When you imagine life on a college campus, you probably think of a place filled with smart, inventive people having inspiring conversations about every subject imaginable. The Wake the Arts Center exists to foster just that.
Drawing together artists, scholars, students, faculty, and staff from every corner of our campus, the Wake the Arts Center uses performance and visual art collaborations—with Chemistry, Religion, Anthropology, Politics, Math, Romance Languages, Neuroscience, Documentary Film, and really anything else you can think of—to give us all a place, a time, and a reason to talk to each other about the things we care about.
Executive Committee Members
Christopher Zaluski: co-chair
Christina Soriano: co-chair
Hayden Barnes (Secrest Artists Series)
Brook Davis (Theatre & Dance)
Cagney Gentry (Film)
Rachael Hayes (Hanes Art Gallery)
Steve Morrison (Communications Strategist)
Morna O’Neill (Art & Art History)
Marco Sartor (Music)
Charlene Watkins (Business Manager)
Recently Funded Projects
- Wakeville 2025
April 5, 2025 Saturday, 12pm-5pmScales Fine Arts Center & Davis Field Wakeville is a student-led, interdisciplinary arts festival at Wake Forest with a focus on sustainability. There will be many creative offerings in and around Scales Fine Arts Center and Davis Field, including music, dance, theater, visual art, film, comedy […] - We Play Together: Music + Gaming
We Play Together: Music & Gaming is an extraordinary three-day event blending music, gaming, and academic exploration. Featuring Emmy Award-winning composer Inon Zur, whose scores for games like Starfield have captivated millions, this event also welcomes Pete Hines (’91, P ’25), former Senior Vice President at Bethesda Softworks, and retired NASA astronaut Dan Tani. […] - Young, Gifted and Black
Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University is pleased to announce Young, Gifted and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art, an exhibition that highlights artists of African descent whose work explores identity, politics and art history from January 23 – March 29, 2025. - Sick-Amour: A Love Story
Sick-Amour: A Love Story (2024) a film by Joel Tauber Screening & Reception: March 3, 2025Scales Fine Arts Center, Film Screening: Room 102 | Reception: Scales Lobby Sick-Amour: A Love Story (2024) celebrates the forlorn and lonely Tree that Joel Tauber adopts in the middle of a giant parking lot in front of the […] - We Were Here
We Were Here The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe Film screeningMonday, March 3, 2025 5pm to 7pmZSR Auditorium We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe sheds light on the overlooked presence of African and Black individuals in Renaissance Europe, highlighting their […] - Looking Closer at American Art
A Symposium in Honor of David Lubin Saturday April 26, 20251:00pm-5:30pm For 25 years, David Lubin has forged strong interdisciplinary connections for students and faculty. He regularly taught a combined English/Art History course in the Honors program with Barry Maine, and his contribution to film studies on campus reached out […]
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