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Two more ARTStem Faculty Projects Starting Up Next Week

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford

Next week, a group of ten UNCSA and RJ Reynolds HS faculty members begin the Meaning of PROOF project. And Matt Fussell sends word from RJ Reynolds that Engineering Aesthetics begins next week. More later. Share on Facebook
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2011 First Light Festival at EST Starts This Weekend

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
2011 First Light Festival at EST Starts This Weekend

The Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology Project stages an annual festival of science-themed plays. Associate Director of the EST/Sloan collaboration, of course, is Linsay Firman, who visited UNCSA with playwright Anna Ziegler in February. “When a new telescope focused on...
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Medical Education, Visual Arts, Narrative

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
Medical Education, Visual Arts, Narrative

A spate of recent arts/medicine convergences have caught my attention, and has me thinking about the potential of ARTStem collaborations between our arts institution and the medical research and healthcare sectors of Winston-Salem. Here’s a short article out of Drexel University about a current...
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Sci/Art Conversation Series at LSU’s Theatre School

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
Sci/Art Conversation Series at LSU’s Theatre School

A remarkable upstart program of conversations at LSU’s Theater Department. Read about it HERE. ” . . . Our first one, which we just called ‘Silk’, had an entomologist talking about the evolution of spiders and spider silk along with a choreographer and two...
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Turning the Science Lab into the Filmmaker’s Laboratory

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
Turning the Science Lab into the Filmmaker’s Laboratory

This is a very cool new program of the Imagine Science Film Festival. “Imagine a filmmaker interested in genetics immersing himself in the life of a biotechnology lab, to observe the research process and talk with research scientists.  Together the filmmaker and a geneticist...
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Newest Wayne McGregor ballet, FAR, tackles the history of “thinking” and the Age of Enlightenment

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
Newest Wayne McGregor ballet, FAR, tackles the history of “thinking” and the Age of Enlightenment

How did “thinking” change in the Age of Enlightenment? That’s Wayne McGregor’s query in his newest ballet, FAR. This is worth several minutes of viewing: Some good additional reading: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/wayne-mcgregor-giant-leaps-in-the-studio-ndash-and-in-the-lab-2135922.html Share on Facebook
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ARTStem Featured in School of Music’s Spring News

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
ARTStem Featured in School of Music’s Spring News

ARTStem’s successful collaboration with UNCSA Composer-in-Residence Lawrence Dillon, the UNCSA Wind Symphony and Conductor Michael Dodds, and Wake Forest University’s Eric Carlson landed it on the front page of the most recent edition of In Tune. Here’s the story: Music and science converged at...
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UNCSA Film School’s Joe Lopina & “The Free Electrons”

March 31, 2011
By Mike Wakeford

Joe Lopina, animation faculty in the UNCSA School of Filmmaking, offers this update about the progress of his ARTStem Faculty Project, “Science Giants.” ARTStem has supported Lopina’s continuing work with students at Winston-Salem’s Brunson Elementary School—which combines puppetry, animation, storytelling, and STEM education. Joe...
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Investigative Theater Aims to Alter Public Perception on Climate Change

March 18, 2011
By Mike Wakeford

The Brooklyn-based “investigative theater” company, The Civilians, continues to develop the play—The Great Immensity—that emerged out of its collaboration with Princeton University’s PEI (Princeton Environmental Institute) in 2010. Read about it HERE. Here’s a line from the article, from the PEI’s associate director: “We...
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“Spaceship Earth” Exhibit; Homage to Buckminster Fuller’s art/sci vision

March 18, 2011
By Mike Wakeford

CultureLab: What art can do for science and vice versa. Share on Facebook
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“Science Giants” at NCAGT

March 18, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
“Science Giants” at NCAGT

On Thursday, March 17th, Joe Lopina (UNCSA School of Filmmaking) and Brie Ducamp (Brunson Elementary)—collaborators on the ARTStem Faculty Project “Science Giants”—discussed their work, along with Mike Wakeford (Undergraduate Academic Program, ARTStem Project Director), at the 37th Annual Conference of the North Carolina Association...
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Karola Luttringhaus, Alban Elved Dance Company, Bringing Art & Science Festival to Winston-Salem!

March 4, 2011
By Mike Wakeford
FSASF Call-for-participants

UNCSA alum Karola Luttringhaus and her Alban Elved Dance Company are organizing the FREE SPACE ARTS & SCIENCE FESTIVAL, to take place in Winston-Salem September 28th thru October 2nd. To learn more about Karola, Alban Elved, and the FSASF, go to Alban Elved’s website...
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