Through December 2019:  Mountain Heritage Center gallery at Hunter Library 161, M – F 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM. Free of Charge

NOTE: To receive a DegreePlus point, you must complete the questionnaire at the Mountain Heritage Center.

On loan from Exploring Joara Foundation, the exhibit is the first formal museum exhibit showcasing Fort San Juan and Joara, a large Native American town in the late 16th century. It was developed as part of the celebration of the 450th Anniversary of the Juan Pardo Expeditions, during the 1560s, and tells the story of Spanish exploration and the founding of a fort in what is present-day Burke County.

Archaeologists identified the site near Morganton as the location of Joara, one of the largest Native American towns in what is today western North Carolina. The town was occupied from approximately A.D. 1400 to A.D. 1600. Hernando de Soto and Juan Pardo, Spanish explorers, visited the town in the 1560’s. In 2013, archaeologists confirmed that the town was also the site of Fort San Juan, established by Juan Pardo in 1567, nearly 20 years before the English settlement at Roanoke on the coast of North Carolina and 40 years before the English settlement at Jamestown in Virginia. The discovery of the fort, the earliest European settlement in the interior of what is now the United States, has changed history books.

Host: Mountain Heritage Center

DegreePlus Skill: Cultural Responsiveness

The Sylva Garden Club is holding its October monthly meeting on Tuesday, October 1 beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the First Presbyterian Church of Sylva. Refreshments will be served prior to the start of the business meeting. Our guest speaker is Clark Lipkin who will talk about trees!

The Sylva Garden Club is a non-profit, educational, and philanthropic organization open to all who have an interest in gardening. A "green" thumb is not required. Come learn about gardening and participate in the Club's various projects.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Faculty Recital

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Lunch and Learn

CMAP Performance

Lecture Series

Opioid & Addiction Crisis in WNC:
The overall goal of this project is to raise awareness of the opioid and addiction crisis in WNC and to formulate tangible next steps that will make a significant and lasting contribution to the well-being of the region's people.  To that end, WCU's Center for the Study of Free Enterprise (CSFE) is teaming up with Jackson County Community Foundation (JCCF) to organize an awareness campaign for September 2019, capped off by a town hall event on October 3, 2019 o WCU's main campus in Cullowhee, NC.
Registration required at go.wcu.edu/townhall. Box lunch provided.

Additional meeting time for guest speaker

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

This is a book reading by author Lillace Guignard.  She is a visiting author.

LOCATION: UC Theater

Originally from Oaxaca México, Lamberto Roque Hernandez, is an Oakland based artist and educator. His art is distinctly informed from his Zapotec roots. Much like the artisans from his birth place Oaxaca, Mexico Lamberto uses materials that are readily available. Lamberto’s casual use of dirt and mushrooms is reminiscent of Renaissance painters whom made their own pigments out of necessity. It is notable in his aesthetic achievements especially since he is not a schooled or trained painter. In this way the materials he uses are equally important to the images he produces. The marker for his visual palette is his use of the Cochineal Beetle. The Cochineal is a white parasitic insect that attaches itself to Cacti in very arid regions like Oaxaca. The Cochineal is the source of a cherished crimson dye once coveted for oil paints and cardinal robes. His craft is truly appreciated in his lush Mole Sauce paintings or Mushrooms and Dirt paintings.

His work reflects his daily life, pulling influences from ancient memories, dancers, abstract lines and images representing Zapotec Cosmology. He follows the traditions of his people, making art out of natural elements .His work honors his history and the colors that the earth provides, in an effort to leave testimonies of who he is and where he came from.

Lamberto will also be hosting a residency at WCU prior to the keynote. 

