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Liz Lerman’s aesthetic of inquiry
“Choreography is a way of thinking. It is a way of gathering evidence, laying out the pieces, organizing the trail.” For choreographer and visiting artist Liz Lerman, questions drive her way of...
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‘Emilie’ illuminates arts, sciences
Earlier this month, Lauren Gunderson’s play, “Emilie: The Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight,” served as the center of gravity for a bright constellation of interdisciplinary campus events...
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The science of dance
Senior chemistry major Tara Seymour (’12) has been dancing since she was 4 years old. She never imagined she would be dancing out the process of DNA replication for a college course until the...
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Moving pictures: ‘From Self to Other’
START, Wake Forest’s student art gallery, is hosting an exhibition of projection and monitor-based works produced by professor Joel Tauber’s video art students. Works from four different classes will...
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Music, movies and meaning
Music pulses through open car windows, provides grocery-cart-pushing inspiration and fills our smartphones and iPods. It is a part of daily life. Beethoven and Brahms, however, are noticeably absent....
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Off to Africa
Seven thousand eight hundred and forty-three miles. That’s how far a cappella singers in Chi Rho will be traveling for their spring mission tour this year. The student-run and directed ensemble has...
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Making bioethics personal
“It’s opened my eyes to the way healthcare works and the kinds of decisions that doctors and patients need to make together,” Cecile Vocelle (’13), a communication major said. “Turning a real case...
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Art gallery features student work
Wake Forest University’s Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery will close the season with its annual Wake Forest Student Art Exhibition through May 21. One hundred twenty-eight pieces were submitted....
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A place where arts and culture flourish
From art exhibitions to dance-offs to film festivals to theatre productions, Wake Forest faculty and students are exercising their talents throughout the school year. Here are some highlights from...
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Connecting through art
For 10 years, Wake Forest and Reynolda House Museum of American Art have worked together to form academic connections – a relationship that showcases how a liberal-arts education mindset joins...
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Behind the scenes ‘Of Paper’
With e-books, e-mail and the Internet, the way we use paper is changing. Hanes Gallery’s exhibition, “Of Paper,” offers a space to look at art that is on or made of paper and reflect on paper’s meaning...
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Telling stories, building bridges
Refugees, ballad singers, classic car collectors and victims of forced sterilization —Wake Forest third-year documentary film students have spent the last year working on movies that show what life is...
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An artist comes home
When Anderson Williams came to Wake Forest, he wanted to play baseball. By the time he graduated with honors in 1999, he was an artist. It was an unexpected turn. “Within the first week on campus with...
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Sounds like learning
The ring of a wind chime … the chirping of birds … the start of a car’s engine. Noises like these might blend into the background and go unnoticed for many people. But, to the ten children enrolled in...
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WFU celebrates world cultures
Featuring music, dancing and fun, the World Cultural Festival is an annual campus event highlighting differences that unite, inspire and entertain the entire community. This year, the festival was held...
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Students lobbied to perform ‘Marisol’
Students who read José Rivera’s “Marisol” in class and remember the 2009 Mainstage theatre performance of his work “Sonnets for an Old Century” came together to in a rare uprising to request that the...
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Weaving education, entertainment
The first showing is always the most difficult. Last April, when Wake Forest senior Jawad Wahabzada (’14) premiered his documentary “Children of Kabul” at RiverRun Film Festival, it was to a packed...
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Juggling documentaries, non-profit
Bentrice Jusu, a senior studio arts major, not only creates socially and economically conscious documentaries, but she also runs her own nonprofit organization to benefit underprivileged teenagers and...
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Under the ‘Big Tent’
Mt. Tabor High School students arrived at school on October 24 to find a large, colorful tent in one of the school’s courtyards. Under the “Big Tent,” they found Wake Forest student artwork, selected...
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Understanding Shakespeare
If all the world were a stage, and all men and women were players, then Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” would be easier to understand — at least that’s what Wake Forest theatre professors say. That...
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