per three children. Take-home kits can be purchased for children or adults only. Registrants for the workshop have the option of attending in person or pre-ordering a kit full of materials for making valentines with video instructions. Participants will receive an assortment of materials for collage and stencilling or select the special watercolor valentine set, which will include a watercolor paint set, watercolor paper for cards, and oil pastels. The workshop will take place at the Museum. Please note on your registration whether you will attend in person or prefer to pick up a kit the week before.

MAR

Portrait Photography 101 for Families $30 per pair, $6 each additional participant members; $35 per adult/child pair, $8 each additional participant not-yet-members Family groups or adult-child pairs participating in this workshop will have the opportunity to learn some basics of portrait photography with a local photographer and then take portraits of one another. Time with a digital camera and individual instruction will be provided, but families are also encouraged to bring a phone/ camera to play with during other parts of the workshop. Families will receive all digital photos taken during their session and a printed photograph for each participant.

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Snazzy Stepping Stone Workshop $25 members per person, $30 not-yet-members per person. For adult-child pairs or family groups; please register for at least one adult per three children. Join Reynolda House and Gardens staff for this workshop in which participants each create their own design and insert materials into concrete to create a decorative garden stone. All materials will be provided, though attendees are encouraged to bring one or two small items to preserve in concrete (e.g. a favorite stone, a tiny toy car, a small sea shell).

Louise Nevelson, Full Moon (1980), cast black polyester resin framed in wood, gift of W.L. Tony Whitwell in honor of Hollins College students who enjoyed Reynolda House, © 2022 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

MAY

Nod to Nevelson Workshop $30 members per pair; $24 not-yet-members per pair. Additional child (grades 1–6) or participating adult, $12 members, $15 not-yetmembers. Cut and layer cardboard shapes to create a bas relief sculpture inspired by Louise Nevelson’s Full Moon (1980).

JUN

Paper in Flight Workshop $30 members per pair; $24 not-yet-members per pair. Additional child (grades 1–6) or participating adult, $12 members, $15 not-yetmembers. Following in the footsteps of Dick and Smith Reynolds, we’ll take flight above Reynolda’s front lawn with paper airplanes. We’ll try a few different designs in this workshop and test them outdoors. 19

Family Walking Tours of Reynolda JUN

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10–11:30 a.m. Limited capacity; advance registration required Designed for families with children ages 6–14 $10 per member family, $20 per not-yet-member family Have you spent time with your family on the grounds at Reynolda and become curious about some of the buildings or how the estate looked when it was a working farm? Sign up for this guided walking tour of the grounds of Reynolda. Bring a water bottle and wear good walking shoes.

Summer Adventures Camps Summer Adventures Art and Writing camps will return to Reynolda House this summer. Visit reynolda.org/summer-adventures for details. Registration will open March 1. 20

FEBRUARY

To register for programs and view the latest event information, visit reynolda.org/calendar. All programs and policies are subject to change. JUST A HEADS UP:

Begins FEB

Introduction to Reynolda

Eight Thursdays, 3–4:30 p.m. February 10, 17; March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; April 7 Classes will be offered in a hybrid format; register online by February 7 $45 members, $60 not-yet-members for in-person classes $35 members, $50 not-yet-members for virtual classes only Designed for lifelong learners who want to become acquainted with the history of Reynolda, this educational series provides an exhilarating introduction to the estate and its gardens and role as a former working farm, along with the Museum’s fine art and object collections. Each session will center on a specific theme and include discussion with Reynolda’s educators, curators, and historians. Art/history background not required, only an interest in learning about Reynolda!

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Museum Members Family Swim

Saturday, February 12, 2–4 p.m. Saturday, March 12, 2–4 p.m. Spring Break Special! Tuesday, April 12 and Friday, April 15, 2–4 p.m. Saturday, May 21, 2–4 p.m. $20 per adult/child member pair and $5 per additional individual up to a total of six (recommended for ages 6 and up) Space is limited; advance registration required Reynolda members and their families can make a splash with a two-hour swim in the historic indoor pool. Guests should bring a towel and plan to wear a face covering in the Museum, including the changing rooms. (Museum policies are subject to change.)

