The Office of Creative Propulsion develops, facilitates, and supports integrative arts and design programs, sparking collaborations through research forums, symposia, performances, and interdisciplinary projects. Working alongside faculty, students, community members, and the broader integrative arts community, we help bring these initiatives to life, nurturing a space for shared exploration, innovation, and creative exchange.
Past Programs
Disability Studies Music Education Symposium - The 3rd Biennial International Disability Studies and Music Education Symposium (DSandME23) - explores how disability and lived experiences of disabled persons/persons with disabilities* provide opportunities to productively disrupt music pedagogy.
Sound Ecology: Human Noise and the Gray Catbird is an interdisciplinary project seeking to help audiences understand how human-generated soundscapes impact birdsong, including the song of the Gray Catbird. In noisy environments, Gray Catbirds make adaptive choices that impact their song and survival. What would it look like for humans to listen closely to the Gray Catbird and be aware of our shared sound worlds?
What is it to love another, in this life and beyond? When we lose the people we love, can that love somehow keep them alive? Might those we grieve be nearer than we think, just—as it were—on the other side of life? Or perhaps nothing can be held forever, not in memory nor in our hearts. Through a combination of talks and art events, this event series will explore these questions through continuous conversations and considerations on the nature of grief—how we understand our grief, what we grieve, and the ways in which grief figures into our lives.
Supported by an NEA grant, MusicCPR is a free platform that facilitates music teachers' collection of individual student achievement data that aligns with ensemble repertoire and artistic processes (create, perform, respond, connect) described in National Standards for Arts Education.
