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Hitting the ground running
Learn about a few of our graduating seniors
A guided tour from our Art students
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Hands-on learning for a large-scale musical based on NYC industry practices
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Once-a-semester arts and culture magazine
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A visit from Sandy Heller and a special award for J.D. Wilson
Jay Buchanan ('17) guides us through the exhibition
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Musical receives rave review
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The Bimoo Chinese Theatre Group stages Mandarin theatre
Grappling with expectations of the art made by women of color
Yo Yo Ma on Art, Life and Happiness
A brand new Wake Forest digital photography class displays their work in local art gallery
Wake Forest’s premier art collection gets a new name and lots of love
Art as a mirror
Alumni share in the applause.
Claire Chase & Levy Lorenzo
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo performs on campus
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.
Exploring aesthetic opposites
Funds to commission two original plays to be presented at the 2024 National Black Theatre Festival
Students share favorite works from the WFU Art Collections
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Selinna Tran ('23) uses art to approach life and emotions
Meet PSDA Scholar Gretchen Castelloe ('23)
Chris Cates ('22) on theatre, queerness, and his journey at Wake
Meet PSDA Scholar Yaser Salamah ('22)
The chemistry of art conservation
Divinity Dean Walton works with music, storytelling, theatre
Getting back into the swing of things with music professor Elizabeth Pacheco Rose
Every piece in the collection expresses some sort of timely take on current politics or social issues
IdeasCityWS Festival marks year of creative collaborations
Neurodiverse theatre, prison abolition, and fantasy film scores
Check out Virtual Exhibitions from the WFU Art Collections
New startup helps children from 8 to 18 become more software savvy
Meet Dr. Elizabeth Clendinning
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And that’s just her day job
Alums and faculty create summer magic together
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Professor emerita and author of a book on Winston-Salem’s architectural history sees the city in a new light in retirement
Wake Forest offers avenues to discover and engage with creative endeavors
Gospel Choir performance during the 2021 Easter Service
WFU Music and Dance to headline Summerfest
2021 Arts Grads excel across disciplines
Two Arts students selected among 10 Fellows
Choral Music of Bach & Beethoven
Teacher-Scholar Legacies
The Philomathesian team's community art project
Virtual performances on campus have allowed for live entertainment for students
Two alumni create a literary zine for nudging ideas into action, including their own.
Momentum for the Interdisciplinary Arts Center
How will we fall?
Choral Collaboration for Justice
Minor Variation and Demon Divas performed for students at two separate concerts this week
Musician, teacher, neuroscientist
Reveal the works and hear students talk about the new acquisitions
A new generation selects contemporary art
See the 2021 artwork
Community Ballet brings together students, community, faculty
44th Annual Awards
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presented by Wayward Fashion
Studio Art Major. Theatre, History, & Creative Writing minors
New award celebrates Pro Humanitate
Leading with song
Music to get through tough times
Young Art alums reconnect and share advice
WFU students take Hackathon First Prize
2021 Archive
Creative translation from artist to artist
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Shakespeare Reimagined
Be Amazed
Applying collaboration learned as a theater student
Flute virtuoso Kathryn Levy takes the stage
Virtual Concert
Daily insights compiled by Chris Cates ('21)
Artist Talk by Willie Cole
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Wake Forest’s talent shows out in the fantastic forms of music and writing
Leigh Ann Hallberg and Paul Bright dig in and create during quarantine
Alexander Blake ('10) redefines the field
Honoring Henrietta Lacks
Wake Student Singers Perform In Symphony Valentine’s Day Production
Singer-songwriter Mark Sucoloski ('22)
Wake Forest might lead the ACC in budding artists
Jalen Johnson's two passions
A socially-distanced greeting from the choir
Students create public art in response to extraordinary times
DIY in Pro Humanitate style
WFU Theatre and NC Black Rep
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The Curse of Thyme
Virtual walkthrough experience
Student and artist, under the alias Maria Salviadore, sat down to discuss their artistic perspective
WFU professor’s film on his 40-day pilgrimage along the U.S.-Mexico border
Arts & Athletics
Audio productions launch Wake Forest Theatre’s fall season
Facilities skill on display in performance of a lifetime
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Hanes Gallery and Slavery Race and Memory Project host panel discussion
Student video art
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Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection
Wake Foresters return to campus Fall 2020
See the Arts in action
Anna Hustrulid Jarrell (’05) paints portraits for COVID-19 relief
Expression fuels remote students
Students dig deep and take a stand
When dance goes digital
Arts enliven a new generation
Drumming class finds a new rhythm
Modern music class bridges generations
Collage before, after, and including Motherwell
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Traditional Balinese performance goes virtual
Wake Forest students head to Florida to photograph birds
43rd Annual Giles-Harris Music Competitions
Beijing Opera comes to Wake Forest
An alumna shares her fresh perspectives after touring museums in her adopted home city abroad with new Deacon friends.
