ICE Announcements 2.15.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Stephanie Raines (2/19)
2. Idea Lab Conversation: Andrew Salinas (2/24)
3. ATHICA Streaming Music Night (2/18)
4. Screening: "More than words..." (2/18)
5. Emerging Scholars Symposium (2/18-20)
6. Conversation: Radiclani Clytus (2/18)
7. DIGI Workshops: Text Analysis (2/18)
8. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis (register by 2/22)
9. Opportunity: Ground Works CFP (deadline 2/26)
10. Call for Nominations: Athens Poet Laureate (deadline 3/2)
11. Opportunity: Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival (deadline 3/1)
12. Opportunity: Farmers Market Friends (call for artists)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with Stephanie Raines
Friday, February 19 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-qrqjwjGdEv0HH2NY53q2o0CPc8EMWv
How can organizations and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join Stephanie Raines, artist advocate, independent curator, and Arts Division Administrator of the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
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2. 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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3. ATHICA Streaming Music Night
Thursday, February 18 at 7 PM
https://athica-music-feb21.eventbrite.com
Featuring Annie Leeth, A Good Pleasure, and Klypi. As an all-volunteer and membership-based organization, ATHICA serves as a community hub for artists seeking conversation, collaboration, and a venue for sharing and experiencing contemporary art.
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4. Screening and discussion: "More than words..." by Kevin Day
Thursday, February 18 at 7 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Es4ZkYCPQzuEWcTiwpmibQ
The musical work "More than words..." for saxophone octet, piano, bass, and spoken word by UGA graduate composition student Kevin Day was commissioned by Connie Frigo, associate professor of saxophone in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the UGA Saxophone Studio in the fall 2019.
With more than 100 performances of his music taking place in the past two years, Day is a rapidly rising star who is currently writing more than 20 music commissions for prominent ensembles and soloists across the country. "More than words..." received its world premiere performance by 11 UGA music majors at a national conference at Arizona State University in March 2020, just days before the country shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and months before protests against racial injustice erupted in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The work represents Day's observations of the U.S. as a young Black man from Texas. The spoken-word component of the piece was written by Day and framed in quotes selected by narrator Karena Washington, a senior music education major and Mary Frances Early scholarship recipient.
Facilitated and produced by Frigo, this virtual event will include a performance of "More than words..." (from the world premiere) and a robust discussion with the composer, narrator, and other performers as they delve into the deeper meaning and impact of writing, performing, and presenting a work of this nature.
This event is presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series. It is also part of UGA's 60th Anniversary of Desegregation celebration calendar.
This event will be presented as a Zoom webinar. It is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
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5. Emerging Scholars Symposium
February 18 - 20
https://georgiamuseum.org/event/emerging-scholars-symposium-visualizing-identity/
Keynote: Adrienne Childs
Thursday, February 18 at 5:30 PM
Graduate student sessions
February 19 and 20, 12:30 - 3:30 PM
The 2021 Emerging Scholars Symposium will showcase research by current graduate students and other emerging scholars related to themes of art and identity throughout the history of visual and material culture. The symposium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Emma Amos: Color Odyssey." A Black Atlantan, Amos was a distinguished painter and printmaker known for examining identity in bold and colorful mixed-media paintings. This program is presented in partnership with UGA's Association of Graduate Art Students.
Adrienne L. Childs is an art historian, curator and associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She was guest curator of the exhibition "Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition" in 2020 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Her current book project is "Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts," forthcoming from Yale University Press. She has held fellowships at the Lunder Institute at the Colby College Museum of Art, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, the Clark Art Institute and the David C. Driskell Center. She is co-curator of the recent exhibition "The Black Figure in the European Imaginary" at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College. She contributed to "The Image of the Black in Western Art," volume 5, from Harvard University Press. Childs is co-editor of the book "Blacks in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century" (Routledge). Her scholarly interests are the relationship between race and representation in European and American fine and decorative arts. She also served as curator at the David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland where she organized numerous exhibitions of African American art.
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6. Performance Impression: A Conversation on Jason Moran with Radiclani Clytus
Thursday February 18 at 7:30 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oceiorzMiGNz7tpGYHyWuh2B7yeQ-vzVJ
"What exactly is the nature of musical listening if 'what we mainly hear, or hear
corroborated . . . are personal, private, vanishing evocations'? What are the possibilities for encouraging the collective aspects of listening when 'the man who creates the music is hearing something else'?" These are some of the questions that Radiclani Clytus, quoting James Baldwin, explores in his essay "Phenomenal Listening: The Art of Jason Moran" for the Fall 2020 issue of The Georgia Review. Join us on February 18 to continue this dialogue virtually as moderator Gerald Maa (editor and director of The Georgia Review) and Clytus further discuss key works by the jazz pianist and conceptualist in conjunction with Moran's current Luhring Augustine exhibition, "The Sound Will Tell You."
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7. DIGI Workshops: Text Analysis
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.
Sessions are held on Thursdays at 4 PM:
Feb. 18: Intro to R for text analysis
Feb. 25: Advanced R for text analysis
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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Call for Artists
Farmers Market Friends
Miller Learning Center/Tate Plaza sidewalk
Beginning in March, every Wednesday, 11 AM - 3 PM
The new on-campus farmers market, brought to UGA by Farmers Market Friends, is requesting creative students to send in brief proposals to run an arts booth during the weekly farmers market. Farmers Market Friends is a student-run initiative aimed to bring fresh produce from local farmers to UGA's students. Purchases at the market can be made through UGA's PAW points system. Ideas for proposals may be performance-based, interactive, or art installations but should maintain Covid-19 safety protocols. Limited technical support will be provided to chosen recipients on the day of the market. Proposals should be limited to 150 words and will be accepted on a rolling basis. Final submissions or questions may be sent to [log in to unmask] Sale of art at the market is also welcome, but these inquiries should be directed to the Lamar Dodd Ambassadors through [log in to unmask]
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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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