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Docents Unscripted Tours

Sundays, February 13; March 13; April 24; May 22 2–3:30 p.m. $15 per person, advance registration required

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the docent-volunteer program at Reynolda House, our docents will lead unique 90-minute Museum tours. Going off script, each docent will design his or her own tour route and, along the way, invite visitors to see the Museum through their personal lens of favorite stories, spaces, and objects in the historic house. Every tour will offer a different experience; come for one or more! Recommended for ages 10 and up.

Kwame Brathwaite, Marcus Garvey Day Parade, Harlem, circa 1967; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles.

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Gallery Talks: An Artist’s View

Thursdays, 11 a.m. $5 for members, $8 not-yet-members (includes Museum admission) Join local artists for talks in the Babcock Gallery. These 45-minute guided conversations through Black Is Beautiful will focus on the artist’s respective medium(s). Guests are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance and visit the exhibition before the talk. February 17: Fashion with Nikita D. Wallace, Founder and Creative Director, Winston-Salem Fashion Week. March 24: Photography with photographer and printmaker Kimberly Varnadoe. March 31: Jazz with musician and bass player Matt Kendrick. April 28: Photography with Owens Daniels, Reynolda’s Kenan Institute Creative Catalyst Fellow 23

FEB

Reynolda On the House February 18, 4–8 p.m. Free

All are invited to visit the Museum “on the house” (free of charge)! Bring a date to enjoy live music by Diana Tuffin with The Matt Kendrick Trio and explore the nationally acclaimed exhibition Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite. After self-touring the Museum, guests are encouraged to stroll the Gardens and the Village.

FEB

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

The Versatility of Natural Dyes

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Kelsey Brown, fiber artist, educator, and co-owner of the Village Fabric Shop in Reynolda Village, will explore the world of natural dyes and the amazing ways they can be used. Learn how marigolds, carrot roots, roses, and blueberries are among the many found and foraged materials that can create dynamic pigments through an age-old practice.

FEB

More Barn Concert: Sam Baker and Friends (with Martha Bassett and friends)

7:30 p.m. The Barn at Reynolda Village Visit reynolda.org for ticketing information.

All of Sam Baker’s shows are an acknowledgment and appreciation of the pure joy that comes with people gathering to listen to live music. Some songs tell of everyday people who survive life’s daily challenges; others are stories of growing up in a small Texas prairie town. 25

MARCH

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

The Fascinating World of Ferns

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Ferns and their allies are among the oldest and most beautiful plants on the planet. North Carolina is blessed with a vast diversity of ferns, and learning how to identify them can be a challenge. Well-known plant ecologist Lisa Lofland Gould will highlight the life cycle and natural history of ferns, explain how to differentiate species, and share a few ferns that thrive in the local landscape.

Begins MAR

Afternoons with Scholars

Free with general Museum admission; free for Museum members and WFU faculty and staff.

Kwame Brathwaite and American Photography in the 1960s and 1970s Wednesday, March 2, 3 p.m. with John J. Curley, Wake Forest University Professor of Art History substrata: the spirit of collage in 76 years of art Wednesday, April 27, 3 p.m. with Paul Bright, Director of Art Galleries and Programming, Wake Forest University Promised Gift: Grant Wood’s Lithographs Wednesday, May 11, 3 p.m. with Allison Slaby, Reynolda House Curator

Jasper Johns, Decoy (1971), gift of Barbara B. Millhouse, lithograph from one stone, hand-printed, and eighteen plates, © 2022 Jasper Johns and ULAE / Licensed by VAGA at Artist Rights Society (ARS), NY, Published by Univeral Limited Art Editions. 27

MAR

Day Trip for Museum Members 10 a.m.–4 p.m. $45 per person, includes lunch and tours

Join fellow Reynolda supporters for an outing in Greensboro. Members will visit UNCG’s Weatherspoon Art Museum for a guided tour of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, on loan from the Brooklyn Museum, and learn more about one of the most significant figures in contemporary performance, conceptual art, and feminist art. Following lunch, the group will visit North Carolina A&T’s University Galleries for a guided tour of African American Decorative Arts and recent sculptural acquisitions. Members will need to provide their own transportation. To reserve your space, email Geoff Puttkammer, Manager of Membership and Visitor Services, at geoff@reynolda.org.

