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Angelou leads poetry performance
August 10, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Directed by Maya Angelou, a Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree, twelve students recently shared 44 poems in a dramatic performance at Brendle Recital Hall. The poems were selected as favorites from their summer course with Angelou. (includes video)
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Suzanne Spicer: Making it look easy
July 11, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Over the summer, take a look back at some of the student accomplishments from the past school year, such as Suzanne Spicer’s work as the stage manager for the Theatre department’s production of “Grapes of Wrath.”
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The creativity of poet William Blake
June 6, 2011 | Faculty, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Listen to WUNC public radio as English Professor Eric Wilson discusses his new book, “My Business is to Create: Blake’s Infinite Writing,” and about his goal to make Blake’s ideas of creativity accessible to everyone.
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Gallery showcases student art
May 2, 2011 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Seventy paintings, drawings, prints, videos, sculptures and photographs are included in the Student Art Exhibition in the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery through May 16. See a slide show of selected pieces from the show.
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Painting in the Louvre
April 29, 2011 | Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, International, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Imagine standing in the footprints of Mary Cassatt and Paul Cézanne, copying the masters in the Musée du Louvre to improve your artistic talents. Junior Amanda Bowers doesn’t have to imagine. She has been living the experience.
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The lessons of Vietnam literature
April 26, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Research, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Students in Kathleen McClancy’s seminar class are completing their semester-long study of how books and films depicting the Vietnam War created the Vietnam mystique and the sway the war still holds over Americans, 36 years after the war ended.
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Sounds like imagination
April 15, 2011 | Alumni, Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories
Stowe Nelson (’08) provides the sounds behind “Eurydice,” a play directed by Brook Davis (‘90), which opens today in the Ring Theatre and runs through April 23.
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Citizenship: From class to community
April 7, 2011 | Community, Events, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Life on Campus, Pro Humanitate, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College, Working Together
Students in Alessandra Beasley Von Burg’s communications class are putting what they’ve learned in the classroom about citizenship into action with a symposium today on the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. The symposium is free and open to the public.
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Institute grows from grassroots
March 31, 2011 | Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
The Humanities Institute is designed to “help faculty and students make the most of the energy, intellect and creativity they bring to humanistic learning, research and teaching,” according to director Mary Foskett. Read more in our Old Gold and Black story of the week.
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Reading aloud
March 30, 2011 | Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Teacher-Scholar, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
As an undergraduate studying abroad at Oxford, Jessica Richard was introduced to tutorial-style grading. Now on the other side of the desk, she uses the “paper conference” as a way to help her students learn to become better writers.
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