Ideas for Creative Exploration
November 2021
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
2. UGA Spotlight on the Arts (11/1 - 30)
3. a2ru National Conference (11/3 - 5)
4. 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition (deadline 11/2)
5. Conversation: Creature Comforts Artist-in-Residence Noraa James (11/4)
6. Torrance Center Events (11/11 - 12)
7. ATHICA Events
8. Opportunity: ICC call for abstracts (deadline 11/5)
9. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/15)
10. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Program (deadline 11/16)
11. Creative Capital Opportunities List
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
http://ice.uga.edu/grants/
Idea Lab Mini Grants support creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are eligible to receive mentorship, feedback, and up to $500 in project funds. Collaborative teams may include participants from multiple communities and must 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 150 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. UGA Spotlight on the Arts
November 1 - 30
Full schedule: https://arts.uga.edu/calendar/
The UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival includes more than 60 events and exhibitions in the literary, performing and visual arts. Many events are free or discounted for students, and all are welcome.
Highlights of the month-long festival include Grammy-winning acts at the Performing Arts Center, a Signature Lecture by New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik, a University Theatre production of "Rent," Georgia Writers Hall of Fame events, and a Signature Lecture panel discussion with Jennifer Crandall, creator the Emmy-nominated documentary project Whitman, Alabama.
The annual Spotlight on the Arts Family Day will be held on Nov. 13 at various locations in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex. This free event will include performances, activities, demonstrations and workshops designed specifically for children and families.
More information on the 2021 Spotlight on the Arts festival, including a schedule of events, can be found at arts.uga.edu, as well as on the Arts Council Facebook page (facebook.com/UGAarts), Twitter feed (@UGA_arts) or Instagram (instagram.com/uga_arts).
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3. 2021 a2ru National Conference
Sharing Stories: The Case for Art
November 3 - 5
Online
https://a2ru.org/event/2021-a2ru-national-conference-sharing-stories-the-case-for-art/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA will cover registration costs for a limited number of a2ru conference participants. If you are interested in attending please contact [log in to unmask] before registering.*
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) advances the full range of arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society.
About the Conference
Over the last twelve months, we have seen a range of sources acknowledge the powerful importance of the arts, particularly in the Covid era. As arts practitioners and leaders, we embrace our role in this unprecedented moment, even as we continue to rethink our disciplines, how our methods have changed during this time, and what the future of the arts might look like.
a2ru will use this year's online conference to meet this unique moment in a uniquely artful way. We will engage and explore how we can best deploy what we hope has not changed -- our passion for the arts, for arts education, and for arts integration -- through storytelling, rather than traditional conference presentations.
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4. 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition
Call for Submissions
Deadline: November 2
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
The 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition 2021 is open for submissions! The UGA Arts Council invites all UGA student scholars and artists to share their research and compete for a $433 cash prize in this exciting event! The competition has been streamlined this year. The competition will highlight scholarly research about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theatre, dance, film, literature, media arts, or performance art. This is a great opportunity to share your work, and to practice communicating the goals and significance of your scholarly and artistic activities to a broad audience.
- To participate in the contest, simply submit a 3-minute video of yourself describing your research in the clearest and most compelling way possible. The video should contain no edits, and you're encouraged to use the computer's built-in webcam and microphone. Submissions will be judged entirely on the basis of how effectively you convey your intellectual goals and passion orally.
- Upload your video to YouTube or Google Drive and provide links. (Note that YouTube links can be unlisted.)
- You may include up to three images, which you should provide separately from the video presentation and refer to by number (e.g. "as you can see in figure 1").
- You may include up to 3 supplementary video or audio clips, totaling no more than 30 seconds in all, to illustrate your arguments. The duration of these media clips will count toward the length of your presentation (i.e. if your presentation includes 30 seconds of media, your discussion can be no longer than 2 1/2 minutes long). In your talk, refer to media clips by number (e.g. "as you can see in video clip 1").
- A panel of 5 judges (faculty, administrators, and students from different disciplines) will select 8 finalists to move up to the final round.
