Visual Subcommittee of the Visual and Performing Arts
Committee
Alex Norwood has,
for the past three years, been Visual Arts Coordinator for the Medical
Center's Visual and Performing Arts Committee. The Medical Center's Art-o-Mat™
machine in the lobby of North Tower displays works by sixteen Medical Center
artists, and part of the proceeds of this art go to support the Brenner
Children's Hospital. The Art-o-Mat™ is the first of its kind to be located in a
hospital. Created by a Winston-Salem artist, the Art-o-Mat™ is nationally recognized [click
here for more information].
The Medical Center has created five galleries to display continually changing
shows of work by Medical Center employees as well as local artist
organizations. They are the Spine, Sticht (Associated Artists of Winston-Salem,
continuing exhibitors), Penthouse (The Enrichment Center, continuing
exhibitors), Commons, and Reynolds. During 2001-2002 there were twenty-two group
and solo exhibits; 125 artists (including seventy employees and patients)
exhibited works with an estimated total value over $42,000.
In May the second annual employee art exhibit displayed fifty
works by forty-five artists from the Bowman Gray and Reynolda campuses. Artists
from the Winston-Salem community were invited to judge the exhibit.
Two Winston-Salem artists won the Arts Council's Society of Arts and
Medicine 2001 grant to produce "The Talking Tapestries of Hope" exhibit in
collaboration with Exchange-SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now). In October 2001, the
finished artworks were hung in the North Lobby of the Hospital.
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