Arts

Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery resumes programming for “Year of the Vote: Gender, Politics, and Power,” a year-long event celebrating and recognizing the 100-year anniversary of women receiving the right to vote. The series of monthly events launched in January 2020 and has been adapted to constraints posed by the …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University reopens Aug. 25 with the exhibition Drawn to Abstraction: Prints from the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition, which was to have been on display during the spring 2020 semester, launches the gallery’s 2020-2021 year and continues through Nov. 1. This exhibition from the collection of …

Students in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing are used to working in the virtual world. During the semester, they attend classes and work one-on-one with their mentors online. But in the hybrid program, students also complete two in-person residencies on the Wilkes campus in January and June …

Wilkes University’s Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series, which highlights the June 2020 residency for the University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, will be available for free to the public virtually via online videos. The series features alumni, guests and creative program faculty, many of whom are prize-winning authors, …

Nancy McKinley, a founding faculty member in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University, stepped into the national spotlight on May 26 when her book, “St. Christopher on Pluto,” was reviewed on National Public Radio. The book, which is a novel in stories, received a glowing review …

Applications Still Being Accepted for June Cohort The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University has announced that its June residency will be held entirely online. The program usually has students meet in person on the Wilkes University campus in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., for its residencies in January …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University announces the cancelation of the exhibit Drawn to Abstraction: Prints from the 1960s and 70s. The exhibit features the emerging abstract movement of the time period, including abstract expressionism, minimalism, op art, and pop art. Featured artists include Josef Albers, Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Rauschenberg, …

Nancy McKinley, Ph.D., can make a claim few faculty in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program can match: She has taught every student in every cohort who has entered the program since its second residency. McKinley co-teaches “The Professional Writer,” the first class taken by all creative writing students …

Wilkes University Theatre presents the award-winning musical, “The Spitfire Grill.” Performances will take place on Feb 20, 21, and 22 at 8 p.m., and on Feb. 22 and 23 at 2 p.m. All performances are at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center, 239 S River St, Wilkes-Barre. General admission is $15, …

When she was shopping for colleges, Jess Morandi found herself at a Wilkes University admissions table by chance while attending a college fair with a friend. Morandi, who was interested in studying graphic design, was sold on the University when she learned about the digital design and media arts major.  …