Call for Arts Institute January Faculty Workshop 2025

Dear Colleagues:

The Fairfield University Arts Institute is pleased to announce our January Faculty Arts Engagement Workshop for 2025, taking please on Tuesday, January 14 from 10am-1pm.

About the Faculty Arts Engagement Workshop:

The purpose of this workshop is to continue an opportunity for faculty to develop strategies to incorporate the arts into curricula, no matter what the discipline. The workshop will concentrate on arts events and activities planned or under discussion for the academic year 2025-2026.

Funding is available for five faculty members, for a collaborative process during a half day on January 14, facilitated by members of the Arts Institute, the QCA and the FUAM. The workshop will take place in the Museum Classroom, BLM LL 105.  Coffee and lunch will be provided. Following the January workshop, each participant will be assigned a faculty mentor in the arts, who will continue to work with them through the following calendar year.

General Requirements:

Applications may be submitted by any faculty member (full-time and contingent, from all University Colleges and Schools). The workshop will include the following themes:

• Helping faculty to learn about planned arts-based activities and events during the 2025-2026 academic year
• Strategizing on ways to include arts engagement in curricula, whether for an individual or group from a department or an interdisciplinary program
• Methodologies for student enrichment and engagement in the arts
• Development of interdisciplinary pilot projects, connecting the sciences, social sciences and humanities with the arts
• Brainstorming with arts leaders about potential speaker, performance and exhibition events

What might be especially appealing is to have some faculty from the Sciences or within one department or program, or from the Humanities and/or Social Sciences. They could use the workshop to develop pilot projects, and in turn, facilitate more engagement with their colleagues.

Stipends and Support for Programming:

Stipends will be $250 per faculty member participating in the workshop, with up to an additional $500 to support subsequent programming.  

Deadline:

The deadline for the submission of applications (attached separately) will be Friday, December 6, 2024. Notifications will be sent to applicants by December 20. The workshop will take place on January 14.

For further information, contact Sean F. Edgecomb, Ph.D., Director, Arts Institute, at: sedgecomb@fairfield.edu

Both the call for applications and the application are below.

The_Arts-Institute-Workshop-Call_for_Applications.docx

Respectfully,

Sean F. Edgecomb, Ph.D.

Director, Fairfield University Arts Institute

Associate Professor of Theatre

Fairfield University

Fairfield, CT

Recent Publications:

“Unformed Beings in Flight: Feminist/Queer Hope in Dramaturgical Re-imaginings of The Salem Witch Trials.” Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy XXIX:1 (2023/2024), 26-39.

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“Performing Midsommar: Sweden Nationalism, Folkloric Pageantry, and the Political Power of Symbolic Divergence.” Theatre Survey 64:3, ed. La Donna Forsgren, September 2023, 324-353.

The (Taylor) Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance. Co-edited with David Román. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, February 2023. Series: Triangulations” Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance, 304 pages, ISBN-10: 0472075276. ISBN-13: 978-0472075270