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A Night at Scales
with the College Board of Visitors
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A day in the life of a senior at Wake Forest University
Max Schellhammer '26
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Creativity and Collaboration in Indonesia & Beyond
Q&A with gamelan artist I Putu Gede Sukaryana
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Reclaiming Italian American Narratives
Anthony Tamburri on the Mafia and the Misrepresentation
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The World According to Sound: Ways of Knowing
octophonic sound installation
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Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
World Tour
About the Festival
Wakeville 2026
Wake's annual student-organized arts festival
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Half the Sky - Yin Mei Dance
an evening-length performance
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Experiential Learning in Theatre
Behind the scenes with Pinter's "Old Times" and Memory
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Wakeville 2026
A student-organized celebration of the arts
Saturday, March 21
When the Earth Answers Back
Nature as the Greatest Collaborator
Essay on Music, Nature and inspiration
Neuroscience + arts take center stage in health and wellness
Wake Forest is proving that the arts are a critical tool for medical recovery and cognitive health.
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Celebrating Kathryn Levy
Her 50th season with the Winston-Salem Symphony
About the concert
Soul Sessions
Art as Liberation
February 26
Arts, Health Care, and Humanities in Action
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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Pro Humanitate Through Art
Jorge (P'26) and Darlene (P'26) Pérez on Collecting, Purpose and Community
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Ballet dancer Misty Copeland to deliver 2026 Commencement address
She made history as the first Black woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre
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Unpacking memory in “Old Times”
A student production featuring two independent casts
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Secrest Artists Series: J'Nai Bridges
Three time Grammy® Award-winning American mezzo-soprano
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Hanes Gallery opens “Timely Conversations” exhibit
The Hanes Gallery’s newest exhibition sparks dialogue between students and varying historical traditions
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Art of Observation
Drawing Plants as Creative Research
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Inside the Lam Museum of Anthropology
Wake wonders
Video series
New Faculty Reception
with the Wake the Arts Center
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Campus bands rock out at the Ramkat
Settle Down and Winston Station expand into the local music scene
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Arts & Culture Preview
Spring 2026
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Wake Forest Expands Leadership in Neuroarts
Global Collaboration, Community Partnership, New Research Investments, and Prestigious Recognition
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Anthony Aston Players presents: ‘Orion’
AAP’s latest production brought space and time to the Ring Theater
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Seeking Pasture
A social practice project, movie, and art installation by Joel Tauber
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Afrofuturism
From Sun Ra to Wakanda
Film screenings
Branford Marsalis brings jazz wisdom to Wake Forest
2025 Maya Angelou Artist in Residence Award
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Raphaёl Feuillâtre, guitar
Secrest Artists Series
Concert: November 13
Steinway unboxing video
Larry Weng discusses the selection process for Wake's new Hamburg Steinway Model D
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Christian McBride and Brad Mehldau
Secrest Series inaugurates new Steinway with Jazz duo
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URECA Day showcases student research
Studio art major Blair Newsome studies ecologically responsible painting methods
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Bone and Marrow / Cnámh agus Smior
WFU Press title featured in ‘The Irish Times’
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The Hanes Gallery reopens with “The Darkness”
“The Darkness” brings immersive light to the Hanes Gallery
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Poetry, poetics and prayer
Three university poets hold Faith Forum on Poetics
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Kung Fu Playwriting Workshop
with playwright Philip Dawkins
September 24th
Explore Indie Comics with Tillie Walden
Vermont Cartoonist Laureate to Speak During Homecoming Week
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OUT at the Movies
Festival Preview Night at Bryrum Welcome Center
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CL | ATH | KYAN
A partnership that just makes sense
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"Everything I Learned, I Learned at a Chinese Restaurant"
An Evening with Curtis Chin
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The Darkness
an exhibition of recent works by Rudy Shepherd and Molly Kaderka
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Abraham's Bridge
film screening and discussion
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Resistencia Film Festival
highlighting Latin American & Latinx voices and culture in film
September 18, 21, 29, and October 9
Inter Alia: North Carolina Trees
Poetry and orchestral world premiere
Concert: October 24 (learn more)
Arts & Culture Preview: Fall 2025
The OGB Arts & Culture editors highlight fall art events to look out for
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The Race to Baskerville
Baskerville(ing) in the light, Wake Forest’s upcoming production of “A Sherlock Holmes Mystery"
Read about it on the OGB
The Comeback: A BSA Pep Rally
Pep Rally hosted by the Black Student Alliance
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Deac Beats 2025
Drumming circles for a new semester
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Laura Minton ('11) named Acquavella Director of University Art Galleries and Collections
Minton will oversee Hanes Art Gallery, stArt Gallery, and University Collections
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Secrest Artists Series 2025-26
Season announcement
Tickets Available
As classic film ‘Sunset Boulevard’ celebrates its 75th, WFU expert’s new book garners national attention
"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." - Norma Desmond
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Five Questions for Spurge Carter (’14)
Carter calls himself a 'creative professional,' embodying the label to the hilt.
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Constant & True: Sarah Slappey (’06)
Don’t think of creativity as a final product
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A Natural World ‘Both Familiar and Mysterious’
Walking a path of discovery on the grounds of Reynolda and the slopes of North Carolina mountains, Leigh Ann Hallberg painted what she felt.
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The Nashville Network
Songwriters who studied at Wake Forest have found inspiration in Music City — and they're cranking out the hits.
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A musical conversation to transcend borders
Mark Allen (’88) and Andrea Engleson (’87) are chronicling their journey in a new PBS series.
