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Sunday, November 10, 2019
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(All Day)
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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Monday, November 11, 2019
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6:30 AM - 7:00 AM
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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11:00 AM - Noon
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11:00 AM - 12:45 PM
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersections w/Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday - 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Lecture in Olin Theater: "Queer Medievalism in the U.S. South" by Tison Pugh
(multiple cals)
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Description: |
Dr. Tison Pugh is a professor of English at the University of Central Florida and author of “Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality and the Southern Literary Canon” (2016) and “Chaucer’s (Anti-) Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages” (2014). In his lecture, “Queer Medievalism in the U.S. South,” he will explore the ways in which gender, class and power – as well as definitions of masculinity – in the U.S. South are and have been a form of medievalism and the ways that queer readings revise that paradigm.
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Location: |
Olin Teaching Theater |
Contact: |
Natalie Grinnell
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019
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6:30 AM - 7:00 AM
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection with Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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4:00 PM
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
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a simple meal, Mickel Chapel
(Campus Ministry / Service Learning)
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Description: |
a simple meal is a brief time of student-led music, prayer, scripture and reflections. Communion and blessings are offered by Rev. Ron. Conversation and a meal of soup and bread follows. Whatever your tradition, all are welcome.
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Location: |
Mickel Chapel, Main Building |
Contact: |
Elizabeth Fields
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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7:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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7:00 PM
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7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Wofford Theatre Presents Circle Mirror Transformation, Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Wofford Theatre opens its 50th season this fall with a production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. Prof. Dan Day directs two alternating casts of Wofford students in this play, which runs from Nov. 7-9 and 13-16 in the Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre, at 8 p.m. nightly. “Circle Mirror Transformation” takes place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, where five characters from very different walks of life come together for an acting class. As the students and their eccentric teacher perform acting exercises together, they slowly come to make discoveries about themselves and about one another. The creative process engenders unexpected personal challenges for the group, as relationships are tested and long-hidden truths are revealed. Seating for this show will be limited, and discounted tickets may be purchased in advance at www.wofford.edu/boxoffice. Same-day online ticket sales close at 6 p.m., and the box office opens at 7 p.m. in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. Wofford students may now see our shows for free on Thursday evenings! Present your valid Wofford ID at the box office — one ticket per student, while seats are available. Free tickets may not be reserved in advance. No late seating is permitted. Unclaimed tickets are released for resale five minutes prior to showtime.
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Location: |
Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre |
Contact: |
Miriam Thomas
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
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(All Day)
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11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
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Study Abroad Fair, Great Oaks Hall
(Academic)
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Description: |
Students interested in studying abroad should plan to attend
the Wofford Study Abroad Fair. Representatives from approved Wofford study
abroad programs will be on-hand to answer questions and provide further
information on study abroad opportunities. For more information about studying
abroad at Wofford, see http://www.wofford.edu/internationalprograms/. There
will be fun, festivities, and prizes for all who attend!
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Location: |
Great Oaks Hall, Roger Milliken Science Center |
Contact: |
International Programs
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11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection with Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Environmental Humanities and Degrowth in the Age of Extinction: Insights from Post-2008 Spain, Olin 101
(multiple cals)
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Description: |
In this talk, Dr. Iñaki Prádanos García (Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Culture at Miami University) brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine cultural shifts happening in Spain in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008. Dr. Prádanos will discuss the implications for Spain of the globalization of an economic culture addicted to growth and cultural sensibilities that are challenging the growth paradigm in the Iberian Peninsula.
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Location: |
Olin 101 |
Contact: |
Laura Barbas-Rhoden
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Wofford Theatre Presents Circle Mirror Transformation, Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Wofford Theatre opens its 50th season this fall with a production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. Prof. Dan Day directs two alternating casts of Wofford students in this play, which runs from Nov. 7-9 and 13-16 in the Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre, at 8 p.m. nightly. “Circle Mirror Transformation” takes place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, where five characters from very different walks of life come together for an acting class. As the students and their eccentric teacher perform acting exercises together, they slowly come to make discoveries about themselves and about one another. The creative process engenders unexpected personal challenges for the group, as relationships are tested and long-hidden truths are revealed. Seating for this show will be limited, and discounted tickets may be purchased in advance at www.wofford.edu/boxoffice. Same-day online ticket sales close at 6 p.m., and the box office opens at 7 p.m. in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. Wofford students may now see our shows for free on Thursday evenings! Present your valid Wofford ID at the box office — one ticket per student, while seats are available. Free tickets may not be reserved in advance. No late seating is permitted. Unclaimed tickets are released for resale five minutes prior to showtime.
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Location: |
Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre |
Contact: |
Miriam Thomas
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8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Friday, November 15, 2019
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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A Day For Wofford
(Alumni and Development)
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Description: |
On Friday, November 15, join alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends and show that you are #ForWofford on A Day for Wofford— a 24-hour giving event to celebrate the collective impact of Terriers like you!
