SPARTANBURG, S.C. – February events at Wofford College are highlighted by Black History Month events, a lecture by renowned Theodore Roosevelt biographer Edmund Morris, other guest lectures and a variety of art exhibitions.
All events listed are open to the public and are free of charge unless otherwise noted.
Please check the online calendar at the calendar.wofford.edu for frequent updates. For athletics events, please go to athletics.wofford.edu.
For more information, contact Laura Corbin at woffordnews@wofford.edu or 864-597-4180.
Wednesday, Feb. 6
Black History Month Event
Wellness Wednesday: Heart Disease Awareness
4:30-6 p.m., Lobby, Burwell Building
CPR demonstrations and instruction will be provided to attendees. Sponsored by the Wellness Center and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Thursday, Feb. 7
Black History Month Event
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
11:15 a.m., steps of Main Building
Attendees are asked to wear red to observe a day for HIV/AIDS awareness. Sponsored by Wofford Men of Color.
Thursday, Feb. 7
Black History Month Event
“Our Friend Martin” Movie and Discussion
6 p.m., Meadors Multicultural House, Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village
This animated movie celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sponsored by Black Student Alliance.
Friday, Feb. 8
Black and Gold Ball
9 p.m., The Galleria, Michael S. Brown Village Center
Students are invited to enjoy the festivities at The Galleria. Sponsored by Wofford Activities Council.
Tuesday, Feb. 12
Black History Month Event
Black Excellence Panel
5:30 p.m., McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
Wofford alumni share their stories. Sponsored by Wofford Men of Color, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Department of Art and Art History and the Studio Art Program.
Wednesday, Feb. 13
Black History Month Event
Wellness Wednesday: Create
1 p.m., The Commons, Campus Life Building
Students are invited to design their own Valentine cards. Sponsored by the Wellness Center and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Wednesday, Feb. 13
Black History Month Event
Man Enough?
6 p.m., Meadors Multicultural House, Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village
Conversations on being a “real” man. Sponsored by Wofford Men of Color.
Thursday, Feb. 14
Black History Month Event
AIDS/HIV Testing-Blood Drive
9 a.m.-4 p.m., Wofford Campus Drive in front of Main Building
The blood drive will take place in front of Main Building; the location of the HIV testing to be announced. Sponsored by the Wellness Center and Piedmont Care.
Thursday, Feb. 14
Lunar New Year Celebration (Chinese New Year)
5-7 p.m., Burwell Dining Hall, Burwell Building
The Chinese program will host a celebration of the Lunar New Year – also known as the Chinese New Year – the first day of January in the lunar calendar. The Lunar New Year is the most important traditional holiday in Chinese culture as well as in Korea and Vietnam. The celebration extends over a 20-day period, with the beginning falling on Tuesday, Feb. 5, this year. The celebration will include Chinese cuisine; Chinese performances by singers, dancers and musicians; crafting activities and door prizes.
Friday, Feb. 15
Tournées Film Festival
7 p.m., McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
The Tournées Film Festival will showings of six francophone films over several weeks in partnership with the FACE Foundation. All are on Friday evenings, beginning at 7 p.m. The films being shown are: “As I Open My Eyes,” 2015 (Tunisian, French, Belgian production), Feb. 15; “Faces, Places,” 2017 (French production), Feb. 22; “The Workshop,” 2017 (French production), March 1; “Two Days, One Night,” 2014 (Belgium, Italian production), March 8; “Little by Little,” 1971 (Nigerian, French production), March 15; and “Fatma,” 2016 (French, Arabic production), March 22.
Tuesday, Feb. 19
Black History Month Event
Black and Abroad
6 p.m., Michael S. Brown Village Center
Conversations on African-American experiences abroad. Sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Tuesday, Feb. 19
Sacred and Secular in Baroque Music and Painting
7 p.m., Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
A Baroque music concert will accompany an exhibition of Baroque art in the Richardson Family Art Museum in the Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. The event will feature the performance of works by Bach and Vivaldi by the South Carolina Bach Society and the North Carolina Baroque Orchestra, with introductory remarks on the connections between music and the visual arts in the Baroque period. A reception will follow.
Wednesday, Feb. 20
Black History Month Event
Wellness Wednesday: “Build Yo Yogurrt”
9:30 a.m., Seal of Main Building
Students are invited to build their own yogurt parfaits. Sponsored by the Wellness Center, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Thursday, Feb. 21
Black History Month Event
Game Night with BSA
5:30 p.m., McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
“Black Jeopardy” and other games. Sponsored by Black Student Alliance.
Thursday, Feb. 21
Sacred and Secular: Netherlandish Baroque Paintings from Regional Collections
Curator’s Talk: Dr. Peter L. Schmunk, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Garrison Professor of the Humanities
7 p.m., Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Details of the exhibition can be found under Gallery and Museum Exhibitions below.
Friday, Feb. 22
Black History Month Event
SCATE Night (Students Creating Art Through Expression)
7 p.m., Campus Life Building
Students are invited to this open-mic night with prizes, food and drinks. Register by emailing colemanbp@email.wofford.edu or taylorns@email.wofford.edu. Sponsored by the Association of Multicultural Students.
Friday, Feb. 22
Tournées Film Festival: “Faces, Places”
7 p.m., McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
The Tournées Film Festival continues with a showing of “Faces, Places” (2017), a French production. For a full listing of the six-film festival shows, see the event listing under Friday, Feb. 15.
