ICE Announcements 8.15.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Welcome Fall 2017
2. Reading and Conversation: Charlottesville: A Response from Athens, GA (8/16)
3. ICE Reading Room: Adaptive Change is the Future of the Arts
4. Fall Course Opportunities
5. Opportunity: Critique, Creativity, and Assessment in Art and Design Fields FLC
6. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 8/31)
7. Opportunity: Lyndon House Call for Proposals (deadline 9/20)
8. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 9/27)
9. Conference: a2ru National Conference (11/1-4)
10. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. Welcome to a new semester! ICE continues its mission to be catalyst for advanced research in the arts at UGA by partnering with students, faculty, and community members to facilitate new creative work and to forge collaborations across disciplinary boundaries.
Congratulations to ICE Graduate Research Assistant Carla Cao and an interdisciplinary team of students from UGA and the University of Iowa, winners of a Student Challenge grant from The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru). "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" was awarded $3,500 plus travel support and will explore the inherent rights of nature and address the questions: Does nature possess inherent rights? How can a legal framework grant a natural entity personhood? What role can art play in exploring this line of inquiry?
Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Ann Catherine Carter (Art), Ciyadh Wells (Music), and Jason Woodworth-Hou (Theatre and Film Studies). These three exceptional graduate students will develop creative research under the auspices of ICE, including collaborative work across disciplines and facilitating collaborative projects and proposals with faculty, students, and community members.
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2. Reading and Conversation: Charlottesville: A Response from Athens, GA
Wednesday, August 16 at 6 PM
Athens-Clarke County Library
2025 Baxter St.
Public reading by Milton Leathers, grandson of Andrew Cobb Erwin, former mayor of Athens (1918-1921). Leathers will recite his grandfather's anti-KKK speech from the 1924 Democratic National Convention held at Madison Square Garden in NYC, during the height of the political convention historically known as the Klanbake. After the speech, the floor will open up for conversation led by Mokah and Knowa Johnson about Charlottesville and parallel issues in Athens-Clarke County and northeast Georgia. Presented by Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement.
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3. ICE Reading Room: Somewhere Becoming Rain: Adaptive Change is the Future of the Arts
A report reflecting on EmcArts' experience of designing and implementing national Innovation Labs for the Arts over the last 10 years, with an essay by Steven Tepper (2013 ICE Visiting Scholar).
"If the matching grant model of building nonprofits dedicated to presenting excellent professional art was the dominant policy frame for the 20th century, what will be the policy frame for the 21st century? While the arts ecology will continue to be diverse, representing many different styles of expression, modes of engagement, and forms of organization, an emerging set of practices and ideas are driving artists, funders and organizations who are keen to connect the arts more deeply with public life."
Source: EmcArts
http://emcarts.org/case_studies/somewhere-becoming-rain
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4. A selection of interdisciplinary courses for fall 2017:
Critical Thinking: Art and Nuclear Weapons
UNIV 1107 (CRN 35601)
T: 2-4:45
Dr. Sara Kutchesfahani
This course is designed to bring together students from across disciplines (including, but not limited to, history, international affairs, creative writing, and art/design) who are interested in fusing art with politics. Specifically, it will foster a space for creative thinking and learning such that by the end of the semester, a prototype of a graphic novel relaying the history of the nuclear weapon will be created.
Literature & Other Arts
ENGL 4895
T-Th: 11-12:15
Dr. Jed Rasula
This course will focus on several 20th century venues in which interaction between the arts was paramount. These include the European exiles who brought Surrealism to America during World War Two; Black Mountain College in North Carolina, founded by refugees from the German Bauhaus in the 1930s; the San Francisco poetry renaissance of the late Forties; the Beat movement in the Fifties; and the inter-arts milieu of New York.
Communicating Research and Scholarship
GRSC 8200
M: 9:05-11:00 for the first half of the semester only
Dr. Meredith Welch-Devine
GRSC 8200 is designed to help students from all disciplines communicate their research and scholarship to non-specialist audiences. Students will develop a set of skills focused on: communicating across disciplines; using social media; working with journalists; and linking scholarship and policy.
Approaches in Community Engagement
GRSC7970S (CRN 35932)
W: 3:35-5:20
Dr. Anna Karls and Dr. Paul Brooks
Community Engagement is the mutually beneficial collaboration of universities and colleges with local, state, national and global communities. This interdisciplinary course will provide the foundation for graduate students to participate in and develop university-community partnerships that expand their professional development and enrich their community, as well as their own lives.
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5. Opportunity: Critique, Creativity, and Assessment in Art and Design Fields FLC
http://ctl.uga.edu/flc/future-flc
This Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is focused on developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) projects related to critique, creativity and assessment in art and design fields. Last year, the FLC read "Assessment in Creative Disciplines" (Chase, Ferguson & Hoey, 2014). During 2017-2018, we will refine our research questions with the goal of implementing SoTL studies in our classrooms during Spring 2018. Members may collaborate to develop a study or work on their own, but the group will support each other through the processes of design, implementation and submission to conferences and/or journals. Current members include faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, College of Environment and Design, Hugh Hodgson School of Music, School of Education, the Department of Dance, and College of Family and Consumer Sciences. Faculty from diverse UGA departments who are interested in studying processes of teaching and learning in design-based courses, seminars, and studios are welcome. For more information, contact Colleen Kuusinen at <[log in to unmask]>.
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6. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Grants and Awards
Deadline: August 31
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Distinguished Artist/Lecturer (funding for current academic year)
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Graduate Research Award (funding for current academic year)
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level. Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree. Previous graduate student research award recipients are ineligible. Graduate students may be supported in travel to archives, installations and performances, and other sites related to their research projects.
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7. Lyndon House Call for Proposals
Deadline: September 20
http://www.athensclarkecounty.com/6657/Exhibition-Proposal-Form
Attention artists + curators! The Lyndon House Arts Center reviews exhibition proposals twice a year. Be part of the Athens art scene, realize your creative vision, take the opportunity to bring artists together to create community. Build your curatorial resume and exhibition experience.
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8. UGA Libraries Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: September 27
http://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
UGA Libraries is hosting a Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $1,500 in prizes. All currently enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable. Any and all formats and genres are encouraged! Examples include: essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, musics, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction, and exhibits.
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9. a2ru National Conference
November 1-4
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Registration now open
http://a2ruevents.wixsite.com/a2ruboston
The 2017 theme, "Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement," will use the city of Boston as a starting point for discussion and engagement surrounding creative placemaking. As a 21st century global city, Boston embodies many of the issues that drive diverse contemporary cultural contexts. It supports a rich and continually evolving sense of civic realms, and is home to leading arts, educational, medical, industrial, and corporate entities invested in innovative modes of research, practice, and civic participation. There is also clear recognition that the 'public sphere' is not confined to large metropolitan regions. Creating dynamic communities that engage and extend beyond traditional boundaries - in both virtual and material ways - remains a growing challenge and the work before us.
The a2ru Student Travel Grant Program is open to any undergraduate or graduate student currently attending a partner institution who would like to attend the annual a2ru conference. Grants of up to $250 will be awarded. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and only a limited number are available for each a2ru conference event.
http://a2ru.org/a2ru-launches-new-student-travel-grant-program/
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10. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is 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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