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Celebrating 60 years of Wake Forest University student-acquired contemporary art
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The concert will feature internationally renowned British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason
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Beza Zelalem (‘26) shares her experience participating in the fashion show, which highlighted African diasporic groups
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A Conversation with Yan Cheng (‘19) and Caroline Perkins (‘16)
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Inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence
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Enzo Menghini ('25) on finding his artistic voice
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Wake Forest welcomed Debbie Allen to campus this week to receive the inaugural Maya Angelou Artist-in-Residence Award
The play gives a topical testimony to a uniquely American story
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Asian philosophical wisdom blossoms in Chinese dance and operas
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The research behind making Wake Forest’s new musical as impactful as possible
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WFU theatre’s fall show steps into the intriguing world of Agatha Christie
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The Dillon Johnston Writers Reading Series brings four poets and performers to campus
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Take a journey with WFU Chamber Choir to see the sights and sounds of southern Spain and Portugal
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The Class of '23 is off to change the world
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J. D. Wilson (’69, P ’01) is a living legend at Wake Forest and in the arts community of Winston-Salem
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Photos from the 2023 Student-Choreographed Dance Concert
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Teacher-Scholar Legacies
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Caitlin Berry (’09) makes public access and community conversations a focal point as director of the new Rubell Museum DC.
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J.D. Wilson (’69, P ’01) receives the Distinguished Alumni Award
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The play addresses the One-Child Policy
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A surprise performance with a legend.
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Every three years, students travel to New York to buy contemporary art. But what happens to it when it gets here?
The organization is partnering with stArt gallery to display their sustainably made collection
Emmy award-winning director and producer is inaugural recipient
WFU's First Student-Organized Arts Festival
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Playwright Lauren Gunderson attends Wake Forest’s acclaimed production of her work, ‘Silent Sky’
A peek at WFU Theatre's fantastic production
Georgia Kathryn Duncan ('25) discusses her quarantine hobby
Egyptian stage designer Héba Elkomy's work selected
Highlights from Black Student Alliance’s Celebration of Black Arts
“Undesign the Redline” is a national exhibit exploring the history of racism and inequality.
The senior’s artwork is on display at the stArt gallery
Photographer Kate T. Parker (’98) couldn’t be stopped in creating a career that led to best-selling books about the power of letting girls and boys be themselves.
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Students perform the works of Florence Price at a recent concert
The play was among six winning plays to be featured in Barter Theatre’s College Playwrights Festival
The production tells the story of sisters who dream of moving to Moscow to pursue a more meaningful life.
Gretchen Castelloe ('23) is helping develop the university’s first interdisciplinary arts festival
catching up with alumni at stArt Gallery
Cameron Michles ('23) researches how theaters can include audiences with sensory issues
Hauser ('23) was named as a Rhodes Scholar recipient
Guilty by Association (GBA) is dedicated to raising visibility for underrepresented artists
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Michael Schur, writer/producer of “The Good Place” and “Parks and Recreation,” visits Wake Forest
The newly-founded club pays weekly visits to a local assisted-living facility
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From precise botanical illustrations to surprising QR codes, artist Meredith Mulhearn (’01) stays rooted in the natural world.
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"Finding Holy Ground" plays are collaboration among School of Divinity, NC Black Rep and Wake the Arts
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hosted by Asian Student Interest Association
Gellar-Goad receives largest-ever federal grant earned by a WFU humanities professor & award from Women’s Classical Caucus
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Students share favorite works from the WFU Art Collections
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Wake Forest University Press has published Michael Longley’s poetry in the United States since 1981.
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Perkins was appointed by President Biden to the National Museum and Library Services Board
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The Japanese art of mending broken ceramics with liquid gold
exhibition highlights how international Chinese students navigate between invisibility and hypervisibility
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Iyana Trotman ('24) shares her URECA-funded research
Berry was appointed to be the inaugural director of forthcoming complex in Washington, DC
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Productions at WFU are being held at the Scales Fine Arts Center in the Tedford Mainstage Theatre
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Grammy Award-winning producer, DJ, lecturer, and Winston-Salem native
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WFU Symphony Orchestra's new director loves the diversity of video games
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See performances from the inaugural Spring Tour
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WFU Students Follow Ancient Pilgrimage Route Across Scotland
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To mark the 10th anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the poet Amy Catanzano celebrates the Higgs in verse
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Read about Lynn Book
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Hitting the ground running
Learn about a few of our graduating seniors
Student-Choreographed Dance Concert: Spring 2022
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student performers share their reflections about the arts during a time when the pandemic prevented them from performing
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A guided tour from our Art students
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Spring '22 edition of WFU's literary magazine
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Hands-on learning for a large-scale musical based on NYC industry practices
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
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
Artist Protection Fund Fellow in Residence
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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
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
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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
Curt Beech ('94) creates the look of 'BlacKkKlansman,' other films, TV shows
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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
Taking on roles has taken on new meaning for a group of theatre students helping to train counseling students.
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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
