Visual and Performing Arts Collaborations in Higher Education

Julia Listengarten, Pegasus Professor of Theatre and Artistic Director of the School of Performing Arts, University of Central Florida, USAKeri Watson, Associate Professor of Art History and Director of the Florida Prison Education Project, University of Central Florida, USA

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Crafting Transdisciplinary Collaborations.- 3. Bringing Ecocriticism to Life: A Look at Florida’s Changing Landscape.- 4. Finding Home: Staging Refugee Stories and Creating Spaces for Social Engagement.- 5. Challenging the Narrative of Decline: An Intergenerational Creative Community of Care. 6. Our Carceral Landscape: Imagining a Thirdspace of Social Justice.- 8. Concluding Thoughts.