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Welcome to the 2025 UF CAME Innovations Summit! We are glad you are here and welcome the fruitful exchanges that will take place over the next three days. Take some time to share what you hope to gain from this experience, aspects of inquiry that are exciting to you right now, or an event you are looking forward to during the summit.

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Meeting the Moment: Find Our Footing through Curiosity, Creativity, and Community

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Meeting the Moment: Find Our Footing through Curiosity, Creativity, and Community

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9:10am in the UF Straughn Center

This keynote panel features Juan Gilbert, One Ozuzu, Jasmine McNealy, and Marlon Barrios Solano discussing the need for scholars and creatives to support their academic journeys by fostering generative bonds.

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10:00am with Rujeko Dumbutshena, Saidah Nash Carter, Emrah Sahin, Amelia Winger-Bearskin, and István Tarrósy

This session will explore how cultural communities both define and challenge systems of power, redirect global flows of knowledge, and reimagine themselves through art and cultural exchange.

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10:50am with Rachel Carrico and Vinata Vedam-Mai

Through dance and storytelling, we share the experiences of two women diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease: Carrico’s grandmother and Vedam-Mai’s mother.

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11:10am with Porchia Moore, Abigail Lindo, Giséle Manganelli Fernandes, Michael Vincent, and John Mugubi

The panel will consider the unique perspectives of artists in migration throughout time, exploring the challenges of creating within cultural centers and at the margins. The goal of this panel is to think broadly about artistic canons, how media shapes identities, and how notions of “center” and “periphery” permeate discourses of value.

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As we all collide here, in Gainesville, FL, consider unique ways in which you articulate aspects of place in your work. Is it something you center in your collaborative endeavors? How do you explore the resources in your local community? Share those ideas here.

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1:00pm with Heidi Boisvert, Marlon Barrios Solano, María Lusia Angulo, S. Ama Wray, and Fatimah Tuggar

The panel will focus on the innovative intersections of AI and the Arts as a space of creative possibility and critical practice. The goal of this panel is to excite cross- disciplinary collaborations and reimagine the role of diasporic and migrant communities in advancing new technology.

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Migratory Entrepreneurship: Fusing Academic Research, Professional Practice, and Global Outreach through Music

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Migratory Entrepreneurship: Fusing Academic Research, Professional Practice, and Global Outreach through Music

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1:50pm with Osubi Craig, José Valentino Ruiz, Melvin Villaver, and Laila Fakhoury

The panel will focus on intersecting domains of musicianship, entrepreneurship, academic research, and creative communities. The goal of this panel is to explore music’s role in driving creative economies, shaping communities, and connecting cultures.

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2:40pm with Christa Sylla

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2:50pm with Jeremy Frusco, Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, Angelos Barmpoutis, Dionne Champion, and Kishau Rogers

The panel will focus on examples of CAME-supported projects that have blossomed through additional grant funding. The goal of this panel is to present compelling examples of growing grant-funded research, share strategies for scaffolding smaller initiatives, and explore the successes and challenges of nurturing fundable research.

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CAME Panel - Growing Grant Funded Research

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We Are SPARC: Partnership and Best Practices for Creative Placemaking and Community Wellbeing

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We Are SPARC: Partnership and Best Practices for Creative Placemaking and Community Wellbeing

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3:50pm with Alana Jackson and Porchia Moore

The SPARC352 Project is an initiative founded on the idea that arts are at the core of vibrant and healthy communities. This panel explores the lessons, opportunities, and impacts of the SPARC model, highlighting the role of institutional partnership, arts programming, and best practices in community-engaged research to cultivate relationships that center creativity and community wellbeing.

Facilitators, in conversation with community members, collaborators, and project staff:

Carla Lewis, Terri Cook Bailey, Turbado Marabou, Jacob Larsen, Rhonda Wilson, Ravyn Gale, Essence Thomas, E. Stanley Richardson, Oriana Sheffield, Cherie Kelly, Brandy Stone, and Commissioner Desmon Duncan-Walker

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7:00pm at the Harn Museum of Art

Let's gather at the Harn Museum's Art After Dark | Museum Nights for networking and discussion.

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Fall 2024 Housing Move-In Thursday August 15 - Saturday August 17