MAR

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

Grow Your Own Spices

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Author and spice-growing gardener Tasha Greer will share expert advice on how to harvest a bounty of culinary flavors like cardamom and cloves. Get practical tips and in-depth advice on how to grow an assortment of spices at home and enjoy dishes that burst with flavor! Copies of her book, Grow Your Own Spices, will be available for purchase after the talk.

MAR

Our Search for “Beautiful”

7 p.m. Free with advance registration Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Women of color who are leaders in our local community will share their personal experiences of changing beauty standards as another thoughtful layer to Black Is Beautiful. The speakers will discuss instances of colorism, representation in art and popular media, and generational differences. This panel talk will be moderated by Owens Daniels, photographer and Reynolda’s Kenan Institute Catalyst for the Arts Fellow. Panelists will include Nikita D. Wallace, Founder and Creative Director of Winston-Salem Fashion Week, and Amatullah Saleem, community activist. A reception will take place at 6:30 p.m. prior to the program. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

MAR

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

12 Things You Need To Grow Roses

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Roses are thorny, but the process for growing them doesn’t have to be. Become a rose-growing ace with a little help from WinstonSalem Rose Society’s Jimmy Speas. Speas will offer guidance on simple rose care techniques, such as what to feed and when to water, and review the essential items needed to grow good roses.

MAR

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Rose Pruning Clinics

10 a.m.–12 p.m. Free Modern Rose Garden-Upper Garden Experience hands-on learning with members of the WinstonSalem Rose Society. Participants are asked to bring pruners and heavy gloves. These clinics are offered as part of Rose Care Week and co-sponsored by the Winston-Salem Rose Society. No registration required.

MAR

Behind the Scenes of a Country Estate Repeats May 15 and June 4 2 p.m. Offered in person at the Museum $15 members, $20 not-yet-members

Have you ever wondered what day-to-day life was like in the world’s largest bungalow? Bari Helms, Director of Library and Archives, and Amber C. Albert, Manager of Community and Academic Learning, will provide a glimpse of the Reynolds family’s lifestyle and the estate workers who made it possible. Following the presentation, guests will tour spaces in the historic house that aren’t typically accessible to the public. Space is limited.

MAR

The Keeper of the Images: Kwame Brathwaite’s Harlem

4 p.m. with Kwame S. Brathwaite and Corey D.B. Walker Free with advance registration Sponsored by The Bynum E. Tudor Fund for Reynolda House Museum of American Art Kwame S. Brathwaite (pictured at left), son of the “keeper of the images” and Black Is Beautiful photographer Kwame Brathwaite, will join Corey D.B. Walker, Wake Forest University Professor of the Humanities, for an interdisciplinary exploration of Pan-Africanism. This panel presentation will discuss Marcus Garvey’s influence on social activism, changing conceptions of fashion and beauty, the centrality of jazz and blues to twentieth-century Black cultural identity, and more.

MAR

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

Devotion: Diary of an Appalachian Garden 12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission

Mignon Durham, a self-taught gardener with fond memories of growing up in Winston-Salem, will talk about her book Devotion: Diary of an Appalachian Garden. Written during the pandemic, the book explores Durham’s nearly three-acre Asheville garden, which she calls “Devotion.” The author shares relatable insights on the inspiration and soothing power of a garden. Copies of her book will be available for purchase after the talk.

MAR

Mindfulness and the Museum: Art, Nature, and Reflection

Repeats April 22 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Free for Friends and Members and WFU faculty, staff, and students, $15 not-yet-members Museums can be a place of respite and calm and works of art can prompt inward reflection. We invite you to join us for this two-hour workshop in which we will explore different mindfulness practices independently and collectively, with art and nature as a source for contemplation. The Reverend Timothy L. Auman, Ph.D., MDiv, chaplain at Wake Forest University and founder and director of the MindfulWake initiative, will join Julia Hood, Manager of School and Family Learning at Reynolda House, to lead these workshops.

