a2ru 2020 National Conference Land & Equity: The Art and Politics of Place (a2ru)
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a2ru 2020 National Conference Land & Equity: The Art and Politics of Place
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a2ru
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Each year the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), based at the University of Michigan, works with a hosting member university. In 2020, UW-Madison was the host university for the virtual conference. The Division of the Arts was the main organizer and worked with a2ru staff on curating and implementing the conference. The focus was land and equity. Artists, arts organizations, and university faculty, staff, and students sent in presentation proposals regarding this theme or about interdisciplinary arts research. With this conference, we focused on amplifying BIPOC presenters and keynote speakers included Michele Byrd-McPhee, Dr. Adrienne Keene, and Emmanuel Pratt. In addition, the Div. of the Arts sponsored an environmental artist panel with former interdisciplinary artists and some of their guest artists. We also referenced the Our Shared Future and shared resources about the Ho-Chunk Nation to attendees.
The 2020 theme Land & Equity considered how our work as artistic, scientific, and humanist researchers and educators is defined by the land on which we find ourselves, and asks who has access to that land and its resources? In turn, we examined how our art, research, and teaching impacts the places and spaces in which we live and work, and discuss ways that we can use that work to advance more equitable access.
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Division of the Arts (ARTS INSTITUTE - GENERAL)-Division of the Arts
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10/15/2020
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a2ru advances the full range of arts and design-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice from across the disciplines in order to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society. a2ru’s work, in partnership with more than 35 research institutions, envisions a world in which universities—students, faculty, and leaders—explore, embed, and integrate the arts in everyday practice and research. The a2ru National Conference is an oppo
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10/15/2020
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10/30/2020
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Kate Hewson
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UW-Madison was originally going to host the annual Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities. We made the decision in the spring of 2020 to have the conference all virtual. With going virtual and working with our a2ru partners, there were over 30 talks, panels, workshops, presentations that occurred over 2 weeks with 320 participants. We set up the pricing structure differently to make it more accessible to those who weren't able to attend the full conference. There were a wide range of topics regarding the theme "Land & Equity: The Art of Politics of Place" along with interdisciplinary arts research.
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