ICE Announcements 3.20.18
http://ice.uga.edu
*UGA Call for Participation with a2ru National Conference*
1. Discussion and Reading: Bullets into Bells (3/20)
2. Performance: BFE (begins 3/20)
3. Performance: ROVA Saxophone Quartet (3/20)
4. Lecture: Namita Wiggers (3/21)
5. Performance: A Night at the Morton: Soul Celebration (3/21)
6. Panel Discussion: Where is the Craft Archive? (3/22)
7. Colloquium: Sarah Bay-Cheng (3/23)
8. Global Georgia Initiative: Robert Spano (3/23)
9. Lecture: Andrea Ballestero (3/23)
10. Lecture: Julie Buckner Armstrong (3/26)
11. Performance: Inlets Ensemble: Circling, Environment, Autonomy (3/27)
12. ICE Conversation: Inlets Foundation for Experimental Practices (3/28)
13. Opportunity: Call for Artists: EARTH Party! (deadline 3/30)
14. Opportunity: Sustainable UGA Artist-in-Residence (deadline 4/9)
15. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project (deadline 3/31)
16. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference at UGA (deadline 4/6)
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*UGA Call for Participation with a2ru National Conference*
The University of Georgia will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Nov. 1-3, 2018 on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival. For more information about the conference and national call for presentations visit:
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA faculty, departments, and offices are encouraged to incorporate the conference themes into their curriculum and programming, including partners in the creative and performing arts, engineering, technology, environment and design, ecology, sustainability, and in other departments, who have an interest in intersecting with the arts. The conference is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage in a conversation about the arts, environment, and technology.
a2ru is a partnership of more than 40 institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve.
In coordination with the a2ru conference the Willson Center's a2ru Faculty Research Cluster is accepting proposals from UGA faculty to support research projects to be featured during the time of the conference. Projects may be creative or scholarly in form, and they may be disciplinary or interdisciplinary in scope. A limited number of grants up to $1,500 will be awarded to projects that align with the theme and timing of the a2ru conference. A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with a detailed budget, to the Willson Center at [log in to unmask] Please note "UGA a2ru Cluster CFP" in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts and will be judged on proposal quality and alignment with the conference theme. Please contact Isabelle Loring Wallace, [log in to unmask], associate professor of contemporary art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and associate academic director for arts and a2ru in the Willson Center, with any proposal questions. Funding for proposals selected by the committee will be available July 1, 2018 (Deadline: March 22. Notification: April).
In addition to the UGA a2ru Research Cluster call, the Willson Center invites proposals from UGA faculty, students, or offices interested in connecting special projects (programs, exhibits, community engagement, etc.) with a student focus to the November 2018 a2ru National Conference. A limited number of grants up to $500 will be awarded up to projects that align with the theme and timing of the a2ru conference. A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with a detailed budget, to the Willson Center at [log in to unmask] Please note "UGA a2ru special projects proposal" in the subject line (Deadline: March 22. Notification: April). Please contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask], artistic director of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), with any proposal questions. Projects will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts and will be selected based on proposal quality and alignment with the conference theme.
Students who are interested in volunteering during the conference should contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask] Student volunteers will be recruited through early fall semester.
Proposals selected from both the UGA a2ru Research Cluster CFP and special projects submissions may be presented as posters or exhibits and will be branded and advertised in conjunction with the conference and coordinated to best align with the formal conference schedule.
For more information visit:
https://willson.uga.edu/calls-for-proposals-open-for-a2ru-2018-national-conference-at-uga-associated-willson-center-a2ru-research-cluster-and-special-projects-grants/
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1. Discussion and Reading: Bullets into Bells
Tuesday, March 20 at 6:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe will host writer Brian Clements for a poetry reading and discussion. Clements will discuss the book he co-edited, Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, featuring work by poets including Ocean Vuong, Natasha Threthewey, Naomi Shihab Nye and several others. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual. Brian Clements is the founding Coordinator of the MFA program and Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Writing at Western Connecticut State University. He is the author, most recently, of A Book of Common Rituals. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut, where his wife, a teacher, survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
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2. Performance: BFE
March 20 - 24 at 8 PM
March 25 at 2:30 PM
Seney-Stovall Chapel
A darkly comic coming-of-age tale detailing an Asian-American teen's struggles with identity, her agoraphobic mother, and a rash of local murders targeting blonde girls. Written by Julia Cho. Directed by Farley Richmond.Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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3. Performance: ROVA Saxophone Quartet
Tuesday, March 20 at 8 PM
Trio Gallery, 766 West Broad St.
$15 suggested donation
https://www.trioathens.com
ROVA Sax Quartet's musical goal has always been, since 1978, to instigate, to challenge, and to inspire. The group explores the synthesis of composition and collective improvisation, creating exciting, genre-bending music. With a 40th anniversary on Feb 4, 2018, ROVA is one of the longest-standing groups in the music movement that has its roots in post-bop, free jazz, avant-rock, and 20th century new music; ROVA draws inspiration from the visual arts, contemporary poetry, contemporary dance. We listen closely and deeply appreciate both the traditional and the pop music styles of Africa and Asia. And then there is the blues; always a key.
