Tags: Arts
Prestigious awards, scholarships, fellowships, innovative courses, conference presentations and a Broadway star headline our congratulations to alumni, faculty and students over the previous month. What fantastic company you keep in the Franklin College:
Alumnus Peter Schreiner (M.S, chem '91, Ph.D '95) wins 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, one of Germany's most prestigious research awards
The Modern Language Association of America…
Franklin faculty experts welcomed the New Year with advice, experience, perspective, and new research reported in media around the world. Take a journey with our well-versed and generous colleagues in a sample of January's noted and quoted:
Next-gen Starlink dish offers more consistent higher speeds, say early users (John Gibbs) – PC Magazine
The changing perceptions of what leadership means to people – Brian Hoffman, professor of psychology,…
Like the five food groups necessary for good health and wellbeing, the Franklin College is organized in five divisions that together power the robust, intellectual learning environment of the University of Georgia. We welcome 2024 by highlighting the divisional nature of our organizational structure and the academic units contained in each division.
Today we highlight the FINE & PERFORMING ARTS
Connecting our campus community with a wide…
An autobiographical musical that delves into the poignant relationship between a young man and his grandmother, both hailing from South Georgia, "Brighter Than the Sun" is written by alumnus Collin Hendley and features an array of UGA Theatre & Film Studies alumni. The limited run production opened January 9 Off-broadway at New York's Chain Theatre and runs until January 21:
In 2022, Theatre undergraduate Collin Hendley was named the…
Five student winners of the annual Hugh Hodgson School of Music Concerto Competition will launch the spring Thursday Scholarship Series of concerts performing with the UGA Symphony Orchestra Jan 26.
This year’s winners include:
Michael Baker, trumpet, Chaynes’ “Concerto for Trumpet (1st mov)”Gabriella McClellan, cello, Dvorák’s “Cello Concerto in B minor, Op 104, I. Allegro”Anna Savelyeva, piano, Rachmaninoff’s “Piano Concerto No 3 (1st…
Advances in Artificial Intelligence, both the capability of machine learning and the cultural impacts of large language models, took center stage at a UGA symposium at the end of November.
Key note speaker Ian Bogost shared many of his experiences utilizing new AI tools and grappling with some of the challenges they present. Our colleagues share the story:
Bogost, Barbara and David Thomas Distinguished Professor at Washington University in St.…
The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund, in partnership with ATHICA, present a public lecture by visiting artist in jewelry and metalwork Masako Onodera. Onodera's visit coincides with an exhibition of her work in tandem with associate professor of Jewelry and Metalwork Mary Hallam Pearse titled Onodera & Pearse: Contrasts and Correlations, on view from January 13 - February 11, 2024 at ATHICA. An artist talk will…
Happy New Year from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences! Wishing you all the best as we begin another great year at the academic heart of the University of Georgia.
Excelsior!
Peter Schreiner has received one of Germany's most prestigious research awards.
University of Georgia alumnus Peter Schreiner has received one of Germany’s most prestigious research awards. The Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) announced the recipients of the 2024 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which was awarded to 10 researchers – three women and seven men. The winners will each…
The Modern Language Association of America announced its thirty-third annual Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize for an outstanding book published in English or Spanish in the field of Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures. The winner is Éric Morales-Franceschini, associate professor of English and Latin American and Caribbean studies in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, for The Epic of Cuba Libre…
The Class of 2023 rolls on – into caps and gowns, toward next steps, new goals, and a bright future glimmering with a fresh degree. Today's the day! Celebrate graduates!
The University of Georgia welcomes its newest alumni on Dec. 15 as 1,626 undergraduates and 1,340 graduate students—a total of 2,966—have met requirements to participate in the university’s fall Commencement ceremonies:
The undergraduate ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. in…
Rachael McCampbell has found true freedom following her dreams.
The Franklin, Tennessee-based artist has always loved to paint, but never expected to make a career out of it.
“My parents' thinking was Depression-era oriented, very practical. They wanted me to have a job that was marketable and encouraged me to study graphic design, which I did,” said McCampbell. “The only part that really excited me was the illustration side…
On reading day, Franklin College Dean Anna Stenport thanks our community of friends and alumni, colleagues and students, looks back on recent accomplishments, and previews the next steps in advancing the arts and sciences at the University of Georgia.
Casey Nelson has been a Georgia Bulldog since birth.
