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Lynne Johnson Travel Award Reflection by Rebekah Lassiter
This summer, the Lynne Johnson Award in the Art Department provided funding for senior art history major Rebekah Lassiter to travel to Hawai’i to continue her study of Oceanic art, its display context and curatorial practice. My travel through the … Read more
Local Focus: Two-Chanel Video Art Projections from Sites Around Town
The work of students taking Art 214 / Filmmaking and Video Art: Site Specific will be on display in a one-night-only projection event. The two-channel video art projects focus on local sites and people. On October 11 … Read more
Dr. Sule James publishes his groundbreaking research on Nigerian artist Clara Etso Ugbodaga with MoMA
Fall 2023 Course Posters
Fall 2023 Courses: Art History | Studio Art |
Xinyu (Lavender) Wang Awarded Richter Scholarship
Art History Major, Xinyu (Lavender) Wang, has been awarded a 2023 Richter Scholarship for her proposed research on the Mogao Caves. She will travel to the site this summer to conduct her research and submit her final project findings in … Read more

Department Events

Studio Art Image & Video Submission Form

Studio Art Students: Submit Artwork Here

Opening Reception for Of the Times: Sixty Years of Student-Acquired Contemporary Art at Wake Forest (January 19-March 31, 2024)

January 19 / 5-8pm / Hanes Gallery & Scales Lower Lobby

“Behind These Prison Walls,” Talk and Pop-Up Exhibit by Lorenzo Steele Jr.

January 23 / 5:30pm / Scales 102 and Scales Lobby

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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!

#wfu, #wakethearts, #urecadaywfu

Will you be there?! Excited for alumnus @rudyshepherd to give his artist talk tonight at 5:30 in Scales 102!!!!

Visiting ARTIST, Rudy Shepherd is coming to Scales to give a talk @ 5:30 on Wednesday, October 4. Come listen to his talk about his art journey and his work. Excited to see everyone there!!!

Congratulations to Lavender Wang for her Richter Prize research on the Mogao Caves, presented at URECA DAY!

Wang combines art historical research and a marketing viewpoint in her study of the Mogao Caves in Danhuang, China. Her poster combines knowledge gained during a summer research trip to see these chthonic structures and the murals which cover the walls within. While the first cave was carved out of the cliffside in 366 CE, to date there are 492 caves demonstrating a variety of artistic expressions of spirituality and their intensities.

Wang's work brings history to the present in an investigation of the state-sanctioned cultural products, or tourist objects, crafted to celebrate the Mogao Caves.

#wfu #wakethearts #urecadaywfu #richter

Calling all Freshman!!!! Come on over to Scales to get to know the art department. This is a perfect opportunity find out more about getting involved in the arts and we hope to see you there. We will have ice cream and a sketch book decorating contest!!

Monday, September 25, 2023 6-8 PM @ lower scales lobby

#wfu27 #wfu26 #wakethearts #wakevilleaf #wfu #thearts

We're back! Some action shots from the first week of classes . . . drawing on David Field and getting acquainted with tools in sculpture. Come visit us in Scales soon!

Please join us Monday, April 24 at 6 pm in Scales 102 for film screenings by Art 210: Ecological Works students: Cassie Tan and Ziyan Zhang! The films were created this semester in class.

You don’t want to miss it!

Honors in Studio Art, show 1/3 !

Jointly opening with the @hanesgallery Student Show, come visit the opening of @emmagrace.finearts (‘23)’s Honors exhibition in the Hanes Gallery Mezzanine (upper level of the gallery) tomorrow 5-7PM.

Congratulations, Emma!

THIS THURSDAY

A highlight of the year! Join us for the opening Gala of the Hanes Gallery Student Show. Support your friends and fellow artists and see all of the incredible work that has been made this year!

A “beauty workshop” from the “Fashion and Beauty in Early Modern Europe” course with Dr. Brianna Guthrie!

Students recreated six different recipes for health and beauty treatments and cosmetics from a 16th century Italian book. These recipes promised results similar to the products we use today: clear skin, rosy cheeks, less wrinkles, etc. Although some of the recipes contain materials we now know to be toxic, many do not and are able to be safely recreated with easily accessible ingredients.

@startgallerywfu’s biggest event of the semester is this week! 5&Under invites Wake Forest alumni who have graduated within the last five years to engage with current students about their transition after graduation into art-connected careers or education.

This year stArt is pleased to welcome back Sophie Heldt (’20, Art History) and Lucas Williams (’19, Studio Art).

On Wednesday, March 15th, at 4pm in @hanesgallery, Lucas & Sophie will be hosting an Art Talk to discuss their art and creative careers post-grad, immediately followed by a reception in the @startgallerywfu at 5pm in the presence of Lucas’s exhibition, Along the Way.

Lucas & Sophie will also be present on Thursday, March 16 for a drop-in style “Office Hours” Meet & Greet @ 11:30am – 1:30pm in Scales 103.

You don’t want to miss the chance to talk to these amazing alumni!

Alum event next Tuesday! Come to the critique space in Scales to hear about post-grad art and the creative process from @jacobthomas_art (‘22) and @sjxwillis (‘22).

See you then!

Want to buy contemporary art for Wake Forest next Spring? Come to the informational meeting for the Reece Collection Acquisition Committee 2023-24 to meet Committee alums and hear about their experience. Learn how to become part of this one-of-a-kind opportunity! Thursday, February 16, 7-8p.m. in Benson 410

#WaketheArts @wfu_uac @wfuniversity @wakethearts

Check out the new Public Art installation by Kaitlyn Parks (’23)! The work will only be up for a short time. Be sure to swing by Lower Scales soon to see this powerful piece! Congratulations, Kaitlyn!

Dr. Kelema Moses will be giving a talk titled "Place, Place-making, and Well-Being in Oceania" on TUESDAY November 1st @ 5 pm in Scales 102

Place, Place-making, and Well-Being in Oceania— more details on the flyer!

@startgallerywfu reception tonight, 4-6pm! Celebrate the opening of Studio Art major @emmaegmartin (‘23) exhibition “Movimento Stoico”

Join us for the reception before heading to Jame Anderson’s talk!

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Join architect Jame Anderson ('93) for a discussion of her work with museums at SmithGroup, the nation's oldest architectural firm and a leader in the creation of educational and inspirational museum spaces. She'll speak on "Curating the Intersection of Art, Architecture, and Audience."

Wednesday, October 26 at 6pm - 7pm
Scales Fine Arts Center, 102