Create
An important way to integrate art-making and the arts into university life is to foster creative collaborations among faculty and students in the arts and other disciplines.
Interdisciplinary creative projects developed or supported by Arts on Earth include our annual, arts-driven fall explorations of broad themes ("Arts & ...") and other strategic partnerships. Learn more at the links below.
Arts & Bodies: Fall 2009
In Fall semester 2009, Arts on Earth will explore the dynamic, tortured, joyful, complex relationship between our arts and our bodies across epochs and cultures. Learn more.
Arts & the Environment: November 2008
Faculty from a dozen different units collaborated to create multi-media installations on earth, air, fire, and water. Learn more.
Arts & Minds: November 2007
Arts on Earth's first ArtsLab, a playful, experimental, two-day event in which leading international artists, scientists, scholars, activists, and students explored the interactions of arts and minds. Learn more.
Arts & War: March 2007
Two evenings of performances, presentations, and exhibits exploring how humans use their arts to promote, protest, and grieve war and its effects. Learn more.
Festifools
Arts on Earth is a major partner with the College of Literature, Science and the Arts in the production of "FestiFools," an annual parade of giant papier-mache puppets that beautifully knits town and gown. Faculty and students in the School of Art & Design and LSA create the puppets and the event, learning by doing about public art, the history and staging of spectacle, construction, design, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Visit the FestiFools website.
WorkPlay
With the College of Engineering in the lead, Arts on Earth sponsored this challenge to interdisciplinary faculty-student teams to design a public, interactive, educational and imaginative element to distinguish and enliven North Campus. Learn more.
Feel the Music Competition: Fall 2008 & Winter 2009
AoE partnered with the Deaf Performing Artists Network (D-PAN) and the College of Engineering's Center for Entrepreneurship to launch a competition encouraging interdisciplinary groups of students to design devices to enable deaf and hard of hearing people to participate in live music events. Learn more.
The Green Opera: Spring 2009
AoE partnered with SMTD faculty member Robert Swedberg in a student production of the first “green opera” in the U.S. Learn more.
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