Innovation Grants are available for full-time faculty from the School of Art, Moores School of Music, School of Theatre & Dance, Creative Writing Program or Blaffer Art Museum. This annual funding program supports interdisciplinary artistic projects, practice, research or collaborations within and beyond the university.
Grants Awarded by Season
2024-25 Season
Cheryl Beckett and Susan Rogers, OVER|UNDER, School of Art and College of Architecture and Design
Amanda Cachia, Inaugurate, Innovate! Arts Leadership Symposium, School of Theatre and Dance
Key'Aira Lockett, DATA CHOREOGRAPHY, School of Theatre & Dance
Toni Valle, Testimony: Seen and Heard, School of Theatre & Dance
Marcus Maroney, Queer Voices, Moores School of Music
2023-24 Season
Cheryl Beckett and Susan Rogers, Columbia Tap Trail: Tracking History, School of Art and College of Architecture and Design
Teresa Chapman, Narratology for Dance, School of Theatre and Dance
Nick Flynn, They are Falling All Around Me/Postcards from the Edge of Space: Exploring New Sites of Creativity with Generative AI, Creative Writing Program
Stephan Hillebrand, Zine Week, School of Art
Tali Morgulis, Flying First Ward, Moores School of Music
Sandra Zalman, International Society for the Study of Surrealism, School of Art
2022-23 Season
Liz Coen, Theatre Scholars Play Sports, School of Theatre and Dance
Gabriela Estrada, No More Carmens, School of Theatre and DanceCynthia Clayton, Singing Praxis, Moores School of Music
Nick Flynn,The Nine Dreams/ Blake & the Apocalypse, Creative Writing Program
Dijana Handanović, K67, Blaffer Art Museum
Anna Mayer, Corey Fogel's VITAMIX, School of Art
David Politzer, School of Art Camp, School of Art
2021-22 Season
Keliy Anderson-Staley, Raw Materials in Peace and War: Archive, Biography and Visual Culture, School of Art
Blaffer Art Museum, Loveletter featuring Andre Samsin (DJ Sun)Rob Smith, Take Root, Moores School of Music
Nick Flynn, The Nine Dreams/ Blake & the Apocalypse, Creative Writing Program
Adam Noble, Cloud Tectonics, School of Theatre & Dance