"Behind the Mask," Scott Blumenthal's "The Kiss," Angus MacLachlan, and Day of the Dead
David Lubin and "Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution"
WWI- era sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd is a largely forgotten figure today, but one remarkable moment in her career captured the imagination of Wake Forest University Art Professor David Lubin. During the war, a friend of Ladd's told her about some fascinating sculpting work being done in Europe. Using galvanized copper, artists were creating lifelike masks for soldiers horribly disfigured during trench warfare.
Ladd was inspired to contribute, and her efforts are chronicled in David's upcoming lecture on the Wake campus titled "Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution".
The Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art recently posted a collection of Anna Coleman Ladd's papers online, including letters, photos, diary entries and other texts documenting her work. Scroll down to see the YouTube video of Ladd there in action at her Paris studio creating masks and working with soldiers.
David Lubin's upcoming book—due out in February on University of California Press—is titled Flags and Faces: The Visual Culture of America's First World War. David's lecture "Behind the Mask: WWI, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution" is Monday night, Oct. 27th, in Byrum Welcome Center on the Wake campus. The Lifelong Learning event begins at 7:30pm. It's free and open to the public. Later that week, David is also lecturing on the 19th century book illustrator Howard Pyle and his powerful influence on the movies. That talk, titled "Pyle's Pirates and the Silver Screen", is on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 30th, at 4:00 in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library.
http://youtu.be/bCSzrUnie2E
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Scott Blumenthal and The Kiss
Playwright and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan graduated from UNCSA in 1980 and continues to call Winston-Salem home. He's best-known for writing the screenplays for the 2005 film Junebug as well as the cult short film Tater Tomater. That may be about to change. Today, a decade after writing Junebug and six months after its successful premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, IFC Films has acquired the North American rights to Angus's new comedy-drama Goodbye to All That.
He takes us Behind-the-Scenes.
Goodbye to All That opens in New York and select cities across the country on December 17th. You can look for it in theaters in our neck of the woods shortly after the start of the New Year.
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Skulls & Skeletons - An Excursion Celebrating Day of the Dead
“Skulls & Skeletons—An Excursion Celebrating Day of the Dead” is a unique collaboration between Sawtooth School for Visual Art, The Hispanic League and Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology.
Sawtooth School for Visual Art Director of Sales and Marketing Kevin Mundy, Hispanic League Executive Director Mari Jo Turner, and Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology Interim Assistant Director Sara Cromwell spoke with David Ford. “Skulls & Sleletons—An Excursion Celebrating Day of the Dead” with museum tour (current exhibit is Life After Death: The Day of the Dead in Mexico), catered lunch, mask-making and more begins Saturday morning, October 25th at 10:30 am at the museum on the Wake campus.
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