The Sawtooth School for Visual Art (SSVA) serves as the premier community visual arts school in the North Carolina Piedmont Triad and provides art education that nurtures the development of critical thinking, aesthetic appreciation, creativity, and personal growth.  This is accomplished through: 

• Quality programming which is sequentially designed
• Professional artist-led-instruction
• Art infused into the community
• A multi-cultural curriculum
• Access provided to students of all ages, skills, physical abilities, and economic levels
• The support of students, philanthropists, businesses, and the public
• A recreational spirit



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Sawtooth School is an affiliated member of the The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.  Roughly 25% of our center's annual operating budget comes from the The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, through their Operational Assistance Grants Program.  The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County also owns and manages the Sawtooth Building. 

Sawtooth School receives general operating and project support from the North Carolina Arts Council, Arts in Education program, Visual Arts and New Realities programs and funds awarded through the Grassroots Initiative Program.  Sawtooth also receives partial project support from the Winston-Salem Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and funds distributed by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County

A note from The Arts Council Public Art & Design Committee:
Business 40 has been the workhorse thoroughfare of commuters and visitors to Winston-Salem since being built as our "downtown expressway" in the 1950s. The planned rebuilding of seven bridges at the heart of this roadway gives us a unique opportunity to design not just a functioning roadway but also a new series of vistas and impressions about our place and its sense of self. Community meetings about the rebuilding will be held starting in 2008, as neighbors along the route share their hopes and concerns for the project. We hope that neighbors and other community members will ask transportation and political decision-makers that the project be designed both for engineering traffic needs and for its artistic impression-making potentials.

For more information, check out www.winstonsalempublicart.blogspot.com and www.business40nc.com.