Host: ACE

DegreePlus Skill: Cultural Responsiveness

Originally from Oaxaca México, Lamberto Roque Hernandez, is an Oakland based artist and educator. His art is distinctly informed from his Zapotec roots. Much like the artisans from his birth place Oaxaca, Mexico Lamberto uses materials that are readily available. Lamberto’s casual use of dirt and mushrooms is reminiscent of Renaissance painters whom made their own pigments out of necessity. It is notable in his aesthetic achievements especially since he is not a schooled or trained painter. In this way the materials he uses are equally important to the images he produces. The marker for his visual palette is his use of the Cochineal Beetle. The Cochineal is a white parasitic insect that attaches itself to Cacti in very arid regions like Oaxaca. The Cochineal is the source of a cherished crimson dye once coveted for oil paints and cardinal robes. His craft is truly appreciated in his lush Mole Sauce paintings or Mushrooms and Dirt paintings.

His work reflects his daily life, pulling influences from ancient memories, dancers, abstract lines and images representing Zapotec Cosmology. He follows the traditions of his people, making art out of natural elements .His work honors his history and the colors that the earth provides, in an effort to leave testimonies of who he is and where he came from.

Lamberto will also be hosting a residency at WCU prior to the keynote. The keynote will be at the UC Theater.

LOCATION: Homebase- located next to Cullowhee Baptist Church, east side of the WCU campus at 83 Central Drive.

The 2019-20 season of the First Thursday Old-Time and Bluegrass Series at Western Carolina University will get underway Thursday, Oct. 3, with a concert featuring the Queen Family of Jackson County’s Caney Fork community.

Representing a long line of pickers and singers, the Queen Family for many years included family matriarch Mary Jane Queen, a ballad singer who was recipient of the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award and the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship. Even though she has passed on, the family continues to perform traditional mountain music for local events such as WCU’s Mountain Heritage Day festival.

The First Thursday concerts and jam sessions will continue through next spring, with programs from 7 to 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month. The next concert coming up on Nov. 7 will feature the Pressley Girls.

Host: Mountain Heritage Center

DegreePlus Skill: Cultural Responsiveness

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

• campfire marshmallows
• coloring station
• temporary tattoos
• trick or treating
• bouncy house (weather permitting)
• wagon rides

Principals Class - Voice

Pre-registered families can come and pick up their Family Weekend registration packet & t-shirt along with any other items that may have been ordered. 

Not registered for Family Weekend, no problem!  You are able to complete on-site registration at the Family Weekend Central table.

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Join us for LMP Movie Night at the UC Theater! $2 for WCU Students/$5 Everyone else. Popcorn and drinks are FREE! Showings at 7pm & 10pm. #wesharethepopcorn

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Sound celebration of the season by the WCU Tuba Euphonium Ensemble.

Join LMP at the Electron Garden for a paint party! 

*NO ALCOHOL at this event*

Pre-registered families can come and pick up their Family Weekend registration packet & t-shirt along with any other items that may have been ordered. 

Not registered for Family Weekend, no problem!  You are able to complete on-site registration at the Family Weekend Central table.

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Join us for LMP Movie Night at the UC Theater! $2 for WCU Students/$5 Everyone else. Popcorn and drinks are FREE! Showings at 7pm & 10pm. #wesharethepopcorn

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

The Bridge Church Sunday Service: Sunday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

Recital of solo literature presented by students in trombone, euphonium, and tuba studios (TBD).

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Horn Studio Recital #1 - Upperclassmen and the Horn Choir

Lunch and Learn Seminar

Western Falliday

LOCATION: UC THEATER

Watch students present their business ideas and compete for cash prizes!

At the beginning of the event, an invited guest speaker will discuss professional networking skills with the students and share helpful tips. This is followed by a networking social with regional business owners and professionals who volunteered to mentor WCU students. During the event, students will also have the opportunity to win "Best Networker of the Evening" bingo prizes.

Host: EPIC Innovation; Sponsored by Center for the Study of Free Enterprise.

DegreePlus Skill: Professionalism

Come and join us in drawing a portaiture! Limited to the first 25 that RSVP to etapley@wcu.edu.

