ICE Announcements 10.10.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP and Info Sessions (deadline 10/26)
2. ICE-Vision: Dogville (10/18)
3. Introductory Community Rights Workshop (10/25)
4. Lecture: Sondra Perry (10/10)
5. Concert: UGA Percussion Ensemble (10/11)
6. Conversation: Making Africa (10/13)
7. Cinema Roundtable:1967 (10/13)
8. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
9. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Project Pilot Grants (deadline 10/11)
10. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
11. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grant (deadline 11/13)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Call for Proposals
Deadline: Thursday, October 26
*Information Sessions*
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Tuesday, October 10 at 10 AM
Friday, October 13 at 2 PM
Thursday, October 19 at 9:30 AM
Wednesday, October 25 at 3:30 PM
Stop by ICE to find out more about the Idea Lab Mini Grants. Share project ideas, look for collaborators, and ask questions.
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects. Special consideration will be given to projects with themes about, by, or for marginalized populations.
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
[log in to unmask]
Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include title or majors and role in project)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Project outcomes
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be a UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 5 PM.
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE 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. ICE-Vision: Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2004)
Wednesday, October 18 at 6:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School Building, Room S151
https://www.facebook.com/events/521964084834845/
A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace (Nicole Kidman) hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.
The return of ICE-Vision! https://www.facebook.com/groups/icevision/
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3. Introductory Community Rights Workshop
Wednesday, October 25 from 6 - 9 PM
State Botanical Garden of Georgia, The Gardenside Room
Free registration: http://tinyurl.com/cienfuegosworkshop
A workshop led by activist Paul Cienfuegos that introduces to Athens the powerful strategies and history of the Community Rights Movement. Since 1999, the Community Rights Movement has helped hundreds of communities pass locally-enforceable laws that promote rights of nature, such as the right of ecosystems to flourish and evolve, democratic rights, such as the right of local community to self-government, and workers' rights, such as the right to living wages. First introduced to the U.S. by the Community Rights Movement, the "rights of nature" are radical, new laws that grant natural entities, such as rivers, legal personhood, allowing nature for the first time to be represented in court and to effectively fight corporate and governmental threats. Limited spaces are available.
Affiliated with the "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" project funded by an a2ru Student Challenge Grant with additional support from Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts a2ru Research Cluster.
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4. Lecture: Sondra Perry
Tuesday, October 10 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151
Sondra Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her solo-exhibition, Resident Evil, a large multimedia installation, was on display at The Kitchen, NY in 2016 and received critical acclaim. Sam Korman wrote in Art in America that Perry elucidates "the role of digital technology in the formation of African-American identity." Perry's work has also been featured in the 2015 Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1, NY, and a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles opened in 2017 titled OPEN WINDOW: Sondra Perry, netherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1.0.3. Perry's studio practice resides in the video realm and focuses on her own black identity, using herself in video montages as a representative form of black women. Her work explores expanded meaning in technology, black family history, heritage, and femininity.
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5. Percussion Ensemble Fall Concert
Wednesday, October 11 at 3:30 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
The ensemble will perform all original compositions, written by the performers themselves and inspired by the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Miles Davis and Thornton Dial. These artists were selected as part of an assignment given to the ensemble by its directors, Timothy K. Adams Jr. and Kimberly Toscano. Works of art from Basquiat, Davis and Dial will be shown during the performance so that audience members might gain some insight into the students' compositional thought processes.
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6. Zanele Muholi and Amelie Klein: A Conversation on "Making Africa"
Friday, October 13 at 4 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
The Willson Center will partner with the High Museum in Atlanta to host a conversation with photographer Zanele Muholi and curator Amelie Klein of the Vitra Design Museum in Germany. The event is in conjunction with "Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design," an exhibit curated by Klein on display at the High Museum from October 15, 2017 - January 7, 2018. The High Museum of Art will be the first venue in the United States to present this major touring exhibition, which offers a fresh look at African design through a myriad of diverse works by more than 120 artists. Ranging from playful to provocative to political, the works include sculpture, prints, fashion, furniture, film, photography, apps, maps, digital comics, and more. The exhibition offers a vision of Africa in the twenty-first century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth, and massive cultural transformation and presents the continent as a hub of experimentation that generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance. Making Africa focuses on a generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers, and designers from and within Africa who address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on their continent. The exhibition also illustrates how the artists use their work to effect significant economic, social, and political change.
