University of Missouri - Kansas City
Center for Creative Studies
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University of Missouri - Kansas City Center for Creative Studies |
5100 rockhill road. kansas city. missouri 64110-2499. campus: 5305 holmes. p.816.235.6690 f.816.235.6588. creativestudies@umkc.edu
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| Current Projects & Programs |
| Research project: Documenting a architectural charrette in order to determine what constitutes a culture of creativity and creating viable solutions for bringing the two community districts together. | |
| At the Chancellor's Residence - Images from the Life Sciences at UMKC | |
| The Center assembled and presented projects and research from faculty and students within the Life Sciences at UMKC and displayed them at the Chancellor's residence on 5106 Cherry. | |
| "Sublimated City" | |
| A City is the outcome of infinite layers of fingerprints and experiences coming from millions of choices, unintended acts, conversations and confrontations. Each provides an extraordinary account of the urban fabric. Sublimated City seeks to explore, understand, and contextualize the issues of community as it relates to Kansas City, and to provide a forum for public response to the problem of dispersal and fragmentation we all face in contemporary society. | |
| The G.A.P. Project | |
| Genetic Aurilization research Project: Using sound with DNA coding to assist researchers in comparing gene types, and creating a musical composition that highlights genetic differences. | |
| Past Projects & Programs |
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Symposium - 'The Sublimated City: Secret Places, Hidden Desires, and the Public Realm' May 31, 2006 5:30-7:30 PM Paragraph Gallery/Urban Culture Project – 23 E. 12th Street, Kansas City, MO Several months ago, the Center for Creative Studies at UMKC set out to uncover how Kansas City’s citizenry interacts and reacts to “their” Kansas City. The project ,Sublimated City, provided a structure that encouraged citizen participation through contributing answers to a series of questions from the perspective of sight, sound, smell, touch, emotion, and color. Patterns emerging from the questionnaire suggest that Kansas City is a domain of experience and memory that facilitates particular structures of meaning. One of these is a consistent detachment from the city itself. The Sublimated City: Secret Places, Hidden Desires, and the Public Realm will further explore these findings. The symposium is sponsored by the UMKC Center for Creative Studies and the Urban Culture Project. |
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| Curriculum Development - (funded projects to date) | |
| Interdisciplinary courses studying the creative process. | |
| "When Art & Science Converge" | |
| 2005-2006 Lecture & Film Series. | |
| Theater Charrette | |
| Research project: Documenting a theatre charrette in order to determine what constitutes a culture of creativity. | |
| At the Chancellor's Residence - Architecture and Urban Design | |
| The Center assembled and presented projects and research from students and faculty within the Architecture and Urban Design department and displayed them at the Chancellor's residence on 5106 Cherry. | |
| "Roger Brown & Jesse Howard E Now Read On" | |
| Exhibition, Catalog, and Symposium exploring the creative process through original works of art and the archival materials of artists Jesse Howard and Roger Brown. | |
| "The Innocents" | |
| Exhibition - a collaboration with the Midwestern Innocence Project at the UMKC School of Law and the Department of Art and Art History featuring photographs and video by Taryn Simon of individuals wrongly convicted and released due to DNA evidence. | |
| "Creative Propaganda and the Art of Persuasion" | |
| 2004-2005 Lecture Series. | |
| Film Series - Fall 2004 | |
| Interpretations of 'the artist' and 'the bomb'...according to Hollywood. Fall 2004. | |
| "Celebrate UMKC" 2004 | |
| Collage Workshop: View the collages created at our workshop held that day. | |
| "Inspiration, Creation & Innovation" | |
| 2003-2004 Lecture Series. | |
| Gamelan | |
| Providing support for the Gamelan Genta Kasturi ("Ensemble of the Blossoming Sound") at the UMKC Conservatory. | |
| "Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America" | |
| Exhibition (touring with TREX New Mexico) and catalog exploring how the artist creates identity through her art. |
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