FACULTY GRANTS & STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

Open to all UH students, this academic minor encourages cross-disciplinary exploration & artistic experimentation. Students engage in courses that integrate multiple fields of study, fostering collaborative thinking & addressing contemporary artistic & cultural questions. Taught by full-time faculty & visiting artists, this program equips students with the skills to navigate & shape an evolving creative landscape.

Convergence Research is a collaboration between the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts & the Blaffer Art Museum that supports students & faculty in the McGovern College of the Arts to explore connection & collaboration between the disciplines in the arts & beyond.

It is a platform for experimentation & research with the goal of providing opportunities to push the boundaries of the artistic disciplines. Convergence Research promotes interdisciplinary inquiry & techniques to stimulate creative process & cultivate works that are performative, temporary & in any stage of process. 

Participating artists may utilize the Blaffer museum space to exhibit performative & temporary work. Each artist, or artist group, will receive a project stipend & all performances are documented & archived on the Mitchell Center’s Youtube channel. Convergence Research is curated by the Mitchell Center Graduate Assistant & takes place once a month on a Wednesday evening at Blaffer Art Museum throughout the academic school year. 

The Mitchell Center Graduate Assistant is a one-year paid internship awarded by competitive application & open to all graduate students in the College of the Arts & Creative Writing Program. The assistantship requires a minimum of 10 hours per week for 15 weeks each semester. The call for the Graduate Assistant is in the spring for the following academic year. 

The primary responsibility for this position is the Curation & Production of the monthly program Convergence Research at the Blaffer Art Museum. Graduate students from the Mitchell Center academic units School of Art, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre & Dance & Creative Writing can apply here: 

Each academic year, graduate students from the School of Art, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre & Dance & the Creative Writing Program are chosen as scholarship recipients by their departments on the basis of their interdisciplinary interests, artistic practice & inquiry. Scholarship benefits include tuition support & the opportunity to interact with a cohort of other award recipients in dialogue, consultation & collaboration. As scholarship recipients are nominated by their departments there is no application process.