February 28 – March 28, 2013

Reception 5-7 pm / Thursday Feb 28

3/3/3/13 – three video presentations for three weeks in March – was conceived specifically as an all-video exhibition. While the viewer will likely find commonality in the works’ approaches and themes, the videos are distinct, occupying very different sensory and emotional spaces. With one taking a prolonged look at the wall of a building with its crepuscular inhabitants glimpsed through windows (Seitenflügel), another concerning the grim vitality of existential struggle (Where is the Black Beast?), and the third depicting a beautiful and menacing polar seascape (Kivanrepu), perhaps these three works are entirely consonant with the indecisively damp and mercurial nature of late winter.

Admission is free. For more information visit: hanesgallery.wfu.edu/video3

The exhibit provides an overview of the ceramics produced by families at the Changsha Kilns during the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago — putting Tang ceramics into their historical, geographic and cultural context.

The exhibit features more than 100 ceramic objects from the museum’s Lam Collection. In January 2012, Wake Forest alumnus Timothy See-Yiu Lam (’60) donated to the Museum of Anthropology nearly 600 ceramic pieces that he collected over more than 25 years. The Tang Dynasty bowls, ewers, cups, teapots, small toys and other pieces in the collection represent the largest and most comprehensive group of ceramics from the Changsha Kilns in the United States.

Yidan Fu, a junior accountancy major from China, worked with Museum Director Stephen Whittington to develop the exhibit. Yidan helped organize and analyze the hundreds of pieces in the Lam Collection. She also conducted research on Changsha ceramics in Chinese language texts and contributed an insider’s view of Chinese culture to the exhibit. Whittington also worked with Salem College student Victoria Smith to complete the final arrangement and installation of the exhibit.

The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907 AD) was a time of peace, prosperity, and acceptance in China, during which Changsha ceramics and other goods were traded overland along the Silk Road and overseas to reach as far away as western Asia and Africa.

Some of the pieces in the collection were broken (but painstakingly repaired) because, due to slight flaws in shape or glazing, kiln inspectors discarded them by burying them in refuse piles which were then excavated by archaeologists in the 1960s and 1970s. Ironically, most of the pieces that passed inspection were sold, used and ultimately broken—meaning they can rarely be fully reconstructed.

The Museum of Anthropology is open to the public Tues. through Sat. from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information contact the museum at 336-758-5282 or visit moa.wfu.edu.

Faculty [III] 13 is a new permutation of the exhibitions Hanes Gallery periodically presents of work done by faculty and staff in the Wake Forest Art Department. Traditionally, these shows have been exhibitions featuring just a few works by a number of people (an increasing number, as the department has grown). Along with other changes in the gallery’s approach to programming this year, it was thought that showing fewer artists in each rotation would allow them to present a slice of their work that was broader or deeper, or to allow them more opportunity to pursue specific projects, than was previously possible. In effect, there will be three one-person shows:

Leigh Ann Hallberg’s installation, PCC&D, or Portable Contemplative Cube & Drawings is composed of 2 large elements: an 8 x 8 foot cube-like chamber and a gridded group of 80 drawings on an adjacent wall.

Greg Murr’s Water Drawings began with images the artist composed using recombined satellite photos of the Hudson River. Employing landscape to explore notions of dynamics, he parsed a satellite image of the river into twenty-six pieces and reconfigured these segments, transcribing their individual shapes in pencil onto watercolor paper. This yielded a compressed version of the Hudson and a vaguely suggestive plant form, each segment overlapping another to grow upward into the white of the page.

Joel Tauber’s Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project, is a 32-minute film that chronicles the artist’s desire to fly and to achieve enlightenment simultaneously. The film portrays each of Tauber’s comic failed flying attempts, but also his eventual triumph: a 1.5 hour flight 150 feet over the desert in Tauber’s musical flying machine / sculpture. The film places Tauber’s attempts within the historical narrative of similar ones, like the story about Tauber’s predecessor, Eilmer the Flying Monk, who believed that the secret of flight was tied to metaphysics.

Admission is free. For more information visit: hanesgallery.wfu.edu/faculty2013

January 15 – October 26, 2013

EXHIBIT: Celebrating 50 Years of the Museum of Anthropology

As the MOA commemorates its 50^th year, this student-curated retrospective exhibit showcases the Museum’s history through a detailed timeline featuring photographs from the institutional archives and artifacts from around the world.  Admission is free.

January 22 – May 19, 2013
Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am – 4:30pm

EXHIBIT: This Beautiful World

This touring exhibit features the work of photographer and world traveler Robert Radin.  It contains images of the people and landscapes of six continents, a presentation of Radin’s life work selected from more than 6,000 photos.  Admission is free.

