Museum, gallery representatives to speak at SAC meeting
Phil Archer of Reynolda House, Sara Cromwell of the Museum of Anthropology and Katie Wolf of the Hanes Gallery will speak at the March 12 meeting of the Staff Advisory Council (SAC).
The SAC will meet from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Benson University Center, Room 409. The meeting is open to all staff and others.
The meeting and event schedule for the SAC is available on its website.
Categories: Inside WFU, Staff News
Hanes Art Gallery exhibit, publication receive SECAC Award
The Hanes Art Gallery exhibition “Vesna Pavlovic Lost Art” from 2016-17 and the publication “Vesna Pavlovic’s Lost Art: Photography, Display, and the Archive” received the 2018 SECAC Award for Outstanding Presentation and Publication of Contemporary Materials.
The exhibition was organized by Paul Bright, director of the Hanes Art Gallery, with support from Katie Wolf, assistant director of the gallery. Associate Professor of Art Morna O’Neill edited the publication.
SECAC is a major national organization that promotes the visual arts in higher education. Both the exhibition and publication were praised as “accessible, provocative, and sophisticated.”
Categories: Faculty News, Inside WFU
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