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Virtual Artist Lecture: Tricia Wright

Tuesday, August 26, 11:00am via Zoom

Tricia Wright will discuss her current exhibition on view in the Malinda Jolley Mortin Gallery. Originally from England and educated in London, Tricia Wright moved permanently to the US in 1999. She operates a full-time art practice in North Stamford, CT, and maintains close connections with Europe. Raised in an Irish/English home, she divides her time between her studio in CT and her home in West Cork, Ireland, where she lives several months each year. Her works are held in museum, corporate, and private collections in the US, UK, Europe, and Africa. 

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Artist Talk & Film Screening with Jennifer Angus

Thursday, August 28, 11:00am at the ZMA

Jennifer Angus will discuss her current exhibition on view in the Don Russell Clayton Gallery. Angus’ talk will be followed by a 45-minute lunchtime screening of a series of short stop-motion animation films hosted by animation professor, Jeremy Speed Schwartz. The screening will include the work of early Russian animator Starewicz, which heavily influenced Angus' work. The screening will also include a lively conversation between Jennifer Angus and Jeremy Speed-Schwartz. 

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Artist Lecture: Stephanie Smith

Friday, September 12, 2:00pm at the ZMA

The ZMA presents the work of printmaker Stephanie Smith, an Atlanta-based artist, educator and printmaker known for her expressive hand-pulled prints and artist books. Her work, which blends narrative and symbolic imagery, explores themes of memory, loss, time, chance and change. Smith holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Atlanta College of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia. She is a senior lecturer at the University of West Georgia, where she teaches printmaking in the School of Visual and Performing Arts and manages the UWG Vault Gallery in Newnan. Smith will present an in-person lecture at the ZMA, discussing her artistic practice and her work that is on view. 

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Mindful Drumming

Monday, September 15, 2:00pm at the ZMA

In association with Mindful Mondays

Mindful Drumming is an experiential workshop based on the healing power of meditative drumming and mindfulness practices. Both traditions have been used by cultures around the world to help people better attune to themselves and others. Attend this hour-long workshop to learn and experience how drumming and mindfulness can help you relax, feel more alive, and even reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Instruments will be provided, and no musical experience is required.

  • This workshop will be led by Greg Stevens, a Licensed Psychologist and the Associate Director of Clinical Services at the ֱ Counseling and Psychological Services. Before training as a psychologist, Greg performed as a musician for over a decade. During his doctoral training, he had the unique opportunity to learn about meditative drumming and develop an ongoing therapy group with a colleague that incorporated this with mindfulness. He has since continued leading Mindful Drumming therapy groups and workshops for the past seven years.
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Rethinking Pests: A Contemporary Art Practice Connecting Art, Science, and the Natural World

Thursday, September 18, 10:00am via Zoom

Artist Jiayi Guo and entomologist Horace Zeng will discuss their collaborative project integrating contemporary art and entomological research to challenge anthropocentric narratives and highlight the agency of non-human species. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s concept of vibrant matter, they investigate how fire ants adaptively pave over sticky surfaces with artificial materials—an emergent collective behavior that parallels human notions of labor and tool use. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, they seek to deepen contemporary art’s engagement with non-human agency and foster a broader discourse on interspecies coexistence. 
  
By making their subtle actions visible, we seek to reframe “pests” as ecological agents rather than nuisances. Our viral social media post documenting this phenomenon sparked widespread discussion about the creative agency of ants, ultimately leading to the creation of experimental films, “ant sculpture”, and “ant paintings”. An exhibition featuring these works invited reviewers to reconsider the entanglements of species, labor, and environment, demonstrating how artistic practice can serve as a critical platform for discussions on species justice, biodiversity, and ecological responsibility. Through this interdisciplinary collaboration, we seek to deepen contemporary art’s engagement with non-human agency and foster a broader discourse on interspecies coexistence. 

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INTERCHANGE

Thursday, September 18, 7:00pm at the ZMA

The Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, a unit of the School of Art and Design, will present INTERCHANGE, an annual event showcasing faculty from all four disciplines of the Geer College of the Arts. This collaborative performance highlights the shared creativity across artistic fields through a dynamic presentation of live works.

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Virtual Lecture: Heather Swan

Thursday, September 25, 7:00pm via Zoom

In collaboration with the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project and Jennifer Dail, Professor of English Education and Director of the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project 

Heather Swan, a poet and nonfiction writer, is the author of the nonfiction books Where the Grass Still Sings: Stories of Insects and Interconnection and Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field, the latter of which won the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in such journals as The Sun, Emergence, Catapult, and Minding Nature. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Cold Mountain, The Hopper, One Art,  Poet Lore, Phoebe, The Raleigh Review, and Terrain. Her book of poems, A Kinship with Ash (Terrapin Books), published in 2020, was a finalist for the ASLE Book Award and long-listed for the Julie Suk Award. A second collection, Dandelion, was published in 2023. She is also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, the Maud Weinschenk Award, the August Derleth Prize for Poetry, the John Tigges Poetry Award, A Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Chapbook Award, and an honorable mention for the Lorine Neidecker Award. She teaches environmental literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

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Yoga

Monday, October 6, 10:00am at the ZMA

In association with Mindful Mondays

Led by Professor Andrea Knowlton, Assistant Chair of the Department of Dance and Associate Professor of Dance.

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Virtual Lecture: Tierney Brosius

Thursday, October 9, 9:30am via Zoom

Crafting Awareness: Celebrating Insects with Wearable Art

Tierney Brosius is Associate Professor of Biology at Augustana College, where she merges her passions for science and art to foster a deeper appreciation for insects. She believes art is a powerful tool for conveying scientific concepts, enhancing observational skills, and reshaping public perceptions of insects. Her teaching emphasizes intersections of art and science, using scientific illustration and drawing activities to cultivate her students’ curiosity and connection to the natural world. She is particularly interested in how insects are represented in art and fashion, and how these representations can address environmental issues of habitat destruction and climate change.  

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Nonviolent Communication

Monday, October 27 at the ZMA

In association with Mindful Mondays

Led by Dr. Maia Hallward, Associate Director of the School of Conflict Management, Peacekeeping and Development and Director of the SCMPD PhD Program and Professor of Middle East Politics in the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development 

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Windgate Artist-in-Residence Lecture: Jennifer Angus

Thursday, November 6, 5:00pm at the ZMA

Jennifer Angus is a professor in the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin -Madison where she teaches textile design, with a specific focus on all things relating to the dyeing and printing of cloth, including natural dyes. Her large-scale installations feature ornate patterns that are composed of hundreds of insects placed in arrangements suggestive of wallpaper and textiles. She is an artist described by Art Daily as “one of the top contemporary installation artists in the country” and is known to create some of the most provocative work ever seen in an art museum setting. 

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Mindful Drumming

Monday, November 10, 2:00pm at the ZMA

In association with Mindful Mondays

Mindful Drumming is an experiential workshop based on the healing power of meditative drumming and mindfulness practices. Both traditions have been used by cultures around the world to help people better attune to themselves and others. Attend this hour-long workshop to learn and experience how drumming and mindfulness can help you relax, feel more alive, and even reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Instruments will be provided, and no musical experience is required.

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Breath Work

Monday, December 8, 12:30pm at the ZMA

In association with Mindful Mondays

Led by Professor Emily Kitchens, Assistant Professor of Acting, Department of Theatre and Performance Studies