MAR

The Reynolda Quartet: In The Footsteps of a Giant

3 p.m. In person at Reynolda House Free for UNCSA and WFU faculty with advance registration, $20 students, $25 general admission Beethoven cast a long and imposing shadow on Johannes Brahms, who waited until he was forty to publish his first string quartet, proclaiming that “You can’t have any idea what it is like to hear such a giant marching behind you!” It is no wonder that Brahms’s first quartet, Op. 51 No. 1, when it finally came, was such a masterpiece—dark, ambitious, rhythmically complex, and in the tragic C minor key of Beethoven’s great Fifth Symphony. In the twentieth century, Bartok continued to advance the string quartet form, and the groundbreaking innovation of his six quartets is often compared to that of Beethoven’s famous late quartets. In this concert, the Reynolda Quartet will juxtapose Brahms’s first quartet with Bartok’s last, his epic quartet No. 6, written at the outset of World War II.

MAR

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

The Joys of Beekeeping

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission David Link, one of Reynolda’s resident beekeepers, will share just how sweet working with bees can be. Link will cover the best species for various needs and management styles. Plus, view honey, nectar, and beeswax samples—all harvested from the hive—and learn how they are used. 33

APRIL

APR

Community Day

9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Free Sponsored by Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas Realty Celebrate self-expression and empowerment with Reynolda during Community Day when Museum admission is free for all. Performances and programming, including hands-on art activities, will be inspired by Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite. In the afternoon, the UNCSA Student Jazz Quintet will perform Brathwaite-era jazz.

APR

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

Spring Plant Sale Preview

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Get an inside look at what’s included in the popular annual Spring Plant Sale at Reynolda Gardens. Gardens Director Jon Roethling will share seasonal must-haves and identify those in short supply to scoop up early.

APR

Trip to Emily Allen Wildflower Preserve

12:30–1:30 p.m. Free, meet at Reynolda Gardens. Carpooling is encouraged. Space is limited. Advance registration required. Join Gardens experts for a guided exploration of the Piedmont Land Conservancy’s protected gem, open by appointment only and located a short drive away. Discover twenty-eight of the thirty-five known eastern North American Trillium, thirty species of ferns, the state and federal species of special concern, Oconee Bells (Shortia galacifolia), and many others.

APR

Spring Plant Sale

8 a.m.–2 p.m. Front Lawn of Reynolda House Shop specialty and hard-to-find annuals, perennials, tropicals, and other Reynolda staff favorites. This annual sale features plants that have been thoughtfully selected by Gardens horticulturalists for their performance in Winston-Salem. Friends of Reynolda Gardens will have the opportunity to pre-order plants a week in advance of the sale. Not yet a Friend? Please contact Sarah Blackwell at sarah@reynolda.org for more information on membership.

APR

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

Gourds: From Growing to Crafting

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Learn the basics of growing this versatile vegetable all the way through drying, cleaning, and crafting. Award-winning gourd artist Judi Fleming will examine the vast variety of gourds cultivated for eating, crafting, and scrubbing. Fleming will also showcase craft and gourd art examples. Free seeds and growing tips will be provided.

MAY

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

Native Orchids of the Carolinas

12:30 p.m. Offered in person and online Free for Friends and WFU faculty, staff, and students $5 general admission Orchid expert John Nix will share his knowledge of the vast diversity of orchids native to the Carolinas and review propagation techniques for some of these species. Many people might not be aware that there are over twenty-six different genera and eighty different species of orchids in North and South Carolina!

MAY

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Museum Members Overnight Trip to Richmond $325 double occupancy, $75 single supplement

Travel with Reynolda is back! Board a comfortable bus and head to Richmond and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, where the group will be treated to an after-hours guided tour of Whistler to Cassatt: American Painters in France. Before leaving on day two, the group will visit Maymont Mansion and Grounds. Cost includes an overnight stay, dinner, tours, and transportation. Travelers will be responsible for their own lunches and alcoholic beverages. To reserve your space, email Geoff Puttkammer, Manager of Membership and Visitor Services, at geoff@reynolda.org.