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4. Lecture: Namita Wiggers
Wednesday, March 21 at Noon
Georgia Museum of Art
Namita Gupta Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator based in Portland, OR. She is the Director and Co-Founder of Critical Craft Forum. Wiggers is the Director of a newly launched Master of Arts in Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina. The low residency program focuses on critical and historical craft studies. From 2014-17, Wiggers taught in MFA Applied Craft + Design, co-administered by Oregon College of Art + Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art, and at Portland State University. From 2004-14, she served as the Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR.
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5. Performance: A Night at the Morton: Soul Celebration
Wednesday, March 21 at 7 PM
Morton Theatre, 195 W. Washington St.
https://willson.uga.edu/event/a-night-at-the-morton-soul-celebration/
The Athens Music Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative of the UGA Hugh Hodgson School of Music, presents this interactive performance event, supported by a Public Impact Grant from the Willson Center. It is the third installment of this biannual program organized and directed by UGA music professors Jean Ngoya Kidula and Susan Thomas. Sponsors include Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Hodgson School, the Institute for African American Studies, and the Morton Theatre. The program is designed for music lovers of all ages and backgrounds.
Soul - embraced as a lifestyle, passion, musical genre and label - will be explored through interviews, performances and audience interaction. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets may be picked up at the Morton during business hours (Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. -1 p.m. and from 3-6 p.m.) or reserved by emailing [log in to unmask] or calling 706-613-3771.
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6. Panel Discussion: Where is the Craft Archive?
Thursday, March 22 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
What archives serve craft, how do they serve craft and where are they located? Join us for a lively conversation with a panel of leading scholars, curators, and educators in a dialogue on archives. This event accompanies the exhibition, "Crafting History: Textiles, Metals, and Ceramics at the University of Georgia" and its publication.
Panelists: Namita Wiggers is a writer, curator, and educator and is the director of the newly launched Master of Arts in Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College, North Carolina; Mia Hall is currently interim chair of the Department of Art and Design at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she has been a faculty member for 10 years and is soon to be the next director of Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina; Sarah Schleuning is curator of decorative arts and design at the High Museum of Art; Marilyn Zapf is the assistant director at the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design; Ashley Callahan is an independent scholar and curator in Athens, Georgia, with a specialty in modern and contemporary American decorative arts and craft.
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7. Colloquium: Sarah Bay-Cheng
Friday, March 23 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 53
Sarah Bay-Cheng will give a talk titled "Everybody's Historiography: History, Performance, and Playing the Digital in Museums." Dr. Bay-Cheng is Chair and Professor of Theater and Dance in the Department of Theater and Dance at Bowdoin College. Her research focuses on the intersections between performance and media including histories of cinema, social media, and technology in performance. Recent publications include Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (2015) and Mapping Intermediality in Performance (2010) as well as essays in TheatreJournal, Theater, Contemporary Theatre Review, and Theatre Journal, among others.
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8. Global Georgia Initiative: Robert Spano
Friday, March 23 at 12:30 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Recital Hall
Robert Spano, artistic director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, will visit UGA for a day of events supported by the President's Venture Fund, the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the Willson Center.
A panel discussion, "Conversation with Student Composers: Experimentation, Preparation, and Performance," moderated by Peter Van Zandt Lane, assistant professor of composition in the Hodgson School and director of the Roger and Phylis Dancz Center for New Music, will precede the UGA-Atlanta Symphony Composers Workshop in Hodgson Hall from 1:30-4 p.m., in which the symphony, conducted by Spano, will read and rehearse orchestral compositions by UGA student composers. Works were selected through a call-for-scores competition among UGA students.
Spano, a conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher, has won six Grammy Awards with the Atlanta Symphony during his 17 years as artistic director. The ASO established the Atlanta School of Composers under Spano's leadership, a reflection of his commitment to American contemporary music. He serves on the faculty of Oberlin Conservatory and is music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Spano is one of two classical musicians inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
The Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
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9. Lecture: Andrea Ballestero
Friday, March 23 at 3:30 PM
Miller Learning Center, room 213
Andrea Ballesteros is an assistant professor of anthropology at Rice University. Her work looks at the unexpected ethical and technical entanglements through which experts understand water in Latin America. In recent years her research has focused on following the paths of water pricing in Costa Rica, bureaucratic care for water in Brazil, and traveling water knowledge throughout Latin America. Her talk is part of the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History.
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10. Lecture: Julie Buckner Armstrong
Monday, March 26 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall 265
Historical markers call Birmingham's Kelly Ingram Park "Ground Zero" for the city's 1963 civil rights movement. Professor Armstrong - a civil rights scholar and a Birmingham daughter - turns an intersectional feminist lens on consensus memories of this significant public space. Julie Buckner Armstrong is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where she teaches courses in African American, American, and women's literatures. She has authored and edited multiple publications on the literature of civil rights and racial justice, including the Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature (Cambridge UP, 2015); Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching (U of Georgia P, 2011); The Civil Rights Reader: American Literature from Jim Crow to Reconciliation (U of Georgia P, 2009); and, with Susan Hult Edwards, Houston Roberson, and Rhonda Williams, Teaching the American Civil Rights Movement: Freeedom's Bittersweet Song (Routledge, 2002). Armstrong is currently working on a collection of essays, Birmingham Stories, about everyday people and places in the iconic civil rights movement city where she was born.
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11. Inlets Ensemble: Circling, Environment, Autonomy
Tuesday, March 27 from 6 - 10 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Atrium
Inlets Ensemble: Circling, Environment, Autonomy is a performative installation by Inlets Ensemble that features interactive, sonic works concerned with the nature and emergence of an aesthetic event, and the evolving perception and relationship with the event over time.
Inlets Foundation for Experimental Practices is a Miami-based artist-run organization emphasizing an expanded approach toward events and publications to foster radical forms of sonic expression. As a performing ensemble, the organization has presented contemporary and historical works of experimental music under the name Inlets Ensemble. The organization has created and participated within a variety of projects in South Florida, including at numerous unconventional locations.
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12. ICE Conversation: Inlets Foundation for Experimental Practices
Wednesday, March 28 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Inlets Foundation for Experimental Practices presents on their artistic practices, aesthetic philosophy, and concert programming. A Miami-based organization, Inlets organizes concert series that explore radical forms of sonic expression and unconventional performance contexts.
They perform their own works and that of other experimental artists from around the world. Their repertoire redefines the concert format, the role of the artist, and the relationship between artist, performer, and audience member. Many of their pieces are performed outdoors or in casual environments from inside retail stores to inside cars. Their art often has the effect of highlighting the profundity and complexity behind even the simplest performative actions and relationships.
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13. Opportunity: Call for Artists: EARTH Party!
Deadline: March 30
http://www.creaturecomfortsbeer.com/brewery-blog/2018/3/15/call-for-artists-earth-party
Since April 2015, in honor of Earth Month - which encompasses Earth Day on 4/22 - Creature Comforts has hosted events and art exhibitions to celebrate our planet. Our hope is that, in the same way art can inspire us to feel, think, and respond in ways that better ourselves, these events will perhaps remind our visitors of the responsibility we share as caretakers of the environment. The Earth has been good to us. Let's be good to it.
This year, we're doing something a little different. In partnership with the University of Georgia's Office of Sustainability, Creature Comforts is proud to present EARTH Party on Sunday, April 15, 2018 (1- 6pm). The event will incorporate a one-day-only pop-up show of artwork celebrating our incredible world at Creature Comforts' downtown taproom. This pop-up show will be curated by the Office of Sustainability's current Artist-in-Residence, Kira Hegeman, and Madeline Bates, Creature Comforts' in-house curator.
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14. Opportunity: Sustainable UGA Artist-in-Residence (deadline 4/9)
Deadline: April 9
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/internships/
The Sustainability + Arts initiative at UGA raises awaremess and encourages sustainable social, economic and environmental practices through creativity and engagement. Intern will work within new and existing programs to encourage divergent thinking and artistic inclusion into projects. All disciplines are encouraged to apply. This paid internship will last for both Fall and Spring semesters and will participate in the A2RU conference happening at UGA in November 2018.
The Office of Sustainability Student Internship Program, a collaboration with UGA's Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, provides opportunities for experiential learning, leadership, and professional development while making a positive and tangible impact within the University of Georgia and Athens communities.
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15. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
http://www.northoconeeriverproject.com/arts-project.html
The North Oconee River Project is a community-wide call for submissions of original projects that share knowledge, appreciation, experience, or attitudes towards the North Oconee River.
The North Oconee River Project invites the Athens community to submit proposals of artworks that celebrate the inherent rights of nature for inclusion in a site-specific event along the river and associated publication. Artworks should be inspired by nature and humanity's role within it, with special consideration given to works that demonstrate a knowledge, appreciation, experience, or attitude toward the North Oconee River. We invite submissions from any medium and practice inclusive of music, performance, poetry, visual art, prose and others.
Entries can fall under any discipline, can be presented in any format, and can use any medium. This includes but is not limited to all forms of material and digital art, performances of any kind, musical compositions, dance choreography, theatrical scripts, and fiction or non-fiction literature or films.
In addition, entries may be interdisciplinary in nature and may include information or materials from multiple disciplines and mediums. Entries both from individuals and collaborative teams of two or more people are welcome.
What is the selection process?
This event will take place along the North Oconee River, from Dudley Park to North Avenue at the North Oconee River Park. Performances will take place along the riverbed, and more stationary artworks will be exhibited in the park.
All proposals must be submitted online by March 31. There is no fee for submission. Proposals for funding will be considered on a rolling basis, so the earlier the submission the better.
This project is made possible by the support of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia.
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16. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference
"Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability"
November 1-3, 2018
Hosted by the University of Georgia
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
Deadline: Friday, April 6
The 2018 theme, "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability," is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the intersections, synergies, and interfaces between arts, environments, and their influence on design, resilience, and sustainability. Presentations vary in length and number of participants. We accept panel, paper, performance, and working group proposals. a2ru encourages proposals featuring panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, and ages. The ideal panel discussion will consist of participants who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences, and represent more than one institution.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is a partnership of institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve.
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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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