The Johns Hopkins University has awarded approximately
$26,000 in grants to students and
faculty to stimulate new courses in the arts and for other
arts-related efforts on the Homewood
campus, Winston Tabb, vice provost for the arts, said last
week.
The Arts Innovation Program offers funding to faculty
to create new courses in the arts for
undergraduates, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and
cross-divisional courses. The program also
supports the artistic efforts of students, both those
currently engaged in arts activities and those
wishing to create a new venture, with an emphasis on making
connections between Johns Hopkins
students and the Baltimore community.
Of the 13 proposals submitted for the current round of
grants, seven received funding,
including three new spring courses.
Intermedia Studio, taught by McGregor Boyle,
Computer Music faculty member and Composition
Department chair at the Peabody Conservatory, and Joan
Freedman, director of the Digital Media
Center at Homewood, will explore the historical
tradition of artwork that combines normally separate
artistic disciplines. Working in groups, students will
complete an original intermedia work to be shown
to the public.
Narrative Production, jointly taught by faculty in the
Film and Media
Studies program at Johns
Hopkins and the Video Department at the Maryland Institute
College of Art, will offer students an
unprecedented opportunity to produce short narrative
fiction films, from screenplay to final cut to
screening.
Ancient City of the Future, taught by Professor Glenn
Schwartz and doctoral candidate Adam
Maskevich, both of the Department of
Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins, and Peter
Schmowicz,
chair of the Department of Environmental Design at the
Maryland Institute College of Art, will give
students an introduction to the study of Near Eastern urban
civilization and a background in
computer-generated art and virtual architecture.
Additionally, four student-proposed arts initiatives
will receive support.
The Indian fusion dance team JHU Josh, which is headed
by senior Avantika Mishra, will receive
funding to perform for the benefit of Ronald McDonald
House.
A new Johns Hopkins Concerto and Aria Competition,
proposed by international relations major
Hernan del Aguila, a sophomore, will spotlight the solo
musical abilities of a wide range of Johns
Hopkins students.
Seniors Michelle Brown, Elizabeth Eldridge, Mitch
Frank and Julie Sihilling, all theatre arts and
studies minors, will receive funding to produce a senior
showcase of experimental and progressive
theater as part of their
Homewood Arts Programs Certificate final project.
In partnership with the Baltimore Office of Promotion
and the Arts, senior Kirsi Tuomanen Hill
and junior Yoonah Chi will coordinate the one-year
relocation of a former Artscape sculpture to the
Homewood campus to serve as a focal point for lectures and
workshops on contemporary art.
Arts Innovation grants are awarded twice each academic
year: for summer and the fall
semester, and for intersession and the spring semester. The
deadline for proposals for summer and
fall 2008 is Thursday, Feb. 28. For more information, go to
www.library.jhu.edu/about/news/announcements/
artsinnovationgrants.html.