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Art Briefs: Painter to give talk on forensic portraits
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Published: June 8, 2008
Chris Lacy, an anthropologist and painter, will discuss "Forensic Portraits: Recreating a Face from a Skull" at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Clemmons Branch Library in Clemmons. Participants will learn how a basic portrait can be developed from a skull, then refined for greater accuracy.
The Muddy River Art Association is sponsoring the talk and admission is free. For more information, see www.muddyriverart.org.
Associated Artists to have vineyards tour
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem is accepting registrations for a guided tour of North Carolina wine country on Saturday. The group will visit Laurel Gray, Raffaldini and Flint Hill vineyards and learn about different varietals, proper tasting techniques, wine storage and more. A dinner at Flint Hill's Century Kitchen will end the day.
The cost is $75, including transportation, tastings fees and tour-guide services; the cost of dinner is extra.
For more information, call 336-722-0340 or see www.yadkinwinetours.com.
Diggs Gallery to show work of Herbert Gentry
Diggs Gallery of Winston-Salem State University will open a retrospective of the work of Herbert Gentry with a free reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. Gentry's widow, Mary Anne Rose Gentry, will share her thoughts on her husband's life and work. The pianist Monica Clark will give a concert of period jazz works.
"Herbert Gentry: The Man, The Magic, The Master" comprises more than 50 paintings, drawings and prints, several from the George and Carmen N'Namdi Collection at WSSU. It includes works completed while Gentry lived in Paris; Stockholm, Sweden; Copenhagen, Denmark; and New York. More of Gentry's works are on display in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Biblioteque Nationale de Paris in France and National Gallery of Oslo, Norway.
Diggs Gallery is at 601 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The exhibition will be on view through Oct. 4.
For more information, call 336-750-2458.
Rural Hall artist to create sculpture
Duncan Lewis, an artist in Rural Hall, has been commissioned to create a sculpture for St. George Square, a new shopping center under construction on Hanes Mall Boulevard.
Lewis is noted for representational sculptures of animals executed in wood, stone, steel and bronze.
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