ICE Announcements 2.22.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Andrew Salinas (2/24)
2. Reading Room: Pro-tips for Boundary Setting
3. Lecture: Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2/23)
4. Performance and Discussion: Lisa Wolpe (2/24)
5. DIGI Workshop: Text Analysis (2/25)
6. Lecture: Madeline Schwartzman (2/25)
7. Webinar: Publishing Art Online (2/26)
8. Lecture: Drek Davis (2/27)
9. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis (register by 2/22)
10. Opportunity: Ground Works CFP (deadline 2/26)
11. Opportunity: History of Slavery at UGA (deadline 3/1)
12. Opportunity: Black Emerging Artists Mentorship Award (deadline 3/1)
13. Opportunity: Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival (deadline 3/1)
14. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline 3/1)
15. Call for Nominations: Athens Poet Laureate (deadline 3/2)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with Andrew Salinas
Wednesday, February 24 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldO-qrzIoGdV6J2iUDPNatHCC3VZTwSh4
How can organizations and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join Andrew Salinas, Chair of the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, a group that advises the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government on cultural affairs and aesthetic development of the built environment. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
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2. Reading Room: Artists, Writers, and Curators Share Pro-tips for Boundary Setting
Source: hyperallergic.com/622863/artists-writers-and-curators-share-pro-tips-for-boundary-setting/
"Sometimes, it begins by making a small request: 'does this need to be a Zoom?' Indeed, during this lockdown time when our work and home lives are so intertwined, it can feel exhausting keeping up with work-from-home demands. To help, we have convened the expertise of artists, writers, and curators whose work is focused on collective care and rest to elaborate on the importance of boundary setting."
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3. 2021 Holmes-Hunter Lecture: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Tuesday, February 23 at 2 PM
https://youtu.be/WYr64JFHK8E
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Peabody Award-winning historian and Harvard University professor, will present the 2021 Holmes-Hunter Lecture alongside lecture namesake Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Gates has authored or co-authored 25 books and created 23 documentary films, including "Wonders of the African World," "Black in Latin America" and "Black America since MLK: And Still I Rise." His 2013 TV documentaries "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" won an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and his genealogy series "Finding Your Roots" is now in its seventh season on PBS. His newest project, "The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song," comprises a film series and a companion book that features Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Gates directs the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University and serves on a number of boards, including the New York Public Library, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Aspen Institute, among others.
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4. "Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender"
Wednesday, February 24 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TS6EGBIyRJCaDvxtCWcoTw
A solo performance by Lisa Wolpe followed by a one-hour Q&A. Lisa Wolpe is a critically acclaimed actor, director and producer who has been leading the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts with a special focus on Shakespeare and Gender. This event will be presented as a free Zoom webinar, open only to those with a UGA email address.
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5. DIGI Workshop: Advanced R for text analysis
Thursday, February 25 at 4 PM
https://digi.uga.edu
This series of workshops will show participants their options to analyze text at scale. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary. Each session will include a different topic. Attend an intro session then choose the others that best fit individual research agendas. Instructor: Katie Kuiper, Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics. Contact [log in to unmask] for Zoom link.
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6. Lecture: Madeline Schwartzman
Thursday, February 25 at 5:30 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpc-iqrjIjG9STNwR9uBRaoZ6PGvV9hwKb
Madeline Schwartzman is a NYC writer, filmmaker and architect whose work explores human narratives and the human sensorium through social art, book writing, curating and experimental video making. Her book See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog 2011) is a collection of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (Black Dog, 2018) focuses on the human head -- presenting an array of conceptual and constructed ideas for how we might physically extend the head, mind, and brain into space. Schwartzman's experimental art practice, Face Nature, brings humans in close proximity to plants, with installations on the human body that form uncanny hybrids and present a vehicle for mutual subjectivity. Her anthropocentric practice aims to create a crack in human awareness, and serve as an antidote to passivity and inaction surrounding the future of nature.
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7. Webinar: Publishing Art Online, an Editor's-Eye View
Friday, February 26 at 1 PM
https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dR7jmW4RSh-mP86M9YSunw
Join a2ru and Ground Works for a conversation among editors of online journals that publish art digitally. We'll take on questions that all these journals face, ranging from the philosophical to the practical. What issues of multi-modal representation arise? What are the journals' goals, and how do they contextualize the art they publish? What are their selection processes? Attendees will learn what publication in these journals entails and how their work might fit within such venues. Kevin Hamilton will moderate this webinar with editors from a2ru Ground Works, Art Journal Open, Journal of Artistic Research, Leonardo, and Obsidian.
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8. Lecture: Drek Davis
Saturday, February 27 at 7 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocu6rpjMpHtVeeNeNBMbb5SPTKQxGf21-
Artist and Professor Rodrecas "Drek" Davis on "Miles to Go: Artists Contemplating Revolution & Social Justice." Facilitated by sculptor and former ATHICA Board member Joni Younkins-Herzog.
A native of Monroe, Georgia, Rodrecas Davis is a 2006 graduate of the University of Georgia Fine Arts program with an emphasis in drawing and painting. Primarily a mixed-media artist, Davis is also a former columnist for the Athens Banner-Herald and Code Z Online: Black Visual Culture Now. Davis has presented papers at several academic conferences, including the HUIC Conference (Hawaii University International Conferences) Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, for which he discussed manifestations of Hip-Hop culture in the visual arts. His work has been featured in the Politics Issue of Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, ColorLines, and over sixty exhibitions. Mr. Davis is Professor and Head of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana.
