2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit: “Resonate: Making Waves”
About Emerging Creatives
a2ru is thrilled to announce that Georgia Tech will host the 2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, taking place March 13-16 in Atlanta.
This year’s theme will be “Resonate: Making Waves.” How can our ideas resonate? Waves can be immediate and intense, like an earthquake; or they can accumulate through reverberations over time, like the actions of 1960s civil rights leaders. Together, we will explore waves–their wake, momentum, and impact. From the atomic to the emotional to the artistic to the cultural to the galactic, how can we make waves today?
Emerging Creatives is a three-day collaborative experience in which students form small cross-disciplinary teams to explore a specific area of the Summit’s theme. Over the course of the event, teams make something that represents their exploration: a syllabus, cookbook, podcast, app, opera, pair of shoes, urban blueprint, pop-up store, musical score, website…the list of possible outcomes is endless.
At Emerging Creatives, students not only envision and create their project; they also take field trips, meet extraordinary interdisciplinary thinkers, practice presenting their work, and exchange ideas about their project with peers and experts. Students also build collaboration skills in micro-workshops with a2ru staff.
Image Above: “Continuing the Conversation”, a public art work on Georgia Tech’s campus by Atlanta sculptor Martin Dawe. It depicts Rosa Parks at age 42 — the year of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — and at age 92, the year she died.
Nominating Students
a2ru member institutions are eligible to nominate up to 3 students to attend the 2025 Emerging Creatives Student Summit. Graduate students and undergraduate students in their junior year or above are eligible. One representative from each institution should submit the names of the nominated students via the form below no later than February 1, 2025.
In order to maintain the interdisciplinary nature of Emerging Creatives, a2ru asks that the students nominated by each institution represent a broad range of disciplines both within and outside the arts. The contributions of students from disciplines in the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business and other fields are essential to the success of the Summit.
Funding Opportunities for Students
For this year’s Emerging Creatives, a2ru can offer a number of $250 Travel Grants, which are open to all participants, as well as 2 $1000 Scholar Grants, which are designed to support the participation of those from historically underrepresented groups. Campus representatives can indicate on the nomination form linked below which student(s) they would like to be considered for Travel Grants or Scholar Awards.
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