UGA Arts Collaborative

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.

Launch Party!

UGA Arts Collaborative Launch Party
Wednesday, October 23 from 5:30-7:30 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.

The Arts Collaborative is a collective resource for UGA faculty, students, staff, and community members to foster creative, collaborative projects and advanced research in the arts, with the aim to increase opportunities for creative collaboration at UGA and beyond. Through the Willson Center, the Arts Collaborative is a research cluster supported by the Office of Research.

Nkululeko Zungu, Arts Collaborative Research Affiliate and doctoral candidate in Music

Reading Room: Reimagining Arts Participation

Reimagining Arts Participation: A Crowdfunder’s Perspective, Post-Pandemic
By Everette Taylor, CEO, Kickstarter
https://www.arts.gov/impact/research/responses-to-the-2022-SPPA/reimagining-arts-participation

In the aftermath of the global pandemic, and with artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly changing the production of creative work, the arts and cultural sector finds itself at a significant inflection point. The challenges of the past few years have underscored the need for resilience and adaptability, while also highlighting opportunities for growth and transformation. Drawing on insights from the 2022 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA), and leveraging our extensive experience at Kickstarter, this article advances three pivotal recommendations designed to rejuvenate and reshape the landscape of arts and culture. By examining these recommendations through the lens of Kickstarter’s role in the arts community, we aim to offer a nuanced perspective on how to navigate the post-pandemic era, making the arts more accessible, interconnected, and inclusive.

The Case for Poetry in Public Health Research

a2ru Webinar: Defining the Landscape: The Case for Poetry in Public Health Research
Thursday, October 17 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/defining-the-landscape-the-case-for-poetry-in-public-health-research/

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

In this interactive webinar, Gray Davidson Carroll, MPH, and Jill Sonke, PhD, will present their co-authored research brief, “What Do You See Here? Data Poems as Community Poems”. This brief was written as part of the One Nation/One Project initiative and Arts for EveryBody campaign, and includes a collection of twelve poems written in collaboration with nine communities across the country participating in the initiative. Following the presentation, there will be a discussion and Q&A period on the role and potential of poetry in public health research. To conclude the webinar, participants will be invited to engage in a generative writing exercise facilitated by Gray Davidson Carroll, exploring their relationship to place and self.