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Light Patterns

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Fine Art Show and Sale
Silkscreen Prints by Bettie White Yost
June 3 - 28, 2008

Artworks Gallery is presenting a Fine Art Show and Sale of original silkscreen prints by the late Bettie White Yost, a long time W-S artist and volunteer from 1975-2005 in the Winston-Salem Forsyth County School system. The exhibit will be in the Sales Gallery of Artworks Gallery and will be June 3 - June 28. The opening reception is Sunday, June 8, 2 - 4 pm.

The reception and exhibit are free and open to the public.

Bettie Yost worked with her husband Ron and art teacher Carrie Driver at Sherwood Forest Elementary School to develop the "Graduation Kaleidoscope Project" for 5th graders for five years in a row. For this Art and Science project, they used Pringle potato chip cans, found objects like glass bits, buttons, plastic toy parts, etc. and small cut mirrors to make the body of the kaleidoscopes with the students. As they assembled the tubes, Bettie explained mathematics and
probabilities of the designs coming together, and the history of kaleidoscopes. The art teacher then worked with students to make drawings on what they observed from the tubes and then made the drawings into covers for the tubes. On graduation day, the kaleidoscopes were on display and each student took home his/her own creation. Before the kaleidoscope project, Bettie and Ron worked with students in printmaking and a variety of art making.