While the war between Ukraine and Russia may seem foreign or irrelevant to some in the United States, the implications are global, and according to local reporter Cory Vaillancourt, it will and has already impacted the U.S. Vaillancourt, a reporter and politics editor for The Smoky Mountain News, traveled to Odesa, Ukraine in December 2022. […]
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A WCU artist makes her mark as a tattoo apprentice
February 28, 2023 by
Aleaha Waldroup, a fine arts major, is trading her paint and brushes for ink, needles and human canvases as an apprentice at a tattoo shop in Hayesville, North Carolina. Waldroup enrolled at WCU in 2018 hoping to get a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in painting. Instead of finishing her last six credits she […]