Please note: The deadline for these grants has passed, and the information below reflects the results of the awarded grants.
Click here for the latest fall 2009 evolution-themed events between October 16-November 22, 2009.
Organized by the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA).
Funded by the Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Theme (CAI).
The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) and the Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Theme (CAI), in conjunction with Emory’s Evolution Revolution symposium (http://www.emory.edu/evolution), have funded artistic exploration by Emory and non-Emory artists on evolution-related themes generated from the October 23-24, 2008 conference. Artists participated in the symposium and will respond by presenting their creative research at Emory in the February 2009 Evolving Arts: New Works Festival organized by the CCA.
- Artists and Events
- Evolving Arts Commission and Grant Overview
- Evolution Revolution Symposium Background
- Metro Area College & University Arts Program Outreach
Artists and Events
Dance Program
Artist: David Neumann, choreographer and actor
Big Eater (heart of glass)
Open dress rehearsal and talk-back session: February 26, 2009, 8 p.m.
Performances: February 27-28, 2009, 8 p.m.
Dance Studio, Schwartz Center, 1700 N. Decatur Rd.
404.727.5050, www.arts.emory.edu
Theater Studies Department & Creative Writing Program
Artists: Playwrights John Walch and Matthew Maguire
Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, based on the book by Olivia Judson, adapted by John Walch
Wax Wings by Matthew Maguire
Performance: February 21, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
Theater Lab, Schwartz Center, 1700 N. Decatur Rd.
404.727.5050, www.arts.emory.edu
Visual Arts Department
Artist: Eve Andrée Laramée, sculpture installation
Halfway to Invisible
Exhibition dates: February 5-March 6, 2009
Opening Reception: February 5, 2009, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Visual Arts Building & Gallery, 700 Peavine Creek Dr.
404.727.5050, www.arts.emory.edu
Dance Faculty
Lori Teague, Associate Professor, Emory Dance Program; choreographer
Project: How the Human Got Its Big Head
Open dress rehearsal and talk-back session: February 26, 2009, 8 p.m.
Performances: February 27-28, 2009, 8 p.m.
Dance Studio, Schwartz Center, 1700 N. Decatur Rd.
404.727.5050, www.arts.emory.edu
Theater Faculty
Lisa Paulsen, Senior Lecturer, Theater Studies; Resident Artist, Theater Emory; and Director, Theater Emory's Playwriting Center
Project: Paulsen's proposed, Inner Ape, is a new play development project as part of the Playwriting Center of Theater Emory's biennial Brave New Works Festival. It features Out of Hand Theater Company, playwright Ken Weitzman, and Theater Emory.
Performance: February 20, 2009, 7 p.m.
Theater Lab, Schwartz Center
For more information visit www.theater.emory.edu or call the Arts at Emory box office at 404.727.5050
Additional Events
Theater Studies Colloquia with playwrights Kenneth Weitzman, John Walch, and Matthew Maguire
Thursday, February 17, 2009, 4-5 p.m.
Theater Lab, Schwartz Center
404.727.5050, www.arts.emory.edu
Specific projects are listed on the Evolving Arts: New Works Festival Calendar page.
Evolving Arts Commission and Grant Overview
The intersection of art and science is the subject of the creative research being investigated by visiting commissioned artists and recipients of faculty and department project grants. Their work explores themes from the October 2008 Evolution Revolution symposium. Artists attended the symposium; conferred with other attendees, speakers, and faculty; and are producing work to be shared in the February 2009 “Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival,” and through a mid-February conversation with the scientists on the artist’s processes and discoveries.
The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) Committee, a multi-disciplinary faculty and staff group led by Executive Director Leslie Taylor, solicited commission and project grant requests from Emory arts departments and faculty. Emory College arts departments and programs were encouraged by the CCA to apply for up to $10,000 to commission artists, and their faculty members were encouraged to propose for funding consideration projects of their own of up to $3,000. Departments, programs, Student Government Association-registered student groups, and individual regular full-time faculty members were eligible to apply. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary projects were encouraged and received priority - these types of projects represent efforts to enlarge upon collaborative interests between different departments, units, or faculty. Funding from Emory University's Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Theme (CAI) led by University Vice President and Secretary Rosemary Magee supported the awarding of the four commissions and two project grants. Please click on the artist or project below for available project details and artist biographies. For more information about the CAI and CCA, please email creativity@emory.edu.
Evolution Revolution Symposium Background
In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 2009, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 2009, the Computational and Life Sciences (www.cls.emory.edu) Initiative of Emory University hosted a major symposium on the future of evolution on October 23-24, 2008. Symposium speakers included Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino Professor Emeritus, Harvard University, and Olivia Judson, evolutionary biologist, author, and New York Times online contributor. Emory and Georgia Institute of Technology faculty and administrators Carol M. Worthman, David Lynn, Nicholas V. Hud, Michelle Lampl, Ichiro Matsumara, Todd Preuss, Leslie Real, Frans B.M. de Waal, Rosemary Magee, and others, presented their work or guided discussions.
The symposium explored evolution as a process and as a theory, including how evolutionary inheritance affects our emotions, values, and mental make-up; how interaction between genes and environment affects health; and how research into the origins of life provides new knowledge.
Metro Area College & University Arts Program Outreach
Artists from metropolitan Atlanta area colleges and universities who are interested in joining in the exploration of the evolution theme through their own creative work or that of their departments or program, are encouraged to email creativity@emory.edu to be included in the Evolving Arts calendar of events.
