The following projects demonstrate ways that the arts integrate into a wide range of knowledge domains, connect disciplines, engage with communities, build a sense of belonging, and create new meaning.
These integrative arts research projects were made possible by funding from the Arizona Institute for Resilience and the Office of Research, Innovation and Impact in partnership with the CFA Arts Research Office.
Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research and Integration
Organized and curated by Ellen McMahon, Associate Dean for Research, College of Fine Arts, and Jennifer Fields, Director, Office of Societal Impact.
America’s Health: Welcome to the Game
Documentary film about three communities which are providing equitable access to health and wellness care outside the mainstream system. Principal Investigators: Yuri Makino, School of Theater, Film and Television, Christine Ryan Harland, Documentary Filmmaker
The Nature of Change: Experiments in Societal Transformation
Enlisting art to enhance ecological engagement and environmental responsibility to augment regional resilience/sustainability. Principal Investigators: Carissa DiCindo, School of Art, Art and Visual Culture Education and Jonathon Keats, Desert Lab, Tumamoc Hill, College of Fine Arts, Independent consultant.
Southwest Field Studies in Writing
Reciprocal learning about restoration and stewardship in the borderlands through hands-on labor and creative reflection in writing and image making. PIs: Susan Briante and Francisco Cantú, Dept. of English, Creative Writing.
Documenting Resilience in Tucson’s Southside
Creating infrastructure for future “living” archives with El Pueblo Neighborhood Center and Sunnyside Foundation. PIs: Jacqueline Barrios, College of Humanities, Public Humanities, Meg Jackson Fox , Center for Creative Photography, Kenny Wong, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture
Science-in-Motion/Wonder Studio
Laying the groundwork for Art & Science Resilience Synergies of the Future and reviving and updating the wonderous synergies of art and science through hands-on learning and undergraduate animation residencies. PIs: Nicole Antebi, School of Art, Co-Investigators, Aaron Bugaj, Biosphere2, Dr. A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold, College of Science.
A Poetic Water Harvesting Project
Collectively addressing bodies of water to grow a global poem connecting watersheds across the planet through mail-art. PI Gretchen Henderson in partnership with University of Arizona Poetry Center, Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center and the North American Association for Environmental Education.
100-Year Photography: From Today to the Future
Century Camera Workshop designed by Jonathon Keats conducted by Hai Ren, Department of East Asian Studies, in collaboration with the artists LOU Jing, GAO Yongpeng and LIU Zhaolin in Yangdeng, a rural township in Guizhou Province, China, in June 2023
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