Why does Beethoven's music matter today? Ask Wake Forest music professor David Levy.
WFU Theatre's Production of "Ever In The Glades"
Wake Forest sophomore named Brooke Owens Fellow
An interview with Monet Beatty ('20)
“It allowed me to stumble into something that I fell in love with”
Exhibition at Wake Forest highlights Robert Motherwell’s forays in collage
How Allison Orr (’93) worked her magic to win over a host of skeptical carpenters, custodians and landscapers to put on a show.
How Alex Acquavella (’03) plans to bring the arts more to the forefront at Wake Forest.
‘You know they’re there, … but you don’t realize how much goes into it day by day’
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.
Hillary Heard Baack (’02) thrives in film and on stage with an outsider’s acute observing of human nature and stories.
The moment they knew they wanted a life in the Arts
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.
Bri Butler (’14) dazzles on the Broadway stage in STOMP.
Christina Soriano aims to give every student access to a transformative experience.
Dreams need power tools, says a Wake Forest alumna who is an award-winning playwright.
Composer Dan Locklair found magic in music.
Brianna Casini ('19) on creativity and process
Joel Tauber's pilgrimage along the U.S.-Mexico border
Riley Phillips ('21) at Vancouver Fashion Week
Our True Day Begun Soon Come Qu’ahttet
A Performance on Hearn Plaza Starring WFU Facilities Staff
Alumni reflect on can-do experiences as art entrepreneurs at the student gallery.
Meagan Hooper ('03)
Kelly FitzGerald (’17) pivots from handing out Oscars and working in film to competing in a difficult Argentine dance
Video art on the streets
Sean Wilkinson (’15) had an unexpected chance to join Wake Forest students at La Biennale in Venice, Italy
Tibetan Monks create a sand mandala in Hanes Gallery
Forty-foot art project celebrates diversity
Xiaoying Yu represents Chinese dance
Lift-off with Donovan Livingston
Art alumna shares her career journey to the Atlanta Hawks
Christian Sedelmyer ('07) hits all the right notes in his blossoming music career.
The Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art
Conservation photographer Carlton Ward Jr. (’98) defends a side of Florida few know
Zack Chan photographs diversity on campus
Aaron Fallon (’00) Behind The Camera
World-renowned theatre artist Ping Chong puts on a show with Wake Forest students
Wake Forest's University Theatre takes front and center
The only university art collection in the country selected by students
Wake Forest students get hands-on with a 150-year-old photographic process
Senior Sarah Fine's theater piece about inclusion and rejection, featuring a cast of actors of varying abilities
Sparking a movement to nurture writers and cultivate readers in her hometown
An inside look at the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art
Twenty-five years after falling in love with theatre at Wake Forest, he returns to honor venerable professor Harold Tedford
Art changed her personal history — and Wake Forest's
Jenny Moore ('95) left the frenetic New York art scene to oversee an extraordinary museum in the middle of nowhere.
Kate Lambert (’03) TV Pilot
Jan Detter's creative spirit shines from the community to the classroom
Two clever computer junkies turn classic film into award-winning Web broadcast
Compelling stories and a sense of social responsibility drive the new Documentary Film Program
