Spotlight on the Arts is the University of Georgia’s annual celebration of the literary, visual and performing arts. Held each November, the monthlong festival highlights the arts and humanities on campus with dozens of events and exhibitions.
Schedule: https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/spotlight-events/
Arts Impact Assessment Framework
https://a2ru.org/research/arts-impact-assessment-framework/
As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), anyone with a UGA email address may access the resource.
How do you assess the impacts of arts integration efforts on campus? How do you communicate these impacts in meaningful and persuasive ways?
a2ru announces a new tool to help answer these questions: the Arts Impact Assessment Framework. Created in collaboration with Penn State and the Interdisciplinary Centers and Institutes Working Group, this framework is designed to help users make the case for the impacts of a range of activities including creative production, arts teaching and learning, arts-integrated research, arts-based community engagement, and more. The framework offers suggestions for identifying impacts, gathering both quantitative and qualitative evidence, and framing an assessment of activities.
Project MACAW (Managing Avian Collisions at Windows) is an interdisciplinary research team working to identify and prevent bird-window collisions at UGA. The project is looking for volunteers to help monitor avian conservation by surveying buildings around campus. Involvement is flexible, and surveys will be occurring through the fall migration season until late November.
If you are an undergraduate student interested in joining the team, visit:
https://uga.infoready4.com/#freeformCompetitionDetail/1996932
Deadline: November 17
If you would like to assist with the project, please take a picture of any fallen bird near a window on campus and upload it here:
https://forms.gle/FLMiP8KzBXnU5iBG8
If you are interested in volunteering on a regular basis and signing up for morning bird walks, please complete this interest form:
https://forms.gle/sRjyTSrawG9vdFkT9
Team Leads: Richard Hall (Ecology), Clark Rushing (Forestry and Natural Resources), Susan Tanner (Anthropology), Jon Calabria (Environment and Design), Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative), Michael Marshall (Art).
https://vipr.uga.edu/team/project-macaw-managing-avian-collisions-at-windows/
How Arts Alumni are Thriving and Adapting in Today’s Workforce
Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) Pulse Report
By Sachal Shaikh
September 2025
https://snaaparts.org/findings/snapshots/how-arts-alumni-are-thriving-and-adapting-in-todays-workforce
Arts and design alumni across the United States are navigating a mix of opportunities and evolving dynamics in today’s workforce, according to the latest SNAAP Pulse survey. With 84% employed and 57% working full-time in the arts, most graduates report professional satisfaction and financial security — while also identifying issues, such as the rise of artificial intelligence, funding considerations, and changing government policies — as factors shaping their work.
Arts Collaborative Conversation: Arts Funding Trends
Friday, November 14 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360
What is the future of arts funding?
Graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research present a report about trends in arts funding based on recent data from Creative Capital, MAP Fund, South Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Grantmakers in the Arts, and Americans 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/
are.na channel:
https://www.are.na/uga-arts-collaborative/cultural-policy-research
Research Recap: Maddy Underwood
Friday, October 10 at noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S360
Join Arts Collaborative Graduate Assistant Maddy Underwood for a presentation about her summer research in Marblehead, Massachusetts supported by a Willson Center Graduate Research Award. There she investigated the history of Marblehead Handprints, a textile company founded in 1971 by two young mothers, and its role in translating Scandinavian modernist textiles like Marimekko for American consumers.
Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.