emerging creatives student summit
#a2ruSpectacle
EXPERIENCE.
Meghan Ariss
University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College student, Meghan Ariss, was invited to participate in the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) Student Summit at Louisiana State University from February 15-18. Ariss was one of three students university-wide selected to participate in this summit, and she is the first UCBA student to attend.
The mission of the A2RU Student Summit is to,”bring together students who have an interest in the arts, crossing disciplinary boundaries, and developing collaborative projects.” The event attracted 100 students from colleges and universities all over the country. Ariss spent the weekend networking and working with an assigned team on a “spectacle project.”
Emily Kordovich
Rochester Institute of Technology
Emily Kordovich, a fourth-year film and animation and advertising photography double major from Holley, N.Y., recently attended the a2ru student summit. A2ru, the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities, organizes student summits to bring together people who are interested in the arts and crossing disciplinary boundaries by collaborating on projects. An annual event, the summits provide a unique weekend-long collaborative experience with discussion panels, speakers, networking opportunities and other activities that help students become better collaborators and to tackle larger challenges. This year, Kordovich traveled to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La., to attend the summit.
Tonika Sealy-Thompson and Luna Izpisua Rodriguez
University of California, Berkeley
The Emerging Creatives Student Summit, hosted in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), invited more than 100 graduate and undergraduate students from universities across the United States to assess, problematize, and react to the theme of Spectacle and the Collective Experience. As students and faculty with an interest in the arts and sciences, we collaborated in field trips, projects, and performances to harness and apply our collective interdisciplinary knowledge towards the spectacles that we face in our communities on a local and global scale.
Alex Webster
Texas Tech University
I'm Alex Webster, and I'm a first year MFA Performance and Pedagogy student! I'm at Texas Tech because I believe that the intense training and expectations matched with the genuine interest in students leads to incredible student development. Coming to a tier one research university as a performance student, I was a bit nervous about the research component of a graduate degree. Once I received information about the Arts in Alliance at Research Universities (a2ru) conference, I knew that this was my way in!
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