UGA Arts Collaborative

Reading Room: SNAAP Report

Arts and Design Alumni Employment and Perspectives on Their Work and Careers
https://snaaparts.org/findings/reports/arts-and-design-alumni-employment-and-perspectives-on-their-work-and-careers

The upheavals of the last few years within higher education and the labor force have catalyzed leaders in arts and design postsecondary education to question assumptions within their institutions about “what it means to be embarking on a career and life” in arts and design today (Novak-Leonard, Dempster, Scotto Adams, & Walters, 2022, p. 9). Ultimately, the questions being raised seek to better understand what constitutes “success” for alumni and who is determining those terms of success in the current, evolving contexts of education and work.

2024 a2ru National Conference

2024 a2ru National Conference
“Generate | Integrate: Technology, the Arts, and Design”
November 14-16
Rochester Institute of Technology
https://a2ru.org/event/2024-national-conference-generate-integrate-technology-the-arts-and-design/

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

Join us for this year’s gathering of the a2ru community and learn about the latest in arts-integrative teaching, research and practice!

Technology, in its many evolving forms, has always played a significant role in the arts and design, impacting both process and product. At RIT, this year’s conference host, the university’s T/A\D (Technology/The Arts\Design) initiative positions the intersection of these fields as “the meaningful partnership of diverse ways of thinking, exploring, and making to address complex contemporary problems, advance knowledge, and pursue joy and wonder.” The three major thematic areas of the T/A\D initiative are “Solving humanity’s complex problems,” “Storytelling through enhanced realities,” and “Exploring new grounds in visual communication and imaging.”

Creativity and Collaboration

Creativity and Collaboration
Fall 2024 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.

Facilitator: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative)

Wednesdays
3-3:50 PM
CRN:60768

Organoids project earns awards

Congratulations to the Organoid project team, recipients of multiple awards to continue their collaborative research.

Project leader Nadja Keltner received an NSF CAREER grant for multi-year support of engineering next-generation adrenal gland organoids with arts-integrated methods.

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2335133

Graduate assistant Christina James received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, a five-year award to help ensure the quality, vitality, and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce of the United States.

https://www.nsfgrfp.org

The project was awarded one of five Franklin College Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposal grants, responding to the need for new paradigms that shape future research, life-long learning, public discourse, service, and dynamic entrepreneurship.

https://franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2024/franklin-college-multidisciplinary-seed-projects-program-funds-six-research

2024 Emerging Creatives Summit

Four graduate students from UGA participated in the 2024 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru). Saurabh Anand (English), Emily Dustman (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences), Jana Ghezawi (Art), and Christina James (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) joined students from across the a2ru network to explore the theme of “Play” in the RIT Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED), a new facility that provides flexible spaces for technology, art, and design under one roof. Participants worked in interdisciplinary teams to create arts-integrative projects with training from a2ru staff on best practices for collaboration. More details about the summit and final presentations are available here.

Christina James reflected that “the Summit’s emphasis on interactive modes of learning, such as physical models, games, and experiential activities, has inspired me to explore novel avenues for incorporating play-based methodologies into upper-level biology courses.”

Emily Dustman contributed an essay about her summit experience to E-Squared, an art+science publication and website. Her analysis on the collaborative process suggests that “together, cooperation and collaboration translate to much more meaningful work and build a strong foundation for successful teamwork and problem-solving in all aspects of life.” You can read the full essay here.

Rescue: Waste and Redemption

Rescue: Waste and Redemption
April 6 to June 15
Lyndon House Arts Center
https://www.accgov.com/10873/Rescue-Waste-and-Redemption

Artist Reception and Curator Talk, Tuesday, April 9 at 6 PM

Rescue Fashion Event: Thursday, May 23 at 6 PM

Rescue: Waste and Redemption exhibition is guest curated by Lizzie Zucker Saltz. This group exhibit was a call for submissions in which Saltz selected 22 artists from 90 submissions. Artists included consider the transformation of industrial byproducts into artworks or craft objects thus creating artworks that save materials from the landfill or rescue raw materials from the fate of becoming environmental pollutants.