Creativity and Collaboration

Creativity and Collaboration
Fall 2023 GradFIRST Seminar
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/

Open to first-year graduate students

Creativity and collaboration are fundamental to addressing today’s socio-environmental challenges. This seminar will include arts-based, STEM-friendly activities developed by UGA researchers from the arts, humanities, and sciences designed to help students to think creatively, to collaborate across disciplines, and to work with people with different perspectives, knowledge, and values. It will be an engaging and fun way to enhance the creativity that you bring to your own graduate work and your capacity to effectively participate in collaborative teams.

Co-facilitators: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative) and Nate Nibbelink (Forestry)

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Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute

Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute
July 20 – July 23
Apply by May 10
https://www.danceexchange.org/dx-institutes/summer-2023
Dance Exchange’s 2023 OAC Climate Institute will focus on the role of artmaking and creative engagement within the climate movement. The Institute will gather artists and climate workers from across the country to explore, energize, and advance creative solutions on the frontlines of the climate crisis.

The Institute is co-directed by Cassie Meador, Dance Exchange Executive Artistic Director, and Dr. Jame McCray, Interdisciplinary Ecologist and Future Fields Co-Director, with additional support from Amanda Newman, Dance Exchange Associate Director of Programs.

Webinar: a2ru Arts Data Project

An Update on the Arts Data Project at the University of Michigan: Insights and Opportunities
Wednesday, May 17 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/an-update-on-the-arts-data-project-at-the-university-of-michigan-insights-and-opportunities/

As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff may register for free.

This webinar is a follow up to Arts Data to Strengthen Casemaking: An Arts Asset Mapping Pilot Study at University of Michigan, presented in May 2022. Join this webinar to hear about the latest developments in this effort to determine standardized categories that can be used to measure the arts on campuses across the country; about challenges and opportunities the project presented; and about what’s next as we design future qualitative and participatory assessment phases of the project.

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Torrance Festival of Ideas

2023 Torrance Festival of Ideas
Tuesday, April 18 – Thursday, April 20
Full schedule and registration:
https://tinyurl.com/torranceideasfest2023

The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free annual online cultural and educational event where renowned experts from across disciplines present their innovative ideas to the global general public. This year the festival features unique perspectives on themes relevant to innovation, creativity, media, gaming, learning, storytelling, reading, imagination, science, AI, technology, aesthetics, literature, filmmaking, fashion, wellbeing, community health, mental health, aging, education, equality, pollution, conflict, and integrated design. Registration is free but limited to the first 1,500 attendees.

Treehouse Zine Events

Treehouse Zine Events

Issue 2 Release Party
Sunday, April 16 from 1-4 PM
Foxglove Plantbar, 1063 Baxter St.

Art, music, vendors, woodblock printing workshop, and zine making!

Art Meditation
Saturday, April 22 from 10:30 – noon
ATHICA
Register: https://www.treehousezine.com/events

Join us for a morning of collaborative art making in meditation, led by Cal Clements! We will be using oil pastels to move intuitively across a large sheet of paper, and trace and cut out areas for you to take home. The final product will be a drawing collectively made by the community.

https://www.treehousezine.com
https://www.instagram.com/treehousezine/

Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative

Creating the Conditions for Creativity

Creating the Conditions for Creativity
Torrance Festival of Ideas online event
Tuesday, April 18 at 2 PM
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/torranceideasfest2023

The demand for creative thinking and innovative problem-solving has never been higher, in business, in classrooms, and across our rapidly changing planet. This panel will explore the neuro-cognitive data on how creativity can be shaped by different spaces, from the height of our office ceilings to the design of VR and other digital spaces with which we interact, and how this impacts our cognitive agility for adapting to the future.

Panel:

Guest speaker: Pireeni Sundaralingam, Neuro-Resilience Consulting

Elizabeth King, Ecology/Forestry

Mark Callahan, UGA Arts Collaborative

Host: Anna Abraham, Torrance Center

Pireeni Sundaralingam has conducted cognitive research at M.I.T and Oxford as well as leading the research program at Silicon Valley’s Center for Humane Technology. As Principal Advisor on Human Potential at the United Nations Museum, she spearheaded strategy on behavior change around key global challenges, and is currently Interdisciplinary Catalyst at Oxford University’s oldest college, as well as founder and CEO of Neuro-Resilience Consulting. https://neuro-resilience.net