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The Alchemy of Creativity
Everyone creates — but to what end?
by Ed Southern ('94)
The Creativity Issue
Wake Forest Magazine - Summer 2025
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Jazz master Branford Marsalis named WFU’s ‘Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence’
Celebrated artist will bring his vast experience and creative spirit to the Wake Forest campus
Fall 2025
Wake Forest Choir in Brazil
WFU Chamber Choir Tour 2025
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David Lubin
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Dan Locklair
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Kathy Levy
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Leigh Ann Hallberg
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Stew Carter
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Celebrating the class of 2025
Meet the future
Read about these brilliant students
Spring '25 with Wake the Arts
celebrating an eventful season
Photo and video gallery
From dance to diapers to digital fame
Motherhood sparks a second act for Emily Scott James (’14)
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Evan Harris ('26) wins Pulitzer Center Fellowship
Harris credits studio art professor John Pickel for helping him hone his skills working with 35mm photography
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The Magnolia: Spring 2025
Student arts magazine
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Renowned art history scholar and Wake Forest University professor, David Lubin, honored
an interdisciplinary symposium held in honor of his retirement
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Music + Gaming Creates Joy and Discovery
Groundbreaking event blended music, video gaming, academics and career exploration
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Ruiying Gao named National Humanities Center Fellow
Gao's current project examines materia medica images in China's Ming dynasty
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The Tempest
through April 13
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“The Tempest” blows through Tedford Stage
Shakespeare’s comedy comes to life as a must-see spectacle
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Wakeville photo story
Arts and Sustainability Festival
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Wakeville 2025
WFU's student-organized interdisciplinary arts festival
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“Eye of the Earth”: Wyeth’s quiet fire
Reynolda House’s latest exhibition traces Wyeth’s decades-long fascination with Kuerner Farm
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Symphony orchestras should be playing video game music, here’s why
Five questions with Wake Forest Professor, orchestra director and gamer Aaron Hardwick
Q&A Video
Art in Bloom at Reynolda Gardens
Sydney Aikens (‘25) paints cherry blossoms
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Dutiful and deliberate, joyful and free
Alumna Camille Love has made a mark in business, the arts, public service and beyond.
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An Evening with Brooke Shields
Workshop and performance
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Looking Closer at American Art
A Symposium in Honor of David Lubin
Saturday April 26, 2025
We Play Together: Music + Gaming
an extraordinary three-day event blending music, gaming, and academic exploration
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Ezra Claytan Daniels
Severance writer/producer, graphic novelist
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Fame and Filiality
Dr. Elizabeth Kindall explores the work of Huang Xiangjian
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An Appalachian Maqam
featuring the Travis Williams Group
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Rude Girl: My Life on Both Sides of the Atlantic
Priscilla Layne presents her graphic memoir
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Larry Weng and Marie-Amélie George receive Gladding Awards
2025 Gladding Authors, Editors, and Artists Faculty Award
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Sowing “Fields of Fortune”
Wake Forest’s ZSR reckons with the tobacco money the university and city was built upon
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Freedom Dreams Mass Meeting
Featuring The Albany Civil Rights Institute Freedom Singers
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Forsaken Peaks: An Andean Exile
world premiere by Javier Farias - March 28
New commission from the Wake the Arts Center
Thomas Dunford, lute
Secrest Artists Series
March 26
In Celebration of Eid: Riyaaz Qawwali
Qawwali musical performance
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‘Hoop Dreams’ still resonates after 30 years, here’s why
Five questions with Wake Forest Documentary Film Program professor Peter Gilbert
Story and video
The Power of Dance
Academic Community Engagement Fellow Spotlight: Christina Soriano
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William "Electric" Black
Speaker Series and Community Networking Conference
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Legally Blonde
24-hour musical
Short video
Making a Brand New Noise
Richard Upchurch (’96) makes wooden sound toys and eccentric instruments
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Hear me, see me — race, whiteness and power in Othello
David Sterling Brown lecture explores Shakespeare’s works
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Secrest Series presents Vijay Iyer Trio
all-star trio in Brendle Hall on March 6
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Putting on a Musical in 24 Hours…What Like It’s Hard?
The 24 Hour Musical Project’s “Legally Blonde”
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“Young, Gifted, and Black” exhibit at Hanes Art Gallery challenges and redefines history
exhibition amplifies the voices of Black artists and modifies the narrative around contemporary art
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Hoop Dreams 30th Anniversary
Arthur Agee and William Gates talk about the landmark film
Discussion and reception
The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics
Dr. Amy Catanzano’s new book publication
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone
A performative investigation into technology’s role in our society
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Rae Armantrout
reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
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Black art as a living, breathing force
Clifford Owens lecture blended performance, activism, and reflection
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Young, Gifted and Black
The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
January 23 – March 29, Hanes Art Gallery
Tonality, led by Alexander Lloyd Blake (’10)
part of a collaborative celebration to honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Video and photo gallery
Young, Gifted, and Black: A BSA Affair
Black Student Alliance presents an evening in celebration of Black excellence
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Sick-Amour: A Love Story
Film Screening & Reception
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We Were Here
The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Film screening
2025 Spring Arts Preview
by Lydia Derris
Read on the Old Gold & Black
WFU Orchestra Director to lead Munich Radio Orchestra in program featuring video game music
“Let’s Play” will be broadcast live
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Dr. Ebony Flowers’ "A Sketch of Sunday"
Published in MoMA Magazine
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Scales of possibility
Mentorship with Larry Weng and Roscoe Bell III (’23)
WFU Secrest Series event to celebrate Rev. Martin Luther King Day
The Secrest Artists Series will present Tonality
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Building Campus and Community Solidarity through Art in Research and Teaching Workshop
Workshop for community-oriented learning projects
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Wrapping up the semester
Happy holidays from Wake the Arts
Photos from a vibrant semester of arts on campus
Performance on the stage and the field
Caiya Hanks '26 talks about being a soccer star and theatre minor
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Talking with Jesmyn Ward
Acclaimed novelist speaks to student audience
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“Constellations” falls in love for the first time over and over again
The student-produced plays explores parallel universes, relationships and heartbreak
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Art, Trauma, and Somatics
Healing in the Paint Splatter Room
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Learning to play with Chinese Ensemble
Xiangning "Sonia" He ('25) talks about playing the guzheng
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Adding to the conversation on trans art
Willa Wasserman visits Hanes Gallery to discuss her practice as a painter
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Embracing Change
Betsy Rives (’08) uses what she learned as a studio art major to innovate at Google.
