Featuring art by Jennifer Toft, Kendra Parker, Liz Winter and Lacey Wellman At Unleashed Arts Center on Sixth St across from 6th and Vine! Opening this Friday April 1st! Quirky and fun with a touch of visceral shock. ~ This show is Extreme !!! You’re gonna wanna take it all home with you! Come see us at the Gallery hop… Read more →

Join us April 1st from 7pm-10pm for the opening of “Audacity of Chrome” show at the Red Dog Gallery and will continue for the entire month. This exciting show highlights the works of Perviz Heyat.  For this show he selected tales and headlights of vintage cars from the late 1950’s and painted them realistically in a pop art style. These… Read more →

By Wesley Young Winston-Salem Journal Art for Arts Sake unveiled the plans for its new building Tuesday morning during the annual meeting of the Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership. The three-story structure will be a modern design with translucent walls and red highlights that echo the red pipe sculpture and other fixtures in the nearby ARTivity on the Green park that the… Read more →

This is a call for AFAS artists to participate in “The Tweet Life,” a mixed-media exhibition interpreting birds; ordinary, imaginary and rare sponsored by the NC Audubon Society. The exhibit opening will be held at Unleashed Art Center on May 6th from 7 to 10 pm and will be featured on May 13 from 5 to 7 pm at a… Read more →

Posted: Saturday, February 6, 2016 11:30 pm By Lynn Felder Winston-Salem Journal The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County presents awards to organizations and individuals who have made a difference in the arts community throughout the year. In 2015, they presented the Arts Council Award, R. Philip Hanes Junior Young Leader Award, Arts Educator Excellence Award, Arts Development Award,… Read more →

Pat Berryhill, AFAS artist and creative writing and English major at Salem College, will be teaching a class about four of her favorite areas of marriage between art and poetry. The classes are limited in space (10 seats), run for the course of four weeks (YOU MUST REGISTER FOR ALL FOUR DATES SEPERATELY) and free for the public with the… Read more →

   By: Stewart Knight  Event Description Stewart Knight, an AFAS artist, and will be focusing on the subject of “The Fear of the Blank Canvas”. Classes will be using various techniques of “autodraw” to “dirty” the canvas and allow for freeform creativity and lessening the anxieties that most artists face when beginning a new painting. This series of classes are… Read more →

Editorial: Art for Art’s Sake New facility could be another arts-city icon Journal editorial board | Posted: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 8:30 pm art ARTivity on the Green in downtown Winston-Salem. After the success of the arts park that opened earlier this year, ARTivity on the Green, we have every confidence that the next project slated for the area will… Read more →

Art for Art’s Sake announces building plan By Wesley Young Winston-Salem Journal | Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2015 3:47 pm   Artlot The space at Liberty Street and Seventh Street will be the headquarters of Art for Art’s Sake. The site is near the new art park in downtown Winston-Salem. Art for Art’s Sake is giving itself a permanent footprint… Read more →

Wake Forest Students Cover Downtown Winston-Salem Wind chimes add “serendipity” to the Arts District by Anna Conte October 22, 2015 About two years ago, hidden by the darkness of night two Arts for Arts Sake members set out on an expedition to hang wind chimes from the street lamps on Trade Street. Harry Knabb and Guy Blynn initially assembled this… Read more →