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2024 student art-acquisition trip selections unveiled
April 19, 2024 | Arts & Culture, Student, Top Stories
Every four years since 1963, a small group of students has traveled to New York City, with University funds, to purchase art for Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. This year they purchased nine works.
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WFU Theatre opens 2023-24 season with ‘Witness for the Prosecution’
September 20, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Top Stories
WFU Theatre is launching its 2023-24 season with Agatha Christie’s “Witness for the Prosecution.” The play opens on the Tedford Stage on Friday, Sept. 22.
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Wake Forest launches a new digital guide to art collections, exhibitions
August 16, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Community, Top Stories
Wake Forest University collections and gallery exhibitions are now available in a new digital guide on Bloomberg Connects, a free arts and culture app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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$3M NIH grant will fund next steps of research on dance & brain health
February 23, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Research, School of Medicine, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
A $3M NIH grant will help Wake Forest researchers take the next steps in nearly a decade of research that indicates dance can promote brain health.
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Civil Rights drama to engage Winston-Salem local community in retelling the story of Selma
February 2, 2023 | Arts & Culture, Community, Top Stories
A $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America grant will help support a collaboration between Wake Forest and Loire Valley Theater Festival, Inc. to bring the civil rights musical drama, “Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom,” to Wake Forest University in October 2023.
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Wake Forest’s premier art collection gets a new name and lots of love
February 14, 2022 | Arts & Culture, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Thanks to John and Libby Reece, the Wake Forest Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art is getting a new name and, with a generous gift, a lot of love as well.
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U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo coming to Wake Forest Jan. 25-27
January 20, 2022 | Arts & Culture, Campus Life, Community in Progress, Speakers, Top Stories
Joy Harjo, who in 2019 made history by becoming the first Native American to be named U.S. Poet Laureate, is coming to Wake Forest University Jan. 25-27.
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Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award nominations open
September 15, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Community, Top Stories
Wake Forest University is accepting nominations for the newly established Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award.
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$1M in gifts will support vision of integrated arts at Wake Forest
May 12, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Philanthropy, Top Stories, University Announcement
The Interdisciplinary Arts Center at Wake Forest has received $1M from anonymous donors to support the University’s commitment to integrating the arts across all corners of campus, in the classroom and in the community.
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WFU student art purchases unveiled
April 29, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Student, Top Stories
Every four years since 1963, a small group of students has traveled to New York City, with University funds, to purchase art for Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. This year they purchased nine works.
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