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A magical wish comes true
Make a Wish Foundation partners with Wake the Arts to bring a wish to the stage
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Wake Forest alumnus spearheads the film industry
Will Allegra ('05) joins WFU students to discuss his career in the industry
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“Love and Information” finds harmony in shocks and glitches
The 90-minute play is jam-packed with 57 glimpses into our modern world
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Wake Forest launches Center for Literacy Education
The initiative connects campus and community partners
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Haunted Tunnels 2024
Behind the scenes of a terrifying tradition
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Blair Newsome '26
Student artist interview
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On Knowing: A Symposium
A discussion in partnership with Department of Theatre and Dance’s Production of Caryl Churchill’s "Love & Information"
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Evan Harris '26
Student artist interview
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World Premieres from icarus Quartet
icarus Quartet performs new works by Higdon, Bresnick and Cuong
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Sawako Nakayasu reveals the practice behind the poetry
The international poet and translator performs for the Dillon Johnston Writers Reading series
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Literature in Performance
The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading series opens with Steven Dunn and Drew Shamir
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International Black Theatre Festival 2024
Collaboration with NC Black Repertory Theatre, Luce Foundation and School of Divinity
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Art, Activism, and the Anthropocene
artist talk by Mary Mattingly
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For the laughs
From Lilting Banshees to Disney to D&D podcast, Caldwell Tanner (’09) builds a successful and roll-of-the-dice comedy career
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Lion Dance Show and Outdoor Film Screening
An evening of performance, food and culture
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The Art of Seeing Anew: Kristi Chan (’15)
Wake Forest Magazine invited five professional photographers who are alumni to return for 48 hours. They zoomed in on the Wake Forest they want you to see.
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The Art of Seeing Anew: Mark Atkinson (’77)
Wake Forest Magazine invited five professional photographers who are alumni to return for 48 hours. They zoomed in on the Wake Forest they want you to see.
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Stopping to notice
An art professor found inspiration in a vast expanse of asphalt when he slowed down to appreciate and film a single tree.
Essay by Joel Tauber
The Art of Collaboration
icarus Quartet's world premieres
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Caring for costumes
Mary Wayne-Thomas and Sadie MacDonald ('26)
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From Scales to the Sales Room
Art alumna Mattos Paschal ‘14 shares her story in the world of art sales
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OUT at the Movies
Opening Night Screening
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Theatre stabs into the Fall season
“The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940” pulls off humor and suspense
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Walk with Wente: Nina Lucas
President Wente walks and talks with Nina Lucas, Professor of Dance
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Adam Stone ('95), director of photography
Critical and Creative Media Masterclass Series
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Bring Them Home / Aiskótáhkapiyaaya
Indigenous Peoples Day Film Screening
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Bollywood film screening
and Q&A with actor Anshuman Jha
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3D models for hands-on museum experiences
Anthropology Prof. Andrew Gurstelle and URECA Scholar Annelise Witcher (’26) on photogrammetry and accessibility
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Student artwork opening at OPCD
street photography by Evan Harris ('26)
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Wake the Arts this semester
A preview of the semester
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Dr. Donovan Livingston
Leadership, Equity, and Education Speaker Series
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Will Allegra (‘05), film producer
Critical and Creative Media Masterclass Series
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“Founders Vision” opens at Reynolda House
The private collection celebrates modern American art
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Welcome to Wake
The Lilting Banshees deliver in their first performance this Fall
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Art, Community, and Campus Memorialization
A panel discussion with artists and scholars
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Tanganza
Faculty and Guest Artist Concert with Jacqui Carrasco and Marco Sartor
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Tim Miller
Internationally renowned performance artist
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No Lights No Lycra
Dance and Biomechanics course
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Environmental Art Visualization Collaboration
A collaborative, creative data visualization project
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WFU and NC Black Rep collaboration ‘Finding Holy Ground’ to spark community conversation
Grant funds two plays featured at International Black Theatre Festival
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Student-Acquired Art Collection featured in Burnaway
Eating Chick-Fil-A under the Christian Marclay
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Remembering Professor Emeritus of Art Harry Titus
Titus brought his love of art history to the classroom where he taught generations of students over 32 years.
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How Improvisational Movement and Dance Affect the Brain
A Q&A With Wake Forest Researchers Christina Hugenschmidt, PhD, and Christina Soriano
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"our wife"
exhibition and artist talk in Venice
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Wake the Arts celebrates the class of of 2024
Meet the future
Read about these brilliant students
2024 Chamber Choir On the Road
Tour of the Southeast USA
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A Student-Acquired Art Collection Reflects the Times
Wake Forest University is one of the few American institution of higher education to establish a collection of student-acquired art.
Read about the Collection on Hyperallergic
Mary Wayne-Thomas
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Brantly Bright Shapiro
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Peter Kairoff
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Sharon Andrews
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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2024-25 Wake Forest Fellows announced
Half of them are arts students
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The Magnolia: Spring 2024
For its fifth edition, The Magnolia explores the music community at Wake Forest and in the broader Winston-Salem area
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How the performing arts can teach kids concepts in science
Wake Forest partners with Speas Elementary for innovative program
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Giles-Harris music competition redefines performance
WFU music students compete for cash prizes
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2024 student art-acquisition trip selections unveiled
Students continue Wake's 60-year tradition
See the new artwork
‘RiverRun’ offers opportunities for WFU film students to shine
The University is well-represented at this year’s RiverRun International Film Festival
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Wakeville Arts Festival 2024
Hundreds of students showcased their talent
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"Art is what it takes to be human."
