Former CARI Fellow Sarah Bryant Featured in Alabama Digital Humanities Center Interview

Former CARI Fellow and Professor of Book Arts Sarah Bryant was recently featured alongside her collaborator, David Allen, ecologist and Middlebury College biology professor, in an interview with the Alabama Digital Humanities Alliance. Together, they discuss their interdisciplinary project, called “Acts of Translation,” which addresses the communication and conversion of information across disciplines with the outcome of data-driven art. You can watch the full interview by visiting the Alabama Digital Humanities Center website.

National Endowment for the Arts Grant in support of The Moods of Dotts Johnson in Song

Congratulations to CARI Fellows Erin Stoneking (assistant professor of Gender and Race Studies), Claudia Romanelli (associate professor of Italian), Yolanda Manora (associate professor of English), and former CARI Fellows Luvada Harrison (assistant professor of Musical Theatre/Voice), and Robin Behn (professor of English) on this National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant ($10,000) for The Dotts Johnson project to support the further development of their original musical The Moods of Dotts Johnson in Song. The grant, in part, supported a three-day script workshop […]

CARI Announces 2023-2025 Faculty Fellows

The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its newest cohort of faculty fellows. The 2023–2025 faculty fellows, chosen from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: These fellows will participate in a collaborative arts research community for the next two years. The CARI Faculty Fellowship aims to help fellows diversify the impact of their work and to develop new interdisciplinary research. The creative lab and collaborative meeting space in Maxwell Hall serves as a place for these faculty […]

NEH Collaborative Research Grant in support of Notre Dame in Color: Interpreting the Layers of Polychromy on the Sculptures of the Cathedral of Paris Using 3D Modeling

Congratulations to CARI Fellow Jennifer Feltman (associate professor, Art and Art History) and her co-PIs Alexandre Tokovinine (associate professor, department of anthropology) and Jeremiah Stager (cultural resources assistant, Office of Archaeological Research) on this Multi-Year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research Grant ($249,000) in support of Notre Dame in Color: Interpreting the Layers of Polychromy on the Sculptures of the Cathedral of Paris Using 3D Modeling. 

2023 JPAR awardee Announcement

Congratulations to Brittany VandeBurg, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice; Jonathan Cumberland, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History; Susan Dewey, Professor, Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice on being funded through the Joint Pilot for Arts Research for Disrupting Domestic Violence: Engaging the Visual Arts for Raising Awareness and Empowering Victims.  Thank you to the College of Arts and Sciences Diversity Committee and the Office for Research and Economic Development for co-sponsoring this opportunity.

Striking an Innovative Spark

Maxwell Hall, where UA’s first students studied astronomy, now houses the Collaborative Arts and Research Initiative, or CARI, where UA faculty from all disciplines meet to share, learn about and imagine arts-related research projects.   Rebecca Salzer, associate professor of dance, has been CARI’s director since its inception in 2018. She described the initiative as encouraging and supporting innovative, interdisciplinary research that involves or is about the arts.   “CARI gives faculty the opportunity to uncover new aspects of their research by collaborating […]

CARI fellow Dr. Julia Cartwright and Visual Artist Rebecca Rutstein present SMGA exhibition

Dr. Julia Cartwright, a NASA-funded planetary scientist in the Department of Geological Sciences at UA and a CARI fellow, has been collaborating with visual artist Rebecca Rutstein, to create an art exhibition inspired by Dr. Cartwright’s work to better understand the Solar System through the study of meteorites. An expert in cosmochemistry, Dr. Cartwright uses chemical analyses and petrological techniques achieved through high-resolution microscopy to investigate meteorites from localities including Mars, the Moon and the Asteroid Belt, at different scales. […]

CARI announces 2022-2024 Faculty Fellows

The University of Alabama’s Collaborative Arts Research Initiative has announced its newest cohort of faculty fellows. The 2022–2024 faculty fellows, chosen from a large and competitive applicant pool, are: Brandon Colvin, Journalism and Creative Media Jennifer Feltman, Art and Art History Misha Hadar, Theatre and Dance Yolanda M. Manor, English Jared Margulies, Geography Sarah Marshall, Art and Art History Kathryn Elizabeth O’Harra, Honors College Sree Kalyan Patiballa, Mechanical Engineering Alvon Reed, Theatre and Dance Jaye Johnson Thiel, Human Development and […]

Open Call for CARI Faculty Fellows

Become a CARI Faculty Fellow February 1-28, 2022, the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative will accept applications for a new cohort of Faculty Fellows to begin in August, 2022. Any full-time faculty member at the University of Alabama, tenure-track or renewable contract is eligible to apply. A CARI Faculty Fellowship is a 2-year commitment to being an active member of a collaborative arts research community. In addition to the opportunity to strengthen your research design and impact, the benefits of a CARI Faculty Fellowship include: ● […]