- The 8 finalists will present their 3-minute research summaries in the Georgia Museum of Art on November 16, 7:00 - 8:00 pm, for a panel of three judges and a live audience as part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival. After each 3-minute presentation, the presenter will respond to questions from the judges for 1 minute and 33 seconds (so that the talk and Q&A together total 4 minutes and 33 seconds).
- At the end of the live event, the judges will select the winner, who will receive a $433 prize.
Please email your submissions by November 2, 2021 to [log in to unmask] with the following information:
- Name and major degree area
- Name of faculty advisor
- Your UGA MyID
- The title of your presentation
- A link to your presentation (either YouTube or Google Drive)
- OPTIONAL: a numbered list of up to three images along with links to the images.
- OPTIONAL: a numbered list of up to three media files (video or audio) with links to the cllps.
For a list of FAQs and past winners, see:
arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/.
For any further questions, please contact David Saltz, [log in to unmask]
Thank you for your interest, we look forward to your submissions!
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5. Conversation: Creature Comforts Artist-in-Residence Noraa James
Thursday, November 4 at Noon
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f1GLONmRRMeTGzEICAT6kA
Noraa James, the Creature Comforts Brewing Co. Artist in Residence for 2021, will take part in a conversation on art and community in Athens with Creature Comforts hospitality manager Madeline Blankenship and Mark Callahan, artistic director of Ideas for Creative Exploration and associate academic director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
James is a painter, photographer, and graphic designer whose work is an imaginative exploration into many topics of the beauty and sublimity of Blackness through the scope of Afro-surrealism and Afro-futurism. Originally from Norfolk, Virginia, he came to Athens in January 2020. This conversation will focus on ways to create equitable opportunities to build meaningful relationships between marginalized creatives and the art world's gatekeepers in Athens.
Creature Comforts launched its Artist-in-Residence program in the summer of 2020 as part of its Get Artistic initiative. The three-month residency provides an Athens-based artist with access to workspace and materials, as well as a $5,000 stipend to support their work and to cover the full tuition of an artist-focused certificate program prior to the start of the residency.
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6. Torrance Center Events
Please register for event if you plan to attend, so that catering costs can be appropriately estimated and seating plans can be accurately drawn up.
2021 Torrance Lecture: Paul Silvia
Thursday, November 11 at 5 PM
UGA Special Collections Library Room 271
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-torrance-lecture-ordinary-creativity-in-everyday-life-by-paul-silvia-registration-170496605938?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
Although the famous ideas and creators get most of the attention, nearly all human creativity is mundane: the countless hobbies, projects, and passions that allow people to spend time doing something creative in everyday life, be it knitting scarves, writing poems, making jewelry, or decorating cupcakes. This talk peeks into the surprising world of ordinary creativity. Using experience-sampling methods that measure people's creative ideas and actions where and when they happen, we find that creative activity in daily life is utterly pervasive, a source of positive emotion, and a way to build satisfying skills and relationships. All told, ordinary creativity reveals something special about our motivation to be creative. Paul Silvia is the Lucy Spinks Keker Excellence Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Everyday Creativity: A Community Conversation
Friday, November 12 from 10 AM to 3 PM
Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/everyday-creativity-a-community-conversation-registration-181390141797
Join the conversation - artists, scholars and entrepreneurs from the local and regional community share their insights on the whys and hows of the practice of everyday creativity.
10 AM: Opening Remarks
10:15 AM: Cal Clements: What Works for Me -- Abhyasa in Clay
Participants will pinch some clay, look at slides, think of happy memories, and talk about maintaining inspiration in a world gone mad. Clements will introduce some concepts that help in studio practice.
11 AM: Hyunjoo Oh: Creative Learning Through Expressive Making
Oh will present teaching and research projects that engage a broad range of designers from K-12 community to university students for their learning through exploratory and expressive making processes.