Growing up a self-professed die-hard UGA fan, he attended home football games every weekend and has fond childhood memories of tailgating and running through North Campus throwing a frisbee. When the time came for college, it was a dream come true for him to accept a track and field scholarship at the school he’d always loved.
Fittingly, it was in Athens that another…
Theatre and Film Studies associate professor John Gibbs brings his excitement for science to his teaching and research in drama. All along, he knew the potential of artificial intelligence was lurking. Now that computer-aided design is ready to have an impact on just about every field, Gibbs is prepared to meet the new tools more than halfway. Our colleagues in UGA Research Communications share the story:
“I was born about five years too…
The Hugh Hodgson School of Music presents the annual Holiday Concert, a tradition for the faculty and students of the Franklin College, the University of Georgia, and the Athens community. Fo two nights – beginning tonight – this cornucopia of some our strongest ensembles is the perfect start to your holiday season.
Featuring the UGA Symphony Orchestra, Hodgson Singers, University Chorus, UGA Glee Clubs, British Brass Band, Jazz Ensembles…
We are grateful for the fine work of our faculty, staff, and students, and so happy to see them acknowledged on campus, in the community, and [quite] beyond. A few recent achievements by our colleagues and by Franklin College students:
Mariah Cady, senior in the Franklin College and School of Public and International Affairs, majoring in Russian and international affairs with minors in geography, German, and president of the Native American…
Shana Jackson is a fourth-year textile design major in the Lamar Dodd School of Art from Philadelphia by way of Brooklyn. She’s seeking to supplement her history of first-hand work experience in the design world with the artistic refinement and development of a college education. She specifically wants to grow herself as an artist through her degree.
“I’m doing this for my nineteen-year-old self,” the forty-seven-year old said. “Being in school…
The Lamar Dodd School of Art Dodd Ambassadors present the third annual Dodd Market Friday Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Courtyard and First Floor atrium of the school of art. The Dodd Market’s mission – to provide valuable selling experience to art students and to engage the UGA and Athens community with student artists – creates a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talent at the Dodd. And just in time for the holidays. Shop from over…
Ezi Ononuju is a third-year student from Alpharetta, Georgia, majoring in computer science and pursuing a certificate in urban and metropolitan studies. He’s also an interdisciplinary artist who is seeking a new way of understanding our constantly changing world.
“On a personal level, my goal in life is to be as capable a person as I can be,” Ononuju said. “I want to create and have the confidence and wherewithal to do so with reckless…
Whether soothing, stirring, or inspirational, the power of music touches a boundless soul language in all of us – and probably more than a few animals, as well. Music as therapy in all its connotations logically follows the contours of this language. Music therapy as discipline and practice uses music to address conditions with few other avenues for treatment. The Hugh Hodgson School of Music music therapy program connects the power of music…
The department of theatre and film studies and the Willson Center present an original performance presentation Favored by the Muses, the culmination of a year-long collaboration between UGA and TCU Humanities and Education programs that celebrates the literary and cultural legacy of America’s first published black female poet, Phillis Wheatley Peters(1753-1784), and the sesquicentennial of her collection, Poems on Various Subjects,…
You are invited to the 2023 Franklin College of Arts and Science Homecoming Tailgate!
Join Dean Anna Stenport on the New College Lawn outside New College for Flying Biscuit Cafe, beverages, and pre-game fun!
Georgia v. Missouri
Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023
12:30 p.m.
New College Lawn
located between New College and the Chapel
Register Now
Please register to purchase tailgate tickets. The attending cost includes a catered lunch by Flying Biscuit…
Happy Halloween!
The week/month-long celebration of ghosts, ghouls, and making merry with costumes and candy – thanks, Wild Rumpus! – comes to end tonight. It will be time to put away the makeup and pumpkins and make way! Spotlight on the Arts begins Nov. 1 with a nice segue:
Mariachi Sol de México de José Hernandez: Día de los Muertos
Mariachi master José Hernández and his Sol de México boast a history as rich and colorful as mariachi…
The University of Georgia Creative Writing program welcomes postcolonial literature scholar Bhakti Shringarpure to campus on Thursday Nov. 2, 2023. Shringarpure, associate professor jointly appointed in the department of English and the Institute of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut, will give a lecture at 4:30 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall on the UGA campus.
Shringarpure’s work engages questions of…