UGA Arts Collaborative Launch Party Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30-7:30 PM The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.
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.
Nkululeko Zungu, Arts Collaborative Research Affiliate and doctoral candidate in Music
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.
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.
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.
While most academic publications use an authorship model, an alternative approach is contributorship. Contributorship is more inclusive and recognizes the broader set of individuals that contribute to and enable knowledge production–a boon for arts-integrated and community-engaged research! The most widely adopted contributorship model, CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy), offers a high-level taxonomy that recognizes fourteen contributor roles. However, these roles are designed with bench and lab science in mind and do not account for some of the work involved in other collaborative research. In response, Ground Works has collaboratively created a version of CRediT adapted for arts-integrated research: CRediT-FAIR. For CRediT-FAIR, we have both augmented the description of some of the original fourteen roles and added four new roles to the taxonomy so as to better include arts and arts-research practices. In this webinar, we will explore the taxonomy itself and the Ground Works pilot of it for our special edition “Creating Knowledge in Common,” which features academic/community partnerships that center the arts and design.
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 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.
