WSSU students and actors from the community were the players in the performance.
Winston-Salem State University’s Diggs Gallery hosted Young Americans: The Performance, a modern play reflecting the sentiments from photographs featured in the gallery’s current exhibition Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright, in February.
The performances, featured WSSU students and community actors, and was held at Dillard Auditorium in the Anderson Conference Center.
Andre Minkins, WSSU drama professor and author of more than 20 plays, wrote Young Americans: The Performance based on the Bright exhibition and student writings from Authoring Action, a youth authors institute co-founded by Nathan Ross Freeman and Lynn Rhoades.
Young Americans: Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright was on exhibit at Diggs Gallery through March 6. This dynamic new series of photographs by the Atlanta-based photographer explores the identities of U. S. citizens and immigrants pursuing citizenship by presenting portraits of Americans aged 18 – 25, each posing with the American flag. The exhibition features 49 large-format chromogenic prints, several accompanied by statements from the subjects revealing their unique conceptions of patriotism. The project began in 2006 and features 15 WSSU participants.
The Bright exhibition is organized by The Amistad Center for Art & Culture, Inc., of Hartford, Conn., in collaboration with the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta, Georgia. It was made possible by generous grants from Aetna, the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources and the WSSU Office of Student Affairs.
