Arts, Humanities, Resilience Projects Selected for Grants
This desert calendar was created by a participant in the workshop “Keeping Time in the Sonoran Desert,” using natural materials and found objects to record time.
Five interdisciplinary projects using arts-based research were selected to receive funding from the TRIF Water, Environment, and Energy Solutions initiative, administered by the Arizona Institute for Resilience, and the College of Fine Arts in the form of Arts|Humanities|Resilience grants.
“These five interdisciplinary collaborations illustrate the inherent ability of arts research to transcend disciplinary silos and create meaningful connections with communities,” said Ellen McMahon, associate dean for research in the arts.
Projects include a collaboration between an internationally renowned environmental artist/philosopher and a museum studies scholar on Tumamoc Hill, a documentary film project about how communities across the U.S. are improving their lives by taking their healthcare into their own hands, and the co-creation of a “living” multimedia archive with Tucson’s Southside residents.
“The TRIF-WEES initiative supports projects that enhance knowledge exchange about water, environment, and energy within and across our Arizona communities, in addition to research,” said Sharon Collinge, Director of AIR. “Fine Arts have a history of deeply-embedded interactions with communities and provide both unique and relatable ways for people to connect and interact with environmental issues and solutions.”
Deepening Foundations for Science in Motion, Arts Research, Coalition Building, and Groundwork for UArizona Art & Science Resilience Synergies of the Future
- Principal Investigator | Nicole Antebi (School of Art)
- Co-Investigators | Aaron Bugaj (Biosphere2), Dr. A. Elizabeth (Betsy) Arnold (College of Science)
Documenting Resilience in Tucson’s Southside
- Principal Investigators | Jacqueline Barrios (College of Humanities), Meg Jackson Fox (Center for Creative Photography), Kenny Wong (College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Southwest Field Studies in Writing
- Principal Investigators | Susan Briante (Department of English), Francisco Cantú (Independent Author, Department of English)
The Nature of Change: Experiments in Societal Transformation Through Environmental Art in Tucson and the Sonoran Desert
- Principal Investigators | Carissa DiCindo (School of Art), Jonathon Keats (Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill)
America’s Health: Welcome to the Game
- Principal Investigators | Yuri Makino (School of Theatre, Film & Television), Christine Ryan Harland (Documentary Filmmaker)
There will be public workshops on Tumamoc Hill in May and a symposium in the fall on campus, where all the recipients will speak about their projects.