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.
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Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research and Integration
Exhibition featuring projects, workshops, and gallery talks to address the capacity of arts research to integrate into a wide range of knowledge domains, connect disciplines, engage communities, and create new meaning. PIs: Ellen McMahon (College of Fine Arts) and Jennifer Fields (Office of Societal Impact).
America’s Health: Welcome to the Game
Documentary film about three communities that provide equitable access to health and wellness care outside the mainstream system. PIs: Yuri Makino (Theater, Film and Television) and Christine Ryan Harland (independent filmmaker).
The Nature of Change: Experiments in Societal Transformation
Community workshop series that enlists art to enhance ecological engagement and environmental responsibility and augment regional resilience. PIs: Carissa DiCindo (Art and Visual Culture Education) and Jonathon Keats (College of Fine Arts Research Associate).
Southwest Field Studies in Writing
Residency program and storytelling workshops that engage students in reciprocal learning about restoration and stewardship in the borderlands through hands-on labor, writing, and image making. PIs: Susan Briante and Francisco Cantú (Creative Writing).
Documenting Resilience in Tucson’s Southside
Project that creates infrastructure for “living” archives with El Pueblo Neighborhood Center and Sunnyside Foundation. PIs: Jacqueline Barrios (Public and Applied Humanities), Meg Jackson Fox (Center for Creative Photography), and Kenny Wong (Landscape Architecture and Planning).
Science-in-Motion/Wonder Studio
Program that lays the groundwork for art and science resilience synergies of the future and reviving and updating the wondrous synergies of art and science through hands-on learning and undergraduate animation residencies. PIs: Nicole Antebi (Art), Aaron Bugaj (Biosphere 2), and Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold (Science).
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