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Studio Honors Candidate Sabrina Bakalis (’24) Entangled Existence Exhibition and Reception
Exhibition runs April 25 – May 5 at Hanes Gallery. Reception on Thursday, April 25 from 5:00-7:30pm at Hanes Gallery Mezzanine.
Fall 2024 Course Posters
Fall 2024 Courses: Art History | Studio
Art Community Night
All art majors/minors and art-interested students are encouraged to attend the Art Community Night on Tuesday, March 19, from 6-8pm in the Scales Lobby. Here, students will learn information regarding the new registration process on Workday. There will be pizza, […]
Visiting Alum – Livi Andreini (’20), Textile Conservator at the University of Amsterdam, and Incoming Textile Conservation Fellow at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) – gives talk on March 18, 4:00 pm & networking coffee chat March 19, 11 am-1 pm
Students can learn about her experiences abroad and perspectives on getting a job after graduation! Network with Livi! There are two events scheduled around her visit: • Talk on Monday, March 18th, @ 4:00 in Hanes Gallery, with a reception to follow • Coffee chat for […]
Contemporary Art and the Venice Biennale (Art 199) – SPRING 2024
This exciting course, taught by Joel Tauber, meets both on campus and in Venice during the most important recurring international art exhibition, The Venice Biennale. Students begin the class on the Reynolda campus during the spring semester, and […]

Department Events

Amy Whitaker (NYU Steinhardt): Acquavella Distinguished Lecture on Management in the Visual Art

April 17 / 5pm / Bern Beatty Colloquium (Farrell 352)

Reece Art Acquisitions Committee Reveal

April 19 / 5pm / Scales 102

Studio Honors Candidate Exhibition Reception: Sabrina Bakalis (’24)

April 25 / 5:00-7:30pm / Hanes Gallery Mezzanine

Exhibitions

Entangled Existence by Studio Honors Candidate Sabrina Bakalis (’24)
April 25 – May 5 / Hanes Gallery
Studio Honors Candidate Sabrina Bakalis (’24) Entangled Existence Exhibition and Reception
Exhibition runs April 25 – May 5 at Hanes Gallery. Reception on Thursday, April 25 from 5:00-7:30pm at Hanes Gallery Mezzanine.

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Life drawing students modeled for their classmates today!!! @sadiemacd105 drew every classmate in an amazing composition.

Let’s see if you all can spot @leighannhallberg

Students got to spend time with alum Anna Pugh ‘18 today with coffee and donuts!!!

Everyone should definitely go to the @startgallerywfu to check out her exhibition

Excited to welcome Endia Beal to our campus next Wednesday! Come hear her give an artist talk about her work.

Can’t wait to see everyone Wednesday February 7th!

Did you know there is life after Wake? Of course you did! Please join us to hear distinguished Art Department alumni talk about their path from graduation to a career in a creative field--in art, architecture, the art world, the auction house, in film and TV . . . and more! Thanks to @wfuopcd for their support in organizing and also to our amazing alumni for sharing their time and expertise.

Art 273: Eighteenth-Century European Art scholars in action! We visited ZSR Special Collections and Archives on Friday to look at illustrations to "Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers" (Encyclopedia, or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts), better known as Encyclopédie. Edited by the philosopher Denis Diderot and the mathematician Jean Rond d'Alembert, the project aimed to change "the common way of thinking" of various topics (like art, religion, government) in the second-half of the eighteenth century. Many thanks to Megan Mulder for facilitating our visit. @zsrlibrary @zsrspecial

Amazing pumpkins carved by Department of Art students Kyan Patel and Emerson Foley, with assists from Sabrina Bakalis and Christa Doolittle, for the WFU-FSU football game today. Thanks to ESPN for the invitation to celebrate creativity and community. If you are watching on ESPN, keep an eye out for these beauties in the broadcast. Go Deacs! @demondeacons
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Tonight! The *all new* Art Department Community Night. It's the fun parts of group advising, but take away the advising and add prizes! There may or may not be a new Art Department tote bag giveaway (hint: there will be). And we're raffling off two polaroid camera for your creative enjoyment. Come find out what Art will have in store for Spring 2024!😮🔥🍕📸

Congratulations to Amanda Jones for her URECA Summer Research fellowship presentation on John Singleton Copley's "Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Rogers (Elizabeth Gorham Rogers)" from 1762 in WFU's Art Collection.

