Residencies

A residency could include just the concert, concert and film screening, or as much as a 1-4 day cross-disciplinary residency working with departments across campus that intersect with this important topic.

Examples of previous interdisciplinary workshops and classroom demonstration/discussion include:

• Music: Percussion, Composition, and Music Education

• Percussion studio classes

• Composition masterclasses

• School-wide convocation

• Media Studies

• Film screening of “The Innocents,” an award-winning documentary by Wojceck Lorenc and post-film Q&A

• Journalism class discussion/demonstration

• Criminal Justice, Law School and Innocence Project or Innocence Clinics

• Panels and post-concert discussions with exonerees and Innocence Project representatives (Texas, Ohio, Georgia and Michigan)

• Creative Writing

• Poetry and Poetic Theory classes

• Fine Arts

• Art and Social Practice: discussion/demonstration

• Theater: Prison arts program/outreach (Prison Creative Arts Program, University of Michigan)

• Visual Art: 

• Collaboration with artists (Maria Gaspar)

• Gallery concert (George Mason Gallery, Arlington)

• Plastic arts responses: Israel Davis (ceramics), Jeremiah Davis (sculpture)

• Psychology

• Psychology and Law (Denison University)

Specific examples of project-based interdisciplinary workshops:

• University of Washington: 

• Percussion students composing original works featuring spoken texts reflecting their own interests and/or socio-political topics.

• University of Michigan: 

• Prison Creative Arts Program

• Central Michigan University: 

• Composition students worked with percussionists to create and perform original speaking percussion works

• Faculty members in the plastic arts responded to our work and the issue of wrongful imprisonment by creating sculptures and sound sculptures that were exhibited at the concert. 

• Mason Gallery (George Mason University):

• Performance of the work in a gallery space that featured art work by current and formerly incarcerated artists.

• A post-concert interactive/participatory art project: Maria Gaspar’s Disappearance Jails Project.

• Denison University:

• Flash poetry and music performance: Students generated extemporaneous poetry to which we responded with performances of short musical improvisations/compositions incorporating the poetry.