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My Roots in Other Lands: Mis raíces en otras tierras

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 […]


Swim: Lynn Book Archive

Poster for "Swim"

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 […]


An Evening with Sona Jobarteh

Sona Jobarteh holding a kora

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 […]


Being Balinese

I Gde Made Indra Sadguna

March 17, 2022 at 6 pm, The Lam Museum of Anthropology The Lam Museum welcomes I Gde Made Indra Sadguna, a musicology doctoral candidate specializing in Balinese gamelan, and Made Ayu Desiari, who specializes in Balinese dance. Indra will speak about the many ways of […]


Aeneid: Proem and Vulcan’s Reply

Poster for Aeneid: Proem and Vulcan’s Reply

February 24, 2022, 6 pm, Brendle Hall On February 24, the Secrest Artists Series will host Dawn Upshaw and the Brentano String Quartet for a night of compositions inspired by Dido, the mythic queen of Carthage and key figure in Vergil’s Aeneid, the most world-influential […]


Collaborations: Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo

Claire Chase plays a flute

February 4, 2022, Brendle Hall A Creative Writing and Musical Performance Collaboration. Claire Chase presents “Grace.” Vocalizing texts written by her grandmother (edited in collaboration with Pauline Oliveros), Chase is joined by Levy Lorenzo controlling Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System (EIS). Join students from Creative Writing […]


Black Joy: Centering Community & Individual Expression

Students in an art gallery

February 2022, stArt Gallery stArt partnered with the WFU Black Student Alliance in honor of Black History Month, 2022. The exhibition featured work by Black creators on campus, including both students and alumni. The exhibition was in conjunction with the BSA annual Celebration of Black […]


Roadside Assistance

Roadside poster

November 11, 2021 and December 1, 2021, Virtual LA-based actor and filmmaker Tiffany Cox led two zoom workshops about bias in policing with her short film Roadside Assistance as the backdrop. The film presented many scenarios that challenged participants to check their biases and discuss […]


Keyword Crossings: Form

Poster for Keyword Crossings: Form

November 30, 2021, Reynolda Hall Faculty from across the humanities, visual arts, and performing arts dare to discuss a keyword common among their disciplines. Each faculty member will have five minutes to explain how that keyword circulates in their particular discipline, including current controversies and […]


Annie Leist: Beacons

Annie Leist

November 10, 2021, Scales Fine Arts Center 102 WFU alumna Annie Leist (’96) presents Beacons, a talk about her work. Annie Leist’s paintings, inspired by her limited visual perception of light and life in urban spaces, parallel her work in the accessibility field. Specializing in enriching […]


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