Arts Collaborative Conversation: Benjamin Wolff Friday, January 30 at noon Lamar Dodd Building Room S360
Benjamin Wolff will virtually join the Arts Collaborative for an informal conversation about creative leadership. He is a New York City-based writer, speaker, and cellist who has been a Forbes Leadership contributor since 2017, reporting on insights for business from the world of the arts. Wolff graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history and studied cello and chamber music at the Juilliard School and Rice University. He is the author of The Value of Immeasurable Things: Why the Arts—and Artists—Are Essential to the Future of Work.
Lyrric Jackson Performance and Workshop Thursday, February 5 at 1:15 PM Dance Building room 276
Visiting artist Lyrric Jackson will perform an excerpt from The Last Rest Stop Before Jupiter, followed by audience discussion and a mini workshop in breathwork and movement syncing. Co-hosted by the UGA Arts Collaborative and the Department of Dance. Free and open to the public.
Arts Collaborative Conversation: Lyrric Jackson Friday, February 6 at noon Hugh Hodgson School of Music Building room 264
Visiting artist Lyrric Jackson will share insights from her practice about creativity, leadership, and collaboration. Co-hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization and the Student Composers Association in the Dancz Center for New Music. Free and open to the public.
Lyrric Jackson is an American multidisciplinary artist, educator, and data scientist. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Lyrric Jackson Dance Company, a Lecturer of Dance Performance and Choreography at Spelman College, an Atlanta University Center Consortium Data Science Initiative Faculty Affiliate, a Spelman Faculty CODE Scholar, a Certified Data Carpentries Instructor, and a Sloan Data Science Faculty Fellow. Her work extends to local and global arts and educational institutions, including Brenau University, Emory University, and Mashirika Performing Arts in Kigali, Rwanda. She received her BA in Drama/Dance Concentration from Spelman College and holds an MA in Arts Administration and an MFA in LXFM from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.
This webinar will look at the broadening range of arts in health careers, ranging from creative therapies to positions within the rapidly growing area of social prescribing/arts on prescription. The panel, moderated by Jen Cole, Dean of the Pacific Northwest College of Art at Willamette University, will explore the range of arts in health roles available to graduates; current efforts by NOAH (National Organization for Arts in Health) to further professionalize and expand the field; the most important skills and competencies for students to develop that are interested in arts in health careers, and more.
Panelists
Sarah Hoover, Associate Dean for Innovation in the Arts and Health, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University Adrienne Hundley, Head of Community Strategy, Art Pharmacy
Presented in partnership with the Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design (AICAD) and International Council for Arts Deans (ICFAD)
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for discounted registration.
The a2ru national conference is an opportunity for practitioners and researchers from across higher education to share innovations and perspectives in the arts. a2ru advances the full range of arts- and design-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society. a2ru’s work, in partnership with an international network of leading higher education institutions, allies, and partners, envisions a world in which universities—students, faculty, and leaders—explore, embed, and integrate the arts in everyday practice and research.
The Malady Mysteries Project is an interdisciplinary practice-as-research project led by students and faculty in theatre and medicine. The project opens actors and audiences to a world inhabited by people with chronic illness and disability, creating a space to work out the anxieties of the present within the safety of the past to give us hope and promise for the future.
Malady Mysteries is supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.
Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects with mentorship and funding. Congratulations to the new mini grant recipients!
