UGA Arts Collaborative
11.6.23
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*Spotlight on the Arts*
1. Conversation: Arts Funding Trends (11/6)
2. Favored by the Muses (11/6)
3. Treehouse Squared Fall Fest (11/12)
4. Portia Maultsby Events (11/7)
5. Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies Events (11/9 and 12)
6. a2ru Webinar: Imagining Otherwise (11/9)
7. 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest (11/14)
8. Call for Proposals: Integrative Conservation Conference (11/6)
9. Call for Nominations: ACC Poet Laureate (deadline 11/10)
10. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (deadline 11/17)
11. Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/20)
12. MAP Fund CFP (deadline 12/19)
13. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants (no deadline)
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*Spotlight on the Arts*
November 2023
Schedule: https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/
Spotlight on the Arts is the University of Georgia's annual celebration of the literary, visual and performing arts. Held each November, the month-long festival highlights the arts and humanities on campus with dozens of events and exhibitions.
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1. Arts Collaborative Conversation: Arts Funding Trends
Monday, November 6 at 11 AM
Main Art Building Room S360
What kinds of arts projects are getting funded? Graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research present a report about trends in arts funding and share examples of recent grants awarded by Creative Capital, MAP Fund, South Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization. This event is part of the UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival.
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2. Favored by the Muses
Monday, November 6 at 7 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 400 (Balcony Theatre)
https://drama.uga.edu/news/stories/2023/favored-muses-multidisciplinary-collaboration-celebrating-african-american-poet
"Favored by the Muses" is the culmination of a year-long collaboration between UGA and Texas Christian University that celebrates the literary and cultural legacy of America's first published Black female poet, Phillis Wheatley Peters (1753-1784), and the sesquicentennial of her collection,
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral." This performance project recreates elements of the 1934 "Phillis Wheatley Pageant," by Black activist, educator, and clubwoman Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). Composed by Terrell to critically commemorate the bicentennial of George Washington's birth while honoring the heritage of Phyllis Wheatley, the "Phyllis Wheatley Pageant" tells the story of the poet's kidnapping from Senegambia, her enslavement as a child in 1761, and her subsequent rise to transatlantic literary fame as a teen and young adult.
The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with participants. This event is free and open to the public and is generously funded by a Public Impact Grant from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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3. Treehouse Squared Fall Fest
Sunday, November 12 from noon - 3 PM
Treehouse Kid and Craft, 585 Barber St.
https://treehousezine.com/Events-1
Join Treehouse Zine and Treehouse Kid and Craft for fall activities including candle making, zine making, an ice cream special, and more. Open to all ages and free to participate in!
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4. Portia Maultsby Events
Tuesday, November 7
Georgia Museum of Art
The Singular Creativity of African-American Music
Mini-conference
10 AM - 2 PM
Register: https://2023-torrance-conference.eventbrite.com/
Community, Culture and Black Musical Creativity
Annual Torrance Lecture
2:30 PM
Register: https://maultsby-torrancelecture.eventbrite.com/
Renowned Ethnomusicologist Portia Maultsby delivers the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture. Portia K. Maultsby, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Founding Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture, and of the Indiana University Soul Revue. Her pioneering scholarship on African American music--religious, popular, music globalization, and the music industry--intertwines with creative endeavors. The latter includes Leader of R&B, Soul, and Funk Bands, songwriter-arranger and producer of commercial recordings, music consultant for PBS Black history documentary series, Eyes on the Prize II, and co-producer / consultant for museum films. Professor Maultsby has co-edited two books African American Music:An Introduction. 2nd. Ed. (2015) [3rd Ed. in progress] and Issues in African American Music (2017), Routledge Press.
