Guest Speaker
Guest Speaker, R. Benjamin Knapp & CARI Faculty Fellowship Information Session
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) will host guest speaker R. Benjamin Knapp, the Director of the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech. Following the presentation, faculty will have an opportunity to learn more about the initiative and the CARI Faculty Fellowship application process. All are welcome and faculty interested in applying for a fellowship are encouraged to attend this event in Maxwell Hall. Dates for additional information sessions are as followed: R. Benjamin Knapp, January 29 at 12:00 [...]
Guest Speaker, Norah Zuniga Shaw & CARI Faculty Fellowship Information Session
Maxwell Hall 420 Stadium Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) will host guest speaker, Norah Zuniga Shaw, the Director of Dance and Technology at Ohio State University Department of Dance and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. Following the presentation, faculty will have an opportunity to learn more about the initiative and the CARI Faculty Fellowship application process. All are welcome and faculty interested in applying for a fellowship are encouraged to attend this event in Maxwell Hall. Dates for additional information sessions are [...]
Jha D Williams: Design, Public Memory, and Memorialization
Zoom Meeting AL, United StatesOn September 16, the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative in collaboration with the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will host guest speaker Jha D Williams, Senior Associate with MASS Design Group. Ms. Williams will present on the connections between design, public memory, and memorialization. Referencing recent memorial projects from MASS Design Group, Ms. Williams will illustrate how participatory design processes can foster truth-telling, commemoration, and healing. This will be a public lecture (open to the campus and community). Due to travel [...]
Portable Collector and Wound Repair
Garland Hall Garland Hall, 700 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDoug Baulos is a professor of Drawing and Foundations at The University of Alabama at Birmingham whose work explores the history of objects and is centered on ideas of spirituality, love, death, shelter, reclamation, and hope. Their drawings, installations, photographs, and books depict scientific illustrations, the human body, and images of the natural world. Doug's visit is part of a new initiative in the printmaking area called Druid City Prints, which is supported through the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative. They will [...]