Public Art Program minimester class installs new exhibit in HFR

Greg McPherson, WCU’s Fine Art Museum exhibition designer and assistant professor in the David Orr Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts, and his minimester class installed a new exhibit in the second floor lobby of the HFR Administration Building.   

WCU collaborates with Cherokee Preservation Foundation on campuswide Cherokee exhibit planning project

A campuswide and community driven project will soon be underway to recenter Cherokee history and culture on WCU’s campus.   

New sculpture coming to WCU’s Apodaca Science Building

The outside of Western Carolina University’s Apodaca Science Building will soon feature a new sculpture.  

Students to showcase their work at 14th annual Controlled Chaos Film Festival

The event will take place in the Bardo Arts Center May 5 at 7:30 p.m.  

Chancellor portraits will be digitized for online viewing

The portraits of each WCU chancellor or president that has served at the university will be removed from the library stairwell walls to be digitized for an online chancellor’s portrait gallery.  

Mountain Heritage Center to host traveling Smithsonian exhibit highlighting rural America

The Mountain Heritage Center has been selected by North Carolina Humanities to host the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s exhibit “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.”  

Rising of the Necessary Diva

Rising of the Necessary Diva is a one-woman show created and performed by WCU's Assistant Professor of Music, Dr. Tiffany Renee Jackson  

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New Apodaca art installation showcases the talents of renowned glass artists

On Aug. 18, WCU welcomed a new sculpture to the Apodaca Science Building.  

Mountain Heritage Center opens ‘Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories’ exhibit Sept. 1

“Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories” explores off-reservation boarding schools in a kaleidoscope of voices.