 To
purchase copies of FOUNDERS: A Social History of
a Community School of Art at $35.00 per copy plus $5.00 each for
shipping & handling, complete the form and mail to: Sawtooth
Center for Visual Art, 226 N. Marshall Street, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.
Released in commemoration
of Sawtooth's 56 years of operation, FOUNDERS: A Social History
of a Community School of Art, records and critically reflects on
the growth of Arts and Crafts/ Sawtooth Center as an educational institution,
and its place amidst the social changes unfolding in the last half of the
20th century. The FOUNDERS history is not a single story, but a tale
woven from strands of artists, craftspeople, staff and volunteers' oral
histories, highlights from formal minutes, published accounts, and records
of the institution. The patterns that emerge reflect the underlying
social and cultural values of the organization's diverse participants.
(Left Photo:
Fred Sturmer, Arts and Crafts Association President 1949-51 & 1960-62
and Katherine Bahnson, President 1951-52.)
Considering both the conflicting
and converging beliefs and visions for the institution's future, author
Jim Sanders describes how such tensions created the possibility for change
and innovation in programs and policies. Personal testimonies of
participants across every year of operation suggest the interpersonal dynamics
at play in the work of the association/center.
(Center Photo:
Sue Moore assists founding Arts and Crafts manager, Chester Marsh, in painting
stools for classrooms just before the Association's move to its new facility
at 5th & Liberty above the old Crescent Drug Store in 1949.)
FOUNDERS acknowledges that
it takes participants of all walks of life to create and sustain a thriving
community arts learning environment. It explores participant motivation
and the energy and passion required to make Sawtooth the institution it
is today; one of the nation's largest non-degree granting visual art schools.
(Right Photo:
Frank Hasker and Samuel Banks, two of the teenage students regularly attending
"Monday night classes" at Arts and Crafts in the 1940s and 1950s.)
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