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Please join us at the University of Maryland January 22-23 for "Teaching the Arts in the Age of AI," hosted by UMD Arts for All. This gathering, which will feature a keynote by filmmaker Matthew Niederhauser, panels, demonstrations, and opportunities for exchange, has been designed to support faculty as educators and scholars as they integrate AI into their courses, artistic practices, and research efforts. Registration is open through January 15, and is open to all interested higher education professionals. Learn more and register: https://arts.umd.edu/teaching-arts-in-the-age-of-ai-symposium

Thursday: join an informational webinar and Q&A at noon Eastern for the 2025 Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards, administered by International Arts + Mind Lab & NeuroArts Blueprint.

The Renée Fleming Neuroarts Investigator Awards program, now in its second year and an integral part of the NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative, supports innovative and collaborative neuroarts-related research designed and conducted by early career researchers and artists.

Each Award will be jointly presented to (1) an early-career researcher who is affiliated with an academic institution and engaged in a field of basic science related to neuroarts; and (2) an arts practitioner working in an arts-based neuroarts discipline. Up to $25,000 in funding will be made available for each Award.

Register here:https://aspeninstitute.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zOv1Y-_kR262m7RudWd1Zg?mc_cid=cd53c3127c&mc_eid=03cd7afe54 #/registration

We are hiring!

Are you our next Financial & Membership Coordinator? This vital member of our team will support organizational operations & our growing network of member institutions. The role is based at a2ru's host institution, the University of Michigan . Learn more & apply: https://a2ru.org/jobs/financial-and-membership-coordinator-a2ru/

Ground Works, a2ru’s peer-reviewed online platform for outstanding arts-integrated interdisciplinary research, has released a new special edition, “Creating Knowledge in Common,” focused on university-community partnered research. It is guest-edited by Kevin Hamilton and Mary Pat McGuire from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Shannon Criss from The University of Kansas. It features nine new entries, with a tenth to be released in January.

In their introduction, the editors write: “We (Criss, Hamilton, and McGuire), currently academics working within land grant institutions, recognize the responsibility that universities bear to share resources and directly engage with publics to address needs across society in order to fulfill their institutional mission and educate their students as engaged citizens.…Ideally, knowledge drawn from diverse partners creates both common and uncommon grounds for advancing greater understanding and action on entrenched issues within both communities and institutions.”

They add: “Within collaborative partnerships, the arts and design fields facilitate creative methods for shared expression and exploration, converging multiple viewpoints into broader re-imaginings that result in advocacy, activism, and action with both rational and emotional force.”

Throughout the winter semester, a2ru will be offering a number of online events in conjunction with the edition. "Ask-Them-Anything" webinars will feature Creating Knowledge in Common Editors Shannon Criss, Kevin Hamilton, and Mary Pat McGuire as well as select contributors to this special collection, and on On February 21, 2025, “Creating Knowledge in Common, Together: A Round Table” will bring together community and university partners whose shared art- and design-centered work is published in "Creating Knowledge in Common". In keeping with the open access mission of Ground Works, all of these events are free and open to the public.

a2ru is also offering Reading Clubs and support for faculty interesting in incorporating "Creating Knowledge in Common" into their courses.

Learn more:

a2ru Ground Works Releases Latest Special Issue, “Creating Knowledge in Common” The issue focuses on arts-integrated, community-partnered research

Arts Deans: ICFAD has extended its early bird pricing through November for its 2025 International Symposium in Qatar, taking place May 25-30. Learn more about this unique cultural experience:

International Symposium 2025 ICfAD's International Symposiumin Doha, Qatar May 25 – 30, 2025 in Doha, Qatar with VCUarts Qataroptional additional cultural immersion experience in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAEoptional inclusion of another cultural immersion experiencein Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE . May 30 – June 2, 2025Online Regis...

NEXT WEEK! Join us as our fall webinar series continues!

How can university arts entrepreneurship programs prepare students to craft fulfilling, multi-faceted careers amid rapidly evolving artistic, political and economic realities? What curricular and co-curricular models have proven successful–and which ones haven’t? On Thursday, November 7, from 3:00-4:30pm, a panel of arts entrepreneurship leaders will discuss "The Future(s) of Arts Entrepreneurship Education: Models to Prepare Today’s Students for Tomorrow’s Careers." This session features Osubi Craig from the UF Center for Arts, Migration + Entrepreneurship, Wen Guo from Florida State University, Jonathan Kuuskoski and Gabrielle Piazza from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, David McGraw from Elon University, Sonia Montoya from the The University of Texas at Austin, and José Valentino Ruiz-Resto from the Music Business & Entrepreneurship Program at the UF College of the Artss.

Learn more and register now:

https://a2ru.org/event/the-futures-of-arts-entrepreneurship-education-models-to-prepare-todays-students-for-tomorrows-careers/