ICE Announcements 11.30.20
http://ice.uga.edu
1. 4'33" Research in the Arts (streaming until 12/18)
2. Arts Chat: Amber Iman (12/2)
3. "Seatangled" Book Launch (12/3)
4. Kyna Leski: From Field (12/8)
5. Online Exhibition: Shelter Projects
6. Reading Room: ArtPlace America 10 Years
7. Opportunity: The Defiance Project (deadline 11/30)
8. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/7)
9. Opportunity: ATHICA Hindsight 20/20 (12/10-1/9)
10. Opportunity: Ground Works CFP (deadline 2/26)
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1. 4'33" Research in the Arts
http://live.ugatheatre.com/shows/
The 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition will stream until December 18.The competition highlights scholarly research about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theatre, dance, film, literature, media arts, or performance art. Participants submitted a filmed, oral presentation on their research no longer than 4 minutes and 33 seconds in length.
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2. Arts Chat: Amber Iman
Wednesday, December 2 at 4 PM
https://www.facebook.com/ugapresents
A Georgia peach, Amber Iman has forged a career as a dynamic actor and powerful singer in New York, on tour across America, and Atlanta. Broadway credits include Shuffle Along, written and directed by George C. Wolfe, choreographed by Savion Glover, and boasting an all-star cast including Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Adrienne Warren, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Joshua Henry. Additional New York credits include Soul Doctor (Broadway) and Rent (New World Stages). Amber is a proud founding member of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, and Black Women On Broadway, a digital platform celebrating the rich legacy of black women in theatre.
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3. "Seatangled" Book Launch: Nicholas Allen in Conversation with Eve Patten and John Kerrigan
Thursday, December 3 at 2 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqduurrzsjE9EecnXfHTK2KTaA-F1HxxOq
A conversation to launch "Ireland, Literature and the Coast: Seatangled," the new book by Nicholas Allen, director of the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, which has been published with Oxford University Press. Allen, who holds an endowed professorship in the humanities in the department of English, will talk about the book with Eve Patten, professor of English and Trinity Long Room Hub director at Trinity College Dublin, and John Kerrigan, professor of English at the University of Cambridge.
The island of Ireland is home to one of the world's great literary and artistic traditions. This book reads Irish literature and art in context of the island's coastal and maritime cultures, beginning with the late imperial experiences of Jack and William Butler Yeats and ending with the contemporary work of Anne Enright and Sinead Morrissey.
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4. Lecture: Kyna Leski
Tuesday, December 8 at 4:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6RMTDey6TOyzVF8my38q0w
Kyna Leski will deliver the 2020 Torrance Lecture. The lecture "From Field" will be delivered online as a Zoom webinar that will simultaneously be livestreamed on YouTube. Webinar places are free but limited, so register as early as possible.
Journalist of dreams; animation artist; author; designer of buildings, bowls and benches; Kyna Leski has dedicated her lifework to the creative process. As a young girl she witnessed her father design projects from his drawings and sketches through to their realization and reception by the public to which they still belong. It was an education in process, the workings of intuition-to design-to building, the difficult relationship of stated intention to experience and the transubjectivity between. These early ponderings underpinned her work as a student at The Cooper Union and Harvard's GSD; her work as a designer and principal (with Chris Bardt) of 3six0 Architecture. It has been fed and nourished by over three decades of teaching design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she is Professor in Architecture. She has served as Department Head and Head of RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. Kyna has given talks from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach California to Pop!tech in Camden Maine. She is the author of "The Storm of Creativity," published by The MIT Press (2015) and translated into five languages.
The annual Torrance Lecture at UGA: The E. Paul Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education annually brings together scholars, professionals and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
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5. Online Exhibition: Shelter Projects
https://willson.uga.edu/public-partners/shelter-projects-online-exhibition/
In the spring of 2020 the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the Graduate School, the UGA Arts Council, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and Flagpole magazine, awarded 34 micro-fellowships in a new program called Shelter Projects. The $500 fellowships supported graduate students and community-based artists and practitioners in the creation of shareable reflections on their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic through the arts and humanities.
The funded projects were selected by a committee of the sponsoring UGA units and Flagpole from among more than 100 proposals representing more than 25 departments, schools, and colleges across the university, as well as the Athens and Georgia communities at large. Selected proposals included projects in music, film/video, theater, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, short stories, publishing, and other media. The projects were completed during the spring and summer, and are now exhibited on the Willson Center's website along with several "Volunteer Projects" generously shared by some of those among the many who submitted proposals that could not be funded.
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6. Reading Room: ArtPlace America 10 Years
Source: www.artplaceamerica.org/library/artplace-10-years
"Operating from 2010 to 2020, ArtPlace's mission was to position arts and culture as a core sector of community planning and development and to strengthen the field of creative placemaking. ArtPlace worked to enlist artists as allies in cultivating equitable, healthy, and sustainable communities across the United States. ArtPlace worked toward this goal by supporting demonstration projects through the National Creative Placemaking Fund; organizational change through the Community Development Investments program; cross-sector research and resource strategies to embed practice across the field of community development; knowledge and network strategies within the fields of arts and culture, local government, and higher education; and storytelling and convening work."
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7. The Defiance Project
Call for Entries
Deadline extended: November 30
https://www.mortontheatre.com/the-defiance-project
The Morton Theatre Corporation invites Black and African-American identifying artists to submit short films or studio art pieces responding to the Black Lives Matter Movement and/or depicting the lives or history of Blacks and African-Americans in America.
Artists are invited to submit either studio art creations or short narrative or documentary films, filmed poetry readings, music performances, dance performances, or time-lapsed studio art presentations. A jury will select up to 10 projects to each receive a $500 cash award.