11:45 AM: Lunch and Group Discussions
12:45 PM.: Jason Matherley: Margin-Work: Creating Spaces for Creative Practice
Matherley will discuss ways he has cultivated and maintained a strong artistic practice by finding creative opportunities in the "margins" of everyday life. Aspects will include non-traditional art spaces, negotiating time with parenthood and a day job, and what can be learned from looking literally at the edges of paintings.
1:30 PM: Kristen Ashley MacCarthy: When Your Hobby Becomes Your Career: How Creative Entrepreneurship Became the American Dream
In this talk, MacCarthy will provide attendees with an overview of ins-and-outs of running a creative business and collaborating with creative people -- emphasizing creativity as a tool that everyone uses on a daily basis to help make better decisions. MacCarthy will also take attendees through some exercises to help stretch creativity muscles.
2:15 PM: Group Discussions and Closing Remarks
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7. ATHICA Events
675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200
https://athica.org/events/
Exhibition:Remote Residue by Doppler Projects
Until November 21
Doppler Projects is a curatorial collective that creates interdisciplinary exhibitions and multi-platform programs. Placing collaboration and experimentation at the forefront, Doppler challenges both artists and audiences to consider art and ideas beyond their traditional contexts.sidue uses mail art strategies to build out the exhibition through structural systems and arrangement to form a cohesive multi-media installation.
Thinking About (Performance) Art: Reading and Discussion Group
https://athica.org/updates/performance/
Streaming Curators Talk
Saturday, November 6 at 5 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMofuGrpzgjHtNVwBpYetWoPDNH72jHI4sW
Featuring Derek Faust and Lauren Peterson of Doppler Projects
Family Day: Drop in and Explore, Hands-On, COVID-Safe
Saturday, November 13 from 1-3 PM
Streaming Music Night: George Davidson, Joe Rowe, and Jay Nakashi
Thursday, November 18 at 7 PM
Ticket information coming soon
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8. 2022 Integrative Conservation Conference
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: November 5
https://integrativeconservationconference.weebly.com
Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) Decolonizing Conservation Research and Practice invites presentations, workshops, and panels that address all aspects of conservation, with a particular emphasis on submissions that focus on decolonizing conservation. We recognize that addressing socioenvironmental crises in an uncertain future will require ongoing dialog within transparent, equitable partnerships. ICC aims to foster productive conversation about what it means to decolonize conservation and to create pathways for transformative, adaptive, and just conservation design and practice.
ICC 2022 welcomes presentations on any topic relevant to conservation from any number of perspectives, including but not limited to ecology, anthropology, forestry and natural resources, marine sciences, geography, environmental governance, or human wildlife interactions. This year, we are especially interested in presentations that focus on decolonizing conservation research and practice and foreground the voices and experiences of Indigenous peoples and other communities marginalized by historic and contemporary conservation approaches. Presentation formats include traditional 15-minute research talks, 5-minute speed talks, and posters.
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9. UGA Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 15
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/sustainability-grants/
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects that advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address UGA's strategic priorities and integrate social, environmental, and economic solutions to help ensure that all people can thrive, both now and in the future. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding. Special consideration will be given to interdisciplinary projects that advance equity and incorporate the arts.
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10. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (TIR) Pre-Seed Program
Deadline: Tuesday, November 16
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The application window for the 3rd offering of the Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (TIR) Pre-Seed Program is now open. The TIR Pre-seed Program provides early stage developmental funding for team-building activities to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics.
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11. Creative Capital
Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in November and December
https://creative-capital.org/2021/10/26/artist-opportunities-with-upcoming-deadlines-in-november-and-december-2021/
Each month, we compile a list of residencies, grants, and open calls for artists working in all disciplines. This month's list includes a $10,000 grant for Black women and Black non-binary photographers, a residency for LGBTQ+ writers working in poetry, fiction, and creative fiction, and a performance residency at the Abrons Arts Center in New York.
Creative Capital is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new works, to amplify the impact of their work, and to foster sustainable artistic careers. We believe in the power of artists to shape the future of our global communities. Creative Capital Awards are made through a national, open call process and grants are awarded in the visual arts, performing arts, technology, literature, film/moving image, and socially-engaged work across a multitude of forms.
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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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