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Barton College Inducted Nine Students Into Alpha Chi Honor Society

Posted May 9, 2017 · Add Comment

WILSON, N.C. — May 9, 2017 — Barton College’s North Carolina Gamma Chapter of Alpha Chi National College Honor Society recently welcomed nine new members into the fold during the spring 2017 induction ceremony. Students with a grade point average of 3.5 or better in the top 10 percent of the junior and senior classes are eligible for induction. The minimum grade point average for this induction class was 3.65. Alpha Chi is a coeducational society whose purpose is to promote academic excellence and exemplary character among college and university students and to honor those who achieve such distinction. Its name derives from the initial letters of the Greek words meaning […]

Endia Beal Slated to Speak at Barton College’s 115th Commencement

Posted May 8, 2017 · Add Comment

WILSON, N.C. — April 21, 2017 — Endia Beal, assistant professor of art and director of the Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University, will be the featured speaker at the 115th annual commencement exercises of Barton College in Wilson, scheduled for Saturday, May 13. “We are delighted to welcome Endia Beal as this year’s commencement speaker,” said Dr. Douglas N. Searcy, president of Barton College. “Her extensive, significant work has influenced new attitudes and approaches in the art world and beyond. The authenticity of her engagement with audiences, through her creative photography and videography, will help graduates consider their place in the world and make meaning of their experience.” Beal is a North Carolina-based […]

Barton College’s 115th Commencement To Be Held On Saturday, May 13

Posted May 8, 2017 · Add Comment

Commencement Exercises Scheduled for Saturday, May 13, at 1:30 p.m. WILSON, N.C. — May 8, 2017 — Endia Beal, assistant professor of art and director of the Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University, will be the featured speaker at the 115th annual commencement exercises of Barton College scheduled for Saturday, May 13, on center campus at 1:30 p.m. Wilson Gymnasium is the rain site. Dr. Douglas N. Searcy will preside over his second commencement program as president of Barton College. Dr. Gary Daynes, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will present the 2017 Class of 277 undergraduate and graduate students. Participating in this year’s commencement ceremony will be students who completed […]

Barton College/Wilson Symphony To Feature Acclaimed Pianist Solomon Eichner on Sunday, April 30

Posted April 24, 2017 · Add Comment

WILSON, N.C. — April 24, 2017 — Acclaimed pianist Solomon Eichner will join the Barton College/Wilson Symphony Orchestra for its Spring Concert on Sunday, April 30. The concert will be held at 3 p.m. in the Kennedy Family Theatre on the Barton campus. Mark N. Peterson, director of music at Barton College, will be conducting. Originally from Baltimore, Md., Eichner completed a Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music studying with Arkady Aronov, and he earned a Master of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory, studying with Alexander Shtarkman. Eichner recently received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of South Carolina, where he also held […]

2017 Senior Exhibition Opens in Barton Art Galleries on April 29

Posted April 24, 2017 · Add Comment

WILSON, N.C. – April 24, 2017 — Barton College is pleased to announce the opening of the 2017 Senior Exhibition on Saturday, April 29, with an evening reception to be held from 6-8 p.m. in the Barton Art Galleries in Case Art Building on the campus of Barton College. The community is invited to attend. Twenty-one seniors within the School of Visual, Performing, and Communications Arts will have their works or representations of their work on view in the Barton Art Galleries through May 13. Those seniors representing the Theatre, Mass Communications, and Visual Arts programs include — Theatre — Kelsie Barnes of Wilson plans to graduate in May with […]

VIDEO: Day of Scholarship Research Presentations

Posted April 13, 2017 · Add Comment

Barton College’s annual Day of Scholarship celebrates scholarship as students and faculty from across campus collaborate and share their research projects and creative works. Below are presentations given by our alumni and Boykin Scholars on April 12, 2017. Alumni Research Presentations Preparing for the Unexpected: How Undergraduate Research Helped Me Be Successful in Graduate School By Anna Batts M.S.W. Candidate, East Carolina University The Added Value of Undergraduate Research By Rachel Moore M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration, University of Virginia Barton College Campus Guest Coordinator Knowledge, Passion, and Family By Theresa Scott M.F.A. in Experimental and Documentary Studies Candidate, Duke University Boykin Scholars Presentations Gravely Speaking: Victorian Floriography By Susan Fecho […]

“My Fair Lady” To Grace The Barton Stage On April 20-23

Posted April 10, 2017 · Add Comment

Performances will be held April 20-22 at 7:30 p.m. and on April 23 at 3 p.m. A preview performance, by invitation only, will be held on Wednesday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. WILSON, N.C. — April 10, 2017 — Imagine a chance meeting one rainy evening outside a London Opera House between a common, working-class, Cockney flower girl and the educated, upper-class phoneticist and prescribed bachelor Professor Henry Higgins. This is exactly where Eliza Doolittle’s soon-to-be-told story begins. Theatre at Barton is thrilled to present “My Fair Lady,” a heartwarming, and often hilarious, musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s groundbreaking play “Pygmalion,” with music by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick […]

Travel with Barton’s Friends of Visual Arts to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art and the Diggs Gallery on April 22

Posted April 5, 2017 · Add Comment

Reservation Deadline is April 14. WILSON, N.C. — April 3, 2017 — The spring season provides a perfect backdrop for a visit to Winston-Salem on Saturday, April 22, to see the renowned Reynolda House Museum of American Art and the impressive Diggs Gallery on the campus of Winston-Salem State University. And, traveling with the Barton College Friends of Visual Arts will make this trip a relaxing one-day getaway. Participants will depart by coach from the Kennedy Family Theatre parking lot at Barton College at 8 a.m. Highlights of the trip include lunch at Rooster’s Wood Fired Kitchen: A Noble Grille, followed by a tour of the beautiful, historic Reynolda House. The […]

Barton Welcomes Patrick Bizzaro for Victor R. Small Writers Series Lecture on Tuesday, April 18

Posted April 5, 2017 · Add Comment

WILSON, N.C. —April 5, 2017 — Barton College will welcome author and poet Patrick Bizzaro for the upcoming Victor R. Small Writers Series Lecture on Tuesday, April 18. The lecture is scheduled for 7 p.m. in The Sam and Marjorie Ragan Writing Center on campus. This event is free and open to the public, and all are invited to attend. Patrick Bizzaro has published 11 books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently “Poems of the Manassas Battlefield” from Mount Olive College Press and “Interruptions” from Finishing Line Press. To Bizzaro’s credit are two critical studies of Fred Chappell’s poetry and fiction with LSU Press, a book on the pedagogy of […]

Luis Carlos Ayarza’s “Enjambre de Zepelines” Will Intrigue Readers

Posted April 4, 2017 · Add Comment

A Book Signing, Reading, and Reception will be held on Wednesday, April 12, from 4-6 p.m. in the Willis N. Hackney Library. WILSON, N.C. — April 5, 2017 — Much like the camera lens captures a fleeting moment, Dr. Luis Carlos Ayarza’s writing provides the reader with a momentary glimpse into his soul as he contemplates his research interests through a collection of commentaries in his first book, “Enjambre de Zepelines.” To meet the author and learn more about the book, please join the campus community for a Book Signing, Reading, and Reception to be held on Wednesday, April 12, from 4-6 p.m. in the Willis N. Hackney Library on the Barton […]