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Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
Winston-Salem, NC
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Our Cumulative Lives, 2023
Exhibition: The Threads We Follow
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Lower Cascades Falls in Hanging Rock State Park
Lower Cascades Falls in Hanging Rock State Park has lots of different water circulation patterns. Stacking many photos into one shows this.

Museum photo courtesy Jim Sink Photography (2010)

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
750 Marguerite Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27106-5861
Phone: 336-725-1904
FAX: 336-722-6059
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E-Mail: Debbie Fuchs
336.725.1904
debbie.fuchs@ncdcr.gov


www.secca.org

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SECCA Hours of Operation:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm
Thursday, 10am – 8pm
Sunday, 1-5pm
Closed on Mondays and Major Holidays
Sometimes the galleries are closed for installation. Please call ahead to avoid inconvenience.

Admission is Free

Directions:
I-40 Business to Silas Creek Parkway North
Silas Creek Parkway to Reynolda Road
Turn right onto Reynolda Road (East)
Pass Summit School on the right
Go to Marguerite Drive, turn right
Travel to end of the street (through a residential area). Remain straight on the street.
See green gate, enter and park.
Welcome to SECCA

Parking:
Ample free parking is provided in front of the art center.

Mission:
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art seeks to enhance perspectives, inspire community and ignite new ideas at the intersection of art and you.

Executive Director:
Gordon Peterson
gordon.peterson@ncdcr.gov

SECCA Affiliations:
SECCA is an operating entity of the North Carolina Museum of Art, an agency of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. SECCA is also a funded member of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.

2009-2010 Renovations:
Improvements include:
The design firm Szostak Design Inc. (SDi) of Chapel Hill was awarded the contract to renovate SECCA by the state of North Carolina. The renovations included replacing the roof of the 46,400 square foot arts center, new climate control system for the galleries, improved public restrooms, new paint inside and out, foundation waterproofing, polished concrete floors, additional temporary walls in the gallery spaces and a state-of-the-art audio visual system for the McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium. (The Auditorium seats 294 people.)

Cost: $2.1 million

Background:
SECCA opened in 1956 as a non-profit, non-collecting visual arts organization in Winston-Salem, NC, in response to a community and regional need for exhibition space devoted to work by area artists. By 1972, when industrialist James G. Hanes willed his 32-acre estate to the gallery, its scope included all 11 southeastern states. Today, SECCA brings the best examples of art of our time to the public, no matter where they are discovered.

Facility History:
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art is located at the historic estate of James G. Hanes. Mr. Hanes (1886-1972) was a progressive industrialist and the president and chairman of the board of Hanes Hosiery Mills Company, the forerunner of Hanes Corporation. In his will, Mr. Hanes bequeathed his home and grounds for the “exhibition of art in a homelike setting.” The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, which was founded in 1956, moved from Old Salem to the Hanes home and re-opened to the public in 1977. The Hanes estate was designed by Peabody, Wilson and Brown and was completed in 1929. The grounds of the 20 acre estate were designed by West Virginia landscape architect Books Wigginton.

Two galleries were added to the home in 1976 and 1990. The 1976 addition included a 8,896 square foot gallery and receiving area. In 1990, a 24,500 square foot addition was completed containing a 300-seat community auditorium.


Exhibitions

The Threads We Follow
Through March 10, 2024
(more information)

WFDD's 2023 Photo of the Year
Through February 4, 2024
(more information)

Events

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