Engaged scholarship & artistry
Published Jan. 15, 2024
The Insights Speaker Series highlights College of Liberal Arts faculty shedding light on engaging topics from their unique perspective. This installment features four CLA faculty highlighting how engaged research and artistry takes form in their careers. From documenting migration to using music therapy to bridge generation gaps, each project expands rich discourse around our collective definition of “artistry.” These brief, exciting presentations seek to generate discussion and stimulate ideas that highlight the value of the liberal arts.
PRESENTATIONS
Visualizing Memories of Venezuelan Migration
Assistant professor of journalism and media communications Jaime Jacobsen is an award-winning filmmaker committed to telling urgent, untold stories, like those of the Venezuelan migrant community in Montana, amplifying their voices rather than co-opting them. In this presentation, Jacobsen discusses the collaborative processes and creative film-making techniques she and her co-creators used to achieve their shared vision.
Traveling Down Melody Lane Together
In her community-engaged research, associate professor of music therapy Lindsey Wilhelm explores the power of shared music in all forms to demonstrably improve people’s day-to-day lives. In this presentation, she shares the impact of one current project in the Fort Collins community—and gets her audience singing as well.
The Wall that Made the Sun Come Out: Artmaking for Community Transformation
Arts management faculty member David Pyle is an artist, an expert on artmaking, and a natural storyteller. Here David shares the story of how CLA arts management students, local artists, and members of the CSU and Fort Collins community came together to create a vivid mural that literally and symbolically conveys the power of human intersections.
Using Environmental Justice to Build Hopeful Systems
Dr. Stephanie Malin is an associate professor of sociology and the Co-Director of the Center for Environmental Justice at CSU. Through her work, she encounters not just research challenges, but the growing prevalence of “climate grief,” which can leave even those who want to work to address climate change feeling hopeless and helpless. In this presentation, Malin explores the phenomenon of climate grief and urges the audience to embrace its antidotes: collective action and active hope.
Check out the collection of Insights Speaker Series presentations on our YouTube channel.