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Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
What do you see in the Andes?
First-year students visited Reynolda House Museum of American Art on Aug. 23 as part of this year’s summer “reading” project. Rather than reading an assigned book, new students studied a painting, “The Andes of Ecuador.”
Categories: Arts & Culture, Enrollment & Financial Aid, Experiential Learning, University Announcements
Secrest series features eclectic mix
From a Grammy-award winning chamber orchestra to a Norwegian jazz pianist, Wake Forest’s 2010-2011 Secrest Artists Series will feature an eclectic offering of musical genres, beginning with Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway” in September.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Camp teaches young radio reporters
Middle-school students learned how to be radio reporters and then put their new skills to the test by conducting real interviews during WFDD’s first Radio Camp. Listen to their interviews with basketball center Ty Walker, screenwriter Angus MacLachlan and more.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Paul Bright’s collages exhibited at Italian estate
For the third time, Paul Bright is exhibiting his works of collage in a historic space in Italy. "Suono e Carta" ("Sound and Paper") will be on display later this month and in September at Belriguardo, the Renaissance estate of the Este family outside of Ferrara, between Venice and Bologna.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Global Wake Forest
Reynolda House named a Southern gem
Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of three North Carolina houses included in the new book, “Great Houses of the South,” which features many of the South’s most notable historic houses dating from 1700 to 1940.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
‘5th Quarter’ premieres at Film Festival
“The 5th Quarter,” a new movie about former football star Jon Abbate and Wake Forest’s surprising run to the ACC football championship in 2006 and a bid to the Orange Bowl, had its world premier at the Long Island International Film Expo.
Categories: Arts & Culture
Students and professors travel to India
The stage is set for India to play a significant role in global business, politics and culture, says communication professor Ananda Mitra, who is leading an educational trip of his home country this month for 11 students.
Mitra, along with his wife, Swati Basu, is leading the trip as part of his summer class, “Communication, Culture and Sustainability.” What gives the trip an unusual twist? While experiencing the diversity of daily life in India, students are able to share their insights with mentors who are both from Wake Forest and from India.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Global Wake Forest
ZSR Library receives three grants
The Z. Smith Reynolds Library received three grants recently to fund a symposium on the late poet A.R. Ammons (’49) and to digitize collections of material from North Carolina Baptist churches.
Categories: Arts & Culture, Research & Discovery
Grant Wood returns to Reynolda House
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.
Categories: Arts & Culture