Defining Moments: A UTSA Art Collaborative Event (Open to the Public)

This is a COLFA Collaboration Showcase happening November 19th. UTSA students across six academic disciplines were invited to participate in a collaborative art project to grapple with and address the impact of COVID-19 on their lives and on the lives of those they love.

In a cascading fashion:

** The project began with students in History who created journal entries documenting and reflecting on the historical significance of the moment.

** English classes then took the journal entries and transformed them into poems and short written pieces.

** Music composition majors worked to use the literary passages as inspiration to create original compositions, while the same texts fueled artistic products produced by art majors.

** Dance students transformed the reflections, poems, music, and art compositions into movement.

** Architecture students designed a space for students to virtually exhibit their creations, with plans for a physical exhibition space.

This process of networking, collaboration, and artistic creation was done using the backdrop of the pandemic, which shifted from being the problem to the inspiration.