UGA Arts Collaborative

4’33” Contest 2024

4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest
Thursday, November 21 from 4-6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/

An homage to John Cage’s landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights UGA student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. Awards include $433 for the grand prize winner and $150 for three runners-up.

Anyone in attendance at the live presentations on November 21 will be eligible to receive one of the NEA Big Read feature books as part of a grant by the Athens-Clarke County Library. The feature books are “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi or “The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook” by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kristina Jacobsen. NEA Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

Sponsored by the UGA Arts Council, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA’s annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.

Reading Room: How Do We Realize the Potential of the Arts to Support Health and Wellbeing in the United States?

How Do We Realize the Potential of the Arts to Support Health and Wellbeing in the United States?
By Jameel Arts & Health Lab
https://www.jameelartshealthlab.org/policy-insights/how-do-we-realize-the-potential-of-the-arts-to-support-health-and-wellbeing-in-the-united-states

The report features key learnings from the Arts and Health Caucus held in advance of “Healing, Bridging, Thriving: A Summit on Arts and Culture in our Communities,” co-hosted by the The White House Domestic Policy Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Spacing Out: Art & Topology

Spacing Out: Art & Topology Pop-up Museum
UGA McBay Science Library
November 6 – December 1

Opening Wednesday, November 6 from 5-7 PM

Spacing Out: Art & Topology Pop-up Museum features works that demonstrate concepts from the mathematical field of topology. The exhibition includes fabric arts, ceramics, laser-cut wooden sculpture, 3D animations, and more created by students as part of an ongoing effort to advance visualizations of intriguing geometric phenomena. Spacing Out was organized by mathematics doctoral students Alexander Tepper and Han Lou, professors David Gay (Math) and Moon Jang (Art), and graphic design students Charlize Carlisle and Caleb Burke.

This ongoing collaboration between faculty and students of the Department of Mathematics and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, developed with the UGA Arts Collaborative, is supported by a recent five-year grant from the National Science Foundation. For more information about ways to participate in future workshops and exhibitions, please contact David Gay at dgay@uga.edu.

Café CURO: Research in the Arts

Cafe CURO: Research in the Arts
Thursday, November 7 from 10 – 11:30 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Coffee and treats with the UGA Arts Collaborative!

Café CURO is a place to learn about, talk about, and get excited about research at UGA. All are invited, including students conducting research, students interested in starting research, faculty mentors, faculty members looking to add undergraduates to their research teams, and research support staff.

The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) facilitates sustained, progressive, faculty-mentored undergraduate research in any discipline, through any major, and with any GPA. CURO is housed in the Morehead Honors College, and is open to any undergraduate at UGA. For more about CURO, visit curo.uga.edu.

The UGA Arts Collaborative is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. More information on the 2024 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu.

Collaborative Conversation: Organoids

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Organoids
Friday, November 22 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360

Join us to learn more about how researchers are using arts-integrative methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures developed from stem cells. The Organoids team includes practitioners from art, dance, molecular medicine, engineering, animal science, and cellular biology. Organoid structures are of interest in seeking solutions for problems including adrenal gland insufficiency, understanding human embryonic development, and how hormone regulation impacts diseases such as PTSD.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization. The Organoids project was supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative. This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. More information on the 2024 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu.

The Future(s) of Arts Entrepreneurship Education

a2ru Webinar: The Future(s) of Arts Entrepreneurship Education: Models to Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Careers
Thursday, November 7 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/the-futures-of-arts-entrepreneurship-education-models-to-prepare-todays-students-for-tomorrows-careers/

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

How can university arts entrepreneurship programs prepare students to craft fulfilling, multi-faceted careers amid rapidly evolving artistic, political and economic realities? What curricular and co-curricular models have proven successful–and which ones haven’t? A panel of leading scholars and practitioners will discuss the current landscape of the field–and discuss what comes next.