UGA Arts Collaborative

Launch Party!

UGA Arts Collaborative Launch Party
Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30-7:30 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.

Please join us for the official launch and celebration of the UGA Arts Collaborative, hosted by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The event will feature food, drink, welcoming remarks, and a chance to gather in community with creative practitioners and collaborators.

The Arts Collaborative is a collective resource for UGA faculty, students, staff, and community members to foster creative, collaborative projects and advanced research in the arts, with the aim to increase opportunities for creative collaboration at UGA and beyond. Through the Willson Center, the Arts Collaborative is a research cluster supported by the Office of Research.

All are welcome!

Directions to the Athenaeum, including parking information, are available here:
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/visit/

The event begins at 5:30 PM with remarks at 6 PM from Mark Callahan and David Saltz, artistic and executive directors of the Arts Collaborative; graduate students Maddy Underwood and Nkululeko Zungu; Anna Stenport, Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences; and Chris King, Interim Vice President for Research.

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.

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants

Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline

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 $1000 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.

Café CURO: Research in the Arts

Cafe CURO: Research in the Arts
Thursday, November 7 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Coffee and treats with the UGA Arts Collaborative!

Café CURO is a place to learn about, talk about, and get excited about research at UGA. All are invited, including students conducting research, students interested in starting research, faculty mentors, faculty members looking to add undergraduates to their research teams, and research support staff.

The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) facilitates sustained, progressive, faculty-mentored undergraduate research in any discipline, through any major, and with any GPA. CURO is housed in the Morehead Honors College, and is open to any undergraduate at UGA. For more about CURO, visit curo.uga.edu.

The UGA Arts Collaborative is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. More information on the 2024 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu.

Reading Room: Reimagining Arts Participation

Reimagining Arts Participation: A Crowdfunder’s Perspective, Post-Pandemic
By Everette Taylor, CEO, Kickstarter
https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/responses-to-the-2022-SPPA/reimagining-arts-participation

In the aftermath of the global pandemic, and with artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly changing the production of creative work, the arts and cultural sector finds itself at a significant inflection point. The challenges of the past few years have underscored the need for resilience and adaptability, while also highlighting opportunities for growth and transformation. Drawing on insights from the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), and leveraging our extensive experience at Kickstarter, this article advances three pivotal recommendations designed to rejuvenate and reshape the landscape of arts and culture. By examining these recommendations through the lens of Kickstarter’s role in the arts community, we aim to offer a nuanced perspective on how to navigate the post-pandemic era, making the arts more accessible, interconnected, and inclusive.

The Case for Poetry in Public Health Research

a2ru Webinar: Defining the Landscape: The Case for Poetry in Public Health Research
Thursday, October 17 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/defining-the-landscape-the-case-for-poetry-in-public-health-research/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.

In this interactive webinar, Gray Davidson Carroll, MPH, and Jill Sonke, PhD, will present their co-authored research brief, “What Do You See Here? Data Poems as Community Poems”. This brief was written as part of the One Nation/One Project initiative and Arts for EveryBody campaign, and includes a collection of twelve poems written in collaboration with nine communities across the country participating in the initiative. Following the presentation, there will be a discussion and Q&A period on the role and potential of poetry in public health research. To conclude the webinar, participants will be invited to engage in a generative writing exercise facilitated by Gray Davidson Carroll, exploring their relationship to place and self.

Torrance Lecture and Mini-Conference

How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing: A mini-conference
Monday, October 21 from 3 – 6:30 PM
Tuesday, October 22 from 10 AM – 2 PM

2024 Annual Torrance Lecture: Nigel Osborne
Tuesday, October 22 at 4 PM
The Chapel

Join us for an exciting two-day event featuring a diverse lineup of speakers from UGA and the Athens community, exploring the theme “How the Arts Improve Health & Wellbeing.” Registration is FREE and open to everyone!

This engaging mini-conference is organized by Anna Abraham, Director of the Torrance Center for Creativity, and precedes the center’s 2024 Annual Torrance Lecture featuring Nigel Osborne.

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Organoids

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Organoids
Friday, November 22 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Join us to learn more about how researchers are using arts-integrative methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures developed from stem cells. The Organoids team includes practitioners from art, dance, molecular medicine, engineering, animal science, and cellular biology. Organoid structures are of interest in seeking solutions for problems including adrenal gland insufficiency, understanding human embryonic development, and how hormone regulation impacts diseases such as PTSD.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization. The Organoids project was supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative. This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. More information on the 2024 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu.

The Future(s) of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

a2ru Webinar: The Future(s) of Arts Entrepreneurship Education: Models to Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Careers
Thursday, November 7 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/the-futures-of-arts-entrepreneurship-education-models-to-prepare-todays-students-for-tomorrows-careers/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.

How can university arts entrepreneurship programs prepare students to craft fulfilling, multi-faceted careers amid rapidly evolving artistic, political and economic realities? What curricular and co-curricular models have proven successful–and which ones haven’t? A panel of leading scholars and practitioners will discuss the current landscape of the field–and discuss what comes next.