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Thrive Week’s Campus Canvas Event Photojournal

More than 60 students flocked to the Magnolia Quad on Friday, April 1^st for an afternoon of art for Campus Canvas. The event was organized and sponsored by Thrive, an initiative created by Wake Forest’s Office of Wellbeing. Organizers provided students with free paint and canvases as an outlet to express their creativity and self-expression. The event was part of Thrive Week, a week-long awareness initiative that featured events around campus to promote mental health and well-being around the Wake Forest community. Catherine Currin, one of the event’s organizers said the event was “a really great time,” adding “I honestly did not think that this many people would come.”

Students showing off their paintings on Davis Field

Sustainability Group leaders displaying their unique painting techniques

Students on the quad paint their canvases, surrounded by the signature Thrive Week leaves

A student diligently working on a painting on the quad

Event organizers, Catherine Currin and Katie Ambrose, showing off some paintings as participants work in the background

Event organizer, Alex Patrone, displaying his graffiti advertisement for the event