Event Display Tag: Free

Park Hangs: General Purpose

Free

Park Hangs: General Purpose

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Unwind and socialize at Park Hangs, an outdoor concert series at Bailey Park

Savor the end of summer with live music by General Purpose from 6:00–8:00 pm. Food truck service begins at 5:00 pm.

General Purpose is a progressive rock band based in Greensboro, NC, that utilizes classical instruments such as clarinet and violin and puts them into a rock context. Drawing influence from 70’s acts such as Jethro Tull, Yes, Genesis, and others, combined with classical and jazz influence, songwriters Xul Rutty (bass/vocals) and Uno Dos Santos (guitar) create a symphonic experience through the large instrumentation with Gabe Genopolos  on drums, Grant Powers on saxophone,  and Grace Leonard on violin.

Park Hangs

Join us to unwind and socialize at a new outdoor concert series with music by NC-based artists, food and drinks by local vendors, and easygoing vibes in Bailey Park (445 Patterson Ave. in Winston-Salem). Park Hangs is presented by NCMA Winston-Salem and Innovation Quarter, with additional support from Atwell Ford Real Estate.

Bring your own food or purchase from vendors in the park or from favorite restaurants in Innovation Quarter. Drinks from Incendiary Brewing will be available for purchase; outside alcohol is prohibited. Limited street parking is available, with additional paid parking in the Link Parking Deck (530 North Patterson Ave.).

RSVP

2nd Saturday: Secret Shapes

Free

2nd Saturday: Secret Shapes

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

All ages are invited to an exploration of lines and layers inspired by the work of exhibiting artists Erin Canady and Leah Smith.

Guest artists Holly Evans and Hannah Gaskins will guide experimentation with tape-masking to manipulate negative space. Use tempera paint sticks over taped sections that, when peeled away, reveal new shapes beneath.

RSVP
HOLLY EVANS

Holly Evans is a Winston-Salem-based visual artist and preschool teacher. Her work is deeply influenced by her daily experiences with young children, reflecting on her daily interactions with their curiosity, uninhibited imaginations, and, especially, their wonderfully expressive “big emotions”. She creates predominately with mixed media and acrylic paint, often incorporating collage, handmade papers, children’s literature, glitter, and other materials to explore new techniques, build depth, and create unexpected layers of joy.

HANNAH GASKINS

Hannah Gaskins is a visual artist and kindergarten teacher based in Winston-Salem. Working with young children often fuels her creativity and she is constantly inspired by their boundless imaginations. Gaskins’s current creative work is deeply influenced by contemporary events and personal experiences. She strongly believes that art is a universal language, and through it, she aims to inspire and empower others.

2ND SATURDAY

One of the museum’s longest-running programs, 2ND Saturday provides opportunities for all ages and skill levels to create memories through accessible, hands-on art-making. Each month’s art activity is inspired by current exhibitions or events. All materials are provided.

This program is part of the ongoing series NC Strong: Resilience, Tradition, and Innovation, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

2nd Saturday: Community Day at Reynolda House

Free

2nd Saturday: Community Day at Reynolda House

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Join us for a special 2nd Saturday at Reynolda House Museum of American Art.

Find NCMA Winston-Salem and other local organizations at Reynolda House Museum of American Art for  Community Day: Picturing Freedom. In the spirit of community, help create a collaborative mural using colorful paint markers with guidance from guest artist Marianne Dinapoli Mylet. Mylet is a North Carolina-based multidisciplinary artist with 35 years of experience as a community muralist.

2nd Saturday

One of the museum’s longest-running programs, 2nd Saturday provides opportunities for all ages and skill levels to create memories through accessible, hands-on art-making. Each month’s art activity is inspired by current exhibitions or events. All materials are provided.

RSVP
Alleghany JAM 25th Anniversary Mural by Marianne Dinapoli Mylet

This program is part of the ongoing series NC Strong: Resilience, Tradition, and Innovation, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related Events

2nd Saturday: Sign Painting with Chuck Johnson

Free

2nd Saturday: Sign Painting with Chuck Johnson

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Please note: September’s 2nd Saturday will take place at the covered patio at NCMA Winston-Salem Downtown (400 W Fourth St, #130).

