From art exhibitions to dance-offs to film festivals to theatre productions, Wake Forest faculty and students are exercising their talents throughout the school year. Here are some highlights from 2011-2012.
Art gallery features student work
The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will close the season with its annual Wake Forest Student Art Exhibition through May 21. The exhibition includes works in various media including, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, photography, sculpture and other mediums that bridge or combine these approaches.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Happening at Wake
Making bioethics personal
The undergraduate and graduate students in Comm 370 spent the spring semester pondering a bioethics case study surrounding organ transplants and patient selection while also enhancing their communications skills by learning how to perform the material as a radio play.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Mentorship, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
Off to Africa
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has toured nationally and internationally — performing contemporary Christian pop, rock and traditional hymns and releasing 11 albums -- since 1993.
Categories: Alumni, Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate
Music, movies and meaning
Music professor and concert pianist Pamela Howland uses film clips and movie soundtracks to teach students classical music conventions. Her mission? For Brahms and Beethoven to join Beyonce on iPod playlists.
Moving pictures: ‘From Self to Other’
START, Wake Forest’s student art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of projection and monitor-based works produced by professor Joel Tauber's video art students. Works from four different classes will be on display.
The science of dance
Senior chemistry major Tara Seymour (’12) has been dancing since she was 4. She never imagined she would be dancing out the process of DNA replication until the opportunity arose to participate in Movement and the Molecular, the first class where chemistry meets dance taught at Wake Forest.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, "Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight," served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events illuminating dynamic relationships between the arts and sciences.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of thinking. “If you ask a big enough question, you have to engage more than one discipline to answer it,” Lerman told a Wake Forest audience in a talk about how creativity can function as a bridge between art and science.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery, University Announcements
‘Children of Kabul’
Starting at age seven, Wake Forest junior Jawad Wahabzada spent four years working eight hours a day as a child laborer in Afghanistan. He now lives 7,000 miles from his birth country, but he is telling the story about the children of Kabul.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest, Pro Humanitate, University Announcements