Congratulations to retiring faculty, staff
The following is a message from President Nathan Hatch:
While commencement season always brings about a sense of new beginnings and opportunities, it’s also a time to say thank you and bid farewell to many of our friends, colleagues and mentors who have called Wake Forest University home.
Please join me in congratulating and commemorating a marvelous class of Reynolda Campus faculty and staff retiring from Wake Forest this year. We are grateful for the many contributions from this remarkable group of individuals, who together have more than 800 years of service to the University: Read more
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Art Department work showcased downtown
Tom Patterson of the Winston-Salem Journal recently reported:
“The best of the few new exhibitions that opened early this month in downtown Winston-Salem showcases works by 10 artists who teach in the art department at Wake Forest University. ‘Strictly Academic: Part 2,’ on view through March 31 in the Milton Rhodes Center’s Womble Carlyle Gallery, is the second show in a series highlighting works by teachers at local colleges and universities.”
The exhibition features work by Bryan Ellis, David Faber, David Finn, Page Laughlin, Jennifer Gentry, Leigh Ann Hallberg, Alix Hitchcock, Joel Tauber, Will Willner and John Pickel.
Read more from the Journal article »
See gallery information on the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts site »
Categories: Faculty News
Professor's works to benefit art collection
The late Bob Knott dedicated much of his time during his long career teaching art at Wake Forest to helping students build the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art.
Knott, who also was an accomplished studio artist and photographer, left behind a collection of digital photographs made in Venice, Italy, and sculpture made from remnants of the Maine fishing industry, when he died in 2010.
His family has decided to sell some of those works to continue his passion for the Student Union collection. A benefit show and sale will take place during this Friday’s Gallery Hop in downtown Winston-Salem, at 560 N. Trade Street, suite 113, at the corner of Trade and Sixth streets, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Proceeds from the sale will support the Student Union collection. “Our family wants to celebrate Bob’s long involvement with the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art and to highlight the unique New York art-buying trip,” said Knott’s wife, Elen, who is retired from the Z. Smith Reynolds Library. “We also want to encourage the Wake Forest community and friends to support the program’s ongoing place in the University.”
Knott taught art history from 1975 until retiring in 2008. He was the longtime adviser for the Student Union collection, a diverse collection of paintings, sculpture, photography and multimedia pieces purchased by students during trips to New York City every four years. He accompanied the students on four buying trips to New York and taught the required modern art course for the trip for many years.
Knott made the color photographs — showing the juxtaposition of laundry drying against scenes of historic Venice — while he was the resident director at Casa Artom in 2002. He created the sculptures from wood and other objects salvaged from the sea and from the deteriorating fishing industry in Maine. Knott spent nearly 40 summers in Lubec, Maine, a small town on the Bay of Fundy.
For more information on the sale, contact Instructor of Art Alix Hitchcock at hitchcac@wfu.edu
- Listen as Bob Knott talks about his works in this audio slideshow
- Read more about the Student Union Collection of Contemporary Art
— by Kerry M. King (’85), Office of Communications and External Relations
Categories: Faculty News