Opening February 5 (ongoing)
Tuesday – Saturday, 10:00am – 4:30pm

EXHIBIT: Chinese Ceramics from the Changsha Kilns: Reflections of Tang Dynasty Openness and Tolerance

MOA’s new permanent exhibit provides an overview of the ceramics produced by families at the Changsha Kilns during the Tang Dynasty more than one thousand years ago.  The exhibit puts Tang ceramics into their historical, geographic, and cultural context. The Tang Dynasty was a time of peace, prosperity, and acceptance in China, during which Changsha ceramics and other goods were traded to reach as far away as western Asia and Africa. The exhibit features more than 100 spectacular ceramic objects from the MOA’s Lam Collection.

Thursday, February 7 , 7:00pm
LECTURE: Trade and Treasure: The Silk Road on Land and Sea

Virginia Bower, a scholar of Chinese art and archaeology from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia will present an overview of the history of “The Silk Road” of China including the origin of this term.  She will also discuss Tang dynasty Changsha ceramics, comparing and contrasting pieces on display at the Museum with examples in other collections and works that have been excavated or recovered in China and elsewhere including those from a 9^th century shipwreck.  Admission is free.

Saturday, March 23 12:00 – 4:00pm
MOA Turns 50! Birthday Party & Family Day

This exciting event for all ages will feature birthday cake, Chinese dance performances, and crafts activities from cultures around the world as the Museum celebrates its 50^th birthday.  Join us for an afternoon of educational fun!  Admission is free.

Anne Kesler Shields: Geometries is part of a three-venue celebration of Shields’ work in the year of her 80th birthday, which also incorporates exhibitions at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) and the Salem College Fine Arts Center Gallery. To complement the other two exhibitions, the Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery is featuring a selection of geometrically focused abstract works that Shields made between 1963 and 1978.

John Cage / Rocks: Ryoan-ji & New River is an exhibition of drawings and watercolors. Concerning these works, the artist remarked: “I worked once or twice [a year] at the Crown Point Press. Etchings. Once Kathan Brown said, ‘You wouldn’t just sit down and draw.’ Now I do: drawings around stones, stones placed on a grid at chance-determined points. These drawings have also made musical notation: Renga, Score and Twenty‑three Parts, and Ryoanji (but drawing from left to right, halfway around a stone). Ray Kass, an artist who teaches watercolor at Virginia Tech, became interested in my graphic work with chance operations. With his aid and that of students he enlisted I have made fifty‑two watercolors. And those have led me to aquatints, brushes, acids, and their combination with fire, smoke, and stones with etchings.”

From “An Autobiographical Statement” by John Cage, written for the Inamori Foundation and delivered in Kyoto as a commemorative lecture in response to having received the Kyoto Prize in November 1989. Courtesy of the John Cage Trust.

Performed in the Scales Fine Arts Center (theatre as noted). All performances are at 7:30 pm except on Sunday, which is at 2:00 pm. Box office opens noon -5pm, Monday-Friday, two weeks before opening night and one hour prior to curtain. Season passes are $36 adults, $30 senior citizens and WFU faculty/staff, and $15 students.  Season passes also include admission to the Studio Series, student-produced one-act plays directed by senior Theatre majors. Performances will be in the Spring semester.

DANCE COMPANY SERIES

Performed in the Scales Fine Arts Center’s Mainstage Theatre, Thursday – Saturday at 7:30 pm; Sunday at 2:00 pm. Box office opens noon -5pm, Monday-Friday, two weeks before opening night and 1 hour prior to curtain. Not included in your Theatre Season Subscription)

November 29-December 2 Fall Faculty and Guest Artist Concert

The Fall Faculty Guest Artist concerts will feature contemporary, jazz and classical ballet choreography by our dance faculty and renowned guest choreographers, under the direction of Nina Marie Lucas.

Guest Artists include: contemporary choreographers Justin Mann and Mair Culbreth.

April 25-28 Spring Student Choreographic Concert

The Spring Student Choreographic Dance Concert will featured selected work by student choreographers under the direction of Christina Soriano

EXHIBIT: Días de los Muertos (Days of the Dead)

Sept. 11 – Dec. 14

MOA’s annual exhibit features a traditional Mexican ofrenda: a home altar with sugar skulls, colorful tissue paper cutouts, food and beverage offerings, marigolds, and photos of deceased relatives to honor the dead.  A children’s ofrenda and photographs illustrating different aspects of the celebration are also on display.  This exhibit features text in English and Spanish.  Admission is free.

EXHIBIT: Weaving along the Silk Road: Amazing Asian Saddle Rugs
Opening September 25 (ongoing)

This new long-term exhibit examines the creation, function, and cultural importance of saddle rugs across Central Asia.  It features colorfully woven horse covers and saddle covers, as well as elaborately decorated saddles from an area spanning the ancient Silk Road from China to Constantinople (Istanbul).  Admission is free.

Along the Silk Road Family Day
Saturday, October 13
1-4 pm

This exciting event for all ages will feature crafts and hands-on activities from the cultures along the ancient Silk Road from China to Turkey.  Join us for an afternoon of educational fun exploring Central Asia.  Admission is free.

