Collaborations with Artists
Northwestern Art + Engineering Initiatives are designed to facilitate opportunities for collaboration between engineers and artists who work in a variety of media and formats. These collaborations are opportunities to build mutually beneficial relationships that deepen over shared inquiries and experiments. The interactions may be short-term, focused on a specific project or event; others may develop over a longer timeframe.
The goals of these collaborations are to:
- Expose faculty and students to the artistic process through events, artist-led activities and conversations, and collaborative projects
- Offer experiential learning opportunities to students and opportunities to develop new approaches to teaching for faculty
- Inspire artists’ creativity through access to McCormick’s faculty and students, its resources, facilities, and scientific research and processes; as well as the wide range of offerings of a major research university located in a world-class cultural capital
- Facilitate collaboration and intersections between the Block, McCormick, and other Northwestern schools, academic departments, and programs