JUNE & JULY

Summer Reading – Save the date(s)!

Begins JUN

Begins JUL

Tuesdays in June 10 a.m. Free The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta & Claribel Cone by Mary Gabriel

Tuesdays in July 7 p.m. Free The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

In Memoriam Marjorie Northup, 1929–2021 Marjorie Northup led the Reynolda House educational program from 1976 to 2001. During her tenure, the Museum developed nationally recognized programs for mental health centers, residential hospitals and nursing homes, persons with disabilities, and inmates of penal institutions who are preparing to re-enter society. She created a Midnight American Art Discovery to serve those who worked second shifts. She invited everyone from corporate C-suites to high school history classes to examine their own prejudices through the study of American art. Marjorie took as a central tenet that art can touch and enliven any mind directly, so long as understanding is instilled and encouraged with openness and a sense of belonging. Marjorie and the Museum’s first director, Nicholas B. Bragg, originator of the American Arts Discovery Program, held that we only retain information or stimuli with which we make a deep, personal connection. This was the spirit behind the fall 2021 exhibition, The Voyage of Life: Art, Allegory, and Community Response. It is the spirit behind the educational programs and tours that will continue to introduce diverse audiences to the breadth and complexity of American art and history for generations to come.

Marjorie Northup, Assistant Director of Reynolda House, and Simona Allen, founding President of Delta Fine Arts, 1988, standing in a Bill Traylor exhibition 39

Membership Members of Reynolda House Museum of 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 reynolda.org/support for more information on the benefits of membership.

MAR

Museum Members’ Shopping Day

9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. Museum members can save up to 20% in the Museum store, plus 50% off one item.

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 reynolda.org/support to share a year of Reynolda with friends and family! MAR

Benefactors Event

4 p.m. Invitations will be mailed

Join Museum members at the Benefactor level and above for guided tours of Black Is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite. Guests will take inspiration from the self-expression in the fashions Brathwaite photographed and engage in art-making activities in the Reynolda studios, followed by a reception in the Gallery Lobby.

Friends’ Night

Reynolda Gardens is excited to announce the return of its annual appreciation event, Friends’ Night, just for Friends of Reynolda Gardens! Friends of the Gardens should expect an invitation later this spring. Not yet a Friend? Visit reynolda.org/support for more information on benefits and how to join in on the fun. Above: Kwame Brathwaite, Grandassa Models at the Merton Simpson Gallery, New York, circa 1967; from Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful (Aperture, 2019). Courtesy the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles. 40

Reynolda Society

New and Upgraded Members JULY 1–N OVEMBER 15 , 2021

New Hannah and John Appel, Director’s Circle Zanne and Bud Baker, Director’s Circle Donna Cooke, Director’s Circle Ellie and Stuart Fine, Director’s Circle Kathy and Michael Lewis, Director’s Circle Megan Salzman Medica, Charles Barton Keen Circle Janice Mullin, Director’s Circle Marybeth and McLain Wallace, Director’s Circle

Upgraded Vince Cimmino and Regina Cybulski, Hudson River School Circle Nancy and Harry Underwood, Hudson River School Circle

Stewards of Reynolda

Share all that you love about Reynolda with future generations through a legacy gift. Stewards of Reynolda recognize the transformational power of art and nature by ensuring the Museum and Gardens 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 gift for Reynolda, contact Director of Advancement Stephan Dragisic at 336.758.5595 or stephan@reynolda.org. Reynolda is grateful to Piedmont Home Care for their support of events and programs for Stewards of Reynolda.