Sule James is guiding his students toward a deeper understanding of humanity through art.
More about Professor Sule James
WFU Theatre closes season with ‘Urinetown’
Urinetown is a wickedly funny, fast-paced, surprisingly intelligent musical satire
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‘Sense and Sensibility’: WFU Theater ‘Combines humor with sentimentality’
The acclaimed production from Wake Forest’s theater department transported viewers to another period
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Physics & Guitar/Lute Construction
Luthier Garrett Lee works with physics and music students
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WFU Press publishes two books by award-winning Belfast poet Stephen Sexton
Wake Forest University Press is proud to reissue both titles
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"Words, Music, Memory"
Songs commemorating the Holocaust
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The Storyteller
Sona Tatoyan's ('00) discovery of 100-year-old shadow puppets in a "magic box" in a war zone inspires hope and healing.
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Maestro
Panel and Film Screening
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“UNITED” pleads for solidarity amidst Crystal Towers crisis
Documentary captures a pivotal moment in Winston-Salem’s ongoing housing crisis
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Artist Lorenzo Steele Jr. offers a sobering look into the American prison system
‘Behind These Prison Walls’ author’s work was on display at Scales Fine Arts Center
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‘Quantum Poetics’ marries quantum physics and poetry
Professor Amy Catanzano discusses her groundbreaking work across multiple disciplines
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Exhibit, performance commemorate voices from the Holocaust
Exhibition combines literature, music and performance
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Hanes Gallery allows guests to feel art and spark conversation
WFU leading the way in art gallery accessibility
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Kyan Patel ('27) builds business by painting portraits of North Carolina's biggest athletes
Patel is an art and economics major
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Azad (the rabbit and the wolf)
a multimedia theatrical experience by Sona Tatoyan ('00)
Azad: the rabbit and the wolf
The Future of the Past
How Wake Forest is Collaborating to Reimagine Cultural Preservation
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Hanes Gallery/Paul Bright, American artist Dread Scott, and Cristin Tierney Gallery partner on installation at ‘La Biennale di Venezia’
Alumna and gallery director on the international stage
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A Writing Promise
Dr. Lisa Sponcler Norman (’93), surgical pathologist and mom of four, reignited a childhood passion as a way to give back.
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New gallery exhibit highlights six decades of art ‘Of the Times’
Celebrating 60 years of Wake Forest University student-acquired contemporary art
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to perform at Secrest Series
The concert will feature internationally renowned British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason
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AfriCasa presents ‘Walking in a Winter Afro-Land’
Beza Zelalem (‘26) shares her experience participating in the fashion show, which highlighted African diasporic groups
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Two WFU Press titles included in year-end roundups
WFU Press is the premier publisher of Irish poetry in North America.
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Artistry Unveiled
A Conversation with Yan Cheng (‘19) and Caroline Perkins (‘16)
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Kennedy photos 60 years after the assassination
Art professor explains the cultural landscape caught on camera
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Debbie Allen moves and inspires
Inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence
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A Poet Without A Country
Enzo Menghini ('25) on finding his artistic voice
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In conversation with Debbie Allen
Wake Forest welcomed Debbie Allen to campus this week to receive the inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award
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‘Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom’
The play gives a topical testimony to a uniquely American story
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‘Doing nothing to achieve everything’
Asian philosophical wisdom blossoms in Chinese dance and operas
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German/Russian Documentaries
Documentaries about humans and the environment
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Paving the Way: Origin Stories
Orchestra concert, guest artist, workshop
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Exploring the Arts of Chinese Dance
Performance, lecture, and workshop
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The Voice of Barbie
For Carrie Buse (’89), a career at Mattel has been “Kenough,” providing a path from copywriting to design and innovation.
More about Carrie Buse (’89) and Barbie
Theatre presents Civil Rights Drama
Based on the award-winning memoir by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
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Secrest Artists Series to host the Dublin Guitar Quartet
Dublin Guitar Quartet is the first classical guitar quartet entirely devoted to new music
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WFU Symphony to host award-winning trumpeter and educator Courtney D. Jones
“Paving the Way” is an interdisciplinary concept designed to magnify underrepresented composers and musicians
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Slavery, Race and Memory Project hosts film screening & panel discussion
panelists discussed social relevance, artistic merit, and other issues
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The dramaturgy of ‘Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom’
The research behind making Wake Forest’s new musical as impactful as possible
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Kairoff inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame
Professor recognized for "fostering passion, creativity and discipline in the next generation of piano artists.”
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Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)
2nd Annual Gathering
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Eerie secrets reach a fever pitch in ‘Witness for the Prosecution’
WFU theatre’s fall show steps into the intriguing world of Agatha Christie
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OUT at the Movies
Opening night event
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A pair of poetic evenings break political, artistic boundaries
The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series brings four poets and performers to campus
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Variations in the Dream of X
Performance & poetry reading
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Jazz pianist opens Secrest Artists Series Sept. 21
featuring Jason Moran and The Bandwagon
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What’s driving diverse audiences to symphonic music? Video games
Aaron Hardwick explains how video games are creating a new generation of classical music fans
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Wake Forest launches a new digital guide to art collections, exhibitions
The University joins more than 200 cultural institutions around the globe on Bloomberg Connects app
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Melissa Godoy Nieto
Artist in residence in Hanes Art Gallery
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Carl E. Hazlewood
Artist in residence in Hanes Art Gallery
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9th Wonder details the history of hip-hop during master’s course
9th Wonder teaches courses at Wake Forest University
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Ronaldo V. Wilson
Artist in residence at Hanes Gallery
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A Secret History in Plain Sight
With persistence and innovation, materials scientist Laura Ware Adlington (’10) delved past what meets the eye at Canterbury Cathedral to solve a mystery and make history.
