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This student-curated exhibit features fossil models, images, and reconstructions to tell the story of how human beings developed into the most unique species on the planet.  The focus is not on the things we already know about human evolution, but on the “hot topics” still be investigated. The newest version of this recurring exhibit examines topics including how fossilized bones and artifacts hold clues about how ancient hominins walked, created tools, and adapted to new environments.  Admission is free.

Día de Muertos is a festive time when families remember their dead and honor the continuity of life. The celebration has roots in both ancient pre-Hispanic celebrations and medieval Spanish Catholic practices and has evolved to feature a blend of elements from both traditions. The Lam Museum’s annual exhibit celebrates this unique observance. The exhibit’s centerpiece is a traditional ofrenda, an altar with food and beverage offerings, flowers, sugar skulls, and photos of deceased loved ones. The colorful exhibit includes information on the celebration’s history, its unique skeleton-themed folk art, and the many ways it is celebrated. For 2023, the exhibit has been updated with all new text that further examines the diverse ways that people observe the holiday in both Mexico and the United States through artifacts and images. Visitors also have the opportunity to add their loved ones to our digital ofrenda here.  The exhibit presents text in English and Spanish.

The exhibit features contemporary artworks by the Etochime Harakbut Artist Collective that amplify Indigenous worldviews, specifically as they pertain to land, sustainability, and the impact of extractive industries on the Harakbut Indigenous community from the region of Madre de Dios in the Peruvian Amazon—an area heavily contaminated by an illegal gold mining boom over the past 20 years. MINE also features works relevant to the theme of resource extraction by a South African art project known as PLOT, thus drawing parallels between distinct geographic locations with shared extractive impacts.

This exhibit is presented in collaboration with the Wake Forest Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability and curated by Patsy Craig.

Featuring photographs from the Houck Medford Collection (Special Collections & Archives) and the WFU Art Department Print Collection

Special Collections & Archives: Room 625 Exhibit: April 26--December 31, 2023 

Artists have long employed visual aids to replicate the perfect linear perspective to lend two-dimensional artworks the illusion of depth. One of the most widely used visual aids, camera obscura, eventually led to the invention of photography. Regarded essentially as a child of technical rather than aesthetic traditions, photography has been viewed as an outsider to fine art. This stigma can also be attributed to the Western pictorial tradition which places a higher value on the classical principle of ideal art as a transcription over more subjective “interpretations” of reality.

 However, photography was born into an era when the fever for an objective tool for recording reality was rising. Early photographs were made in a spirit of documentation and investigation, but with increasing technical versatility resulting from different printing processes, artists have been able to employ the medium for their interpretation of the contingent realities of the visible world. Photography matured to accommodate both "objective" and more "interpretive" approaches. The Medford Collection, like many other ostensibly documentary photographs, straddle these modes. Particularly, the series What Happened? may be viewed as an expression of nostalgia evoked by the dilapidated structures and vernacular architecture of Floyd County, Virginia. Placing the Medford Collection in dialogue with a selection of photographs from the Print Collection, the exhibition also examines six alternative photographic processes and their role in the industrialization and democratization of photography.

Steeped in ancient traditions, tea is consumed all over the world embodying unique characteristics within different cultures. Mindfulness is the practice of bringing one’s attention to the present moment. A mindful approach to drinking tea provides us with a moment to slow down and engage all our senses throughout the brew. This student-curated exhibit invites visitors to learn about the relationship between tea and mindfulness. Admission is free.

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The purpose of APALSA study hall is to help foster community among APALSA members without adding to everyone’s busy schedule. Feel free to use APALSA Study Hall to study, eat lunch, and catch up with friends. 1Ls this is also a great way to connect with 2Ls and 3Ls and ask questions. Lunch will be provided on some weeks, so keep an eye on your email for when those dates will be!

Wake Forest University will be offering free flu shots to all faculty, staff, and retirees from Sept. 18 through Oct. 2. Spouses and dependent children (8 years and older), who are enrolled in the University’s medical plan are also eligible. 

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