She spent the summer researching the portrait commission and the sitter's biography to consider portraiture and self-fashioning in a transatlantic context.

The painting will soon be on public display at Reynolda House. Stay tuned for a public talk by Amanda on her research!

#wfu, #wakethearts, #urecadaywfu

Will you be there?! Excited for alumnus @rudyshepherd to give his artist talk tonight at 5:30 in Scales 102!!!!

Visiting ARTIST, Rudy Shepherd is coming to Scales to give a talk @ 5:30 on Wednesday, October 4. Come listen to his talk about his art journey and his work. Excited to see everyone there!!!

Congratulations to Lavender Wang for her Richter Prize research on the Mogao Caves, presented at URECA DAY!

Wang combines art historical research and a marketing viewpoint in her study of the Mogao Caves in Danhuang, China. Her poster combines knowledge gained during a summer research trip to see these chthonic structures and the murals which cover the walls within. While the first cave was carved out of the cliffside in 366 CE, to date there are 492 caves demonstrating a variety of artistic expressions of spirituality and their intensities.

Wang's work brings history to the present in an investigation of the state-sanctioned cultural products, or tourist objects, crafted to celebrate the Mogao Caves.

#wfu #wakethearts #urecadaywfu #richter

Calling all Freshman!!!! Come on over to Scales to get to know the art department. This is a perfect opportunity find out more about getting involved in the arts and we hope to see you there. We will have ice cream and a sketch book decorating contest!!

Monday, September 25, 2023 6-8 PM @ lower scales lobby

#wfu27 #wfu26 #wakethearts #wakevilleaf #wfu #thearts

We're back! Some action shots from the first week of classes . . . drawing on David Field and getting acquainted with tools in sculpture. Come visit us in Scales soon!

Please join us Monday, April 24 at 6 pm in Scales 102 for film screenings by Art 210: Ecological Works students: Cassie Tan and Ziyan Zhang! The films were created this semester in class.

You don’t want to miss it!

Honors in Studio Art, show 1/3 !

Jointly opening with the @hanesgallery Student Show, come visit the opening of @emmagrace.finearts (‘23)’s Honors exhibition in the Hanes Gallery Mezzanine (upper level of the gallery) tomorrow 5-7PM.

Congratulations, Emma!

THIS THURSDAY

A highlight of the year! Join us for the opening Gala of the Hanes Gallery Student Show. Support your friends and fellow artists and see all of the incredible work that has been made this year!

A “beauty workshop” from the “Fashion and Beauty in Early Modern Europe” course with Dr. Brianna Guthrie!

Students recreated six different recipes for health and beauty treatments and cosmetics from a 16th century Italian book. These recipes promised results similar to the products we use today: clear skin, rosy cheeks, less wrinkles, etc. Although some of the recipes contain materials we now know to be toxic, many do not and are able to be safely recreated with easily accessible ingredients.

@startgallerywfu’s biggest event of the semester is this week! 5&Under invites Wake Forest alumni who have graduated within the last five years to engage with current students about their transition after graduation into art-connected careers or education.

This year stArt is pleased to welcome back Sophie Heldt (’20, Art History) and Lucas Williams (’19, Studio Art).

On Wednesday, March 15th, at 4pm in @hanesgallery, Lucas & Sophie will be hosting an Art Talk to discuss their art and creative careers post-grad, immediately followed by a reception in the @startgallerywfu at 5pm in the presence of Lucas’s exhibition, Along the Way.

Lucas & Sophie will also be present on Thursday, March 16 for a drop-in style “Office Hours” Meet & Greet @ 11:30am – 1:30pm in Scales 103.

You don’t want to miss the chance to talk to these amazing alumni!

Alum event next Tuesday! Come to the critique space in Scales to hear about post-grad art and the creative process from @jacobthomas_art (‘22) and @sjxwillis (‘22).

See you then!

Want to buy contemporary art for Wake Forest next Spring? Come to the informational meeting for the Reece Collection Acquisition Committee 2023-24 to meet Committee alums and hear about their experience. Learn how to become part of this one-of-a-kind opportunity! Thursday, February 16, 7-8p.m. in Benson 410

#WaketheArts @wfu_uac @wfuniversity @wakethearts