September 8-10, 2022 Sones de México Ensemble is the country’s premier folk music organization specializing in Mexican ‘son’, including the regional styles of huapango, gustos, chilenas, son jarocho, and more. Brendle Recital Hall, Wake Forest UniversityThursday, September 8, 7:30pm Musical performance and lecture presentation on “Music […]
This project merged the arts with STEM disciplines through an arts commission by Engineering faculty Erin Henslee and Lauren Lowman. They commissioned student artist Julia Powers (‘23) to create 9 portraits of underrepresented figures in STEM fields. These paintings were then digitized into postcards […]
Thursday, August 11 – 7:30 p.m.SECCA Auditorium$26 General Admission An Evening of Dance and Music with choreographers Elizabeth Clendinning, Janice Lancaster, and Monet Beatty, return to SECCA for an evening of dance and music. Music for the performance features violinist Ruth Kelly, a jazz trio […]
As a course enhancement for Wanda Balzano’s study abroad program in Italy WFU Learning Under Vesuvius, the IAC supported a curated collection of diverse local music and dance traditions and events that were co-sponsored by the Sant’Anna Institute. The programming included a lecture and demonstration […]
May 5, 2022, Hanes Gallery As a culmination of the interdisciplinary readings and discussions in the Humanities Institute’s Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Precarity, seminar convener Lucy Alford brought poet-scholar Edgar Garcia (English and Creative Writing, University of Chicago) to Wake Forest for two events. First, […]
April 28, 2022, Starling Hall Patio In conjunction with the Program for Leadership and Character, the IAC hosted our Student Advisory Committee, AY 21-22 grant recipients, and students and faculty involved in the production of Performing Character, from Stage to Page. An informal final meeting with our […]
Spring 2022, Benson Hall Following a field trip to Happy Hills Association and a tour of the surrounding Winston-Salem neighborhood, students created art pieces to be displayed in Benson Hall. The exhibition “Silence” showed what they had learned in the class; it was a huge […]
March 24, 2022 Cornelio Campos, an important pillar of the regional Latinx arts scene for more than 15 years, shares his work during with the WFU community. His work thematizes immigrant experiences and transnational social struggles often combined with traditional cultural imagery. His paintings have […]
March 22, 2022, 5 – 8 pm, Scales Fine Arts Center (SFAC) Join us for the public launch of the Lynn Book Projects Archive – an online portal to some 2000 digitized artifacts from the artist’s 45-year corpus of experimental projects and research at the […]
March 18, 2022 at 5 pm, Benson 401B Experience an evening with Sona Jobarteh, a griot from the West African nation of Gambia, on Friday, March 18 from 5-6 pm. As a griot, Sona is a highly-trained instrumentalist who performs on the kora and whose […]
