Projects
Residencies
- CCA & Collaborative Residencies
- Emory Coca-Cola Artist Residencies
- Vega String Quartet, Quartet in Residence
- Other Residencies
Projects
The CCA stimulates collaboration, develops partnerships, and carries out projects to support creativity and arts at Emory and beyond. In addition to projects listed below, please browse other pages of our site for more initiatives.
Current Projects
Emory Evolving Arts
The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) and the Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Principle (CAI) are working with Emory and non-Emory artists to present events that have evolved from the "Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival" presented in Feb. 2009. Click on the event below for more information.
Where Dance and Science Meet: A Creativity ConversationWhere Dance and Science Meet: A Creativity Conversation
Thurs., Oct. 15, 2009, 4 p.m.
Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
David Neumann's NY dance company, advanced beginner group
Fri., Oct. 16, 2009, 8 p.m.
Sat., Oct. 17, 2009, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
Hominid
Thurs., Nov. 12-Sat., Nov. 14, 2009 and Wed., Nov. 18-Sat., Nov. 21, 2009 at 7 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 15 & Sun., Nov. 22, 2009 at 2 p.m.
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center
Creativity Conversation with Professor Frans de Waal & Out of Hand Theater's Ariel de Man
Sun., Nov. 15, 3:30 p.m.
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs University Center
Information about the original grants and projects can be found on the Evolving Arts: New Works Festival page.
Ongoing Projects
Past Projects
Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival
Organized by the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA).
Funded by the Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Principle (CAI).
The Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA) and the Emory University Creativity: Arts & Innovation Strategic Plan Framing Principle (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 will participate in the symposium and respond by presenting their creative research at Emory in the February 2009 Evolving Arts: New Works Festival organized by the CCA.
Grant recipients and their projects are listed on the Evolving Arts: New Works Festival page. Projects are listed on the Evolving Arts: New Works Festival Calendar.
Residencies
Adding to the rich texture that a diversity of faculty, staff, and student artists creates on campus each semester is a variety of visiting artists who are among the leaders in their disciplines. On any given day at Emory, as many as 150 of Emory's own artists and arts scholars teach, present their artistic work, and conduct research in the arts. For instance, Theater Emory and Theater Studies at Emory have professional Equity actors as well as directors, technical theater staff, and dramaturgs numbering eighteen. Emory's Department of Music has about eighty faculty, artist affiliates, and adjunct faculty, including thirteen members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The interplay of Emory's own professional artists, visiting artists, students, and the public make it an increasingly dynamic arts community. The CCA organizes, co-sponsors, and encourages artist residencies throughout campus, including the residencies described below.
CCA & Collaborative Residencies
2008 Residencies
Dorothy Allison, Spring 2008
Emory University welcomed award-winning author Dorothy Allison to Atlanta for a three-month residency as the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Distinguished Visiting Professor for spring 2008. A variety of residency events with Allison were co-sponsored by the Fox CHI, CCA, Creative Writing Program, and the Center for Women at Emory. For more information on this residency, explore these links:
- Background on Dorothy Allison
- Article about Dorothy Allison Residency
- Dorothy Allison Residency Calendar
2009 Residencies
Please check back for residency announcements.
Emory Coca-Cola Artist Residencies
In addition to CCA-sponsored residencies listed on this page, please see the Emory Coca-Cola Artist Residency page for more Emory residencies. The Emory Coca-Cola Artist Residency program features interdisciplinary and performing arts residencies ranging from visits that include teaching, student forums, masterclasses, and lecture/demonstrations coupled with public performances to lengthier stays that include multiple public events; a wide variety of opportunities for students to learn from the guest artists; community outreach events to public schools, other universities, nursing homes, social services organizations, youth organizations, cultural organizations, and community centers; and collaborations with metro-area artists and arts organizations. Please contact Tracy Clark for more information.
Vega String Quartet, Emory Quartet in Residence
The Vega String Quartet was the first ensemble to have an extensive residency at Emory through the Emory Coca-Cola Artists-in-Residence Program. After their initial successful residency, Vega returned for subsequent residencies and became Emory's first Quartet in Residence. Their move to Atlanta and multi-year residency at Emory affords ample opportunity for interdisciplinary exchanges such as presenting to students in the popular "Music and the Brain" course to the more traditional classroom visits, coaching string quartets, and dozens of performances and collaborations each season. According to the the direcotor of orchestral studies and coordinator of the Chamber Ensembles, Richard Prior, of Vega's presence at Emory, especially their level of specialization in chamber music, has had a transformative effect on Emory's chamber ensembles. In addition to their work with Emory students, Vega members develop the talent of pre-college students through the Emory Youth Chamber Music Program. For more information, visit these pages.