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8. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 7
https://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
Guidelines: Convey a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top four submissions receive prizes of $1,000, $800, $600, and $400.
Special Prize: An additional $200 will be made available to the entry that engages most successfully with the topic of either COVID-19 or Racial and Ethnic Justice.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are eligible. Multidisciplinary and collaborative group submissions are highly encouraged. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
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9. Hindsight 20/20: A Community Catharsis
December 10, 2020 - January 9, 2021
http://athica.org/updates/hindsight2020
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art announces a community farewell to 2020, in which members of the Athens community are invited to share artifacts, meditations, artwork, and other personal expressions in a group pop-up exhibition.
Can you believe that 2020 is almost over?
The ATHICA board asks you to join us in a community reflection on the unprecedented events of 2020, through which we have all struggled as individuals and as a community. The Hindsight 20/20 community pop-up exhibition and event series is for anyone who has something to share -- no experience necessary. ATHICA will provide a safe space to process, reflect, meditate, and prepare to move forward. Let's build our resilience by sharing and saying goodbye to the experiences that have shaped 2020.
Do you have a poster or sign you made to carry in a protest or put in your front yard? A poem or a prayer? A tee shirt, a bumper sticker, banner, or button? Did you take up knitting, crossword puzzles, or origami? When you think back over 2020, what exemplifies the year for you? A picture from a magazine can tell your story -- consider adding your own thoughts or words on top. How can your personal symbolism and experience be expressed in everyday materials?
Hindsight 20/20 is sponsored in part by The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation and the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia Council for the Arts also receives support from its partner agency -- the National Endowment for the Arts.
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10. Ground Works Call for Proposals
Deadline: Friday, February 26
https://groundworks.io/proposals/2/home_show
"Vibrant Ecologies of Research"
Guest Editor: Dr. Aaron Knochel
Organizations like a2ru highlight a growing trend in higher education that the arts not only play a vital role in campus culture, but in research and teaching as well. Education researchers and major granting agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of artists' and designers' contributions to dynamic and evolving knowledge, community building, and cultural production. Whether it be an increasing emphasis on the fluidity of knowledge and inquiry through movements in S.T.E.A.M. or elevating the role the arts and education can play in some of our most vital professions in healthcare and medicine, creative practice is getting a lot of attention from academia.
Yet, while all of this discourse gushes on the impact of the arts, there is a lot to be learned about how to cultivate fertile ground for this vital work so that it is nimble and responsive in the fast-changing world of higher education. In other words, what are the elements necessary to create a vibrant ecology of research where art and design inquiry may flourish alongside, within, and out of social and physical science research that is so deeply embedded within the fiber of research-oriented universities? "Ecology" in this sense focuses on the relationships that bind component parts into ecosystems and may be used to understand a wide array of social and cultural production.
A2RU issues this call for submissions to a special edition of Ground Works.
In this special issue of Ground Works, we welcome submissions that focus on deepening our understanding of the institutional, social, and epistemological systems that effectively weave arts-based inquiry into the scholarly fabric of research. Vibrant ecologies of research call attention to the complex and nuanced articulations of how institutions, research groups, and organizations come together and what elements allow them to thrive. Thinking ecologically provides a systematic view while also attending to the material agencies, institutional architectures, and human interrelationships that nurture, foment, and/or cultivate deep disciplinary integration.
The Vibrant Ecologies of Research call for submissions suggests the following possible threads:
What forms of leadership, resources, and institutional structures most effectively impact research agendas across disciplines?
How might these entangled and productive ecosystems be analyzed or understood so that other institutions, scholars, and communities may benefit?
How does disciplinarity operate in these ecosystems? What are its material and human components and how may they be sustained?
How responsive are these ecologies so that they may remain vibrant, productive, and impactful in light of social and cultural upheaval? How may productive ecosystems respond to failure?
How might vibrant ecologies of research provide leadership and vision in models of diversity, equity and inclusion?
Submissions are encouraged to share mature case studies of practice but are also encouraged to deepen our understandings of systemic perspectives that affect these cases. Submissions should include concrete examples of the ecosystem in question -- leveraging Ground Works capacity to feature rich media -- as well as analysis or explication of the ecology. We are actively seeking submissions that further conversations focused on the vitality of arts-based inquiry in spaces of research that extend, augment, or mutate conceptions of knowledge, ethical decision making, and accessibility to research cultures. Ground Works encourages a wide array of submission types that incorporate multimedia to tell the story of your vibrant ecology of research.
Submissions from both academic and non-academic settings are welcome. Successful submissions will have achieved some initial recognition. They may be collaborative or sole-author, but should advance general understanding of how the arts and other disciplines can be successfully integrated. Selected submission will be included in a special issue of the Ground Works online, open-access showcase of exemplar projects, contributing to understanding of the practices that underlie arts-integrative and interdisciplinary work.
As with all submissions to Ground Works, submissions to Vibrant Ecologies of Research begin with a brief suitability review that includes a short summary of the project, a statement of relevance, and appropriate links (sign in to begin the submission process and see specific prompts). These are reviewed by Editors for fit with the Vibrant Ecologies of Research special issue, and with the scope and mission of the journal. There is an anticipated 10-day turnaround on decisions in Stage 1. Submitters may then be invited to the second project review stage (anticipated two-month turnaround), in which they provide a focused 1,000 word narrative, as well as media for their project. Stage 2 submissions will be examined by two external reviewers. Successfully evaluated projects are included in our online compendium, and their authors are invited to contribute reflections on their process and effective practice.
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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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