Sunday, Feb. 24
Black History Month Event
Spades Tournament
5:30 p.m., Meadors Multicultural House, Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village
Refreshments and prizes will be available. Register by emailing thorntontr@email.wofford.edu. Sponsored by Black Student Alliance and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Tuesday, Feb. 26
Black History Month Event
Real Talk Tuesday: Mental Health
11:15 a.m., Meadors Multicultural House, Stewart H. Johnson Greek Village
How to create a good work-life balance. Lunch will be provided. Sponsored by Black Student Alliance and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion.
Tuesday, Feb. 26
Chapman Lecture in the Humanities: “Theodore Roosevelt, the Conservationism”
Speaker: Edmund Morris, presidential biographer
7-8 p.m., Leonard Auditorium, Main Building
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential biographer Edmund Morris will speak on “Theodore Roosevelt, the Conservationist.” Morris is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on President Roosevelt, having written three books on different eras of Roosevelt’s life. The first, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979),” went on to win a Pulitzer Prize, while the second, “Theodore Rex” (2001), was awarded the Los Angeles Times Award for biography.
Wednesday, Feb. 27
Black History Month Event
Wellness Wednesday: Student Activities
6-8 p.m., Game Room, Campus Life Building
It’s paint night. Canvas, paint and brushes provided. Sponsored by the Wellness Center and Wofford Activities Council.
Thursday, Feb. 28
Speak Up and Speak Out About Sexual Harassment
Speaker: Cynthia J. Wood, Feminists for Life of America
11:30 a.m., McMillan Theater, Campus Life Building
Cynthia J. Wood, national operations coordinator for Feminists for Life of America, will present her new training course, “Speak Up and Speak Out About Sexual Harassment: Find Your Assertive Voice.” Wood has served as a trainer for numerous workshops, including prevention of sexual harassment, effective communications and team-building and leadership. She received a law degree from the University of Houston Law Center and has been a bar member of the D.C. Court of Appeals, Virginia and Florida.
GALLERY AND MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS:
Through Saturday, March 30
Dawn Williams Boyd: Scraps from My Mother’s Floor
Upper level, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
This exhibition features the work of figurative quilt painter Dawn Williams Boyd, whose artwork reflects her interests in American history as it affects and is affected by its African-American citizens. After 30 years painting in oils and acrylics on various surfaces, in 2002 Boyd began to “paint” with fabric instead of on it. Her large scale “cloth paintings” are representative, packed with vibrant, often life-sized figures and are strategically embellished with beads, sequins, cowry shells and hand embroidery. Large pieces often take more than 500 hours to complete. Through cutting, patching, surface embellishment and quilting, bits and pieces of fabric are transformed into modern visual storytelling.
Through Sunday, May 19
Sacred and Secular: Netherlandish Baroque Paintings from Regional Collections
Lower level, Richardson Family Art Museum, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Dynamic and theatrical, but also down-to-earth, moralizing and sometimes comic. Triumphant, grandiose and propagandistic, and yet also intimate and inward. All of these terms are applicable to the art of the European Baroque, the cultural epoch of the 17th and 18th centuries, which produced an unprecedented richness and variety in creative expression. Complex and conflicting forces across the political, religious, economic and social spheres of life account for this artistic abundance. The Netherlands, a major center of artistic production during the Baroque period, was home to many of these contrasts and conflicts within its relatively small geographic boundaries along the northern coast of Europe. These diverse cultural forces are evident, in varying ways and degrees, in a selection of paintings generously loaned to Wofford College by the Bob Jones University Museum and Gallery in Greenville, S.C.; the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, S.C.; and the Robicsek Family Collection in Charlotte, N.C.
Special related events:
Tuesday, Feb. 19 – Sacred and Secular in Baroque Music and Painting, 7 p.m., Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts. (See the Feb. 19 listing for details.)
Thursday, Feb. 21 – Curator’s Talk by Dr. Peter L. Schmunk, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Garrison Professor of the Humanities, 7 p.m.
Through Sunday, May 19
Graphic Solidarity: The Internationalist Outlook of the Cuban Revolution
Upper level, Richardson Family Art Museum, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
This exhibition features posters produced in Cuba during the period following the revolution through the 1980s. The highlighted posters focus on Cuba’s efforts to spread the messages of its revolution worldwide and to inspire others in the fight against oppression stemming from the legacy of imperialism and colonialism. Primarily published by the OSPAAAL organization based in Havana, these works helped to facilitate the internationalist outlook and message of the Cuban revolution through their inclusion in the Tricontinental magazine, which reached people in more than 60 countries worldwide. The works in the exhibition are on loan from the collection of Lindsay Webster of Spartanburg, S.C. Curated by Katie McCorkle, class of 2019, this exhibition is a culmination of her yearlong honors project for art history and government.
Through Saturday, March 30
Stoppages by Michael Webster
Richardson Family Art Gallery, Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts
Sculptures in this exhibition are a collection of fragments, contradictions and run-on thoughts about the physical world. They emerge from a fascination with systems of the built environment and objects that occupy our space. When Michael Webster, assistant professor of art and art history, collects found things, he often lives with them for years before incorporating them into a sculpture, adding something to their long-established history. A faded, peeled-up yellow road line is the material embodiment of the syntax that organizes movement, but can we also imagine what could exist beneath the road line, and allow an absurd moment to unravel the margins of the system?
Hours for the Richardson Family Art Gallery and the Richardson Family Art Museum:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 1-5 p.m.; Thursday, 1-9 p.m.; Sunday and Monday, closed. Special hours will be observed during the week of Wofford’s Commencement: Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, May 19, noon-4 p.m.
Monday, Feb. 18, through Saturday, April 27
Jim and Kay Gross Collection: Art of the Carolinas
Sandor Teszler Library Gallery
Opening reception – Thursday, March 21, 4 p.m.