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Wake Forest Chamber Choir Tour 2023
Take a journey with WFU Chamber Choir to see the sights and sounds of southern Spain and Portugal
Experience our travelog
Chase Clark ('26) helps young musicians to take stage at Carnegie Hall
Middle to high-school-aged kids from the Piedmont Triad perform
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Arts Seniors Spotlight 2023
The Class of '23 is off to change the world
Meet the future
Distinguished Arts Ambassador
J. D. Wilson (’69, P ’01) is a living legend at Wake Forest and in the arts community of Winston-Salem
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Dance Concert
Photos from the 2023 Student-Choreographed Dance Concert
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David Finn
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Kevin Bowen
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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The Art Connector
Caitlin Berry (’09) makes public access and community conversations a focal point as director of the new Rubell Museum DC.
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Reflecting the Spirit of Pro Humanitate
J.D. Wilson (’69, P ’01) receives the Distinguished Alumni Award
More about the award
Chinese drama club BiMoo in ‘Unborn’
The play addresses the One-Child Policy
Ellie Howell ('25) sings with Kristin Chenoweth
A surprise performance with a legend.
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Reflecting the times
Every three years, students travel to New York to buy contemporary art. But what happens to it when it gets here?
‘Artivists’ bring together art and local activism
The organization is partnering with stArt gallery to display their sustainably made collection
Debbie Allen named ‘Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence’
Emmy award-winning director and producer is inaugural recipient
Wakeville
WFU's First Student-Organized Arts Festival
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Waiting for Gunderson
Playwright Lauren Gunderson attends Wake Forest’s acclaimed production of her work, ‘Silent Sky’
Silent Sky
A peek at WFU Theatre's fantastic production
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Creativity during COVID-19
Georgia Kathryn Duncan ('25) discusses her quarantine hobby
Winner of international scenic design competition to stage WFU Theatre’s production of ‘Silent Sky’
Egyptian stage designer Héba Elkomy's work selected
Celebration of Black Arts
Highlights from Black Student Alliance’s Celebration of Black Arts
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WFU students explore redlining, art and local history
“Undesign the Redline” is a national exhibit exploring the history of racism and inequality.
Deacon Profile: Zac Contreras
The senior’s artwork is on display at the stArt gallery
Force of Nature
Photographer Kate T. Parker (’98) couldn’t be stopped in creating a career that led to best-selling books about the power of letting girls and boys be themselves.
More about Kate T. Parker (’98)
Music department encourages recognition for unsung heroes
Students perform the works of Florence Price at a recent concert
Play by Cameron Michles (’23) featured in festival
The play was among six winning plays to be featured in Barter Theatre’s College Playwrights Festival
‘Three Sisters’ brings 19th century Russia to the stage
The production tells the story of sisters who dream of moving to Moscow to pursue a more meaningful life.
WFU senior turns her passion for sustainability into art
Gretchen Castelloe ('23) is helping develop the university’s first interdisciplinary arts festival
A Conversation with Sarah Slappey ('06) & Mitchell Anderson ('07)
catching up with alumni at stArt Gallery
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Wake Forest student makes theater more accessible
Cameron Michles ('23) researches how theaters can include audiences with sensory issues
Quilter Learning Lab
Workshop with Kimberly Pierce Cartwright
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Deacon Profile: Alice Hauser
Hauser ('23) was named as a Rhodes Scholar recipient
Ramson Lomatewama Residency
Hopi artist, poet, and educator joins colleagues
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Wake the Arts to collaborate on the debut of ‘ArtCities’
Guilty by Association (GBA) is dedicated to raising visibility for underrepresented artists
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Black Fire
Documentary film screening
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The Shape of the Collection
“Art” Photographs of Japan in an “Ethnographic” Archive
More about Dr. Odo's visit
Place, Place-making, and Well-Being in Oceania
Lecture by Kelema Lee Moses
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Itinerario:boarding gate C71
Musicians and audience perform a graphic score
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How To Be Perfec (t)
Michael Schur, writer/producer of “The Good Place” and “Parks and Recreation,” visits Wake Forest
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Paving the Way
Elevating women composers
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Songbird Musical Service spreads musical joy
The newly-founded club pays weekly visits to a local assisted-living facility
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Green with Wonder
From precise botanical illustrations to surprising QR codes, artist Meredith Mulhearn (’01) stays rooted in the natural world.
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The 24/7 Art Cart for the Business School
Art supplies for students
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Ammar Basha Screening & Script Reading
Artist Protection Fund filmmaker from Yemen
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Bioethics and the Arts
Integrating arts into medical school education
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Songbird
Students provide musical therapy to local residents diagnosed with dementia
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Gay History for Straight People!
a 72-year-old redneck lesbian who loves Jesus
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NC Black Rep and Wake Forest announce winning playwrights
"Finding Holy Ground" plays are collaboration among School of Divinity, NC Black Rep and Wake the Arts
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Harvest Moon Festival 2022
hosted by Asian Student Interest Association
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Sones de México Ensemble
Mexican folk music performances
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Classical Performance Grant
Gellar-Goad receives largest-ever federal grant earned by a WFU humanities professor & award from Women’s Classical Caucus
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ArtChats
Students share favorite works from the WFU Art Collections
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Michael Longley Wins Feltrinelli International Poetry Prize
Wake Forest University Press has published Michael Longley’s poetry in the United States since 1981.
