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
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
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
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 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
“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
Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Inclusive Excellence, Mentorship
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
For an assignment from Elizabeth Clendinning’s modern popular music class, students were tasked with listening to Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon.” The goal: to experience a concept album. The result: their families engaged, too.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, Research & Discovery
The WFU Awards and Recognitions briefs celebrate milestones of faculty, staff and students at Wake Forest.Categories: Arts & Culture, Experiential Learning, University Announcements