Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award nominations open
Wake Forest University is accepting nominations for the newly established Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award.Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Wake Forest University is accepting nominations for the newly established Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award.$1M in gifts will support vision of integrated arts at Wake Forest
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.Categories: Arts & Culture, Transformative Giving, University Announcements
WFU student art purchases unveiled
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.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Art for impact: Students purchase works for WFU to reflect the times
In the pandemic year, the 2021 student art-buying trip doesn't involve a plane. Instead, it has pivoted into a virtual art buying "experience."Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
WFU Hackathon to explore blockchain’s potential in tracking art objects
In 2005, hundreds of earthenware pots and other pre-Columbian artifacts from ancient West Mexico became part of the collections of Wake Forest University’s Museum of Anthropology. The pieces included 162 complete ceramic vessels, ceramic figurines, greenstone beads and necklaces, an obsidian spear and arrow points, knives and grinding stones.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning
Audio productions launch Wake Forest Theatre’s fall season
Wake Forest Theatre's production of "Into the Woods was canceled this fall, but director Cindy Gendrich kept relationships - a major theme of the play - front and center by offering audio productions that can be enjoyed anywhere there is internet.Categories: Arts & Culture
Wake Forest and the New Museum present ‘IdeasCity Winston-Salem’
Wake Forest University, New Museum's NEW INC in New York City, and more than a dozen local businesses and organizations, are engaging in a unique year-long partnership called “IdeasCity Winston-Salem.”Categories: Arts & Culture, Community Impact
Webinar to highlight student-curated exhibition on Black portraiture
“Representation Matters: Art, Space and Racial Restitution,” a webinar co-sponsored by Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University’s Slavery, Race and Memory Project and Wake the Arts, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The panel will be moderated by humanities professor Corey D. B. Walker and feature conversations around the works. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.Categories: Arts & Culture, Happening at Wake, Inclusive Excellence, Research & Discovery
“Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture” to open in Hanes Gallery
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Mentorship
When dance goes digital at WFU
In mid-January, a 3-hour dance audition was held in studio D101. 50 Wake Forest students were selected by 12 student choreographers to perform in the Spring Dance Concert – a usually sold-out event held on the University’s Tedford Stage in Scales Fine Arts Center.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery