a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit
March 13-16, 2025
https://a2ru.org/event/2025-emerging-creatives-student-summit-resonate-making-waves/
As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA may nominate up to three student representatives. Please contact arts-collab@uga.edu for more information about how to participate. Graduate students and undergraduate students in their junior year or above are eligible. Deadline January 24.
The 2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit will be hosted at Georgia Tech on March 13-16. This year’s theme is “Resonate: Making Waves.” How can our ideas resonate? Waves can be immediate and intense, like an earthquake; or they can accumulate through reverberations over time, like the actions of 1960s civil rights leaders. Together, we will explore waves–their wake, momentum, and impact. From the atomic to the emotional to the artistic to the cultural to the galactic, how can we make waves today?
Emerging Creatives is a three-day collaborative experience in which students form small cross-disciplinary teams to explore a specific area of the Summit’s theme. Over the course of the event, teams make something that represents their exploration: a syllabus, cookbook, podcast, app, opera, pair of shoes, urban blueprint, pop-up store, musical score, website…the list of possible outcomes is endless.
At Emerging Creatives, students not only envision and create their project; they also take field trips, meet extraordinary interdisciplinary thinkers, practice presenting their work, and exchange ideas about their project with peers and experts. Students also build collaboration skills in micro-workshops with a2ru staff.