“We moved to Winston-Salem just before Christmas of 1997, not really knowing anyone. It was a difficult time to move. Our college-age daughter came home from school, rather unhappy about our move away from her friends. Looking for something to do on a rainy afternoon, I planned our first visit to Reynolda House. Our daughter reluctantly agreed to go. She was instantly engaged by a wonderful docent, and we spent a lovely afternoon touring the beautifully-decorated house and enjoying the gorgeous art collection. The docent really focused on our daughter and her interests. Well, maybe Winston-Salem wasn’t such a bad move after all? She wasn’t the only one engaged! We certainly thought that Reynolda House might be a place I could learn more about, and that turned out to be a great connection in a new home for me. While this first encounter with Reynolda was very meaningful, we have certainly had many more wonderful experiences at events at the Museum. Our financial support is meant to continue those experiences for those who follow after we are gone.” — Cathleen McKinney

We are grateful to the following donors for including Reynolda in their estate plans — Anonymous Anne and Bruce Babcock Frank and Gary Greer and Scott Cawood John W. Davis, III Hunter and Sandlin Douglas Stephan Dragisic Frank Driscoll Connie Gray Frank Borden Hanes Clark Harper 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 43

Reynolda Village Map Village Shops & Restaurants

Shops and Services 117. J. McLaughlin

114.

Thoughtfully curated

Men’s and ladies’ clothing

Pure Barre technique

eyewear, exceptional

and accessories

classes and activewear

120.

A Proper View

Pure Barre

eyecare 101.

Aeracura Salon

An Aveda Concept Salon

111. Linda Weaver’s Studio

111.

Custom oil and pastel

Diamonds, custom

portraits, and photography

jewelry, repair

104. All Through the House

111.

Gifts, home furnishings,

Linens, fine lingerie,

Quality student artwork

children’s wear, gifts,

for exhibition and sale

and accessories

McCalls

RingMaster Jewelers

122. stArt Gallery

and accessories 120.

AR Workshop

Boutique DIY studio

111. 217. Monkee’s

Sfeer + Co.

Furniture and home decor

Fine ladies’ clothing, 106.

The Barn at

shoes, and accessories

Reynolda Village Private venue for weddings, social and corporate events 116.

European Touch

Full-service day spa

119. Uncorked Masterpiece

A ceramic and canvas paint 117.

Naturopathic

and party studio

Health Clinic Natural, conventional,

114. Village Hair Designs

alternative, and integrative

Hair salon

healing methods 119. Village Realty

107.

Gazebo

Ladies’ designer fashions

99.

Norman Stockton

Men’s clothing and

Boutique real estate services

accessories 111.

Gazebo Sale Room

Designer fashions at

114. Painters’ Palette

a beautiful price

Art studio and gallery

Restaurants 114. Dough-Joe’s

122. Penny Path Café

Coffee & Donuts

& Crêpe Shop

Made-to-order cake

Savory and sweet

doughnuts, baked

crepes, full coffee bar

goods, full coffee bar 221. Village Tavern 113.

May Way Dumplings

Steaks, pasta, pizza,

Chinese noodles

sandwiches, burgers,

and dumplings

cocktails

In Bloom

February

Blossoming in late winter, snowdrops and Prunus mume (Japanese flowering apricot) serve as subtle and delicate promises of spring.

March

Among our can’t-miss spring activities: admiring thousands of daffodils and strolling through the revived cherry tree allée.

April

Hyacinths, wisteria, tulips, and dogwoods are among the continuing delights of the season. Experience bold hues and brilliant blooms that will revive the senses.

May

Stop and smell the roses… and the rhododendron, peonies, and foxglove! Just in time for Mother’s Day, discover abundant fragrant florals showing off their beautiful blossoms and spectacular scents.

June

The warmth of summer welcomes back some Gardens favorites, including water lilies, garden phlox, iris, and roses.

July

Dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, and gladiolus will add some zen to seasonal strolls at Reynolda.

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Greenhouse Tuesday—Friday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Gardens Dawn to dusk

Tuesday—Saturday 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Sunday 1:30–4:30 p.m.

A D M I SS I O N ADMISSION

Adult admission charged. Free with valid I.D. — Museum members, children under 18, students, military personel, employees of Wake Forest University and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

STAY CONNE C T ED

Gardens and grounds are open free of charge.

Shops & Restaurants Hours vary by merchant.

R EYN OL DA .OR G

Reynolda House thanks its Annual Sponsor Reynolda House Museum of American Art is supported by the Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County.