more about Michael Longley
Presidential appointment for Allison Perkins
Perkins was appointed by President Biden to the National Museum and Library Services Board
Read about Allison Perkins
HiddenSTEM: Engineering Portraits
Commission: portraits of underrepresented figures in STEM fields
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Kintsugi and the virtue of resilience
The Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with liquid gold
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Summer Dances
An Evening of Dance and Music
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LAM Museum of Anthropology Embraces International Student Realities
exhibition highlights how international Chinese students navigate between invisibility and hypervisibility
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Politics of Black Art & Education
Iyana Trotman ('24) shares her URECA-funded research
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Caitlin Berry (’09) directs Rubell Museum
Berry was appointed to be the inaugural director of forthcoming complex in Washington, DC
Read about Caitlin Berry (’09)
National Black Theatre Festival underway this week
Productions at WFU are being held at the Scales Fine Arts Center in the Tedford Mainstage Theatre
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9th Wonder to teach the culture and history of hip-hop
Grammy Award-winning producer, DJ, lecturer, and Winston-Salem native
Listen to an interview
Gaming and Music
WFU Symphony Orchestra's new director loves the diversity of video games
Read about Aaron J. Hardwick
Chamber Choir Tour
See performances from the inaugural Spring Tour
See the Virtual Booklet
The Art of Meditation
WFU Students Follow Ancient Pilgrimage Route Across Scotland
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Higgs Boson: The Cosmic Glyph
To mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the poet Amy Catanzano celebrates the Higgs in verse
Read the poem
LUV It (Vesuvius)
Study abroad enhancement to experience local music, dance, poetry and art
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Lynn Book
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Read about Lynn Book
David Hagy
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Read about David Hagy
Arts Seniors Spotlight: Class of '22
Hitting the ground running
Learn about a few of our graduating seniors
Dance Concert
Student-Choreographed Dance Concert: Spring 2022
View Photo Collection
Student Performers Examine the Arts’ Influence On Their Character
student performers share their reflections about the arts during a time when the pandemic prevented them from performing
Our Guide to the Venice Biennale
A guided tour from our Art students
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The Ultracontemporary
Spring '22 edition of WFU's literary magazine
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Migrant Horizons
Poetry and Storytelling in Scenes of Crisis
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Behind the curtain
Hands-on learning for a large-scale musical based on NYC industry practices
Leadership and Character in the Arts Showcase
Year End Reception
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“Living in Color”
The Experience of Minorities in the U.S. through Art
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Navigating the Art World
A visit from Sandy Heller and a special award for J.D. Wilson
The Grid in Millennial Vision
Jay Buchanan ('17) guides us through the exhibition
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"She Loves Me" Brings Frothy, Funny, Sweet Song and Dance
Musical receives rave review
Read the review
My Roots in Other Lands: Mis raíces en otras tierras
An Artist Conversation with Cornelio Campos
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Bringing diversity to the stage
The Bimoo Chinese Theatre Group stages Mandarin theatre
Swim: Lynn Book Archive
an online portal of experimental projects and research at the intersection of arts, culture, change
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An Evening with Sona Jobarteh
griot from Gambia
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Being Balinese
music, dance, and hands-on experience
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Aeneid: Proem and Vulcan’s Reply
Poetry and performance
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Life Through the Lens: Quynh Vu
Grappling with expectations of the art made by women of color
The Power of Music
Yo Yo Ma on Art, Life and Happiness
New stArt exhibit features student photography
A brand new Wake Forest digital photography class displays their work in local art gallery
For the Love of Art
Wake Forest’s premier art collection gets a new name and lots of love
Artist Spotlight: Caroline Suber
Art as a mirror
The show must go on!
Alumni share in the applause.
Collaborations
Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo
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Collaborations: Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo
An Evening of Works by Pauline Oliveros and others
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"Food for minds and spirits"
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo performs on campus
Black Joy: Centering Community & Individual Expression
Artworks in diverse media by Black creators
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'Theirs is the Kingdom’
Filmmaker and Wake Forest faculty member Christopher Zaluski (MFA ’13) documents the making of a holy fresco, an ancient technique with a modern message to see the invisible among us.
Artist Spotlight: Maggie Hodge
Exploring aesthetic opposites
Henry Luce Foundation to fund discourse on race, justice and religion
Funds to commission two original plays to be presented at the 2024 National Black Theatre Festival
Ammar Basha
Artist Protection Fund Fellow in Residence
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Roadside Assistance
Workshop addressing bias in policing
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Keyword Crossings: Form
humanities, visual arts, and performing arts
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Reminiscing on my relationship with art
Selinna Tran ('23) uses art to approach life and emotions
"In a word, joyful."
Meet PSDA Scholar Gretchen Castelloe ('23)
Annie Leist: Beacons
Accessibility and art
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Nazar: Beauty and Monstrosity under the Gaze of Power
A talk by artist Saba Taj
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"Not afraid to speak my mind"
Chris Cates ('22) on theatre, queerness, and his journey at Wake
"I am brown, I am Muslim, and I belong here."
Meet PSDA Scholar Yaser Salamah ('22)
The Art Gallery as Laboratory
The chemistry of art conservation
Inspiring moral imagination through art
Divinity Dean Walton works with music, storytelling, theatre
Rejuvenating the performing arts
Getting back into the swing of things with music professor Elizabeth Pacheco Rose
The Blues of Achilles
Classical literature, modern folk music, and enduring questions love and grief
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“Means of Identification” exhibition opens
Every piece in the collection expresses some sort of timely take on current politics or social issues
Learning from the Old Masters
Copley, Katz and the Science of Painting Conservation
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City of Arts and Ideas
IdeasCityWS Festival marks year of creative collaborations
Arts at Undergraduate Research Day
Neurodiverse theatre, prison abolition, and fantasy film scores
Virtual Exhibitions
Check out Virtual Exhibitions from the WFU Art Collections
ByteSize Learning helps kids learn to code at IdeasCityWS
New startup helps children from 8 to 18 become more software savvy
"The world is wide"
Meet Dr. Elizabeth Clendinning
Read the interview
She’s one of 6 female firefighters in her N.J. department
And that’s just her day job
An Evening of Dance, Music, and Art
Alums and faculty create summer magic together
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Great Houses and Their Stories
Professor emerita and author of a book on Winston-Salem’s architectural history sees the city in a new light in retirement
Exploring the arts at Wake Forest
Wake Forest offers avenues to discover and engage with creative endeavors
An Evening of Dance, Music & Art
Music Carolina
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Were You There?