Make It is always in BAC 150!

Diction Recital

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

To be determined

Annual public lecture in Cherokee Studies

Come and see the best dancers in the Whee! See who makes it to the final competition during Student Appreciation Week! 

Sign up to compete here! 

P.S. This is a sticker event for those that know what we mean ;) 

EMS will be performing a skit related to Alcohol Awareness Week. 

Join the large choral ensembles, University Chorus and Concert Choir, for their fall concert. Admission is free and open to the public.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Lunch and learn

Extra meetings for Honors students in Whitmire's PAR Seminar on Lewis & Tolkien.

Lecture Series

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Chakaia Booker: Auspicious Behavior gallery talk & reception Thursday, October 10th, 5-7 PM

Image Featured: Chakaia Booker, Untitled, 2016, Lithography, Woodcut, and Handpainted Chine Collé, 42.75 x 31 inches.

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

Recital

Join us for a formal presentation on Thursday, October 10th from 7-8 PM by Chakaia Booker in the BAC Performance Hall.

Free and open to the public.

First 8 Week session ends

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Please join the Department of Anthropology for this Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Nick Passalacqua.

Volleyball vs. The Citadel

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The department of Intercultural Affairs will be sponsoring a bus trip to Atlanta, GA on October 12th, 2019 to see Cirque du Soleil - Volta and have dinner in a midtown restaurant.

Transportation, admission fees, and all meals included.  Limited to the first 46 students to register. The cost of this trip is only $25!

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Volleyball vs. Wofford

The Bridge Church Sunday Service: Sunday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

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Fall Break

Second 8 week session begins.

Fall Break No Classes

Fall Break

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Fall Break

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Volleyball vs. ETSU

Fall Break

Lecture Series

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Fall Break

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

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Tournament of Champions Held at Ramsey Center

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The Bridge Church Sunday Service: Sunday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

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Field Trip

Field Trip

It's our favorite time of the year! To kick off Homecoming, we'll be tie dying limited edition Homecoming t-shirts on the UC Lawn!

*While supplies last!*

Jazz drummer with CMAP faculty and guests

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

This year, it's going to be HUGE! We're taking over the UC Lawn, Central Plaza, and Blue Ridge Lawn for the biggest Homecoming Carnival yet! 

Starting on October 9th, wristbands will be available for pick-up for WCU students. Everyone else may pick up on the day of. WCU students are free! $7 for children under 15 and $5 for 16 and up. 

Rehearsal for Ethel and Robert Mirabal: The River

October 24, 2019 | 7:30PM Performance  

ETHEL, acclaimed adventurous string quartet, + Robert Mirabal, Native American musician, instrument builder, and three-time GRAMMY® Award winner, present their next evolution of the cross-cultural, concert experience. The audience is immersed in a flow of music, narrative, and ritual that evokes timeless Native American traditions through contemporary musical artistry. Run time 80 minutes, No intermission. All ages. No photos or video are permitted. 

Sponsored in part by the Chief Joyce Dugan Cultural Arts Center, Cherokee Central Schools

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Extra meetings for Honors students in Whitmire's PAR Seminar on Lewis & Tolkien.

October 23, 2019 2-3 PM

Ethel and Robert Mirabal will lead a discussion as part of their residency for The River.

Guest Speaker Dr. Karolina Jarosz, Academia of Music in Krakow, Poland. This event will be open to both students and faculty. The presentation explores what it takes to write a successful grant and what resources are available online today world-wide.

For Homecoming Week, we'll be playing The Blind Side on the Lawn for all to enjoy! We'll have the popcorn ready! If it rains, we'll be in the UC Theater.

Wake Forest Learning Lab

Lecture Series

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Want a job in your passion area?  Have a cause you really care about and want to find out how to make a career out of it?

Then join us for Careers for Causes!  This event will feature employers who represent passion areas such as the environment, hunger & housing, children & families, and social justice. There will be a panel session where you will get to hear from specific people working in these fields and then a reception where you will have an opportunity to move around the room have conversations with representatives of these different causes. 

