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Bipartisan legislation introduced Monday by the Forsyth County House delegation would provide $5 million to expand arts and wellness services at the Elizabeth and Tab Williams Adult Care Center.
House Bill 593 would provide Senior Services Inc. with $3 million from the 2021-22 state budget and an additional $2 million from the 2022-23 budget.
The Williams center services local residents who are living with Alzheimer s and other forms of dementia.
The goal is building a new and expanded center that will bring health, wellness, arts and intergenerational program partners under one roof. The dedicated space would go from 10,000 to 15,000 square feet.
The current center is at 2895 Shorefair Drive in Winston-Salem. The new building would be on the same campus.
Although he has a bachelorâs degree in anthropology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, Lewis, 67, said he realized he wanted to be an independent studio artist after taking a bronze casting class and ultimately becoming a teacher at The Penland School of Craft near Spruce Pine.
âThatâs really where I learned the bronze casting and the blacksmithing and the welding and the metal sculpting,â Lewis said.
Before the pandemic, Lewis had been teaching on and off at the Sawtooth School for Visual Art. He is currently doing collaboration work with Mixxer, a makerspace, and Dent, a nonprofit that wants to reduce waste through the creative use of items, both in Winston-Salem.
âOur mission as a woodcarving club is to promote the art of woodcarving and to teach and develop carvers,â Ray Branch, the chairman of public relations and membership for the Triad Woodcarvers, said.
The carvings will be on display at the Forsyth County Central Library at 660 W. Fifth St. in Winston-Salem through May 31.
The club
The Triad Woodcarvers is one of the fastest growing arts organization in Winston Salem and one of the fastest growing woodcarving clubs in North Carolina and South Carolina.
Branch said the clubâs membership has grown from 18 to about 100 in the past three years, adding that its membership of women grew from one to 28 during that same period.
The Reynolda Quartet will present a livestreamed concert at 3 p.m. March 14.
The quartet, composed of violinists Ida Bieler and Janet Orenstein, violist Ulrich Eichenauer and cellist Brooks Whitehouse, all of whom serve as faculty at UNCSA, will perform âConcert of Gratitude,â the second concert in collaboration with Reynolda House.
Cost is $10 per household at tinyurl.com/zzz69ywc.
Seeking artists
Yadkin Arts Council has issued a call for art for its 2021 juried exhibition at Welborn Gallery.
Artists from across North Carolina are eligible to participate in the 10th annual exhibit, which will be on display from July 1 to Aug. 27.