Gospel Choir performance during the 2021 Easter Service
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Music Carolina
WFU Music and Dance to headline Summerfest
Arts Seniors Spotlight
2021 Arts Grads excel across disciplines
Wake Forest Fellows
Two Arts students selected among 10 Fellows
Heaven Laughs!
Choral Music of Bach & Beethoven
See the Performance
Teresa Radomski
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
David Levy
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Page Laughlin
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Louis Goldstein
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Bernadine Barnes
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Behind the Forest
The Philomathesian team's community art project
Promoting the Arts amidst COVID-19
Virtual performances on campus have allowed for live entertainment for students
Freeing Dreams ‘Stuck in Notes’
Two alumni create a literary zine for nudging ideas into action, including their own.
$1M Gift for Interdisciplinary Arts
Momentum for the Interdisciplinary Arts Center
Choreography for Climate
How will we fall?
See the Performance
Still I Rise
Partners in Performance Virtual Choir Collaboration
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Say Her Name
choral collaboration about racial justice
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Say Her Name
Choral Collaboration for Justice
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Two singing groups hold outdoor concerts
Minor Variation and Demon Divas performed for students at two separate concerts this week
Noise Makers
Musician, teacher, neuroscientist
WFU student art purchases unveiled
Reveal the works and hear students talk about the new acquisitions
SUAAC Acquisitions
A new generation selects contemporary art
See the 2021 artwork
Dancing Together
Community Ballet brings together students, community, faculty
Giles-Harris Winners
44th Annual Awards
See them perform
Earth Day show
presented by Wayward Fashion
Meet Kaylah Bozkurtian (’22)
Studio Art Major. Theatre, History, & Creative Writing minors
Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award
New award celebrates Pro Humanitate
Interstitial 3
Partners in Performance Dance and Video Installation
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Christopher Gilliam
Leading with song
Pandemic Piano
Music to get through tough times
Gregg Mozgala
Theatre & Dance Department course enhancement
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5 and Under
Young Art alums reconnect and share advice
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“Peony Dreams: On the Other Side of Sleep”
Dept. of History and East Asian Languages and Culture course enhancement
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Hack to the Future
WFU students take Hackathon First Prize
Celebration of the Black Arts
2021 Archive
Telephone Game
Creative translation from artist to artist
See the Game
14 Lines For Now
Shakespeare Reimagined
Be Amazed
Resilient Practices for the Actor
Department of Theatre & Dance Course Enhancement
More about Tiffany Waddell Tate
Leading Inclusion
Applying collaboration learned as a theater student
Center Stage
Flute virtuoso Kathryn Levy takes the stage
Virtual Concert
Black Theatre Insights
Daily insights compiled by Chris Cates ('21)
Black Art Matters
Artist Talk by Willie Cole
See the talk
Student artists flourish in spite of pandemic challenges
Wake Forest’s talent shows out in the fantastic forms of music and writing
Working Together
Leigh Ann Hallberg and Paul Bright dig in and create during quarantine
Tim Miller
Department of Theatre & Dance course enhancement and public performance
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"Oslo" Talk
Department of Theatre & Dance Course Enhancement and Public Talk
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Art, Research, and Justice Combine
Honoring Henrietta Lacks
Mixtape
Wake Student Singers Perform In Symphony Valentine’s Day Production
WFU Counseling Master’s Program Course Enhancement
Theatre students simulate therapy situations
More about the theatre and counseling collaboration
Putting His Best Foot Forward
Singer-songwriter Mark Sucoloski ('22)
Unique Deac
Wake Forest might lead the ACC in budding artists
Two-Way Artist
Jalen Johnson's two passions
Live & in Color: The Experience of Minorities in the U.S. Through Art
Department of Spanish and Italian Course Enhancement
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We Wish You A Merry Christmas
A socially-distanced greeting from the choir
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Monuments of Community
Students create public art in response to extraordinary times
Redesign For The Soul
DIY in Pro Humanitate style
Bhangra
Music Department Course Enhancement
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Young Voices of Protest
WFU Theatre and NC Black Rep
See the show
Haunted Trails
The Curse of Thyme
Virtual walkthrough experience
Breaking from traditional art
Student and artist, under the alias Maria Salviadore, sat down to discuss their artistic perspective
Using Baseball to Build Connections
WFU professor’s film on his 40-day pilgrimage along the U.S.-Mexico border
Teaming Up for Change
Arts & Athletics
See the Video
Connected in the Deep
Audio productions launch Wake Forest Theatre’s fall season
The Making of From The Ground Up
Facilities skill on display in performance of a lifetime
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Unearthing Connections
A virtual collaboration between Wake artists and poets
See what they created
Confronting Complex Issues
Hanes Gallery and Slavery Race and Memory Project host panel discussion
“The Search for Wachovia”
Cultural Performance
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stArtStream
Student video art
See the Virtual Exhibition
Explorations of Self
Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection
Week One
Wake Foresters return to campus Fall 2020
See the Arts in action
100 Faces in 100 Days
Anna Hustrulid Jarrell (’05) paints portraits for COVID-19 relief
Creativity From Home
Expression fuels remote students
Manifestos!
