December 15, 2023
The Red and Black
By Justin Brosemer
Photo: Justin Brosemer
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With the help of the University of Georgia Arts Collaborative, Treehouse Zine commits to going the extra mile with their hosted events. These beacons for creative expression feature student vendors, dedicated shared art areas, music performances from local artists and more unique interaction-based activities.
Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects with mentorship and funding. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Congratulations to the new mini grant recipients!
The Tiger as “Protector” to the Tiger as “Destructor”
The Tiger as “Protector” to the Tiger as “Destructor” advances the role of Gond paintings in fostering dialogue around environmental injustice within biodiversity conservation programs. The project will explore the intricate relationship between the Gond Adivasis people of India and nature, with a specific focus on tigers and conservation actions imposed upon them. The project will serve as a powerful means to initiate meaningful discussions about environmental justice and the impact of top-down conservation efforts on indigenous communities.
Project participants
Amit Kaushik, Anthropology
Nancee Uniyal, Geography
Bhajju Shyam, artist
Rare Truth
Rare Truth is an entrepreneurial project to repurpose global sterling silver scraps for 3D-printed jewelry. Project participants will develop digital model designs and research about marketing, manufacturing, and collaborations with local artists with an emphasis on ethical and environmental sustainability.
Project participants
Rae Bumgardner, Art
Erin Faircloth, Art
Molly Maxwell, designer
Tijái Whatley, consultant
An interdisciplinary team of faculty are developing arts-based workshops with the support of an Innovations in Graduate Education award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant provides $499,835 of research funding to the University of Georgia and represents a partnership of campus programs including the UGA Arts Collaborative and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research.
Based on student feedback and the success of pilot programs supported by the Graduate School and the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, a team of researchers from the arts, humanities, and sciences worked together to design activities to train students to think creatively, to collaborate across disciplines, and to work with people with different perspectives, knowledge, and values. The NSF award allows the team to study the effectiveness of the workshops and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.
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Creativity and Collaboration
Spring 2024 GradFIRST Seminar
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/
Fridays
1:50-2:40 PM
CRN 69338
Open to graduate students who matriculated in Fall 2022 or after
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.
Lead facilitator: Mark Callahan, UGA Arts Collaborative
Treehouse Zine Issue Four Release Party
Sunday, December 3 from 6 to 9 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Atrium
https://treehousezine.com
Join Treehouse Zine for their issue 4 release party with vendors, zine-making station, memory box crafting, music by Viv Awesome, Subject To Change, and Insect Politics, a live-coded audiovisual performance, and interactive performance art.
Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.
a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit
March 14-17, 2024
https://a2ru.org/event/2024-emerging-creatives-student-summit-play-the-impact-of-play-on-how-we-create-and-relate-to-the-world/
As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA may nominate up to four student representatives. Please contact mark.callahan@uga.edu for more information about how to participate.
The 2024 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, “PLAY: The Impact of Play on How We Create and Relate to the World.” will be hosted at Rochester Institute of Technology on March 14-17. How are we–our mindsets, our approaches, our whole selves–different when we are at play? What do the structures and assumptions of board games, or team sports, or role-playing games imply about who we are, how we think, and how we relate to others? What about the world of unstructured play–of just “messing around”?
This year’s Emerging Creatives Student Summit on the theme of “Play” will bring together students from across the a2ru network to explore how these questions and more inform our interdisciplinary and collaborative work. The Rochester Institute of Technology will host Emerging Creatives at its Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED), a brand-new space that provides flexible spaces for technology, art, and design under one roof.
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