Ideas for Creative Exploration
10.18.22
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP
2. Athens Hip Hop Harmonic (10/20)
3. Lecture: Ruby Neri (10/18)
4. Third Thursday (10/20)
5. Soft Architecture Gallery Talk and Workshop (10/21)
6. An Evening with Burnaway (10/21)
7. Vibrant Ecologies Webinar (10/26)
8. Willson Center Opportunities (deadline 10/21)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
Fall 2022
Idea Lab Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a mentor and are eligible for up to $1000 in support for project expenses. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Proposals will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary selection committee in order of receipt, pending the availability of funds.
Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRjYNPOF1diC7EG
Proposal requirements:
- brief description of project goals (up to 300 words)
- names and project roles of collaborators
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Ideas for Creative Exploration is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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2. Athens Hip Hop Harmonic
Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center
FREE, family-friendly, no tickets required
http://www.athenshiphopharmonic.com
Launched in August 2021, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic is a multi-year collaboration between the local Hip Hop community and the UGA Hodgson School of Music, supported by UGA's Arts Lab. It is produced by saxophone professor Connie Frigo, who developed it in collaboration with Hip Hop impresario Montu Miller and Mariah Parker (aka Linqua Franqa), along with a team of other artists, educators, and supporters eager to create music together to explore their mutual artistic and cultural curiosities. They started with a simple question: What would happen if a Hip Hop artist and a classically-trained composer co-created a piece of music? Answer: Come to the show to find out!
Building upon creative partnerships that began last year, this special show -- the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic's biggest to date -- features premieres of music co-created by four Hip Hop artists and four UGA composers, performed by four UGA ensembles. There are approximately 100 undergraduate and graduate student performers involved. Montu Miller will serve as emcee.
Hip Hop artists include recent Athens Music Walk of Fame inductee Ishues, the 2020 Vic Chestnutt Songwriter of the Year Cassie Chantel, compelling and soulful alternative R&B singer Convict Julie, and dynamic poet and spoken word performer Celest Ngeve.
UGA composers include piano and African American studies professor James Weidman, commercial music and media professor Tom Hiel, composition/music education major Ayako Pederson-Takeda, and composition/performance major Julien Berger.
The featured UGA ensembles include the African American Choral Ensemble, Jazz Combo, Wind Symphony, and Contemporary Chamber Ensemble.
The project's collaborative performances can be seen and heard on the AHHH Youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXqmhqyTE8G2ke9d4-glZw
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3. Lecture: Ruby Neri
Tuesday, October 18 at 5:30 PM
Main Art Building room S151
Ruby Neri (b. 1970, San Francisco) draws upon twentieth-century West Coast traditions as well as a global catalogue of art historical and anthropological modes. She depicts the human body as a porous instrument of pleasure, terror, and everything in between; this places her within a lineage of recent Los Angeles-based artists that includes Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, while her penchant for hand-driven craft connects her to the Bay Area Figurative and Funk movements. The ceramic vessels that have dominated Neri's production recently evoke both earthy tactility and psychological intimacy. Neri's use of sprayed glazes links her ceramics to the street art she produced in the late 1990s as a member of what would become the San Francisco-based Mission School, connecting a contemporary urban art form with the archaic power of pre-historical wall-painting and object-making.
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4. Third Thursday
Thursday, October 20 from 6 - 9 PM
http://3thurs.org
Athens' established venues for visual art hold Third Thursday, an event devoted to art in the evening hours, on the third Thursday of every month from 6-9 p.m. to showcase their visual-arts programming.
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5. Soft Architecture Gallery Talk and Workshop
Friday, October 21 at noon
Main Art Building, Suite Gallery
Curator Ciel Rodriguez will be hosting a short gallery talk with visiting artists Jacob Goble and Hope Wang to discuss their art practices in conjunction with their group exhibition Soft Architecture on display in the Suite Gallery. Please join us directly after the talk for a bookmaking workshop with Hope Wang. Immediately following Soft Architecture's short gallery talk, exhibiting artist Hope Wang will be offering a bookmaking workshop. This workshop will introduce participants to the never-ending, infinity book structure that Wang explores in her art practice. Attendees will explore how collage and book-making exercises can generate new forms of content.
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6. An Evening with Burnaway
Friday, October 21 at 6 PM
Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/events/
For this in-person event, Jasmine Amussen, the editor of Atlanta's digital art magazine Burnaway, will read from a selection of recent Athens focused stories. In addition, Amussen will give a short presentation on how to pitch to the magazine -- what kind of work catches the editor's attention, what doesn't, along with additional information about programs, workshops, internships, Mood Rings and other ways to get involved with the magazine. The presentation and reading will be followed by a Q&A with Amussen and Program and Mood Ring Coordinator Emily Lllamazales. Burnaway is an Atlanta-based, non-profit magazine of contemporary art and criticism from the American South, published online weekly and in print annually. Through its editorial program and cultivation of emerging arts writers and journalists, Burnaway connects the region's diverse creative communities and develops exchange between Southern art, and the national and international art audiences.
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7. Ask Them Anything: Vibrant Ecologies of Research, Part Two
Wednesday, October 26 at 2 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/ask-them-anything-vibrant-ecologies-of-research-part-two/
**As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.**
Join a2ru for our second Vibrant Ecologies of Research "Ask Them Anything" webinar. Vibrant Ecologies of Research is a special collection on Ground Works, a2ru's online platform for arts-integrated research. Through peer-reviewed projects and invited commentaries, it explores the ecologies where arts-based inquiry thrives in conversation with social and scientific research.
Bring all your questions for Vibrant Ecologies Editor Aaron D. Knochel and authors Vanessa Chang, Jamie Hand, Michele Mekel and Lauren Stetz. This webinar will have only brief presentation time, allowing maximum time for your questions and comments about Hand's project "Translating Outcomes: Reflections on ArtPlace America's Cross-Sector Research," Mekel and Stetz's co-authored project "Just-In-Time Ecology of Interdisciplinarity: Working With 'Viral Imaginations' in Pandemic Times," and Chang's co-authored commentary, "Cripping Media Art Ecologies." Read ahead of time, then ask them anything!
Members of Vibrant Ecologies Reading Clubs are especially encouraged to attend. If you are interested in joining the UGA reading club, please contact meredith.emery at uga.edu.
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8. Willson Center Opportunities
Deadline: October 21
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Short-Term Visiting Fellows (for 2023-24)
The Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Individual UGA faculty or interdisciplinary groups may nominate Visiting Fellows who contribute to intellectual life on campus by engaging with current research in a public context. Fellows are funded for five-day ($5,000) programs. The amount of the award includes honorarium and travel expenses. Award is for the following academic year.
Public Impact Grants (for 2023-24)
The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty and students. The award provides support of up to $10,000. Faculty may apply for the Public Impact Grant in partnership with graduate students. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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