Dodd Graduate Students Finalists in 4’33” Spotlight on Scholarship Competition

Lamar Dodd School of Art graduate students Paula Reynaldi and Annie Simpson were named finalists in the 4 minutes, 33 seconds: Spotlight on Scholarship event held in conjunction with the campus Spotlight on the Arts festival. This seventh-annual competition features presentations about research in the arts conducted by University of Georgia graduate students and awards cash prizes. The 4 minutes, 33 seconds contest highlights UGA student research in the arts and provides an opportunity to share creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators, and alumni throughout the university community. 

This year’s competition video streamed live online on Friday, November 20 at 4:33 pm.

The video will is available to watch on demand through December 18. Access to the video is available here: live.ugatheatre.com/shows

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In the competition students have 4 minutes, 33 seconds to describe their research. The event is inspired by John Cage’s landmark 1952 composition 4’33,” which calls for a pianist to sit silently at a piano for exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds. Cage’s 4’33” challenged audiences to reconsider the function of art and the borders between traditional art disciplines and between artistic practice and philosophy.

Paula Reynaldi is a graduate student in Art Education. Reynaldi was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and studied Cello and Music Education. In 2002 she moved to Iowa City in the United States, where she continued her music studies and started taking courses in visual arts. She has lived in Athens, GA, since 2006, where she studied sculpture at the University of Georgia.

Annie Simpson is a multi-/inter-/un- disciplined artist (& troublemaker) imaging tactical public histories. She is currently an MFA candidate and Graduate Research Assistant in interdisciplinary arts research with Ideas for Creative Exploration. She was a 2018-2019 National Fellow (as part of Take Action Chapel Hill collective) with Monument Lab, a public art and history studio in Philadelphia, PA. She has received grants and awards from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Image: Annie Simpson, Sturdy Service, 2019, mixed media, 42″ x 88″