4’33” Contest

Research in the arts is a process by which we identify an inquiry and strive towards the production of new knowledge. This may be research conducted towards the synthesis of a thesis or research paper, or a creative project that you have executed at UGA or in the community.

Not necessarily. Your presentation / poster could reflect a project surrounding an inquiry or problem that you have striven to solve based on experimentation. Your presentation / poster could also reflect research you have completed for a degree thesis or other research paper. Show that you have asked a critical question, developed a methodology, and shared your resulting knowledge in some way.

If you had a research question about the arts, or that you sought to answer through the arts, your project is eligible for the 4’33” Spotlight on Arts Scholarship Competition. State your research questions clearly, the steps you have taken to investigate them, and the ways in which your project is innovative. If your project demonstrates critical thought and problem solving, it is eligible!

The UGA community wants to hear about the topics students feel are meaningful and urgent. Engage with other people doing research in the arts and make your voice heard on topics important to you. Prize winners will also receive a monetary award.

Absolutely! We want to hear about all students’ innovative research and projects.

Vale Prosper, Isabella Tallman-Jones, Adah Bennion, and Keren Sahar

 Grand Prize Winner

Adah Bennion
MFA, Studio | Advisor: Isabelle Loring Wallace

Runners-up

Vale Prosper
Ph.D., Theater and Performance Studies | Advisor: John Bray

Keren Sahar
BFA, Graphic Design | Advisor: Grace Jun

Isabelle Tallman-Jones
MA, Art History | Advisor: Isabelle Loring Wallace

Elizabeth Dubberly, Daniel Karcher, Lyndsey Cole Hadary and Sofía Ruiz

Grand Prize Winner

Daniel Karcher
DMA, Music Composition | Advisor: Peter Van Zandt Lane
Analytical Descriptors for Sonic Spatialization in Music Composition

Runners-up

Elizabeth Dubberly
PhD, Language and Literacy Education | Advisor: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Can a Classroom Sewing and Engineering Activity Provide Insight into Bilingualism?

Lyndsey Cole Hadary
MFA, Performance | Advisor: Anthony Marotta
The Beginning of Things: A Feminist Dreamscape

Sofía Ruiz
MFA, Performance | Advisor: Anthony Marotta
Female Warriors in History

Josina Guess
4’33” Research in the Arts Award Winner
MFA in Narrative Nonfiction
Faculty Advisor: Patricia Thomas
“From Bilali to Bailey”
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Jonathan Mitchell Vance
4’33” Research in the Arts Finalist
PhD Candidate, Computer Science
Faculty Advisor: Khaled Rasheed
“An Atonal Algorithm and AI Articulation”
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Leah Dutton
4’33” Research in the Arts Finalist
Major Degree Area: DMA Cello Performance
Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Starkweather
“Prevention, Intervention and Early Recognition of Injuries in String Musicians”
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Jason Woodworth-Hou, winner of the 2020 4″33″ Research in the Arts Competition.
His presentation was entitled “Redefining Animation: How They Shall Not Grow Old
Redefines Truthmaking Through CGI Animation.”

Other competition finalist include:
Annie Simpson, MFA Studio Art
Atalanta Siegel, MFA Acting
Morgan Tate, PhD Social Studies Education
Nicollette Frank, PhD Elementary Education
Paula Reynaldi, MFA Studio Art
Robyn Acetta, MFA Acting
Sarah Shermyen, PhD English
SungEun Min, PhD, Educational Theory and Practice
Viviane Klen-Alves, PhD TESOL and World Language Education

Pictured are the participants in the 2019 4 minutes, 33 seconds competition. The winner of the oral presentation was Kathleen McGovern (pictured below with guest judge Kishi Bashi). McGovern is a Language and Literature Education Ph.D. candidate in the College of Education.

Pictured with Graduate School Dean Suzanne Barbour (center) are (l-r) Samantha Lynn Hudson, an MFA student in dramatic media; Rhia Moreno, a doctoral student in language and literacy education; Kuo Zhang, a doctoral student in the language and literacy education program; and Bridget Dooley, a doctoral student in creative writing. Last November, Kuo won the 4’33” competition in the presentation category, and the other three received awards in the poster competition.

Pictured is the award winner in the presentation category Ally Christmas, a master of fine arts student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Poster exhibition winners include: Madison A. Hogan, Undergraduate Major, Department of English; Abigail Kosberg, MA Art History, Lamar Dodd School of Art; and Marlon Burnley, MFA Acting, Department of Theatre and Film Studies.

Pictured are the participants in the 2016 4 minutes, 33 seconds competition. The winner of the oral presentation was Meg Hankel, and recipients of the first annual poster competition included Arron Foster, Damon Postle and Kaleena Stasiak.

The 2015 winners of the presentation competition are pictured with Georgia Museum of Art Director William Eiland, who served as emcee. Theresa Chafin (left) is a grad student in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Beth Fadeley (right) is an art history student in the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Graduate students K. Scott Eggert (left) of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Karen Sweeney Gerow (right) of the Lamar Dodd School of Art are the winners of the inaugural 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship competition. They are pictured with then-Vice Provost Russ Mumper, the emcee of the event.