Hanes Gallery welcomes artist Ronaldo V. Wilson
Hanes Gallery welcomes Ronaldo V. Wilson
The Hanes Gallery is pleased to welcome multidisciplinary artist Ronaldo V. Wilson for an artist-in-residence program through Tuesday, Feb. 21. On display in the Main Gallery will be notebooks of his drawings, framed collages, Mylar/Mono-prints, and a large-scale installation that he will create during his residency. Wilson’s video work, featured in the Gallery’s Mezzanine, will showcase selections from Color Series (2014), Lucy, and more recent works.
Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, poet, interdisciplinary artist, and academic, is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at U.C. Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program; principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies); and affiliate faculty member of DANM (Digital Arts and New Media).
Categories: Inside WFU
Webinar to highlight student-curated exhibition on Black portraiture
In January 2020, 16 students in art history professor Jay Curley’s seminar class started researching and studying Black contemporary art for the spring semester. The research included viewing and discussing works in a collection belonging to Wes and Missy Cochran, a LaGrange, Georgia, couple who has amassed more than 700 works. 
Eager to see these works shine a light on Black life and culture, the Cochrans invited students to select works from their collection for an exhibition in Wake Forest’s Hanes Gallery.
The 41 works selected are on exhibit in Wake Forest University’s Hanes Gallery through March 28. Due to pandemic-related restricted access to campus, viewing “Explorations of Self: Black Portraiture from the Cochran Collection” in-person is limited to Wake Forest University students, faculty and staff.
“Representation Matters: Art, Space and Racial Restitution,” a webinar co-sponsored by Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University’s Slavery, Race and Memory Project and Wake the Arts, will be held Wednesday, Sept. 30 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The panel will be moderated by humanities professor Corey D. B. Walker and feature conversations around the works.
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Read more at Wake Forest News.
Categories: Events, Faculty News, Inside WFU, Staff News
Provost Office grants announced
This is a guest post from the Office of the Provost:
The Provost’s Office is pleased to announce the following grants for Spring 2016
Nathan and Julie Hatch Research Grant for Academic Excellence
Stephanie Koscak, Royal Subjects: Mass Media and the Reinvention of Reverence in England, 1649-1760, Week at the Summer Research Institute , Harris Manchester College, Oxford University
Provost’s Fund for Academic Innovation
Melissa Harris-Perry, Marianne Magjuka, Dani Parker, Fahim Gulamali, Pro Humanitate Institute, Wake the Vote, Part II
Amanda Gengler, Sociology, Food & Inequality in Global Context
Steve Virgil, Law; John Senior, Divinity, Public Leadership and Professional Identity
Provost’s Fund for Academic Excellence
Mike Green, Law, World Tort Law Society: Comparative Study of Liability Law for Road Traffic Accidents
Tanya Zanish-Belcher, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, University Archives Research Internship
Morna O’Neill, Art, Lost Art: Photography and Display
Provost’s Fund for a Vibrant Campus
Katie Wolf, Hanes Art Gallery, Alexander T. Oleksyn: The Confined Line
Provost’s Grant for Academic Excellence
Jeff Eller, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Saving Born Digital ebooks in Libraries
Olga Valbuena, English, Southeastern Renaissance Conference – Shakespeare Quadricentennial
Lucas Johnston, Religion, Placing Pedagogy: Teaching Religion and Nature in the South
Categories: University Announcement
Being Here: Salaam series of events underway on campus
A series of events known as “Being Here: Salaam” is underway at Wake Forest in September and early October.
The “Being Here: Salaam” project began Sept. 21 at Hanes Art Mezzanine Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center with an exhibit of photographs by Todd Drake featuring Imam Khalid Griggs, associate chaplain, and other Muslims–many from North Carolina. The exhibit, which draws from Drake’s “Muslim Self-Portrait” series, will continue until Oct. 9. In that exhibit, Griggs is the only member of the Wake Forest campus community featured.
This week, portraits of 12 Wake Forest Muslim students by Drake have been hung across campus on large banners in highly visible locations, such as the atrium at Z. Smith Reynolds Library. On each banner, a student self-identifies in a particular manner. For example, one banner reads “being here as a linguist,” while another reads, “being here as a scientist.”
Categories: Events
A glacier in the Hanes Art Gallery?
Artist Spencer Finch has unveiled his latest project, “Sky,” at the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery in Scales Fine Arts Center, which is on display until Oct. 27.
Incorporating his usual off-the-cuff style, Finch’s “Sky” is a system for producing a miniature glacier. Eighty gallons of carefully dyed blue water freezes, melts and evaporates as it moves through the machinery of “Sky.” The system releases ice about every 15 minutes and simulates the sound of a glacier calving into water with a loud crack.
“It is poignant, ironic, poetic and funny all at once,” said Paul Bright, director of the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery.
Learn more about this exhibition on the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery website.
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