Students dig deep and take a stand
Reflecting the Times
When dance goes digital
Brian Gorelick
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
Birds of a Feather Learn Together
Arts enliven a new generation
Creative Connection
Drumming class finds a new rhythm
Pink Floyd vs. Pink
Modern music class bridges generations
Beyond Cut and Paste
Collage before, after, and including Motherwell
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Shadow Puppet Screens
Traditional Balinese performance goes virtual
Birds 101
Wake Forest students head to Florida to photograph birds
Giles-Harris Music Competitions
43rd Annual Giles-Harris Music Competitions
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Living Tradition
Beijing Opera comes to Wake Forest
On Art and the Heart: My London Story
An alumna shares her fresh perspectives after touring museums in her adopted home city abroad with new Deacon friends.
Beethoven at 250
Why does Beethoven's music matter today? Ask Wake Forest music professor David Levy.
Finding A Way Out
WFU Theatre's Production of "Ever In The Glades"
Lainey Drake
Wake Forest sophomore named Brooke Owens Fellow
Breathe
An interview with Monet Beatty ('20)
Marc Palmieri ('94) Came to Play Baseball and Left a Playwright
“It allowed me to stumble into something that I fell in love with”
Ripped Off and Pasted On
Exhibition at Wake Forest highlights Robert Motherwell’s forays in collage
Under Her Spell
How Allison Orr (’93) worked her magic to win over a host of skeptical carpenters, custodians and landscapers to put on a show.
Arts Experiences to Last a Lifetime
How Alex Acquavella (’03) plans to bring the arts more to the forefront at Wake Forest.
Students Shadow Workers Behind the Scenes
‘You know they’re there, … but you don’t realize how much goes into it day by day’
Inside / Outside Scales
Director of Photography Ken Bennett shares a few favorite photographs that serve as defining images of the movement, spirit and multifaceted creativity abounding in the fine arts scene at Wake Forest.
A Call to the Stage
Hillary Heard Baack (’02) thrives in film and on stage with an outsider’s acute observing of human nature and stories.
Aha! Moments
The moment they knew they wanted a life in the Arts
A Fiery Vision
Jeannette Sorrell (’86) made her way from modest beginnings to the stage of Carnegie Hall as a pioneering female conductor who lets nothing stop her.
Dancing Machine
Bri Butler (’14) dazzles on the Broadway stage in STOMP.
Shining a Light on the Arts
Christina Soriano aims to give every student access to a transformative experience.
Constant & True – Allyson Currin (’86)
Dreams need power tools, says a Wake Forest alumna who is an award-winning playwright.
From Beach Boys To Bach
Composer Dan Locklair found magic in music.
Art, anthropology, and accounting
Brianna Casini ('19) on creativity and process
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Border Ball
Joel Tauber's pilgrimage along the U.S.-Mexico border
On the Runway
Riley Phillips ('21) at Vancouver Fashion Week
Nathaniel Mackey's Powerful Performance
Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu’ahttet
From The Ground Up
A Performance on Hearn Plaza Starring WFU Facilities Staff
stArt @ 10
Alumni reflect on can-do experiences as art entrepreneurs at the student gallery.
Acting Gigs to Finance
Meagan Hooper ('03)
A Tango Star is Born
Kelly FitzGerald (’17) pivots from handing out Oscars and working in film to competing in a difficult Argentine dance
Adding to the Cultural Landscape
Video art on the streets
Redeye To Venice
Sean Wilkinson (’15) had an unexpected chance to join Wake Forest students at La Biennale in Venice, Italy
Sacred Arts of Tibet
Tibetan Monks create a sand mandala in Hanes Gallery
Making Movie Magic
Curt Beech ('94) creates the look of 'BlacKkKlansman,' other films, TV shows
Read about Curt Beech '94
Unity Project
Forty-foot art project celebrates diversity
Traveler
Xiaoying Yu represents Chinese dance
Artist as Leader
Lift-off with Donovan Livingston
From Ball Girl to CMO
Art alumna shares her career journey to the Atlanta Hawks
The Sweet Sounds of Nashville
Christian Sedelmyer ('07) hits all the right notes in his blossoming music career.
Priceless
The Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art
Paradise Found
Conservation photographer Carlton Ward Jr. (’98) defends a side of Florida few know
Forest Folk
Zack Chan photographs diversity on campus
Life Into Art
Aaron Fallon (’00) Behind The Camera
Collidescope 3.0
World-renowned theatre artist Ping Chong puts on a show with Wake Forest students
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The Play's the Thing
Wake Forest's University Theatre takes front and center
Student Art Buying Trip
The only university art collection in the country selected by students
Watch
Tintype Photography
Wake Forest students get hands-on with a 150-year-old photographic process
There Is No Normal
Senior Sarah Fine's theater piece about inclusion and rejection, featuring a cast of actors of varying abilities
The Literary Maven of Hub City
Sparking a movement to nurture writers and cultivate readers in her hometown
On Tour with the Wilsons
An inside look at the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art
A Funny Thing Happened to Michael Barron
Twenty-five years after falling in love with theatre at Wake Forest, he returns to honor venerable professor Harold Tedford
Catherine Woodard (’80)
Art changed her personal history — and Wake Forest's
Out of This Art World
Jenny Moore ('95) left the frenetic New York art scene to oversee an extraordinary museum in the middle of nowhere.
‘Teachers’ brings books — and baggage
Kate Lambert (’03) TV Pilot
Afternoon at the improv
Taking on roles has taken on new meaning for a group of theatre students helping to train counseling students.
More about the theatre/counseling troupe
Boundary Hopping
Jan Detter's creative spirit shines from the community to the classroom
Emmy-Winning Stars
Two clever computer junkies turn classic film into award-winning Web broadcast
To Tell the Truth
Compelling stories and a sense of social responsibility drive the new Documentary Film Program