Arts & Culture Archive

Grant Wood returns to Reynolda House

June 18, 2010  |   Arts & Culture

Following a six-month conservation treatment process, American artist Grant Wood’s masterpiece, “Spring Turning,” will once again be on display at Reynolda House Museum of American Art, starting Friday. A number of special events are planned this weekend.

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Professor, noted film critic Peter Brunette dies

June 16, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Faculty

Professor Peter Brunette, a well-known film historian, author and critic, died unexpectedly June 16 while attending the Taormina Film Festival in Italy.

Brunette, who was 66, died of an apparent heart attack. He is survived by a sister, Rose Dean.

Student musician sets his own path

June 8, 2010  |   Arts & Culture

Dario Calabro, who wants to become a solo saxophonist specializing in classical music, could have pursued his musical ambitions at a conservatory, but instead he is coming to Wake Forest on a Presidential Scholarship for Distinguished Achievement.

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‘Transforming Race’

June 7, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Student

For his latest public-art project, Professor of Art David Finn has connected Wake Forest art students with high-school students to interpret their thoughts about race.

On June 10, the works created by the students will debut at the Liberty Arts Center, 526 N. Liberty St., in Winston-Salem. The one-night show, “Transforming Race,” is from 6 to 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. The show will then travel to local high schools before ending up at the Start Gallery in Reynolda Village.

New program fits University’s mission

May 24, 2010  |   Arts & Culture

The new Documentary Film Program, which will enroll its first graduate students this fall, is a perfect fit for Wake Forest’s commitment to interdisciplinary studies, mentoring and public engagement, say the program’s directors.

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Professor Larry West shared his passion for German with students for four decades

May 10, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Faculty

Boys being boys, they’ll dare each other on a whim to do wild and crazy stuff. Which explains why Larry West has enjoyed a long and venerable career as a college German professor.

That career, spent almost entirely at Wake Forest, drew to a close this spring with his retirement from the Department of German and Russian. Behind him, the 68-year-old West leaves a redoubtable legacy as a teacher, scholar and study-abroad administrator, along with a cadre of devoted colleagues and former students who have been inspired by his dedication and regaled by his wit.

Theatre students teach local children

May 7, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Community

Wake Forest theatre students have been regularly visiting an elementary school in Winston-Salem this year to use theatre to help the students learn about whatever the subject at hand is — fractions, Martin Luther King Jr., St. Patrick’s Day or polygons.

Revisit the ’60s through ‘Moonchildren’

April 14, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Student

Woodstock, the cultural revolution and the Vietnam War: Wake Forest students are revisiting the tumultuous 1960s in the Broadway comedy “Moonchildren,” now playing in the Ring Theater through Sunday.

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The digital world: Ananda Mitra tackles how technology is affecting everything around us

April 12, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Research

When communication professor Ananda Mitra set out to write about the complex problems and issues generated by the widespread adoption of digital technology, he knew he had taken on a big job. So big, it led him to write 10 books simultaneously.

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Imagining the unimaginable: Clarinet Quartet to premiere Holocaust composition

April 12, 2010  |   Arts & Culture, Student

The horrors of the Holocaust are usually told through stories and photographs, but the Wake Forest Clarinet Quartet will tell the story through music when it presents the American premiere of “Immagini da Auschwitz” during the Wind Chamber Music Concert on April 15.