LECTURE: Shared Cultural Heritage. The Case of Moctezuma’s Headdress
7 pm Tuesday, October 16

Dr. Christian Feest, Associate Professor at the University of Vienna, Austria and former director of Vienna’s Museum of Ethnology will discuss the artifact known as Moctezuma’s Headdress, the only surviving feather headdress from pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica.  Feest will focus on the present debates about cultural property, heritage, and restitution which surround the headdress after it was rediscovered in Vienna in the late nineteenth century.  Admission is free.

FILM PREMIERE: Immersed in India
7 pm Tuesday, October 30

MOA will present the world premiere of this documentary produced by Kimberly Dryden, a 2013 MFA candidate with the Documentary Film Program at Wake Forest University.  Immersed in India is a short documentary film that will explore the personal journeys of students traveling to India as part of a Wake Forest study abroad trip this summer. Through the lens of each student’s experience, the audience will come face-to-face with the challenges posed by the ashram teaching method of complete cultural immersion and travel with them as they learn about India and its people.  Admission is free.

FILM: Quest for the Blue Mountain
7 pm Monday, November 12

Dr. Whitney Azoy, a distinguished scholar of the culture and politics of Afghanistan, will screen and discuss this short 1989 National Geographic Explorer documentary.  Dr. Azoy plays the role of guide/central character/narrator in the film, which depicts a trip on foot with an anti-Soviet Afghan Resistance caravan from northwest Pakistan into northeast Afghanistan in search of the world’s oldest and best mine of lapis lazuli.  The film will be shown in 111 Carswell.  Admission is free.
This event is sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology, Global Affairs Funds for International Scholars, Documentary Film Program, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Humanities Institute, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

LECTURE: An Anthropological Understanding of Afghanistan
7 pm Tuesday, November 13

Dr. Whitney Azoy, a distinguished scholar of the culture and politics of Afghanistan, will present an illustrated lecture discussing the history, culture, and religion of the country.  Dr. Azoy currently tours the US and Europe to give similar presentations to US and NATO military personnel preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.  Admission is free.
This event is sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology, Global Affairs Funds for International Scholars, Documentary Film Program, Department of Politics and International Affairs, Humanities Institute, and the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Jamazon: Wayne Shorter Jazz Quartet
Thursday, Sept. 20, 7:30 pm in Wait Chapel

This event includes extensive additional Secrest “Accents”:
• Jazz Clinic and Workshop. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 3:30 PM in Brendle Recital Hall. WFU students and jazz educators and musicians from other regional jazz programs will participate.
• Photography Slide/Lecture Talk (Rain Forest Images) of Sam Abell, of National Geographic. Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 5:30 PM at Kulynch Auditorium, Byrum Center
• “No Return: The Humanities Confronting Climate Change.” A talk by Karen Pinkus (Humanities Institute). Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 4 PM in DeTamble in Tribble Hall.
• Secrest Signature pre-performance talk, Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:40 PM in the Balcony Room of Wait Chapel. Speaker is Jacqui Carrasco, Associate professor of Music.
• “Amazon Gold”, documentary film screenings, preceded by Miles Silman, Director of CEES and Professor of Biology. Friday, Sept. 21 at 7:00 in Kulynch/Byrum Center. (Additional screenings on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 11 am in Pugh Auditorium and Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7 PM in Pugh Auditorium)

Love Fail: Anonymous 4 in a new project by David Lang
Thursday, October 4
7:30 pm in Brendle Recital Hall

The Secrest accents to accompany Love Fail will be a talk by Brian Gorelick, associate Professor of Music. 6:40 PM in Room 208, adjacent to Brendle Hall.

Danu: A Christmas in Ireland
Wednesday, November 28
7:30 pm in Wait Chapel

Venice Baroque Orchestra
Thursday, January 24, 2013
7:30 pm in Wait Chapel

The Secrest Signature Speaker for this event will be Peter Kairoff, pianist, director of Casa Artom in Venice, and Professor of Music.

Strata
Thursday, March 21, 2013
7:30 pm in Brendle Recital Hall

Kenneth Frazelle, composer and faculty member at UNCSA, with lead the Secrest accents talk at 6:40PM in Room 201, adjacent to the Brendle Hall lobby.

Shantala Shivalingappa: Indian Classical Dancer
Friday, April 19, 2013
7:30 pm in Brendle Recital Hall

For Information Please Contact 336.758.5757
Lillian Shelton, director
Anne Hillgartner, student intern
secrest@wfu.edu

August 31 – October 7, 2012
Reception 5-7 pm / Thursday Aug 30

Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery / Wake Forest University
Curated by Paul Bright, Director

Of Paper is comprised of two related exhibitions focusing on the work of artists Leo Morrissey (Winston-Salem, NC) and Delio Gennai (Pisa, IT), some of it on, but most of it OF paper. Paper, for these artists, is utilized as substance and structure to carry both form and meaning. The works of both artists imply that much of the development of culture as we understand it has relied on the use of paper.

Admission is free. For more information visit: hanesgallery.wfu.edu/ofpaper