Mark your calendars and join us for the CARI Colloquium on Friday, March 24th for sessions between 9am-2pm in Maxwell Hall. Events will include a CoffeeLab open-house style morning gathering, presentations by interdisciplinary UA researchers, a panel discussion on How to Make Collaboration count, and exhibitions of collaborative arts research. The UA community is invited to attend all or any part of the colloquium. 9:00am-10:00am, CoffeeLab10:00am-10:45am, Panel discussion - “How to Make Collaboration Count” moderated by Tricia McElroy, Associate Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts in [...]

Join CARI on February 17 at 10 am in Maxwell Hall for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Drop in to 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 on November 14th at 3 pm in Maxwell Hall for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Drop in to 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 us for a presentation by Dr. Joey Orr on Place-Based Artistic Research at the Biological Field Station A panel discussion will follow Dr. Orr’s presentation. Panelists include: •     Dr. Joey Orr,  Andrew W. Mellon Curator for Research, Spencer Museum of Art (University of Kansas) and director of the Spencer's Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI)  •     Dr. Michael McKain, Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and Curator of the University of Alabama Herbarium  •     Sarah [...]

Join CARI on August 26th at 10am in Maxwell Hall for CoffeeLab, a series of open house events for UA faculty and staff interested in interdisciplinary collaborative arts research. Drop in to 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 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 us every Tuesday-Thursday from 4-7 PM, 9/14 - 10/13 in Maxwell Hall for the Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibition. This will be followed by extended gallery hours on Friday, October 15th. HT94 is a participatory art exhibition that illuminates the humanitarian crisis occurring at the US border. In 1994, the US Border Patrol launched the immigration enforcement strategy “Prevention Through Deterrence (PTD).” Undocumented migrants were funneled through treacherous environments, dubbed as “Hostile Terrain” by U.S. Border Patrol. At least 3,200 [...]

To prepare for the installation of Hostile Terrain 94, the UA community will be coming together to participate in a series of workshops of reflection to recognize those who have lost their lives while crossing the U.S./Mexico border. HT94 is made up of handwritten toe tags that represent each person who has died in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. These tags include names (when known), age, sex, cause of death, condition of body, and location for every person whose body [...]