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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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