UGA Arts Collaborative
5.7.24
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1. Creativity and Collaboration (Fall 2024)
2. Rescue: Waste and Redemption (until 6/15)
3. Reading Room: SNAAP Special Report
4. 2024 a2ru National Conference (11/14-16)
5. a2ru Webinar: Moving With Screens and Machines (5/10)
6. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute (deadline 5/10)
7. Arts Writers Grant (deadline 5/15)
8. GIA Webinar: Working Together (5/21)
9. South Arts Webinar: The Role of the Arts in Climate Adaptation and Migration (6/12)
10. a2ru Working Groups
Full schedule of arts events at UGA:
https://calendar.uga.edu/calendar/?event_types=110984
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1. Creativity and Collaboration
Fall 2024 GradFIRST Seminar
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/
Open to first-year graduate students
Creativity and collaboration are fundamental to addressing today's socio-environmental challenges. This seminar will include arts-based, STEM-friendly activities developed by UGA researchers from the arts, humanities, and sciences designed to help students to think creatively, to collaborate across disciplines, and to work with people with different perspectives, knowledge, and values. It will be an engaging and fun way to enhance the creativity that you bring to your own graduate work and your capacity to effectively participate in collaborative teams.
Facilitator: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative)
Wednesdays
3-3:50 PM
CRN:60768
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2. Rescue: Waste and Redemption
Open until June 15
Lyndon House Arts Center
https://www.accgov.com/10873/Rescue-Waste-and-Redemption
Rescue Fashion Event: Thursday, May 23 at 6 PM
Rescue: Waste and Redemption exhibition is guest curated by Lizzie Zucker Saltz. This group exhibit was a call for submissions in which Saltz selected 22 artists from 90 submissions. Artists included consider the transformation of industrial byproducts into artworks or craft objects thus creating artworks that save materials from the landfill or rescue raw materials from the fate of becoming environmental pollutants.
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3. Reading Room: SNAAP Special Report
Arts and Design Alumni Employment and Perspectives on Their Work and Careers
Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP)
https://snaaparts.org/findings/reports/arts-and-design-alumni-employment-and-perspectives-on-their-work-and-careers
The upheavals of the last few years within higher education and the labor force have catalyzed leaders in arts and design postsecondary education to question assumptions within their institutions about "what it means to be embarking on a career and life" in arts and design today (Novak-Leonard, Dempster, Scotto Adams, & Walters, 2022, p. 9). Ultimately, the questions being raised seek to better understand what constitutes "success" for alumni and who is determining those terms of success in the current, evolving contexts of education and work.
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4. 2024 a2ru National Conference
November 14-16
Rochester Institute of Technology
https://a2ru.org/event/2024-national-conference-generate-integrate-technology-the-arts-and-design/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for discounted registration.*
Join us for this year's gathering of the a2ru community and learn about the latest in arts-integrative teaching, research and practice!
Technology, in its many evolving forms, has always played a significant role in the arts and design, impacting both process and product. At RIT, this year's conference host, the university's T/A\D (Technology/The Arts\Design) initiative positions the intersection of these fields as "the meaningful partnership of diverse ways of thinking, exploring, and making to address complex contemporary problems, advance knowledge, and pursue joy and wonder." The three major thematic areas of the T/A\D initiative are "Solving humanity's complex problems," "Storytelling through enhanced realities," and "Exploring new grounds in visual communication and imaging."
As the arts and higher education wrestle with the rapid emergence of Generative AI and immersive technologies, and their potentially seismic impacts on our fields and the ways we teach, conduct research, and engage in creative practice, "Generate | Integrate: Technology, the Arts & Design" invites us to take a more historicized, holistic, and complex look at the interrelationships among these disciplines in order to chart our collective way forward.
In-person and virtual registration options are available; the full schedule of in-person and live-streamed events will be announced later this summer. Early bird registration rates apply through May 31; regular registration rates will take effect June 1.
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5. Moving With Screens and Machines: Imagining the Future of Embodied Technologies through Dance
Friday, May 10 at noon
https://a2ru.org/event/moving-with-screens-and-machines-imagining-the-future-of-embodied-technologies-through-dance/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.*
Moving With Screens and Machines is a new symposium exploring the intersection of art and embodied technology. The 3 day event at the University of Maryland featured workshops, talks, and performances delving into markerless motion capture, choreographing movement with robots, human-centered computer interaction, and more.
Join the producers of Moving With Screens and Machines as they share the unique research and leading practitioners that the symposium brought together and the importance of embodied disciplines -- like dance and theater -- in the fields of robotics, AI, and spatial technologies. They will also discuss the takeaways and impact of the symposium on the university and the attendees.
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6. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute
July 25-28
Application Deadline: May 10, 2024
https://www.danceexchange.org/dx-institutes/summer
Dance Exchange's 2024 OAC Climate Institute will focus on the role of artmaking and creative engagement within the climate movement. Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from across the country to explore, energize, and advance creative solutions for a life-giving future in the face of the climate crisis. As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), the 2024 OAC Climate Institute will celebrate process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers.
Dance Exchange's 2024 OAC Climate Institute will be led by Dance Exchange Lead Artists in collaboration with Dr. Jame McCray and Christina Catanese, two artist-activists, climate workers, and Dance Exchange partners doing incredible work in the world.
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7. Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 15
https://www.artswriters.org/application/guidelines
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories -- articles, books, and short-form writing -- the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
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8. Working Together: Arts Funding, Solidarity, and Non Hierarchical Program Structures
Tuesday, May 21, at 2 PM
https://www.giarts.org/webinar/2024/Working%20Together%3A%20Arts%20Funding%2C%20Solidarity%2C%20and%20Non%20Hierarchical%20Program%20Structures
How do we think about ways of funding structurally based on a trust model? Can we build ourselves around the artists' desires and individual choices? This webinar will explore various funding processes currently working in the field that use a non-hierarchical or solidarity-based approach. Join Randi Berry (IndieSpace), Sruti Suryanarayanan (Art.coop), Salem Tsegaye (formerly Mosaic Network and Fund), and Haowen Wang (Dance/USA) on Tuesday, May 21 at 2pm EDT for an interactive session that encourages participants to consider obstacles and possibilities in giving agency of program design and decision-making to artist-centered and non-hierarchical approaches. Breakout sessions will be facilitated by advocates of the Solidarity Economy Movement, including members of Art.coop.
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9. South Arts Professional Development Workshop: The Role of the Arts in Climate Adaptation and Migration
Wednesday, June 12 at 11 AM
https://www.southarts.org/programs/professional-development
Increasing population shifts are predicted in the future resulting in communities throughout the United States receiving newcomers. This presentation provides an introduction to climate adaptation and migration in addition to strategies and resources to help prepare communities to welcome newcomers, whether they are climate migrants, refugees, or immigrants. Since both environmental and cultural changes disproportionately impact marginalized communities, planning should not be color-blind to help not replicate past injustices. Discussions include roles, players and issues in your location, assessing your situation, and taking action.
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10. a2ru Working Groups
https://a2ru.org/a2ru-working-groups/
To continue the important conversations that start at the a2ru conference each year, a2ru has launched a series of working groups and communities of practice for our members to have year-round opportunities to share knowledge and best practices, collaboratively develop action and research plans, and to pursue shared funding for inter-institutional projects.
Current topics include:
Academic Metrics
Interdisciplinary Centers and Institutes
Arts in Health Educators
Arts in Public Health
AI in the Arts
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The UGA Arts Collaborative is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
http://arts-collab.uga.edu
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