WINSTON-SALEM, NC - The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) located at 750 Marguerite Drive, is closing for renovations Jan. 4, 2009.
Mark Leach, SECCA director, says, “We’re looking forward to beginning the process of renovation. We have exciting and broad-based plans for the arts center and they all start with improving the facility. We’re very grateful to the North Carolina General Assembly and the citizens of the state who are giving us this opportunity.
“When the renovations and repairs are completed,” Leach continues, “we will be able to reopen the art center and be positioned to provide the residents of North Carolina with the kind of programmatic excellence that the citizens of Winston-Salem and the southeast region have come to expect.”
Updates on the renovation progress will be available on SECCA’s Web site www.secca.org. The objective of the renovation will be to replace the roof of the 46,400 square foot arts center and the climate-control system for the building.
Although SECCA will suspend programming at its 750 Marguerite Drive location for the 2009 calendar year, it will continue to conduct vigorous exhibition and education programs throughout the Winston-Salem community. SECCA will present Inside Out: Artists in the Community II, staging seven commissioned site-specific art works or performative events in Winston-Salem’s four wards. Partners in the project include Old Salem, The North Carolina School of the Arts, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art, among others.
SECCA will reopen at its Marguerite Drive location in early 2010. The design firm Szostak Design Inc. (SDi) of Chapel Hill has been awarded the contract to renovate SECCA by the state of North Carolina.
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) is designed to involve audiences in the art of our time. 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 partner of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.