Composition x Conservation: New Music Inspired by Current Conservation Research
Saturday, February 17 at 5:30 PM
Special Collections Building Room 271
Free and open to the public
The 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) will conclude with a performance of new music created in collaboration with UGA student composers and ICON PhD students.
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Reflections: Alumni Perspectives on Their Postsecondary Experiences in Arts and Design
https://snaaparts.org/uploads/downloads/SNAAP-Special-Reports-2022-National-Data/SNAAP-Special-Report_Reflections_Jan-2024.pdf
The authors of this report, Dr. Jennifer L. Novak-Leonard & Dr. Shanita Bigelow, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, provide insights stemming from the 2022 SNAAP survey data. Specifically, they explore alumni reflections on the quality of their postsecondary arts or design experience and satisfaction with it, connection to their alma mater, and the likelihood of alumni to recommend their alma mater. This report was supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Arts Collaborative Conversation: Cydney K. Seigerman
Friday, February 9 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360
How can performance arts and sciences contribute to more holistic understandings of human-water relations?
Join Cydney K. Seigerman for a conversation about their field research in Brazil that incorporates community-based theatre techniques to better understand local water struggles. Seigerman is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Integrative Conservation exploring how socionatural processes shape and are shaped by the lived experience of water insecurity.
Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.
Resources
Conquergood, D. (2002). Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research. TDR (1988-), 46(2), 145–156. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1146965
Kondo, D. (2018). World-Making: Race, Performance, and the Work of Creativity. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Madison, D. Soyini. (2010). Acts of Activism: Human Rights at Radical Performance. Cambridge: University Press.
Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC)
February 16-17
https://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
ICC 2024 will take place at the University of Georgia Special Collections Library, with some hybrid and online options. This year’s theme is New Visions for Conservation. Since the inaugural conference in 2018, ICC has brought students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their work and collaborate towards different futures for environmental conservation.
The 2024 conference objectives are to:
Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.
Ground Works Seeks Submissions to its 2024 Collection
https://groundworks.io/announcements/18
Exploring the possibilities of annual collections, Ground Works is pleased to invite submissions to a 2024 collection; Stage 1 submissions received by January 29 will be given priority consideration. All research projects that integrate the arts with other disciplines will be considered.
Ground Works is a compendium of projects, critically reviewed for their interdisciplinary research aims and impact. As part of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), select projects also receive further examination and analysis of the collaborative process in an effort to illuminate and understand the mechanisms and conditions that foster these innovative projects. Project contributors will work with a team from a2ru to rigorously articulate, document, and reflect on the modes of collaboration found within their work.
Treehouse Zine Issue 5
Call for Submissions
Deadline: February 14
https://treehousezine.com
Calling all artists, writers, creatives, explorers, and treehouse enthusiasts! All creatures great and small are encouraged to share their work.
Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.