FACULTY GRANTS & STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES

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

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

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

Participating artists may utilize the Blaffer museum space to exhibit performative and temporary work. Each artist, or artist group, will receive a project stipend and all performances are documented and archived on the Mitchell Center’s Youtube channel. Convergence Research is curated by the Mitchell Center Graduate Assistant and 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 and open to all graduate students in the College of the Arts and Creative Writing Program. The assistantship requires a minimum of 10 hours per week for 15 weeks each semester. 

The primary responsibility for this position is the Curation and 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 and Dance and Creative Writing can apply here:

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