Come with your questions and an open-mind about work in the non-profit sector!

LOCATION: UC Multipurpose Room

Hosts: Center for Career and Professional Development; Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning

DegreePlus Skill: Professionalism

Latin American historian Chris Woolley UNC-Pembroke will talk about the legal and social aspects of forest use during the colonial era. If that topic works, the title of the talk is The Forests Cannot Be Commons”: Spanish Law, Environmental Change, and New Spain’s Council on Forests.

LOCATION: UC Catamount

The Josefina Niggli Latinx Speaker Series Presents: Deforestation in Colonial Central Mexico: Dr. Chris Woolley, a historian of Latin America from UNC Pembroke will give a talk entitled "The Forests Cannot Be Commons: Spanish Law, Environmental Change, and New Spain’s Council on Forests".

Hosts: Josefina Niggli Latinx Speaker Series, Humanities Initiative, World Languages, Latinx Learning Community

2 DegreePlus Skills: Cultural Responsiveness; Professionalism

Lab meeting for Ballentine/Hyman lab groups.

Lee Brice, who's #1 songs include: #1 Songs include: Rumor, A Woman Like You, Hard to Love, I Drive Your Truck, I Don’t Dance & Drinking Class, will be performing at the Homecoming Concert! Get your tickets starting Sept. 23rd at 9am! Tickets Here!

Tickets before show date: WCU Students $12.50 Arena/$22.50 Floor, Public $20.00 Arena/$30.00 floor. On day of the show: WCU Students $20 Arena/$30 Floor, Public $27.50/$37.50. Taxes and fees apply.

2019 Homecoming Concert

WCU Presents: ETHEL + Robert Mirabal: The River

Faculty Recital: Andy Jurik, classical guitar

Auspicious Behavior: Chakaia Booker - August 20th - October 25th, Exhibit Reception October 10th

About the exhibition: 

Auspicious Behavior features 19 prints, 3 wall sculptures, and one free-standing sculpture. The Ewing Gallery worked with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop to secure the loan of 16 prints. An additional three prints were produced in the University of Tennessee printshop by Booker, Blackburn Workshop master printer, Justin Sanz, and University of Tennessee printmaking students. Booker has been making prints with the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop since 2009 and has been collaborating with master printer Justin Sanz since 2016. Her utilization of the printmaking process chine collé allows her to create unique prints comprised of collaged lithographs and ink drawings. Booker has developed her own method to create her prints; Taking full advantage of the various tools and materials available in the print studio, Booker cuts into woodblocks with drills, chisels and grinders and paints on paper with gouache, watercolor and film ink to create an array of lively marks: some sharp and rough, others organic, swirling and energetic. A departure from the characteristically dark color palette of her sculptural work, Booker layers thin, hand-painted and printed Asian papers, combining bright reds and yellows with muted earth tones and blues. Once composed, these papers are adhered together through the process of chine collé.

Booker began to integrate discarded construction materials into large, outdoor sculptures in the early 1990s. Tires resonate with her for their versatility and rich range of historical and cultural associations. Booker slices, twists, weaves, and rivets this medium into radically new forms and textures, which easily withstand outdoor environments.

More about the artist:

Chakaia Booker received a B.A. in Sociology from Rutgers University (1976) and a MFA from the City College of New York (1993). She was selected for the Whitney Biennial in 2000, awarded the Pollock-Krasner Grant in 2002 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Booker’s work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Select solo exhibitions include: The National Museum of Women in the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum of Art; Katonah Museum of Art and Storm King Arts Center. She has been included in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art and Design, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, among others. Her work is the collections of the following selected institutions: the Bronx Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Newark Museum and The Snite Museum of Art. Booker lives in New York City and her studio is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Visiting artist Beverly McIver will give a free-to-the-public lecture on her artwork. 

