Anika Smulovitz (Art, Design and Visual Studies), created a series of wearable objects utilizing new materials, methods and processes, such as microprocessors, to capture the wearer’s act of breathing.
Alexandra Sjobeck (Music), Yurek Hansen (Theatre Arts), Marla Hansen (emeritus faculty), Nathaniel Snyder (Communications and Media), Derek Ganong (Music) and Eryn Pierce (Art, Design and Visual Studies) explored multidisciplinary creative improvisation through music and dance.
Niharika Dinkar (Art, Design and Visual Studies), Tom Grusiecki (Art, Design and Visual Studies) and Emily Wakild (History and Environmental Studies) instituted a visiting speaker series as a permanent fixture in the School of the Arts programming.
Kate Walker (Art, Design and Visual Studies) worked with city-wide stakeholders on a participatory project that invited the public to bring and read selections from texts that helped them “find a way” through the tumult of our current times.
Manuel Gómez-Navarro (World Languages), Jennifer Sorensen Forbey (Biological Sciences), Lisa Hunt (Stein Luminary), Carolina Viera (World Studies) and Brie Schettle (Graduate Alumna) created a bilingual multimedia interactive exhibit that explored the scientific and cultural importance of our native sagebrush steppe.