BREATHE is a project that provides opportunities for creative renewal and professional development for the teaching faculty at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) through collaborative, multi-disciplinary summer intensive projects.  The deliberate partnership of faculty participants from different arts and academic programs aims to develop new perspectives; question old assumptions; experience different artistic locales, contexts and culture; and integrate disciplines from multiple aesthetic viewpoints.

 

From imagination through creativity to innovation

2010 BREATHE Faculty Professional Development

Call for Proposals

 

The Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts is calling all interested UNCSA faculty members to consider submitting a statement of interest in developing a BREATHE project for summer 2010. 

Click here to view the proposal guidelines, and check out the BREATHE links, images and videos on this page for past projects from 2008 and 2009.  

Don’t hesitate to call, email or come by the Kenan Institute office to brainstorm your concept – we’re excited to hear what great ideas you’re imagining.   

Margaret Mertz
Executive Director
margaretm@kenanarts.org
336.722.0030
1722 South Main Street (corner of Gloria and South Main)

Statements of interest are due on December 7, 2009.  

 

2009 BREATHE Projects

House and Home:  Communities Transformed

Kelly Maxner, Director, School of Drama High School Program
Greg Shelnutt, Director, School of Design & Production Visual Arts Program
 
They will visit Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston, Texas, and the two campuses of Dennis K. Ruth's and the late Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio in Newbern and Auburn, Alabama.  These two organizations offer potent models of how the arts can be used to create, transform, celebrate and sustain human communities.


"Repentista" Poet Singers of Brazil

Michel Berta, Faculty, Undergraduate Academic Program
Bill Mai, Faculty, School of Filmmaking
 
They will travel to the backlands of northeastern Brazil to discover how the "Repentista" Poet Singers have adapted to the pressures of the modern age.  This project will provide a vehicle for meeting a primitive ethnic group who relies on the oral tradition as a means to communicate.  They will share with UNCSA students the form of performing art in the tradition of oral narrative from which theatre is rooted.


The HAGG[US] Project

Trish Casey, Contemporary Dance Faculty, School of Dance
Vicki Davis, Set & Costume Design Faculty, School of Design and Production
Elizabeth Klaimon, ESL Faculty, University Academic Program, Director, Writing Ctr.
Elaine Pruitt, Chief Academic Officer
Ellen Rosenberg, Humanities Faculty, University Academic Program
Virginia Shepley, University Administrative Manager, School of Design and Production
 
All six participants will travel to the Isle of Iona in Scotland where they will have the opportunity to connect with the ancient rhythms of the hills, valleys, stones and paths of the Hebrides, and to seek within the landscape and history the opportunity to learn and develop creativity.  The project would culminate with time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.