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MUSE Winston-Salem, formerly New Winston Museum, originally opened in 2012 on S. Marshall Street. After operating in that location for five years, we closed our doors to search for a bigger home where we could do more to tell the rich and diverse stories of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. In February 2020, we moved into our new home at 226 S. Liberty Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101. We are not yet open to the public with regular hours, as we are preparing for renovations and continuing work on exhibit development. In the meantime, we will offer public programs at this location and other locations. All details will be posted on this page, so stay tuned in.
Our mission is to connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, and informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.
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We love a collaboration, and today's was perfect for a rainy day.
Salem's own Dr. John Hutton partnered with Face to Face Speaker Forum, MUSE Winston-Salem and Bookmarks to lead a wonderful "How to Draw the Presidents Class" today that was enjoyed by student artists both young and old.
Thank you, Dr. Hutton!
Join us next Saturday, September 10, for an exciting event in partnership with MUSE Winston-Salem and Bookmarks - Picturing POTUS.
This hands-on workshop will feature Dr. John Hutton, Professor of Art History at Salem College, who will lead a hands-on beginner's workshop in the fine art of drawing pictures of American presidents. Hutton, author of How to Draw the Presidents and several other White House-themed illustrated books, will teach you the basics of drawing an American president.
Register now for this special package! For $45, you'll receive:
-Admission to "Picturing POTUS: A Drawing Workshop & Book Discussion with Professor John Hutton" on September 10th;
-Your own copy of George W. Bush's Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants, from Bookmarks; and
-An exclusive discount code that allows you to purchase individual tickets to see the WFU Face to Face Speaker Forum's September 14th event featuring George W. Bush in conversation with Jon Meacham for $50 (representing a $20 discount from the lowest current single-ticket price).
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/picturing-potus-a-drawing-workshop-book-discussion-with-john-hutton-tickets-400378652327?fbclid=IwAR36ta6C5VxKTJJwoL4xpehR0EEK-LDI8y4VKnUwW4vukscdrduEHtpqL38
Since we just moved, we have some new neighbors:
Camino Bakery Brookstown
BYGood Coffee
Señor Bravo Mexican Restaurant
Salem College
Kaleideum Downtown
MUSE Winston-Salem
*waves* Hey y'all! Will likely see you soon :)
Through its unflinching and harrowing look at the realities of solitary confinement, "The BOX" forces viewers to sit in the deep discomfort of knowing that hundreds of thousands of people experience this unique hell on a daily basis.
This Thursday-Saturday, the show comes to The Ramkat in partnership with Disability Rights NC, MUSE Winston-Salem and the NC Justice Center.
The BOX is a play about collective resistance and transformation. It has already had an impact on reducing solitary confinement in California. The End of Isolation Tour will hit the road in July to use the visceral power of theater as legislative art, traveling to communities on the forefront of passing laws to end the practice of solitary confinement.
Tickets on sale now for all national performances of The BOX presented by , by & !
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Tour heads to Winston Salem, NC August 25, 26, 27
Get tickets at
www.EndOfIsolationTour.org
At this stop, we're partnering with MUSE Winston-Salem
Disability Rights North Carolina and
NC Justice Center to lift up stories of isolation and its consequences, and to shift policies and conditions around solitary confinement in the U.S.
Image: Six men sit or stand in cages stacked in three rows of two. Text reads Tickets on sale now.
www.EndOfIsolationTour.org
Out at the Movies and MUSE Winston-Salem will screen Sordid Lives on Saturday.
The weather looks clear for a hat trick of a/ mobile outdoor screenings this coming week! 🌝 ✨ 📽
Thursday Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden with A Little Chaos 🪴
Friday Delta Arts Centerwith The Lion King 🦁
Saturday MUSE Winston-Salemalem with The Lunchbox and street food by Spice Chats 🇮🇳
Thanks to all the sponsors and partners for these series with a special shout out to Brooke Cashion & Associates-Allen Tate
Visit for more info and tickets -
https://aperturecinema.com/a-mobile/
Join Luke Gloeckner's (MFA '21) Visual Storytelling students for a free screening tonight at MUSE Winston-Salem!
Car line supplies are local today. Thanks MUSE Winston-Salem, Bookmarks, Wake Forest University Humanities Institute and Footnote Coffee.
"MONUMENTAL: Technology, Social Studies, and Shaping Public Memory"
Join us for a timely virtual discussion among students, educators, and artist-innovators as we explore creative ways to honor diverse historical narratives.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
7pm - 8:15pm
To register, click the link below
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E6o85mpcQqKRSp6Y69FXrw
Wake Forest University MUSE Winston-Salem The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest
"MONUMENTAL: Technology, Social Studies, and Shaping Public Memory"
Join us for a timely virtual discussion among students, educators, and artist-innovators as we explore creative ways to honor diverse historical narratives.
