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ARTS& SOCIAL GOOD

PROJECT WINNERS

ABOUT THE PROJECTS

SARAH FAULKNER

Team:
UAB Art History Club

Faculty Advisor:
Professor Cathleen Cummings, Ph.D

Team:
UAB biology student Rachel Rock

Faculty Advisor:
Professor Jeffrey Morris, Ph.D

"'Petri dish art kits' for biology students at Parker High School to encourage scientific exploration through creativity. Adkins and Rock planned to work with the students to collect bacterial samples, 'paint' with isolated bacteria and create an individualized testable experiment based on their artwork. 

Adkins said, 'Students who make use of our kit will not only be creating original pieces of artwork with living organisms, but they will also be using their art to discover novel relationships between the bacteria they have used and will inquire about those relationships.'
 

The team planned to work with Parker High School biology students.

"The 'Global Eye Exhibition,' a photographic exhibition and discussion intended to help international students feel integrated and secure in the UAB community while helping other UAB students to become more aware of other student groups on campus.
 

Students were encouraged to take photographs and film clips around the city and campus that reflect their thoughts or concerns about local and global issues that may be a source of apprehension.

The winning entries were displayed in the Global Eye Exhibition, which opened Friday, April 21, 2017, in the new UAB INTO space located in the Sterne Library."

For more information about these projects, click here.

SARAH ADKINS

WINNER BIOS

SARAH ADKINS

Sarah Adkins is a Ph.D. student in biology and UAB alumna in studio art and integrative biology. She is an alumnus of the UAB Honors College University Honors Program. Her doctoral dissertation is a continuance of her work as a master’s student, which explores the benefit art has in science education by introducing Petri dish art to UAB’s microbiology lab curriculum.

SARAH FAULKNER

Sarah Faulkner, now graduated, was a Department of Art and Art History student 
active in the UAB Art History Club, and worked for UAB Student Media's K-Scope Newspaper.

A B O U T 

Bailey Barrow is a Studio Art major in the BFA program concentrating in Graphic Design. She is passionate about the interweaving of technology and fine art and plans to attain a master's degree in Painting/Illustration. She hopes to one day teach at a research university and create interactive art that makes a personal and tangible connection with its viewers.

Cima Khademi is a Studio Art major in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program with a concentration in Painting. Khademi is interested in combining traditional and digital arts to create interesting visuals and animations that connects to viewers in different ways. She plans to attain a masters degree in animation and hopes to work as an animator in the future.​

C O N T A C T 

Jessica Dallow, Dept. Chair of Art and Art History

     jdallow@uab.edu

Bailey Barrow, Co-Leader of the UAB A& Initiative

     bbarrow1@uab.edu

Cima Khademi, Co-Leader of the UAB A& Initiative
     cimakh@uab.edu

 

University of Alabama at Birmingham
Arts & Initiative

Arts & Initiative, 2016

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