Challenges will be held throughout the day and will be available to make your gift go even further!
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Contact: |
Amanda Richardson
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
|
Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
It
is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Intersection of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Southern
Gothic: Intersections of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection
From Edgar
Allen Poe’s haunting tale of The Gold Bug (1843) to Flannery
O'Connor’s biting short story “Good Country People” (1955), the Southern
Gothic literary tradition has exhumed the American South’s aberrations,
contradictions, and unique sense of dark humor. Drawing exclusively
from the Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic examines how
nineteenth-and twentieth-century artists borrowed from their literary
peers, using a potent visual language to address the tensions between the
South’s idyllic visions and its historical realities.This exhibition is
guest curated by Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, a Ph.D. candidate from the
University California, Santa Barbara, and the Johnson Collection’s 2019
graduate fellow.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursdays - 1 - 9 p.m. Exhibit closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Wofford Theatre Presents Circle Mirror Transformation, Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
Wofford Theatre opens its 50th season this fall with a production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. Prof. Dan Day directs two alternating casts of Wofford students in this play, which runs from Nov. 7-9 and 13-16 in the Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre, at 8 p.m. nightly. “Circle Mirror Transformation” takes place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, where five characters from very different walks of life come together for an acting class. As the students and their eccentric teacher perform acting exercises together, they slowly come to make discoveries about themselves and about one another. The creative process engenders unexpected personal challenges for the group, as relationships are tested and long-hidden truths are revealed. Seating for this show will be limited, and discounted tickets may be purchased in advance at www.wofford.edu/boxoffice. Same-day online ticket sales close at 6 p.m., and the box office opens at 7 p.m. in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. Wofford students may now see our shows for free on Thursday evenings! Present your valid Wofford ID at the box office — one ticket per student, while seats are available. Free tickets may not be reserved in advance. No late seating is permitted. Unclaimed tickets are released for resale five minutes prior to showtime.
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Location: |
Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre |
Contact: |
Miriam Thomas
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Saturday, November 16, 2019
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(All Day)
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(All Day)
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Fall Scholars Day
(Admission)
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Description: |
Participate in an on-campus interview with Wofford students and faculty, enjoy lunch, and attend special interest sessions. Scholars Day attendance is by invitation only.
Wofford Scholars Day, November 16, 2019 is reserved for students who plan to apply by November 1 (Early Decision) or November 15 (Early Action), have been nominated, and qualify for our Wofford Scholars Program.
Questions? See our Scholars Day FAQ. Have additional questions? Contact Megan Tyler, Director of Wofford Scholars Program, at tylermp@wofford.edu.
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Various Locations on Campus |
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Mary Carman Jordan
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
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Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Siendo mujer: a short study of the female experience in South America, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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As
the 35th Presidential International Scholar, Lydia Estes attempted to uncover
the visual representation of la mujer, or
the woman, in the South American countries of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and
Peru. Siendo mujer means "being a woman", and
this exhibition represents the conversations she shared with resilient,
creative women for whom art plays a significant role in their female
experiences and vice versa--for whom the female experience plays a significant
role in their art.
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is further a collection of their artwork, also including her own photographs of
them, their spaces, and moments which contribute to the story each is trying to
tell through their work. Her research revealed more questions like, how
are women stereotypically portrayed in their societies? How are female artists
confronting these images through their own artwork, and how are the mediums
they work in an aspect of their protest? And lastly, how will art change the
female experience in future South American societies?
October 17 –
December 20, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Richardson Family Art Gallery |
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Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection of Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
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Youmi Efurd
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1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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5:00 PM
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8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Wofford Theatre Presents Circle Mirror Transformation, Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Wofford Theatre opens its 50th season this fall with a production of “Circle Mirror Transformation” by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker. Prof. Dan Day directs two alternating casts of Wofford students in this play, which runs from Nov. 7-9 and 13-16 in the Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre, at 8 p.m. nightly. “Circle Mirror Transformation” takes place in the fictional town of Shirley, Vermont, where five characters from very different walks of life come together for an acting class. As the students and their eccentric teacher perform acting exercises together, they slowly come to make discoveries about themselves and about one another. The creative process engenders unexpected personal challenges for the group, as relationships are tested and long-hidden truths are revealed. Seating for this show will be limited, and discounted tickets may be purchased in advance at www.wofford.edu/boxoffice. Same-day online ticket sales close at 6 p.m., and the box office opens at 7 p.m. in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. Wofford students may now see our shows for free on Thursday evenings! Present your valid Wofford ID at the box office — one ticket per student, while seats are available. Free tickets may not be reserved in advance. No late seating is permitted. Unclaimed tickets are released for resale five minutes prior to showtime.
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Sallenger Sisters Black Box Theatre |
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Miriam Thomas
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