Amid pandemic, UChicago scholar launches program for international artists
Feb 23, 2021 Interim director Ghenwa Hayek expands Gray Center’s global reach with FarBar program
Early last year, Assoc. Prof. Ghenwa Hayek signed on to become the interim director of the University of Chicago’s Gray Center. A month after she accepted the interim directorship, the COVID-19 crisis was officially declared a pandemic.
Uncertain times call for certain decision-making, and Hayek quickly embraced the challenge. The Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry has long convened scholars and artists in the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration but without in-person events, it would have rethink the nature of its mission.