Hanes Gallery welcomes artist Ronaldo V. Wilson

February 15, 2023

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).

Each day of the residency, Ronaldo will be creating a small work of art that he will place somewhere on the Wake Forest campus. In response, the Hanes Gallery instagram account will post a close-up image of the work and a clue about the location so that students can find the work and return it to Ronaldo in the Gallery. Students will be taking part in a collaborative piece through the process and will also receive an exclusive invitation to Ronaldo’s closing performance/reception on Tuesday, Feb.  21.

This visit is funded and made possible by the William R. Kenan Jr Professor in the Humanities. Hanes Gallery will be hosting a number of class visits, an art conversation, a poetry reading and a final performance with Ronaldo. For full residency info and a schedule of events, visit this page on the Hanes Gallery website.