Wake Forest University 2005-06
Projects and Initiatives:

Cook It UP! is an annual creativity forum for the university and regional community that fosters cross-disciplinary discourse on the nature and impact of creativity and innovation.  To date, there have been 7 sessions featuring 14 Wake faculty members from disciplinary areas that range across the arts, humanities and sciences who presented to over 350 campus and community participants in an interactive format.

Arts Entrepreneurship: Speakers and events that offer venues for artists and arts entrepreneurs to present, perform, and interact with university and regional communities.  As of spring 2008, 10 arts entrepreneurs have been featured, including several nationally and internationally recognized professionals. 

RE:garding Next: a collaborative culture project on utopian desire at SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art) with Austrian musician and composer Katharina Klement, architect and theorist Johannes Knesl, musician Jacqui Carrasco and other Wake Forest faculty collaborators, area arts professionals, 15 students from WFU and 30 Reynolds High School students through an arts residency.  Wild Ideas: Performance and Utopian Desire, Special Topics Seminar, Theatre and Dance, Spring 07. Creative laboratory and community research/interface through public exhibition and performance event SECCA January 18 – April 7, 2007.

Creativity Roundtable is a working faculty group ranging across disciplines and hailing from all Wake Forest campuses.  This dynamic group contributes to an interconnected landscape of creative engagement, research and practice on the WFU campus that is helping to shape a national symposium, “Creativity: Worlds in the Making”, and to support the Sustainable Program for Creativity and Innovation initiative.

Creativity Symposium Initiative – Synergistic 3 day event, March 18-20, 2009, embedded within the Sustainable Program for Creativity and Innovation with the intention to highlight Wake Forest as a creative campus and to propose creative engagement as a core competency in today’s global environment.

Symposium Goals:
Contribute to the National Discourse on Creativity through Knowledge and Work Sharing
Stimulate Regional and National Community Building through Networks and Partnerships
Inspire and Launch Interdisciplinary Creative Proposals and Entrepreneurial  Initiatives

Symposium Themes:
Reinvesting in Creative Culture
The Role of Creativity as Catalyst for Social Change
Teaching and Learning Models for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship