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Performance meets liberal arts at IPLACe
November 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, 2012 Highlights: Humanities, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Top Stories
The new Interdisciplinary Performance and the Liberal Arts Center (IPLACe) will inspire new ideas and build new connections between the performing arts and other academic departments across the University.
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Conservation liberal-arts style
September 17, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Engaging in the Arts, Events, Faculty, For Parents, Humanities, International, Sustainability, Top Stories
Forty years from now, the world’s rainforests may be gone and with them our chance for a stable environment. Wake Forest’s JAMAZON celebrates that creative minds from biology to music to history to English can join together to find the answers.
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Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’
September 5, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, International, Staff, Student, Top Stories
Wake Forest junior Brian Spadafora and sophomore Geoff Weber helped Italian artist Delio Gennai install his works for the opening exhibition at Hanes Gallery, “Of Paper.” The exhibition includes works from two continents by artists who live more than 4,500 miles apart.
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Art gallery features student work
May 18, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Student, Top Stories
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.
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Music, movies and meaning
May 4, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Faculty, For Parents, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
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.
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Words Awake!
March 26, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Alumni, Arts & Culture, Community, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Speakers, Top Stories
More than 50 alumni writers returned to campus for the first Words Awake! conference last weekend. Find out more about how the writers interacted with students, the campus community and local schools, and learn about the first class of the WFU Writers Hall of Fame.
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On stage and behind the scenes
February 22, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
Wes Hughes and Jake Meyer have been friends since their first year in Bostwick Hall. “City of Angels” is the fifth major production the two have acted in together.
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Music competition tests students’ mettle
February 15, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Admissions, Arts & Culture, Engaging in the Arts, Events, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories, Wake Forest College
What will it take to win? Senior Jacob Eichhorn is preparing for the fourth time to compete with Wake Forest’s top musicians to be a Giles-Harris award winner.
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Printmaking exhibition opens
February 7, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Humanities, Student, Top Stories
START Gallery’s first spring exhibition, “Lightening Strikes: The Illumination of the Self,” runs through Feb. 25. The show features works by 18 students who studied in art professor David Faber’s introductory, intermediate or advanced printmaking classes.
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WFU documentary goes global
January 24, 2012 | 2012 Highlights: Arts, Arts & Culture, Faculty, For Alumni, For Parents, Graduate School, Humanities, International, Top Stories
A new Documentary Film Program movie, “The Last Flight of Petr Ginz,” has caught the attention of the United Nations, which will produce a study guide and send copies of the film to its information centers in 63 countries for special screenings and educational programs.
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