UGA Arts Collaborative

Marie A. Douglas Events

Digital Diaspora Events
Monday, April 20

The Digital Diaspora project, supported by the Arts Collaborative Mini Grant program, explores the intersection of technology and live performance through a new piece for the UGA Wind Symphony in collaboration with composer Dr. Marie A. Douglas.

Project participants

Jack Eaddy, Music
Alvin Crews, Enterprise Information Technology Services
Marie Douglas, composer

Dr. Marie A. Douglas discussion and Q&A
5:30 PM
Music room 412

Dr. Douglas will speak about her new composition and provide perspectives on music education and performance of new band music.

UGA Wind Symphony
7:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center

Co-hosted by the UGA Collegiate National Association for Music Education and the Arts Collaborative.

Live Insect Zoo Reopening

UGA Entomology Live Insect Zoo
Grand Reopening Reception
Wednesday, April 15 from 3:30-5 PM
Cedar St. Building B, Room 453
https://www.instagram.com/uga.ento.dept/

Meet our amazing critters in their habitats! Ask the experts all about terrestrial arthropods!

The UGA Insect Zoo houses a variety of arthropods from around the world. The UGA Entomology department teamed up with students from the Scientific Illustration program in the School of Art to create installations as part of the newly renovated Insect Zoo. The dynamic space helps to educate and inspire visitors from as diverse of backgrounds as the bugs that are modeled.

Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.

Being Human in the Age of AI

Being Human in the Age of AI Workshops
Tuesday, April 14
https://www.canva.com/design/DAHEbfAFIOk/tH4_SU-l1ZCoyl5jq7xw_Q/view

Registration:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=HmwhqGNNUkOMO1D6HxR1saWLiC9Avx1CinrIx08qecpUQVdGM09VUEhNMVo2ME5FUkhGWFFRODVONi4u

Session 1: Authentic Interaction (the original AI!)
9:30-11:00, 411 Aderhold Hall

Session 2: Creative Problem solving–Exercising and Motivating Creativity
2:45-4:15, 501 Journalism Building

Session 3: Improv is the Gym–Exercising your Leadership, Communication, Creativity, and Collaboration
7:00-8:30pm, 607 Aderhold Hall

With the rise of AI, what do humans still have to offer — in the classroom, the office, in general? Connection, collaboration, communication and creativity. Human-human interactions are still important and will become more so as some tasks get offloaded to AI. This three-session event is aimed at capturing the value of being human despite increasing AI adoption and the threat of being replaced by AI.

Torrance Festival of Ideas

Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 22-23
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/2026torrancefestival

The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free online annual event where imaginative thinkers and professionals across fields of human endeavor present their visionary projects and innovative ideas to the global general public. This year’s festival theme is CREATIVITY & AI. Thought-provoking perspectives from world-renowned experts who work on this exciting topic will be showcased over this two-day festival.

Book Launch: Andrew Zawacki

Book Launch: Andrew Zawacki, These Late Eclipses
Thursday, April 2 from 6 – 9 PM
Founders Memorial Garden, 325 Lumpkin St.
https://engl.franklin.uga.edu/events/content/2026/book-launch-garden-party-andrew-zawacki-these-late-eclipses

Please join the English Department and the Creative Writing Program as we celebrate Andrew Zawacki’s latest collection, These Late Eclipses. Composed during lockdown from March to September 2020, These Late Eclipses is a bracing yet lyrical record of the dystopia that descended with COVID-19. We welcome you for a reception inside the main house at the Founder’s Memorial Garden starting at 6 PM, followed by a reading in the gardens at 7 PM by Zawacki, Danielle Kotrla, and Samuel Horgan. Andrew Zawacki is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, and a Distinguished Research Professor with the Creative Writing Program at UGA.

Recital: Water Portraits

Recital: Water Portraits
Friday, April 3 at 3:30 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music Building room 264

Mateo Wojtczack’s recital will feature the premiere of his composition Water Portraits for ambisonics fixed media. Water Portraits is an immersive audio work that is part of Wojtczack’s dissertation research on embodiment in music composition using field recordings from Minnesota, Washington, and New York. Free and open to the public.