Conversation: Lyrric Jackson

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Lyrric Jackson
Friday, October 4 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Lyrric Jackson is an American multidisciplinary artist, educator, and data scientist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Lyrric Jackson Dance Company, a Lecturer of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman College, an Atlanta University Center Consortium Data Science Initiative Faculty Affiliate, a Spelman Faculty CODE Scholar, a Certified Data Carpentries Instructor, and a Sloan Data Science Faculty Fellow. Her work extends to local and global arts and educational institutions, including Brenau University, Emory University, and Mashirika Performing Arts in Kigali, Rwanda. She received her BA in Drama/Dance Concentration from Spelman College and holds an MA in Arts Administration and an MFA in LXFM from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Lyrric is a Selected Choreographer for the 2024 Women in Dance Leadership Conference and will present her work, Psychedelic Strut: 62 + 62, on October 19, 2024 at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles.

https://www.lyrricjacksondance.com

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline

Information Sessions
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Thursday, September 12 at noon
Tuesday, September 17 at noon

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects and modes of collaboration. Teams must include participants from multiple academic departments and include a UGA student or faculty member to serve as a primary contact. Grant recipients are provided with a project mentor and up to $750 in support for qualified expenses. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis, pending the availability of funds.

Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa

Proposal requirements:

– Brief description of project goals

– Names and roles of collaborators

The Mini Grant Program is supported by the UGA Arts Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. The Arts Collaborative is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.

Conversation: Amit Kaushik

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Amit Kaushik
Friday, October 11 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

The Gond Art and the Tiger: A Dialogue on Conservation, Displacement, and Environmental Justice

This conversation centers on Amit Kaushik’s collaborative project with a renowned Indigenous artist, Bhajju Shyam, where they illustrate Gond paintings to critically engage with the environmental injustices faced by the Gond Adivasi community amidst biodiversity conservation efforts. Through two contrasting depictions of the tiger — as both a protector and a force of destruction — these artworks capture the community’s shifting relationship with nature following the establishment of the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh, India. Join us to explore how indigenous art becomes a compelling medium for expressing contradictory perspectives on conservation, displacement, and the more-than-human world.

Amit Kaushik is a PhD student in Integrative Conservation and Anthropology. His research investigates how conservation practices influence and are influenced by the lived experiences of differently situated human and nonhuman actors within the tiger reintroduction program. Bhajju Shyam is a world-renowned Indigenous artist from Madhya Pradesh, India, and the author of Origins of Art: The Gond Village of Patangarh, The London Jungle Book, The Night Life of Trees, Alone in the Forest, and That’s How I See Things.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization. The Gond Art and the Tiger project was supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.

Nkululeko Zungu

Nkululeko Zungu
2024-2025 UGA Arts Collaborative Research Affiliate

The UGA Arts Collaborative is pleased to recognize Nkululeko Zungu as a 2024-2025 Research Affiliate. Nkululeko’s creative practice exemplifies the Arts Collaborative mission and builds on his previous participation in the Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research program.

Nkululeko Zungu is a graduate candidate at UGA where his studies focus on contemporary writing styles in composition. He finds pleasure in exploring music from traditional Classical to modern Electronic and can be heard writing with the frame of mind, “Let me not, no, just add to the noise. Let me harmonize to the silence.” He collaborated with groundbreaking composers like Pulitzer Prize recipient Kate Soper, Dr. Ken Ueno, and saw contemporary ensembles perform his music, including the Wet Ink Ensemble. Nkululeko appreciates combining his writing practice with performing his works in unconventional settings, as seen in his performance at the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery’s Dome Theater and the Georgia Museum of Art. He has been described by Dr. Hendrik Hofmeyr, South Africa’s most performed Classical music composer, as “an artist who created from within combining all aspects of his life.” He prides himself on being a well-rounded artist.

For more about Nkululeko, visit:
http://www.harmonizeto.com

Welcome Fall 2024

Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If this is your first visit to the UGA Arts Collaborative website, please take a few moments to explore and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. You may be interested in joining the Arts Collaborative listserv, a newsletter with local events and opportunities in the arts.

Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Maddy Underwood (Art), Richie Arndorfer (Music), and Amir Akbarpour (Theatre and Film Studies). These exceptional graduate students will develop creative research and collaborative work across disciplines with faculty, students, and community members.

Reading Room: SNAAP Report

Arts and Design Alumni Employment and Perspectives on Their Work and Careers
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.