Join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center for Flow Tuscaloosa's final lantern building workshop on Friday, May 6th at 5pm. During this workshop, build a lantern that evokes the history and ecology of our waterways. You are invited to bring your lantern to the Flow lantern parade on the evening of May 21, 2022, along the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk.

Join CARI on April 22nd at 10am in Maxwell Hall for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Learn more about the initiative, meet CARI Faculty Fellows, discuss your research ideas and learn what others are working on during these informal gatherings in Maxwell Hall.

Join CARI and Flow Tuscaloosa at the exhibit opening of Swimming Together at the Mildred Westervelt Warner Transportation Museum at 9am on April 19, 2022.

Join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center for Flow Tuscaloosa's next lantern building workshop on Friday, April 1st at 5pm. During this workshop, build a lantern that evokes the history and ecology of our waterways. You are invited to bring your lantern to the Flow lantern parade on the evening of May 21, 2022, along the Tuscaloosa Riverwalk. There will be a final lantern building workshop on Friday, May 6th at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in…

Join us on Monday, March 28th at 7:30pm in Moody Recital Hall for NYC-based violin duo Miolina as they premiere a new work by Holland Hopson, UA composer and CARI Faculty Fellow.

Monuments are ubiquitous in the landscape. Common and omnipresent, they blend into the background and go unnoticed until someone points them out. In recent years, monuments have become flashpoints of cultural controversy across the globe.  Debates about monuments in the U.S. have focused on whether Confederate statues should stay or be removed. While this is an important debate, this talk invites a different conversation: What role do we want monuments to play in our community? What shared ideas or collective memories do…

Join CARI Fellow Holland Hopson and Hank Lazer on Thursday, February 24th at 6pm in celebrating the newly-released collaborative poetry-music book, Field Recordings of Mind in Morning. Poet Hank Lazer and musician Holland Hopson will read and perform musical improvisations for voice & banjo at Harrison Galleries. Hank and Holland will also discuss the meditative aspect of the book and their collaboration.

The next Zoom Networking event will be held Feb. 4th from 10-11:30 am! CARI's networking sessions are co-hosted by the Office of Research and Economic Development and are designed to assist UA faculty interested in pursuing collaborative arts research to further existing projects or to initiate new collaborative partnerships. Please register for this event here by Feb. 2nd: https://uaosp.formstack.com/forms/proposaldevelopment_workshop_copy