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Tania Del Moral (’23) to present exhibition before Congress – Empty Graves, Empty Promises: A Photographic Journey Into Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis and the Role of the U.S
Tania Del Moral (’23), as part of the Latin America Working Group Education Fund (LAWGEF), has curated an exhibition titled Empty Graves, Empty Promises: A Photographic Journey Into Mexico’s Disappearance Crisis and the Role of the U.S. that will be exhibited before […]
Beloved Professor Emeritus of Art Passes Away
Dr. Harry Titus, beloved Professor Emeritus of Art, passed away on June 26. He inspired countless students and colleagues during his 32 years at Wake, retiring in 2013. Harry was indeed one of a kind and held an equal passion […]
Congratulations, Class of 2024!
Studio Honors Candidate Clayton Bi (’24) Lao Lao Exhibition
Exhibition runs May 13 – May 20 at Hanes Mezzanine Gallery. See more.
Studio Honors Candidate Sabrina Bakalis (’24) Entangled Existence Exhibition and Reception
Exhibition runs April 25 – May 5 at Hanes Mezzanine Gallery. Reception on Thursday, April 25 from 5:30-7:30pm at Hanes Mezzanine Gallery. See more.

Department Events

stArt Gallery Reception: Mapping Memory by Blair Newsome (’26)

November 8 / 5-7pm / stArt Gallery Wake Downtown

Willa Wasserman Artist Talk

November 13 / 5:30pm (reception to follow) / Hanes Gallery

Mary Mattingly: Art, Activism, and the Anthropocene Talk and Reception

November 18 / 5-6pm (talk) and 6-6:30pm (reception) / Scales 102 (talk) and Scales Lobby (reception)

Exhibitions

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Join us tonight for the unveiling of our Spring 2025 course lineup! Lots of food, prizes and swag!

Leigh Ann Hallberg’s advanced drawing students work in the Visual Resources Center, gathering inspiration from one of the Art Department’s greatest resources, the University’s Print Collection.

https://artcollections.wfu.edu/collections/print-collection/

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Tania Del Moral (Class of 2023) has curated “Empty Graves, Empty Promises,” a photography exhibition on Mexico’s disappearance crisis, featuring work by Manuel Bayo Gisbert. It marks the 10th anniversary of the Ayotzinapa tragedy and honors over 116,000 victims. The exhibit will be shown before Congress Sept 23-25, with discussions on disappearances, organized crime, and U.S.-Mexico relations. #Ayotzinapa #EmptyGravesEmptyPromises #Mexico

Please join us Friday, September 27th at 5 pm in Farrell Hall suite A05 for the opening reception for works presented by WFU student and photographer, Evan Harris.

You don’t want to miss it!

What an amazing turnout at last night’s Art Department alum Mattos Paschal talk! She shared valuable insights from her art industry journey. It was truly inspiring and there were many great takeaways. Let’s keep the conversations going and continue building our amazing community!

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Are you interested in a career in the art industry? Join us at Hanes Gallery from 5:30 - 6:30 pm to hear Mattos Paschal talk about her experiences in the field, as well as her time at Wake!

Hosted by WFU Art Department & stArt Gallery.

Dr. Harry Titus, beloved Professor Emeritus of Art, passed away on June 26. He inspired countless students and colleagues during his 32 years at Wake, retiring in 2013. Harry was indeed one of a kind and held an equal passion for teaching as he did for genuinely connecting with people. He possessed the rare ability to be beloved and respected for his uncompromising standards, coupled with a loving, generous, and accessible spirit. His friends and colleagues from the Department of Art will greatly miss him. Some of his former students put it best when they shared these thoughts on Harry:

“He made you feel important and cared for. He had a spark.”

“His enthusiasm, curiosity, and love of learning were absolutely infectious.”

“Sometimes it was about art and architecture, but more often, he taught me about appreciating people.”
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Celebrating “our wife,” new work and an artist’s talk by Maria Ogedengbe in Venice tomorrow! By private invitation and open to Wake Forest students, parents, faculty and friends at Casa Artum, directly across from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal. RSVP to alessia (at) wfu (dot) edu

We are so proud of our 2024 Art Department Grads! We can’t wait to see the world rise up to meet all of the incredible things you are about to bring to it! Congratulations!
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Another outstanding student show! The Art Department ends each year elebrating the work of so many of our majors, minors and students in print making, painting, photography and mixed media. Congratulations to all who submitted their work and congratulations to Wake for some outstanding student acquisitions! We can’t wait to see these works installed across campus!
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Thanks to a generous donation by the Reece family, every three years, Wake Forest students bring stunning contemporary art into Wake Forest's permanent collection. Researching contemporary art and artists who speak to our current moment, students travel to New York over spring break to meet the artists, see the work in person, and negotiate their acquisition.

This year's cohort, led by Dr. Jay Curley and Jennifer Finkel, Acquavella Curator of Wake Forest's collection, knocked it out of the park with powerful works addressing pressing social issues!

Stayed tuned for the arrival and exhibition of the new Reece Collection acquisitions in Fall of 2024!

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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!

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