Free Public Concert Celebrating Contemporary Black Music @ Athens, GA
4 - 5 PM
MC: Knowa Johnson, Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement
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5. Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies // Sea Sound Seen: Peter Van Zandt Lane, Dana Montlack, and Felicia Zamora
Thursday, November 9 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/spotlight_x_spotlight_ecologies_sea_sound_seen_peter_van_zandt_lane_dana_montlack_and_felicia_zamora
Peter Van Zandt Lane will give a presentation on his current composition project, Thresholds, a work for orchestra and electronics that incorporates data sonification from the Georgia Coastal Ecologies Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site and is supported by a grant from the Georgia Sea Grant Artists Program. Dana Montlack will talk about her photographic project, which hybridizes subject-matter to express the dynamics of life unobserved and unrecognized. Felicia Zamora visits to give a reading of her poetry, which meditates on the interstices of nature and culture.
Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies: Graduate Student Symposium
Sunday, November 12 from 2-6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W Broad St.
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/spotlight_x_spotlight_ecologies_graduate_student_symposium
Join six graduate students from the UGA Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art as they share their creative work at this interdisciplinary symposium. A Q&A session will follow the panel presentations. Light refreshment will be provided. This event is free and open to the public.
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6. Imagining Otherwise: Speculating New Forms of Graduate Education in Arts and Humanities
Thursday, November 9 at 3:30 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/imagining-otherwise-speculating-new-forms-of-graduate-education-in-arts-and-humanities/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration*
The Interseminars Imagining Otherwise experience was an eighteen-month collaboration across disciplines and difference that took place between 2022 and 2023. The project was sponsored and administered by the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois, and funded by the Mellon Foundation. Immediately the project went beyond the resource- affordances of institutional space, time, money, and the charge to connect across areas of study through the theme "Speculation in the Americas." In this webinar, faculty and graduate student participants will share their experiences in this innovative program and some of the emergent implications for graduate education and interdisciplinary inquiry.
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7. 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest
Tuesday, November 14 at 4 PM
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/research-in-the-arts-contest/
An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights UGA student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. This year's competition is coordinated by Katie Geha, director of the School of Art Galleries in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Gerald Ma, Editor-in-Chief of the The Georgia Review.
The 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA's annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.
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8. 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference at UGA
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 6
https://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
The Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR) is now accepting submissions for the 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC). With this year's theme of New Visions for Conservation, we hope to further rethink conservation both within and outside of the academy. We welcome proposals for organized sessions as well as presentations, including posters and creative contributions. ICC 2024 will take place February 16-17th at the UGA Special Collections Library, with some hybrid and online options.
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9. Call for Nominations: ACC Poet Laureate
Deadline: November 10
https://www.accgov.com/10776/Call-for-Applicants-Poet-Laureate-2023
Athens-Clarke County (ACCGov) is seeking applicants for a Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate program is administered by the Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Arts Division. ACCGov views the Poet Laureate position as a means to further enhance the profile of poets, poetry, and literary arts in our community and beyond. The Poet Laureate is expected to bring poetry to segments of our community that have less access or exposure to poetry: seniors, youth, schools and more. The Poet Laureate will be a creative person with the demonstrated ability to enact their vision. The Poet Laureate will make several guest appearances during the term, promoting poetry throughout the community.
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10. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research
Deadline: November 17
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (TIR) Pre-Seed Program provides early stage developmental funding to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics. The goal of the pre-seed funding is to stimulate the formation of new interdisciplinary research teams that position UGA faculty to be competitive for attracting resources for collaborative research, including internal UGA seed grants and ultimately, external grant support. The Program, first launched in the 2019-2020 academic year, is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
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11. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 20
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, effective partnerships, implementation feasibility, and available funding. Special consideration given to solutions that address Drawdown Georgia climate solutions, advance equity, and incorporate the arts.
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12. MAP Fund Call for Proposals
Deadline: December 19
https://mapfund.org/2024-cycle/
This opportunity is the latest in MAP's 35-year history of support for performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. In this grant cycle, MAP will invest $2.8M in the performance sector -- our largest investment in the performing arts ecology to date.
We encourage those who do not wish to seek project funding at this time to express interest in serving as a reviewer.
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13. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa
Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a project liaison and are eligible for up to $1000 in support for project expenses. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Proposals will be reviewed monthly by an interdisciplinary selection committee, pending the availability of funds.
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The UGA Arts Collaborative is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
http://arts-collab.uga.edu
For more events and opportunities visit:
http://calendar.uga.edu/
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