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The Asheville Art Museum Art Adventurers, a group of dedicated art lovers who also enjoy the camaraderie that is part of travel with others who share similar interests, have put together another day trip to a regional arts destination. Tomorrow, November 9, the Adventurers will lead a group to Winston-Salem for an eclectic and exciting arts experience. The day will begin with a visit to MESDA, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, where the Art Adventurers will enjoy a guided tour. MESDA is dedicated to exhibiting and researching the original decorative arts of the early South, and each room is filled with decorative arts from different periods.
Cost of the trip is $80 for Museum members, $95 for non-members. The bus will leave from the far end of the Ingles parking lot on Merrimon Avenue at 7:30 AM, and from the Harris Teeter parking lot on Hendersonville Road at 8 AM. Gourmet refreshments will be served on the bus both coming and going. For more information or to register for this trip, please call the Museum at 828-253-3227 or email [email protected].
(Photos provided by Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
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The group will then move on to SECCA, the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, (see picture to right) to soak up regional art. The Museum is housed in the 1929 English-style home of the late industrialist, James G. Hanes, and its galleries are filled with some of the Southeast's most impressive exhibits. There, the group will see the Ernest Withers exhibit, Pictures Tell the Story. Withers was a mid-20th-century photographer with particular interests in civil rights, baseball, blues, and jazz in the South. In addition, the Piedmont Craftsmen exhibition, featuring fine regional craft, will be on view in the Pottery Gallery. A gourmet lunch will be served in the "living room" of the Museum, and the Museum's shop will be open as an additional treat.
After lunch, the group will move on to Diggs Gallery at Winston Salem State University to see Ascension: Works by African American Artists of North Carolina (see picture at right). The exhibit features paintings, prints, sculpture, and crafts by artists native to North Carolina and others whose work has been significantly influenced by their lives in the state.