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9. Three Minute Thesis
Register by February 22
https://grad.uga.edu/index.php/3mt/
Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition open to master's and doctoral students in all fields. Competitors explain their research to a non-specialist audience for a chance to win cash prizes. The competition will be held entirely virtually this year. Students must present on the research that will culminate in either their master's thesis or doctoral dissertation. Prizes:
Winner: $1,000
Runner-up: $750
People's Choice: $500
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10. Ground Works Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, February 26
https://groundworks.io/proposals/2/home_show
"Vibrant Ecologies of Research"
In this special issue of Ground Works, we welcome submissions that focus on deepening our understanding of the institutional, social, and epistemological systems that effectively weave arts-based inquiry into the scholarly fabric of research. Vibrant ecologies of research call attention to the complex and nuanced articulations of how institutions, research groups, and organizations come together and what elements allow them to thrive. Thinking ecologically provides a systematic view while also attending to the material agencies, institutional architectures, and human interrelationships that nurture, foment, and/or cultivate deep disciplinary integration.
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11. Call for Papers, Presentations, and Performances History of Slavery at the University of Georgia Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress
Deadline: March 1
We invite proposals for presentations, research papers, themed sessions, workshops, and performances on the histories of slavery at the University of Georgia to be part of an inaugural symposium on April 30 and May 1, 2021.
Scholars, activists, community members, political representatives, artists, educators, students, and practitioners are all welcome to participate. We are interested in works that seek to recognize, reconcile, and/or redress the historical and contemporary impacts of slavery at UGA and on Athens. We understand the history of slavery to be a broad and interdisciplinary topic with many entry points into analysis and discussion. We also recognize that the history of slavery is related to the history of settler colonization and Indigenous land dispossession. This could include (but is not limited to) the following topics:
- Stories, memories, visual representations, and legacies of enslavement at UGA/Athens - Slavery, land dispossession, white supremacy, and segregation at UGA
- Emancipation, Abolition, Black resistance, Afro-futures, Decolonization
- Methods of recognition regarding the legacy of slavery at UGA
- Possibilities for redress, reparations, and racial justice at UGA
- University responses and resistance
This symposium will be a space for a conversation among a broad group of people and organizations interested in exploring racial justice within and beyond the UGA community.
Proposal Format and Submission
Interested participants should submit a proposal for a single paper (15-20 minute presentation) or a full session with a proposed theme and participants (60-75 minutes). Symposium organizers will place single paper abstracts into appropriate grouped sessions.
Interested individuals or organizations should submit the following information:
-Title
- Presenter name(s), affiliations, contact Information
- Type of presentation (e.g. research paper, entire themed session, artistic work)
- Brief description of proposed presentation (200 words or less)
- Statement of relevance to the symposium theme and purpose
Please submit proposals to Jennifer L. Rice ([log in to unmask]) by March 1. Submission of proposal does not guarantee acceptance. Responses will be communicated by March 15.
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12. Black Emerging Artists Mentorship (BEAM) Award Program
Deadline: March 1
https://www.athensarts.org/news/f7l6pps0lu8xsgfjuy2tdjpbz2fqi9
The Athens Area Arts Council (AAAC) is now accepting applications for the Black Emerging Artists Mentorship (BEAM) Award Program. This grant is open to Black artists who live in the Athens area and are committed to their career as an artist but not yet established. We encourage underrepresented groups within the Black diaspora to apply. This $1,000 Grant and Mentorship is open to Black artists who live in Athens, Georgia, United States and are committed to their career as an artist but not yet established. We encourage underrepresented groups within the Black diaspora to apply.
After selection of a top 5 by the AAAC Board, we will contact those selected for virtual interviews.
We will announce a recipient on at the end of March. Runner-ups will receive $100. Grant recipients will be paired with an established artist in their field. The mentor and mentee will meet every other week in order to bring a project to fruition. At the end of the six month mentorship artist are encouraged to present a project or they may utilize the AAAC's end of year celebration and showcase to present their work.
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13. Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival
Deadline: March 1
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble (BTE) is organizing a film festival dedicated to showcasing the filmmaking talent of minority filmmakers, to be held April 10. Guidelines for submitted films are as follows:
- Films must be a minimum of 2 minutes and maximum 20 minutes long.
- Animated and live action films are welcome, and we will accept films made in pre-Covid times.
- It is strongly encouraged that the cast and/or crew reflect diversity and inclusion.
We are specifically looking to highlight diversity with regards to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities (acquired or developmental), and/or religion. While film crews are encouraged to be diverse and center minority experiences and visions, any and all students are welcome to be part of a production in any capacity.
BTE will maintain a filmmakers' network to form crews and bring all involved filmmakers access to panels, Q&A and advice sessions with professional filmmakers. Interested filmmakers should contact Black Theatrical Ensemble (BTE) at [log in to unmask] to be added to the network. Happy filmmaking!
The festival is competitive and awards will be given for various categories. Films or Vimeo/youtube links with passwords should be sent to [log in to unmask]
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14. Creative Capital Awards
Applications open February 1 - March 1
https://creative-capital.org/about/
The Creative Capital Award supports artists with up to $50,000 in project funding, supplemented by additional advisory services, career advancement resources, and national networking opportunities.
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15. Inaugural Athens Cultural Affairs Commission Poet Laureate
Call for Nominations
Deadline: March 2
https://www.accgov.com/9713/Call-for-Nominations---Poet-Laureate
Athens-Clarke County announces the creation of a Poet Laureate program funded and administered by the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC). ACAC views the Poet Laureate position as a means to further enhance the profile of poets, poetry, and literary arts in our community and beyond. The Poet Laureate is expected to bring poetry to segments of our community that have less access or exposure to poetry: senior citizens, youth, schools and more. The Poet Laureate will be a creative person with the demonstrated ability to enact their vision. The Poet Laureate will make several guest appearances during the term, promoting poetry throughout the community.
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