UGA Arts Collaborative

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Arts Data

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Arts Data
Thursday, November 5 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd building room S360

What can data tell us about the lives of arts alumni?

Join graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research for a conversation about the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) and the impact of arts training. For nearly two decades, SNAAP data have informed the national conversation on the value of an arts degree by collecting, examining, and sharing data on over 300,000 arts alumni from more than 400 educational institutions. SNAAP defines “arts” broadly, encompassing art, architecture, design, media arts, film, music, theater, dance, and creative writing.

https://snaaparts.org

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. For a full schedule, visit:
https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/

Illustration source: 2025 SNAAP Pulse Core Survey “Main occupations reported by arts and design alumni respondents”

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Aireona Raschke

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Aireona Raschke
Friday, November 6 at 4 PM
Lamar Dodd building room S360

Charting a New Path: Conservation, Disability, Collaboration, and Art

Dr. Aireona Bonnie Raschke will virtually join the Arts Collaborative from the Center for Collaborative Conservation, at Colorado State University, for a presentation and discussion about the importance of charting new, interdisciplinary paths in this current age of uncertainty. She will be holding the space to both tell her story, and explore with attendees the process of weaving many facets of ourselves into our work, the ways that this can create deeper impact, and how allowing ourselves to show up as “whole people” can help us refill our cups in times of change. Dr. Raschke’s story will bring together experiences with environmental conservation, disability, the challenging magic of collaboration, and the emerging energy of art in the places where all of that is coming together for her. She hopes that sharing this with attendees will inspire anyone also navigating disability, uncertainty in finding their place in the world, and/or looking for ways that art and science can work together to steward our Earth. Likewise, she hopes to create a discursive and exploratory space where everyone can take some time to consider their own path, share with others, and together build community and support around crafting interdisciplinary purpose and impact.

https://collaborativeconservation.org

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR).

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. For a full schedule, visit:
https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/

Arts Collaborative Conversation: CREATE!

Arts Collaborative Conversation: CREATE!
Thursday, November 12 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd building room S360

Join Brandon Quarles, Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Franklin CREATE! Faculty Ambassador, for a conversation about arts and entreprenuership. Franklin CREATE! empowers students in the arts and sciences with entrepreneurial confidence and startup-building skills while providing real-world impact. The goal of this initiative is to provide the knowledge, skills, and abilities to arts and sciences students that will allow them to confidently pursue entrepreneurial opportunities and launch real startups.

https://franklin.uga.edu/franklin-create

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. For a full schedule, visit:
https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/

Brandon Quarles

Screening: “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters”

Screening of “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters” and Q&A with filmmaker Leslie Askew
Friday, October 23 at 4 PM
Special Collections Libraries auditorium
300 S. Hull Street

UGA hosts a screening and discussion of “In Search of Phillis Wheatley Peters,” a new, 35-minute documentary about America’s first published Black poet. Produced by Askew Pictures, the film illuminates a largely overlooked chapter of Wheatley Peters’ story: her marriage to John Peters and the radical choices she made in pursuit of autonomy, dignity, and love.

Writer and director Leslie Askew will attend the screening and participate in a discussion. Askew is an award-recognized television producer and documentary director with over twenty years of experience working across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. She is the founder of Askew Pictures, an independent documentary studio focused on history, culture, and social-impact storytelling. Her recent projects include Pignorant, currently streaming on Amazon Prime, and Harvesting Justice, a documentary series examining food justice and grassroots activism, set to air on PBS in 2026. Her work has been commissioned by major broadcasters, including CNN, ITV (UK), SBS (Australia), Al Jazeera, CBS, BET, and PBS.

For more about Askew Pictures, visit:
https://www.askewpictures.com

Co-sponsored by the department of history, the department of English Ballew Lecture Fund, the Georgia Colloquium in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature, the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Institute for African American Studies, the UGA Arts Collaborative, the UGA Special Collections Libraries, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Athens Branch of the ASALH (Association for the Study of African American Life and History), and the African American Genealogy Shared Interest Group of the Clarke Oconee Counties Genealogy Society.

2026 Torrance Lecture Events

2026 Torrance Lecture by Po-Shen Loh
Monday, October 26 at 4 PM
UGA Chapel

Building a Thought Full World: Creativity + Love of Humanity

Talk Summary: AI and technology are pulling people apart. With addictive artificial pleasures. And soon, artificial friends. The basic biology of our human species relies on people loving people. Some to physically create new generations. Some to support them. While thinking for themselves. With creativity to handle the unprecedented. Or else there will be no more people. Meanwhile, technology is advancing at breakneck speed. Without urgent large-scale collective action, society is on the fast track to a dead world. Kept in place by AI. Any world-scale solution must creatively discover win-win situations that align incentives. The speaker, a social entrepreneur, will share his experience innovating an ecosystem which teaches both creativity and love for humanity at the same time. Powered by combining the faraway worlds of professional actors, mathematicians, and Internet live-streaming. He will also discuss the future of AI, and strategies for thriving.

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Harrison Apple

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Harrison Apple
Thursday, October 29 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd building room S360

Harrison Apple will virtually join the Arts Collaborative for an informal conversation about creative research. Dr. Apple (they/them/theirs) is an interdisciplinary artist and historian based in Pittsburgh and the Director of the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. They are the co-founder of the Pittsburgh Queer History Project, an oral history and media preservation initiative focused on after-hours nightclubs and working-class LGBTQ lives in Pittsburgh. They received their PhD from the University of Arizona Department of Gender & Women’s Studies and the School of Information. Their intellectual work draws on transfeminist theory, creative exploitation of liquor code, media studies, and archival science.

The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University is a laboratory for atypical, transdisciplinary, and inter-institutional research at the intersections of arts, science, technology and culture. The STUDIO is one of the oldest active centers for interdisciplinary arts research in the United States. The STUDIO is operated by a team of research and business support specialists who help shape proposals, seek out novel technology, and workshop ideas ranging from nascent experiments to public spectacles.

https://studioforcreativeinquiry.org

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.