SHOWCASE 2025 to highlight creative scholarship at Auburn

For the first time since its triennial schedule was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic after the 2018 event, Auburn University will host another SHOWCASE event during spring semester 2025.

SHOWCASE 2025 will bring together creative scholarship from across the university and will center around advocacy and process, featuring both completed works and works in process as a way of highlighting the resources necessary for the creation and elevation of creative scholarship.

Submitted work must be finished and have been completed within the previous three years; discussion of process work will occur in panels and workshops that will be announced closer to Spring 2025.

All types of creative scholarship may be submitted, including, but not limited to physical artifacts and live performances. Interdisciplinary and/or collaborative work is also welcome. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 7, and full submission information is available at showcase.auburn.edu.

Entries will be exhibited in locations such as the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Gogue Performing Arts Center and other locations around campus.

The theme of SHOWCASE 2025 is “advocacy” for creative scholarship at Auburn that is supported through three goals: visibility of creative scholarship and the arts across campus and the community, collaboration across different colleges and schools, and alignment of creative scholarship within the university’s strategic mission and goals.

“Creative scholarship at Auburn has a rich history and an even brighter future as we move into this new technological era,” said Anna Ruth Gatlin, assistant professor and internship coordinator in the Department of Consumer Design Sciences. She is a member of the executive committee coordinating the event along with Chase Bringardner, associate provost, and Robert Finkel, program chair and associate professor of graphic design. The three represent, respectively, the College of Human Sciences, the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Architecture, Design and Construction.

“Creative scholars can think about problems and solutions in unexpected ways, and often creative scholarship outputs can be easily disseminated to the public, involving the community, which is part of the university’s strategic goals,” Gatlin concluded. “We’re excited to spearhead this process of advocating for creative scholarship at Auburn.”