UGA Arts Collaborative

Conversation: Arts Funding Trends

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Arts Funding Trends
Monday, November 6 at 11 AM
Main Art Building Room S360

What kinds of arts projects are getting funded?

Graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research present a report about trends in arts funding and share examples of recent grants awarded by Creative Capital, MAP Fund, South Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival. For a full schedule, visit https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/

Conversation: Sustaining Creative Teams

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Sustaining Creative Teams
Monday, October 23 at 11:30 AM
Main Art Building room S360

How do collaborative teams stay together or fall apart?

Join graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research for a conversation about how creative partners meet, work together, and keep going. All are welcome to share questions and knowledge about the challenges and benefits of collaboration.

Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.

Conversation notes:

Resources

Making and Being
Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard
https://makingandbeing.com

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html

Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
https://toolkit.press

Organoids team is growing

Organoids team is growing

A small team of artists and scientists are expanding their collaborative research with support from the UGA Arts Collaborative. The “Organoids” project received a mini grant to develop prototypes and arts-integrative methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures which are developed from pluripotent stem cells. Project leaders Dr. Nadja Zeltner (Center for Molecular Medicine) and Martijn van Wagtendonk (Lamar Dodd School of Art) were inspired by the complexity of organoid models that grow in three dimensions and invite novel methods of representation. 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. Now the team includes faculty and students in art, dance, molecular medicine, engineering, animal science, and cellular biology.

My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again

My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again
Thursday, October 26 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Atrium (first floor)
https://thegeorgiareview.com/event/my-body-as-topic-coming-around-again-by-rebecca-pappas-performed-by-ellen-smith-ahern-theo-armstrong-alexis-robbins-and-taylor-zappone/

5–6 PM
Open Wrecking Event: drop by and walk around the event space to watch the choreographic process in action

6–7:30 PM
Performance and Conversation

7:30 PM
Reception

My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again is a three-volume dancework that unravels the tangled threads of white womanhood and American modern dance. Centered around Land, (In)Visibility, and Care, these dances traverse dualities of freedom/control; sincerity/satire; tenderness/violence; beauty/monstrosity.

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events

Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events
October 11 – 14
https://www.drama.uga.edu/news/stories/2023/visiting-artists-annie-sprinkle-beth-stephens

For the last decade, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been creating performance under the rubric of “ecosexuality” in which they playfully provoke audiences to think differently about their relationship to the Earth: instead of imagining Earth as mother, how would we treat the Earth if we thought of it as a lover? How would our behavior change? How might we, then, co-create a more sustainable future?

This series of workshops and events introduces participants to Sprinkle and Stephens’ ecosexuality performances and their creative techniques. All activities are open to students, staff, faculty, and community.

Conversation: Expression of the Superorganism

Arts Collaborative Conversation: Expression of the Superorganism
Friday, September 29 at noon
Lamar Dodd School of Art Bridge Gallery

Join collaborators Jiayi Guo and Haolin Zeng for a gallery talk about their project, Expression of the Superorganism. The exhibition features images, objects, and video created by Red Imported Fire Ants in collaboration with artist Jiayi Guo and biologist Haolin Zeng. Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative and the National Science Foundation.