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a2ru builds community and drives transformative culture change for the arts and arts integration in higher education, while fostering innovative and generative connections between ideas, disciplines, people and institutions. Our passionate and generous community shares insights, best practices, tools, experiences, and more.

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Aaron Anderson Wins 2024 a2ru Award for Excellence in Arts in Health Education

Anderson holds appointments in theatre, medicine and business at Virginia Commonwealth University

a2ru Working Groups

a2ru Working Groups provide year-round opportunities for our members to share knowledge and best practices, collaboratively develop action and research plans, and to pursue shared funding.

 

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Academic MetricsThis group is pursuing a shared research and action strategy to develop artist-driven assessment protocols in research university contexts.
AI in the ArtsThis group represents a diverse range of disciplinary and cultural perspectives gathered in shared study of AI potentialities, particularly in arts and design higher education.
Arts in Health EducatorsThis group works on curricula development and coordinating and exploring the intersections in arts in health, entrepreneurship, and arts management.
Interdisciplinary Centers & InstitutesThis group explores the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration on a college/university campus and supports all stages of interdisciplinary center development.
Associate Deans of ResearchThis group gathers those in roles that support research and assessment, especially in arts and design.
“We can be fairly confident that the arts and identity are closely linked, and our sense of identity plays such an important role in interpersonal relationships. This connection may have profound implications for how we envision the future of the arts and its role in the research university culture.”
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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas’s College of Fine Arts, a creative nexus anchored within the vibrant and diverse culture of Las Vegas, boldly launches visionaries who transform the global community through collaboration, scholarship, and innovation. Being a student of fine arts means heightening your physical, intellectual and cultural awareness. UNLV’s fine arts program prepares students for professional careers by helping them hone and perfect their talents. A wide array of campus venues, including theatres, performance halls, studios and an architectural library, are available to students as they pursue their passions. Our artist-in-residence program brings pre-eminent creators to UNLV. It also brings them into the classroom.

At UNLV we illuminate the power of the arts amidst breathtaking advancements in science and technology. In doing so, we are creating a global destination at the forefront of transforming arts and design. To accomplish this we encourage agency, inventiveness, problem-solving, and big-idea thinking in our students, faculty, and staff. We make education relevant through curriculum and effective learning outcomes. We are passionate and compassionate, principled and supportive, joyful and kind. We believe in inclusion, invention, transformation, engagement, and rigor. These vital principles underpin all our efforts and guide us in fulfilling our mission.

The UNLV College of Fine Arts includes the School of Architecture, School of Music, Department of Art, Department of Dance, Entertainment Engineering and Design, Department of Film, Department of Theatre, and UNLV Performing Arts Center.

The Arts at Virginia Tech

The arts at Virginia Tech are deeply embedded in teaching, research, and the student experience at Virginia Tech. Academic programs in the arts are found at the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the College of Architecture and Urban Studies, the School of Visual Arts, the School of Performing Arts, and the School of Architecture and Design. The Moss Arts Center operates as both a presenting organization and as a 147,000-square-foot, top-caliber arts center; it is a thriving community where the arts are a catalyst for engagement, inspiration, and discovery. Powered by advanced technology and networks of creative people, ICAT, the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, brings together and supports teams of faculty and students from across academic disciplines to address grand challenges and creative opportunities, ranging from large societal problems to industry-specific issues to the frontiers of artistic expression.

The Arts at Dartmouth

An interdisciplinary approach to the arts is pervasive at Dartmouth College; the Departments of Film & Media Studies, Studio Art, Theater, and Music collaborate with cross-campus partners like the Departments of Native and Indigenous Studies and Environmental Studies. The Hopkins Center for the Arts is home to a leading international arts presenting series as well as the Dartmouth Dance & Music Ensembles featuring student performers. The Hood Museum of Art and the Black Family Visual Arts Center are both part of a reenvisioned Arts District for the College. Students embrace interdisciplinary solutions to complex contemporary problems at the DALI (Digital Applied Learning and Innovation) Lab and the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society. The Digital Arts program offers both an undergraduate minor and a Master’s Degree in the Computer Science Department; it intersects with studio art, film, theater, engineering, music, and design and explores the relationship between computation, art, and society.

The Creative Placemaking Resource Hub is a living archive of creative placemaking and placekeeping scholarship and practice, building on the archives of ArtPlace America’s decade of field-building work. It is designed for the students, teachers, artists, and community leaders who move the field forward.

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