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
7pm - 8:15pm
To register, click the link below
https://wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E6o85mpcQqKRSp6Y69FXrw
Wake Forest University MUSE Winston-Salem The Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest
Just discovered these two gems literally side by side in the 2019 Annual Meeting album! Speaker Mike Wakeford of MUSE Winston-Salem and Everyday Award winner (and now Board Member) Dale Cole!
Got those Annual Meeting vibes!
Great speakers, good food, amazing people.
🎫 (got your tix yet? ticketStripe.com/wsambs2021) 🎫
The Ramkat is happy to partner with MUSE Winston-Salem on its new, monthly Arts and Performance Programming Series. The series kicks off with a fun musical program about Winston-Salem and North Carolina music. Panelists include: author and long-time The News & Observer music writer David Menconi and two legendary Winston-Salem musicians: Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple.
Menconi’s new book "Step It Up & Go: the Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk" was released last October on UNC Press. You can purchase this book at Bookmarks with a discount, fy clicking this link:
https://www.bookmarksnc.org/NCMusic and using the code MUSIC21.
Stamey and Holsapple are featured performers on the upcoming album "Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Celebrating the Winston-Salem Sound" Recorded Live at the Ramkat in 2018," and which Stamey also produced. The impetus for this extraordinary concert was that Stamey had a book fresh off the press, a song-based memoir called "A Spy in the House of Loud." A portion of the book references his time in New York, but the first part remembers, song by key song, the late 1960s and early ’70s creative rock music scene in Winston. A surprising number of the Combo Corner crew went on to play and produce music professionally in the decades that followed — often with one another in different configurations (e.g., dB’s, Let’s Active, or with R.E.M., Steve Earle, Matthew Sweet, Vassar Clements, Hootie & the Blowfish, Big Star's Third Live, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Golden Palominos) and in different locales. They were still in regular contact the day Stamey suggested they try to “play the soundtrack to the book.” Buy it on CD or mp3 here:
http://omnivorerecordings.com/.../various-artists.../. Your can purchase a copy of Stamey’s book with a discount from Bookmarks by clicking this link:
https://www.bookmarksnc.org/NCMusic and using the code MUSIC21.
This program will be live via Zoom and is free to attend--though donations are welcome to both MUSE Winston-Salem and The Ramkat. Register here on eventbrite and you'll receive a link the day of the program.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-combo-corner-to-the-world-the-diaspora-of-the-winston-salem-sound-tickets-146628330283
Read on for information about the panelists and moderator.
David Menconi is the author of "Step It Up & Go: the Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk." He is a journalist and author based in Raleigh, North Carolina. He spent 34 years writing for daily newspapers, 28 of those years at the Raleigh News & Observer. He served as co-editor of the University of Texas Press' acclaimed American Music Series from 2011 to 2019. He was a 2019 Piedmont Laureate. His other books include "Ryan Adams: Losering, A Story of Whiskeytown" (2012); "Comin’ Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel" (co-written with Ray Benson, 2015).
Chris Stamey was raised in Winston-Salem and began playing music as a child. He is a multi-instrumentalist and played in several bands in high school, with his friends Peter Holsapple and Mitch Easter. Stamey studied music at UNC Chapel Hill and formed the band Sneakers, which self-released a single in 1976, that was hugely influential to the indie pop genre and beyond. Stamey relocated to New York to play with Alex Chilton (Big Star). He went on to form the dB's in 1978 with Peter Holsapple and other NC members. He has since performed all over the world both as a solo musician and with Yo La Tengo, Matthew Sweet, Bob Mould, and others. As a producer, arranger, and mixer, he has worked with over a hundred artists, including Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Tift Merritt, Le Tigre, and Yo La Tengo.
Peter Holsapple was also raised mostly in Winston-Salem, started playing guitar as a kid, and formed the dB's with Stamey. His five decades in the music business have provided the world at large with a raft of memorable song craft, recordings of taste and originality, and travels with some of the finest musicians performing. Holsapple has navigated a snaky course through the annals of modern power pop with quality tunes like The dB’s “Love Is For Lovers” (recently featured in Showtime’s new hit series Billions) or Continental Drifters’ “Invisible Boyfriend.” His versatility on sundry instruments has made him the go-to auxiliary player for groups like R.E.M. and Hootie and the Blowfish. He's played the Apollo Theatre and the Ryman Auditorium. His songs have been played and recorded by Marti Jones, the Droogs, Don Dixon, the Troggs, Claire Lynch, Nada Surf, Bully, the Golden Palominos, Syd Straw, Foster & Lloyd and Megafaun. He is now based in Durham.
Kate Storhoff is a musicologist studying American music, primarily the culture of bands and wind ensembles. She teaches as adjunct faculty at Wake Forest University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and works full-time as the Retail Manager at Bookmarks. Previously Kate taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Wake Forest University in 2018-2019.
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