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7. Cinema Roundtable:1967: How "The Graduate" and "Bonnie and Clyde" Changed Hollywood
Friday, October 13 at 4:00 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre (Room 400)
It is now 50 years since 1967, a year that marked major shifts in Hollywood storytelling and censorship. Two lower-budget "youth pix," The Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde, led the way, proving there was a big audience for new, daring content. Both films exploited elements from modern European Art Cinema to update American cinema with their radical themes, stunning visual style, and popular music scores. They also challenged the outdated Hollywood censorship and ratings system. This roundtable assesses the stories, styles, and historical significance of these two movies for the 1960s and beyond. Panelists include Matthew Bernstein and Michele Schreiber, both of Film and Media Studies at Emory, as well as Christopher Sieving and Richard Neupert from Film Studies at UGA. Neupert will moderate the panel and leads discussion with the audience.
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8. Call for Participation: North Oconee River Project
North Oconee River Project is an interdisciplinary, student-led, grant-funded project that engages community members, artists, and legal experts in an effort to draft local legislation that grants legal personhood to the North Oconee River in Athens, GA. The project draws its inspiration from the Community Rights Movement that, for the past two decades, has worked to prevent corporate and governmental harm on the environment by helping pass locally enforceable "rights of nature" laws that treat natural entities, such as rivers, as having the right to be healthy and to thrive.
North Oconee River Project is seeking participants who are interested in assisting our team with any of the following activities:
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending environmental events on campus and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing North Oconee River Project by attending community-organizing events in the Athens community and informing attendees about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Representing the North Oconee River Project by tabling at the West Broad and/or Athens Farmer's Markets. Involves providing people with information about our project mission and upcoming events.
- Distributing flyers on campus and at various businesses and community centers in Athens.
If you are interested in participating, please email Carla Cao: [log in to unmask]
Affiliated with the "Alliance for Arts + Rights of Nature" project funded by an a2ru Student Challenge Grant with additional support from Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts a2ru Research Cluster.
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9. Social Ecology Studio Project Pilot Grants
Deadline: Wednesday, October 11 at 5 PM
The Social Ecology Studio is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate students for Project Pilot Grants intended to support projects working within the vision of the studio.
Vision: The Social Ecology Studio is a multi-researcher, collaborative art workspace dedicated to advancing sustainability and resilience through the arts. Capitalizing on art's ability to engage, inform and activate a diverse range of constituents, the studio acts as a bridge, humanizing and connecting community members and policy makers with issues entrenched in social ecology. The Studio facilitates collaborations with scientific and social research topics from across campus and the community, serving as a hub for graduate and undergraduate students to identify research opportunities while providing space and resources to work collaboratively.
Granting Priority will be given to projects that fulfill one or more of the following objectives:
- The project engages current social and ecological issues.
- The project is collaborative.
- The artist collaborates with researchers from non-arts disciplines in one of the following manners:
- bringing art thinking into the workflow of non-arts discipline research,
- utilizing the research of non-arts discipline(s) in the ideation and/or
methodology of the artist's workflow,
- utilizing non-arts research in the production of the work.
- The project interacts with the community outside of the University.
- The project serves as a pilot for a CURO research project proposal, Sustainability Grant
Proposal, Willson Center Graduate Research Award application, or other UGA or external research opportunity.
Grant Proposals must include a written statement no more than one page in length (single spaced, 1 inch margin, 11 point type), identifying the proposed project and its alignment with studio vision and granting priorities. On a second page include a budget and short paragraph justifying the budget expenditures.
Grant Amounts will be awarded in the range of $200-$800 and will include access to a collaborative studio workspace and project mentorship from studio director Michael Marshall and a network of affiliated faculty from across campus. Unfunded proposals may still be eligible for facility and mentorship support by invitation.
Expenditures are subject to UGA policies and procedures.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 11, 5:00 pm.
Submit your application as a pdf or word document to Michael Marshall via email to
[log in to unmask], subject heading: "SES Pilot Grant Proposal YourFirstName YourLastName"
Questions or proposal development advice? Email Michael Marshall at [log in to unmask]
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10. CURO Research Assistantships
Deadline for Spring: November 1
http://curo.uga.edu/
Information Sessions:
From finding a faculty mentor to applying for CURO funding, our information sessions are designed to help you get the most out of your research experience at UGA.
Thursday, Oct 12, 2-2:50pm
Monday, Oct 23, 1:25-2:15pm
Tuesday, Nov 7, 11-11:50am
The CURO Research Assistantship (CRA) supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Assistantships are one-semester awards for either Fall, Spring, or Summer. Assistantship students are encouraged to register for academic credit regardless of major, GPA, or Honors status. All Assistantship recipients are required to present their research at the spring CURO Symposium. If beneficial for their programs of study, students may conduct research with faculty members outside their department, college or school.
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11. Campus Sustainability Grant
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Pre-Proposal- October 13th
Proposal- November 13th
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
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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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