2nd Annual GatheringOctober 6-7, 2023 ECAR, a non-profit program based in Greensboro, NC at Guilford College provides best practices on how colleges and universities around the globe can become a refuge by assisting them in resettlement. Wake hosted the second annual ECAR Gathering to […]
Opening night eventSeptember 28, 2023 As part of it’s ten year anniversary celebration, Winston-Salem’s OUT At The Movies International Film Festival held its Opening Night Screening at Wake Forest’s Kulynych Auditorium and featured two short documentaries made by Documentary Film Program (DFP) graduate […]
Performance & poetry readingSeptember 12-15, 2023 Cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten was a featured guest in The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series for two events: a Poet’s Theatre presentation and a night of Poetry Readings & Performances. Alongside transmedia artist Lynn Book, poet and […]
Quilter, folk art painter, writer, entrepreneur, and journalist Kimberley Pierce Cartwright (Durham, NC) shared a lecture on the history of African American quilts and led participants in a workshop to create their own quilting projects. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Arts Center, The Center for Research […]
In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, the Lam Museum brought award-winning Hopi artist, poet, and educator Ramson Lomatewama to campus for a week-long residency. While on campus, Ramson spoke to over 300 students in 10 courses across the disciplines of Anthropology, Creative Writing, Art […]
A collaboration with Art and African American Studies, the screening of the film “Black Fire” was followed by a conversation with Kevin Jerome Everson (William R. Kenan Professor of Art, University of Virginia) and Claudrena N. Harold (Edward Stettinus Professor of History, University of Virginia). […]
Campus visit by Dr. David Odo, Director of Academic and Public Programs, Division Head and Research Curator Harvard Museums. Through a series of class visits, workshops and lectures, Dr. Odo engaged with WFU students and faculty in Art and East Asian Languages and Culture, staff […]
Assistant professor of Art History Merih Denali organized a powerful visit with Kelema Lee Moses who shared the ancestral relationships and oral storytelling traditions of Pacific Islanders to the land, sea, and sky – to places and spaces. The familial relationships between Kānaka Maoli (Native […]
Musicians Laurent Estoppey, David Menestres and Polyorchard, with audience involvement, performed from a graphic score provided by Hanes Gallery director Paul Bright as part of his collage-based exhibition Matter of Style at SECCA. When entering the exhibition, the audience was invited to join a […]
The Wake Forest University Symphony Orchestra welcomes our new Orchestra Director Dr. J. Aaron Hardwick to the podium and features award-winning faculty pianist Larry Weng performing Clara Schumann’s powerful Concerto in A minor. The WFUSO will close the evening with Beethoven’s iconic and moving […]