Public concert of Dozier Wind Quintet, part of the Fort Jackson and 282nd Army Band.  Members are Valerie Cowan, flute; Erica Rhodes, oboe; Patrick Hanudel, clarinet; Martin van Klompenberg, bassoon; and Andrew Tryon, horn.

Volleyball vs. UNCG

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Join us for LMP Movie Night at the UC Theater! Showings at 7pm & 10pm. $2 for WCU Students/$5 Everyone else. Popcorn and drinks are FREE! #wesharethepopcorn. Bring a clean reusable cup to fill up your drink and get your choice of free candy! One candy per person with their own cup. 

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother -- and former heir to the throne -- has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is soon ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. Now, with help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba must figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

Last day to drop courses and receive a "W"

Volleyball vs. Furman

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LOCATION: (10 min. from campus) OLD WEBSTER SCHOOL 1528 Webster Rd, Webster, Sylva, NC 28779

Saturday Night Fun! The Caller (leader) will teach and call all traditional dances to live old-time music. Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend. No experience necessary!

DegreePlus Skills: Teamwork; Cultural Responsiveness

Join us for LMP Movie Night at the UC Theater! Showings at 7pm & 10pm. $2 for WCU Students/$5 Everyone else. Popcorn and drinks are FREE! #wesharethepopcorn. Bring a clean reusable cup to fill up your drink and get your choice of free candy! One candy per person with their own cup. 

Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother -- and former heir to the throne -- has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is soon ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. Now, with help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba must figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.

Everyone is welcome at the CommUnity Square Dance Saturday, October 26, 7-9 pm at the old Webster School, 1528 Webster Road in Webster NC. Caller will teach all dances and call all figures to live old-time music led by Lillian and Sara Nell Chase.

No experience needed. Bring your friends and come dance your cares away!

Festival

The Bridge Church Sunday Service: Sunday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM

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WCU Low Brass Festival events.

ANS Guest Speaker

One Book Author Speech and book signing

Advising Day No Classes.

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Hall-O-Ween

The WCU Symphonic Band, under the direction of David Starnes, will present an evening of wind band music. The ensemble is an auditioned group comprised of about 60 talented woodwind, brass, and percussion players.

Opera Presentation to Art Class

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

UC Catamount Room
Want to know how much moe your education could cost you next year? Fidn out about proposed increases for next year and speak up about how you feel about them.

Please join the Department of Anthropology and Sociology for this Brown Bag Lecture by Dr. Jane Eastman, Dr. Brett Riggs & Dr. Ben Steere.

Dr. Barrett Ristroph, who holds a JD, as well as a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, will present a guest lecture with a question and answer session discussing the sustainability of rural communities. Dr. Ristroph has worked extensively with Alaskan Native Villages, and will draw largely from her work with these extremely remote indigenous communities, but will also provide examples of the sustainability of other remote, rural areas, such as Appalachia. The lecture will discuss the difficulties and environmental cost of bringing modern conveniences to rural areas, including diesel fuel energy sources, garbage removal, and recycling. Dr. Ristroph will also discuss the ethical issues impacting the discussion of sustainability in rural communities.

Chick-fil-A Next Level Program for College Graduates -
Ascent!  Learn about the 30-month program for graduates of business or hospitality where young leaders come to find their strengths and have an opportunity to lead a 8.5 million dollar organization. You will have the opportunity to work directly with the Chick-fil-A Hendersonville Owner/Operator and the Executive Team.

Student Recital

Intellectual Property-Title TBD

Dr. Regine Criser from UNC-A will give a lecture to students learning German about the development of the language since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Time ticket registration begins for students.

Lecture Series

Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment

August 20 - December 6th

Come out to our 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch!! Pick a pumpkin and carve it for Halloween. Pumpkins, candy and carving supplies provided!!

Visiting artist Deborah Kruger will give a free-to-the-public lecture about her artwork. 

WCU Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show