Ideas for Creative Exploration is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced
research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. 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. Ideas for Creative Exploration enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
David Saltz
Executive Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration
Professor and Department Head, Theatre and Film Studies
Mark Callahan
Artistic Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration
Senior Academic Professional
Bala Sarasvati
Professor, Dance
Jane Willson Professor in the Arts
Anna Abraham
Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development
E. Paul Torrance Professor, Mary Frances Early College of Education
Melisa “Misha” Cahnmann-Taylor
Professor, Mary Frances Early College of Education
Chris Cuomo
Professor, Philosophy and Women’s Studies
Lauren H. Fancher
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)
Connie Frigo
Associate Professor of Saxophone, Music
David T Gay
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Director, Euclid Lab
Moon Jung Jang
Associate Professor, Art
Peter Van Zandt Lane
Associate Professor of Composition, Music
Director of the Dancz Center for New Music
T. Anthony Marotta
Associate Professor, Theatre and Film Studies
Meredith Welch-Devine
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, UGA Graduate School
Andrew Zawacki
Professor, English
Graduate Research Assistants
Meredith Emery
MFA Student, Art
Rachel Seburn
MFA Student, Art
Elizabeth Boyce
DMA Student, Music
Bryan Wysocki
DMA Student, Music
Meg Grey
MFA Student, Theatre and Film Studies
Erica Parson
MFA Student, Theatre and Film Studies
Affiliates
- Lamar Dodd School of Art
- Department of Theatre and Film Studies
- Hugh Hodgson School of Music
- Department of Dance
- Department of English
- College of Engineering
- The Graduate School
- Honors Program / CURO
- Office of Sustainability
- Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR)
- Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA)