ICE Announcements 1.27.20
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Food (1/31)
2. Lecture: Larry Ossei-Mensah (1/28)
3. Performance: Sandy Ewen, Killick, and Kathryn Koopman (1/29)
4. Reading: Chelsea Dingman (1/29)
5. Reading and Discussion: Kazim Ali (1/30)
6. Colloquium: Ailey II Q&A (1/31)
7. Performance: Long Green (2/1)
8. Integrative Conservation Conference (2/6-9)
9. Opportunity: UGA Innovation Bootcamp (deadline 2/3)
10. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/17)
11. Opportunity: a2ru Ground Works (deadline 2/28)
12. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline 2/29)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Food
Friday, January 31 at 10 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
https://www.facebook.com/events/108558793932851/
What is the role of the arts in addressing local and global issues of food production, access, and waste? Join us for a conversation about artists projects and the new Foodshed UGA initiative.
Presented by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.
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2. Lecture: Larry Ossei-Mensah (1/28)
Tuesday, January 28, 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151
"The Rules of Engagement: How to Navigate the Art World in 2020 and Beyond"
Larry Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome in addition to documenting cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.
Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Ossei-Mensah is also the recent recipient of the Warhol Foundation grant for $50K for his current exhibition at Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco entitled Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox co-curated with Dexter Wimberly. This Fall, Ossei-Mensah will be curating his second exhibition as the Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD entitled Crossing Night: Regional Identities x Global Context with Josh Ginsburg from the A4 Arts Foundation and Jova Lynne, Ford Curatorial Fellow at MOCAD.
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3. Music by Sandy Ewen, Killick Hinds, and Kathryn Koopman
Wednesday, January 29 at 7 PM
ATHICA
http://athica.org
Join us for this evening of experimental music featuring sound artist Sandy Ewen, Appalachian Trance Metalist Killick Hinds, and electro-acoustic composer and performer Kathryn Koopman.
Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX. Ewen's audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques, improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements -- railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other items become an arsenal of abstraction.
Killick Hinds lives in Athens, Georgia. His music is Appalachian Trance Metal made on unusual stringed instruments with an emphasis on unquantifiable rhythms, intuitive intonation, and shamanistic ROYGBIV.
Kathryn Koopman (b. 1995) is a performer, music educator, and electro-acoustic composer originally from Dallas, Georgia. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Music Composition at the University of Georgia.
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4. Reading: Chelsea Dingman
Wednesday, January 29 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Creative Writing Program, with the University of Georgia Press, is pleased to present a reading by the 2018 Georgia Poetry Prize Winner Chelsea Dingman. Her collection Through A Small Ghost was chosen by poet Travis Denton. Dingman's first book, Thaw (Georgia), was chosen by Allison Joseph to win the National Poetry Series. Dingman is also the author of the chapbook What Bodies Have I Moved and has won the Southeast Review's Gearhart Poetry Prize, the Sycamore Review's Wabash Prize, the Water-stone Review's Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association's Creative Writing Award for Poetry.
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5. "Queer Faith": A Discussion and Poetry Reading Featuring Kazim Ali
Thursday, January 30 at 7 PM
UGA Chapel
The Georgia Review will celebrate the launch of its Winter 2019 issue by hosting a reading and discussion centered on the theme "queer faith." Internationally renowned writer Kazim Ali and Lee Cornell, an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Athens, will each read from their respective work. Then they will have a conversation, moderated by Joshua Patterson, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education and co-organizer of the Willson Center research seminar Religion and the Common Good. A book signing to follow. ASL interpretation will be provided.
Ali was born in the United Kingdom to Muslim parents of Indian, Iranian, and Egyptian descent. His books encompass several volumes of poetry, most recently Inquisition (Wesleyan University Press, 2018); his prose works include the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies (Tupelo Press, 2018), the novel The Secret Room: A String Quartet (Kaya Press, 2017), and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice (Tupelo Press, 2011). "The Voice of Sheila Chandra," which appears in the new issue of The Georgia Review, is the title poem of Ali's next collection, forthcoming from Alice James Books in October 2020. He is currently a professor of literature and writing at the University of California, San Diego.
This event is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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6. Colloquium: Ailey II Q&A
Friday, January 31 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 400
Description
Fana Fraser, Rehearsal Director for world-renowned dance troupe Ailey II will meet with UGA students and faculty for a Q&A prior to Ailey II 7:30pm performance at the Performing Arts Center.
Ailey II is an offshoot of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Founded in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, Ailey II embodies his pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and community programs for all people.
Dance Magazine calls Ailey II "second to none," and The New York Times declares, "There's nothing like an evening spent with Ailey II, the younger version of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater."
Fraser has performed with Ailey II, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Sidra Bell Dance New York, The Francesca Harper Project, The Metropolitan Opera, Andrea Miller for Hermes, Ryan McNamara for Performa 13, Art Basel, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. As a choreographer, her works have been presented at Emerging Artists Theatre, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance) and Trinidad Theatre Workshop.
This event is sponsored by the Performing Arts Center, the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, the Department of Dance, and the Institute for African American Studies.
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7. Performance: Long Green
Saturday, February 1 at 7 PM
ATHICA
http://athica.org
Featuring the jazz-inflected mood music of Long Green, with George Davidson on saxophone and Joe Rowe on bass, accompanied by Moving Image Projections by Lauren Fancher.
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8. Integrative Conservation Conference
February 6-9, 2020
UGA Special Collections Library
Register: http://cicr.uga.edu/icc-2020/
The Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) invites you to connect across boundaries to create more just and innovative solutions to today's conservation challenges.
Connections across academic disciplines, sciences and the arts, and academia and the general public highlight the collaborative nature of conservation initiatives. ICC fosters inclusive spaces that promote cross-cutting conservation work by exploring how different values and knowledge systems impact conservation theory and practice.
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9. Spring 2020 UGA Innovation Bootcamp Application
Deadline: Feb. 3
https://research.uga.edu/gateway/researchers/entrepreneurs/innovation-bootcamp/
The Office of Research is now accepting applications for the university's Innovation Bootcamp, a seven-week program that delivers tailored training in order to equip attendees with the key skills needed for success in an innovative, entrepreneurial environment.
The Spring 2020 Innovation Bootcamp, which is open to all faculty and postdoctoral fellows, is designed to examine the unique challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. Participants will meet weekly to learn firsthand about the basics of commercialization and targeted skill building, as well as receive one-on-one support from experienced coaches, many of whom are successful entrepreneurs.
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10. Willson Center Grants
Deadline: February 17
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
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.
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11. Call for Submissions: a2ru Ground Works
Priority date for submissions is February 28, 2020
http://groundworks.io
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works.
We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts.
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12. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
https://creative-capital.org/award/about/
The next application for the Creative Capital Awards opens to artists in all disciplines February 1-29, 2020, and you can read and prepare for all the questions that we ask. Sign up for our newsletter to hear about upcoming open application periods, and info sessions about the Creative Capital Award.
Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding and career development services valued at $50,000, for a total commitment of up to $100,000 per project.
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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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