A partnership between the Willson Center and South Carolina’s Penn Center is kicking off a suite of programs this spring that will include community conversations, artists-in-residence, and on-site classes and workshops with students and faculty from colleges and universities across the Southeast.
The 2022 Global Georgia Initiative public events series continues throughout the spring with talks, readings, performances, and conversations with leading thinkers in the humanities and arts.
It’s that time of year again. The time to savor and stand in awe of Black people’s achievements in this country against impossible odds, to assess the work that remains undone.
The award was announced in January and will provide course release for a full academic year. Seventy-three fellowships were awarded by the NEH this year, among 208 grants worth $24.7 million for humanities scholarship and programming across the country.
In this video, Aruni Kashyap, assistant professor of English and creative writing, gives a brief presentation on his upcoming novel, supported by his UGA Arts Lab Fellowship.
The project, Listening, Performance, and Murals: Using Theatre and Painting to support Vaccine Confidence in Athens, Georgia, is a partnership between UGA arts units, students, and community partners.
The Grants and Fellowships Mentorship and Support program is offered to faculty in the humanities and arts in partnership with the Franklin College, the Office of Research, and the Office of the Provost.
In this video, Marni Shindelman, associate professor of photography in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and one of two inaugural Arts Lab Fellows, gives a brief presentation on her fellowship project, Restore the Night Sky.
Due to the possibility of increased travel restrictions, and taking care to avoid expenses incurred for any last-minute change of plans, the University of Georgia has proactively decided to cancel the in-person ACIS 2022 conference.
The University of Georgia Arts Council will celebrate its tenth annual Spotlight on the Arts festival throughout the month of November with more than 60 events and exhibitions in the literary, performing, and visual arts.
Conversation One
Environmental Justice: Coasts, Climate Change and Communities in Canada and the US
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Dr. Tina Loo (Moderator): University Killam Professor, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Musqueam territory Natalia Brown: Climate Justice Program Manager, Catalyst Miami Dr. Kelsey Leonard: Water scientist, legal scholar, policy expert, writer, and enrolled citizen of the Shinnecock Nation; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo Jeff Currie: Member, Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina; Lumber Riverkeeper, Winyah Rivers Alliance
Conversation Two
Climate Change and Indigenous Arts
Monday, November 15, 2021
Dr. LeAnne Howe (Moderator): Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature, Department of English, and Director, Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia Beth Roach: U.S. Accelerator Program Lead, Women’s Earth Alliance; Co-founder, Alliance of Native Seedkeepers Carla Hemlock: Kanienkehaka – Mohawk, Textile and Mixed Media Artist Jennifer Foerster: Poet of German, Dutch, and Mvskoke descent; member, Mvskoke (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma Janet Rogers: Poet, Media Producer and owner and editor of Ojistoh Publishing Marianne Nicolson: Artist activist of the Musgamakw Dzawada’enuxw First Nations, part of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwak’wala speaking peoples) of the Pacific Northwest Coast; Trained in both traditional Kwakwaka’wakw forms and culture and contemporary gallery and museum-based practice.
In partnership with the Graduate School, the Willson Center invites proposals for a new round of Shelter Projects, a micro-fellowship program to support graduate students in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the pandemic through the arts and humanities.
The Willson Center will welcome Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States Natasha Trethewey to the University of Georgia as the 2021-2022 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Trethewey will visit UGA and Athens April 21-22.
The Coastal Futures Conservatory will host members of the Coasts, Climates, Humanities and the Environment Consortium (CCHEC) at the University of Virginia’s’s Coastal Research Center in Oyster, VA. The Conservatory is a UVA project to integrate arts and humanities into coastal change research, in partnership with the NSF-funded Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) station. It is also a member of the global HfE Observatories network. The CCHEC was founded with a grant from the Mellon Foundation, is currently comprised of five universities of the Southeast, and proceeds from place-based community alliances that share humanities archives and practices as the means to understand the deep time, and possible futures, of coastal life in the south-east.
This field gathering will proceed from immersion in the Conservatory’s model to an open conversation about shared projects, possible next stages of collaboration, and joint grant opportunities. Upon conclusion of the in-person gathering in Oyster, the Conservatory will host an online concert and symposium, open to the public, featuring compositions selected from our international ecoacoustic competition for works on coastal change.