Spring Semester at UWG Means a Very Busy Campus

There’s a lot happening here at UWG. The spring semester started this week and the schedule is already full of activities:

Five by Design performs in “Club Swing” at Townsend Center for Performing Arts on Jan. 21. Set in a fictional nightclub, the musical revue brings the big band era to life. Tickets are $38. Check it out: http://www.westga.edu/ucmassets/news/3113.php.

There's plenty of free stuff too and it's open to the public:

The Bobick Gallery features the work of Cynthia Thompson, a Memphis artist and chair of the Fine Arts Department at the Memphis College of Art. The show opens on Jan. 12.

Thompson’s work contains strong religious undertones. Thompson shares her own experiences as a young woman raised in the religious South. Read more: http://www.westga.edu/ucmassets/news/3110.php.

For the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, UWG has invited former Fulton County Judge Penny Brown Reynolds to speak. She’ll be in the Campus Center Ballroom on Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. Reynolds, presided over "Family Court with Judge Penny" syndicated television show. The theme of her talk is “There's Still Work to Do: Seize the Day.” 

But one of the most exciting things on campus is Howl for UWG, a public art project and fundraising tool for scholarships.

Clint Samples, an associate professor of art, is spearheading the project. The wolf is UWG’s mascot. In the Howl project the wolf is a metaphor for community. Artists were challenged to imagine the wolf as a canvas and to ponder the meaning of community. The results were amazing. We have submissions from throughout community, including six from Carrollton Elementary School. There’s still time to submit designs to the project, if the idea intrigues you.

The designs that are selected for sponsorship will be reproduced on life-size fiberglass wolves.

Go here to see the submissions and to learn more: http://howlforuwg.com/artists.html.