Practice sign making and lettering techniques with artist Chuck Johnson

Learn simple design and lettering techniques to create your own sign and bring it to life, drawing inspiration from street art, community murals, and graphic design. Greensboro-based artist Chuck Johnson will provide live sign painting demonstrations and with his guidance, attendees can try their hand at different lettering styles and craft their very own custom signs.

This event is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Chuck Johnson

Chuck Johnson is a multi-faceted artist with work ranging from sign and mural painting to photography and videography.  His work is heavily influenced from his time growing up in the North Carolina punk rock and skateboarding communities, leading him to opportunities to travel the world working with bands for photography, videography, lighting design, and merchandising. Johnson has painted numerous buildings across North Carolina and the United States, with commissions ranging from environmental graphics for Wrangler to community murals.

2nd Saturday

One of the museum’s longest-running programs, 2nd Saturday provides opportunities for all ages and skill levels to create memories through accessible, hands-on art-making. Each month’s art activity is inspired by current exhibitions or events. All materials are provided.

RSVP

This program is part of the ongoing series NC Strong: Resilience, Tradition, and Innovation, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Related Events

Art in the Park: Found Object Puppets

Free

Art in the Park: Found Object Puppets

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Create puppet characters using natural and found objects

Join us at Granville Park for a playful, hands-on workshop where imagination takes the lead. With guidance from local creative John Bowhers and using everyday natural and found objects, create unique puppet characters that transform ordinary materials into expressive works of art. Leave with a one-of-a-kind puppet and fresh inspiration for imaginative storytelling.

John Bowhers is an artist and designer whose cross-discipline work includes puppet arts, stage design, printmaking, graphic design, and custom fabrication. With a 10-year professional background in theatre production, he is at his best when exploring a wide variety of mediums and trying to solve unique creative puzzles by learning new techniques. He cares deeply about work that serves young audiences and communities. 

Art in the Park

Art in the Park is a free pop-up series presented by NCMA Winston-Salem and Winston-Salem Recreation & Parks. Designed for all ages, Art in the Park invites you to explore your creativity at scenic local parks. Drop by between 10:00 and 1:00 to enjoy a unique, hands-on tutorial led by our featured local artist. Materials are provided, and if you can’t stay to create, we’ll happily send you off with supplies to help spark your imagination later.

RSVP

Park Hangs: Real Companion

Free

Park Hangs: Real Companion

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Unwind and socialize at Park Hangs, an outdoor concert series at Bailey Park. NCMA Winston-Salem and Innovation Quarter are finishing the 2026 season of Park Hangs with a special close-out weekend with back-to-back concerts on October 16th and 17th!

On Friday, October 16th, enjoy food and beverage from local vendors starting at 5:00 pm and live music by Real Companion from 6:00 pm–8:00 pm.

 

REAL COMPANION

Based in Boone, Real Companion is an alt-country rock and folk-adjacent outfit fronted by Seth Sullivan. Their debut full-length album Nü-metal Heroes was recorded in a backyard studio, drawing inspiration from a winding path towards sobriety, parenthood, and cheeseburgers.

RSVP
PARK HANGS

NCMA Winston-Salem is partnering with Innovation Quarter to bring the Park Hangs concert series to downtown Winston-Salem, sponsored in part by Atwell Ford Real Estate. Park Hangs features live music by North Carolina-based artists in scenic Bailey Park. Food and drinks are available to purchase from featured vendors and guests are welcome to bring their own snacks. Outside alcohol is prohibited.

To keep the concert visible for everyone, please bring a blanket or a low-backed chair to enjoy the music. Music-loving dogs are welcome, but be sure to keep them on a leash throughout the event.

Related Events

Park Hangs: Kit McKay

Free

Park Hangs: Kit McKay

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Unwind and socialize at Park Hangs, an outdoor concert series at Bailey Park

Gather and unwind to the NC-borne songs and spirit of Kit McKay from 6:00–8:00 pm. Food truck service begins at 5:00 pm.

Patrick Stovall, known as Kit McKay in his latest solo project, offers a refreshingly free approach to music-making, entertaining the ridiculous as well as the profound. His latest releases Dogtown Lowdown and The Dirt Candies feature  deliberately silly songs that have caught the attention of local radio stations and audiences hungry for something real.

West Coast Wanderer food truck will be on site with signature street tacos, quesadillas, and flatbreads available to purchase. Lemonade and orangeade will be available to purchase from The Front Porch Squeeze and craft brews will be available to purchase from Incendiary Brewing Co. Concert-goers can also find many restaurants in close proximity to Bailey Park in Innovation Quarter.

Park Hangs

Join us to unwind and socialize at a new outdoor concert series with music by NC-based artists, food and drinks by local vendors, and easygoing vibes in Bailey Park (445 Patterson Ave. in Winston-Salem). Park Hangs is presented by NCMA Winston-Salem and Innovation Quarter, with additional support from Atwell Ford Real Estate.

Bring your own food or purchase from vendors in the park or from favorite restaurants in Innovation Quarter. Drinks from Incendiary Brewing will be available for purchase; outside alcohol is prohibited. Limited street parking is available, with additional paid parking in the Link Parking Deck (530 North Patterson Ave.).

RSVP

Book Club: Walkaway

Free

Book Club: Walkaway

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

NCMA Winston-Salem Book Club is going solarpunk this season. An emerging subgenre of speculative fiction, solarpunk envisions futures in which climate change triggers innovation, resilience, community building, and closer bonds with the natural world.

In December, join other curious readers at Central Library to discuss Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel Walkaway.

 

WALKAWAY BY CORY DOCTOROW

In Walkaway, Hubert and Natalie decide to give up fully on formal society and walk away. Now that anyone can design and print the basic necessities of life—food, clothing, shelter—from a computer, there seems to be little reason to toil within the system. It’s still a dangerous world out there, the empty lands wrecked by climate change, dead cities hollowed out by industrial flight, shadows hiding predators animal and human alike. Still, when the initial pioneer walkaways flourish, more people join them. Soon the walkaways discover the one thing the ultra-rich have never been able to buy: how to beat death. Now it’s war, and it threatens to turn the world upside down.

PLEASE NOTE: Walkaway contains mature adult themes and content.

RSVP
BOOK CLUB

Join other curious readers and dive headfirst into contemporary literary fiction. Led by NCMA Winston-Salem Executive Director and former English professor Bill Carpenter, Book Club offers guided conversations covering a range of topics, from themes and imagery to plot structures and character development, with selections ranging from national bestsellers to experimental novels. All are welcome at Book Club, even those who don’t finish the book.

Related Events

Book Club: Monk and Robot

Free

Book Club: Monk and Robot

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

NCMA Winston-Salem Book Club is going solarpunk this season. An emerging subgenre of speculative fiction, solarpunk envisions futures in which climate change triggers innovation, resilience, community building, and closer bonds with the natural world.

October’s discussion of Monk and Robot will take place at Coffee Park (1208 Reynolda Rd. 27104). Attendees are welcome to purchase coffee and baked goods at the airstream and bring them to the discussion.

 

MONK AND ROBOT BY BECKY CHAMBERS

In Monk and Robot, the robots of Panga have long ago achieved self-awareness and retreated into the forests, where they’ve become the stuff of legends and myth. However, when a robot checks in on a tea monk one day, honoring its ancient duty, it cannot leave until the monk answers the simple question: “What do you need?”

RSVP
BOOK CLUB

Join other curious readers and dive headfirst into contemporary literary fiction. Led by NCMA Winston-Salem Executive Director and former English professor Bill Carpenter, Book Club offers guided conversations covering a range of topics, from themes and imagery to plot structures and character development, with selections ranging from national bestsellers to experimental novels. All are welcome at Book Club, even those who don’t finish the book.

Related Events

Vinyl Lounge: Downtown Debut

Free

Vinyl Lounge: Downtown Debut

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
RSVP Add to Calendar

Overview

Vinyl Lounge has a new home at NCMA Winston-Salem Downtown

For both seasoned record collectors and vinyl newcomers alike, Vinyl Lounge offers a welcoming community eager to explore different genres and eras of music. Attendees are invited to bring their own records and immerse themselves in a communal listening experience like no other.

The theme for this Vinyl Lounge is urban satellite.

Vinyl Lounge

Established over ten years ago as PVD (Public Vinyl Demo) by EMBER Audio + Design, Vinyl Lounge is a celebration of sound now presented in partnership with NCMA Winston-Salem. The spirit of shared discovery is at the heart of Vinyl Lounge. Enjoy the unique warmth and depth that only vinyl can provide on a hi-fi sound system courtesy of EMBER.

RSVP
Support
Calendar Support