To survive these days, creative types are expected to be multi-hyphenates: artists, critics, curators, designers, nonprofit administrators, service workers, and more. As the economic waters grow ever more turbulent, we look to discuss: how do you stay standing tall with a foot on both logs in the river?
Join three multidisciplinary art workers—Robert Alan Grand, photographer, writer, and Burnaway’s Carolinas Editor at Large; Paul Bright, artist, curator, exhibition designer, and Director of Galleries and Programming at Wake Forest University; and Endia Beal, artist, curator, author, and Visiting Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University—for a discussion that navigates the benefits and challenges of this state of affairs.
This program is free and located at Hanes Gallery, 1775 Wake Forest Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27109 (Scales Fine Arts Center, off the main lobby).
About Endia
Endia Beal is a North Carolina based artist, educator, and author. Beal’s work merges fine arts with social justice. She uses photography and video to reveal the often overlooked and unappreciated experiences unique to people of color.
About Paul
Paul Bright is an artist, curator, and writer. Bright employs collage as an approach across mediums; paper/material, sound, video, photography, and performance, with exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Matter of Style in 2022 at SECCA, a survey of 10 years of his work. Bright has organized and curated exhibitions in a variety of spaces, independently and for institutions, in the US and Europe, most recently Dread Scott’s All African People’s Consulate for the 2024 Venice Biennale. Bright has written essays and given presentations on many of those exhibitions and related themes. He is the Director of Art Galleries and Programming at Wake Forest University.
About Robert
Robert Alan Grand is a writer and photographer in Winston-Salem, NC. His writings on art and culture have appeared in Art in America, The Bitter Southerner, and the Oxford American, among others, and his photographs of the rural South have appeared in numerous exhibitions and regional publications. From 2014-2019, he was the co-founder and co-director of Kimberly-Klark, an interdisciplinary project space in Ridgewood. Currently, he is the Director of Marketing for the Sawtooth School of Visual Art and the Carolinas Editor-at-Large for Burnaway.
About Hanes Gallery
Since 1976, Hanes gallery has been Wake Forest University’s dedicated venue for visual art through curated exhibitions from diverse strata of contemporary and historical artists as well as student-generated projects.