ICE Announcements 10.26.20
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Lecture: Silas Munro (11/11)
2. Save the date: Kyna Leski (12/8)
3. a2ru Conference Free Session (10/28)
4. ArtPlace America Virtual Summit (10/26-30)
5. Opportunity: 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition (deadline 11/4)
6. I-Corps Fall Showcase (10/26)
7. Screening: Hearts of Glass (10/27)
8. Artists for Democracy: Laura Owens (10/27)
9. Workshop: Data Visualization (10/28)
10. Poetry Class with Nicholas Allen (10/29)
11. Lecture: Ali Rosa-Salas (10/29)
12. Spotlight on the Arts (begins 11/4)
13. Opportunity: Giving Voice to the Voiceless (deadline 10/30)
14. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/16)
15. Opportunity: UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (until 11/16)
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1. Lecture: Silas Munro
Wednesday, November 11 at 3 PM
Webinar: zoom.us/j/96553248097
"W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America"
Silas Munro is a partner of poly-mode, a bi-coastal design studio, an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and Advisor, Founding Faculty, and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the past year he emerged as one of the most exciting practitioners of community-engaged design and as an influential scholar known for his contributions to W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America published by Princeton Architectural Press in late 2018. The project has been featured in articles in Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, and Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society).
Munro's scholarly research addresses the relationship between designers' personal identities, formal systems and strategies they utilize, and how both interact with the communities they serve. In workshops and lectures he addresses post-colonial relationships between design and marginalized communities and offers practical ways for educators and practitioners to decolonize the way design is taught ("Major/Minor History") and to create inclusive new frameworks ("Nodal Historical Network"). His design work and writing has been published in books, exhibitions, and websites in Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and the UK including Chronicle Books, IDEA magazine, Eye, and Slanted magazine.
He earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has been a critic and lecturer at leading programs including Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, NC State, RISD, and CalArts. His design studio, poly-mode, works with cultural institutions and community based organizations including MoMA, The Phillips Collection, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Walker Art Center, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New Museum, Wynwood Arts District Miami, and the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
Remote presentation and conversation hosted by Ideas for Creative Exploration with the support of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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2. 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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3. a2ru Conference Free Session
Wednesday, October 28 at 3 PM
https://bit.ly/3dqHGvu
In conjunction with the 2020 conference, a2ru Ground Works journal is presenting a special free session, "Dear Arts Integration Community: A Letter of Inquiry from the CERN-IARI Collaboration." Ground Works invites the interdisciplinary CERN-IARI team to present their early-stage research, followed by feedback from a Ground Works panel and a discussion with session attendees. As the team -- comprised of a visual artist, curator, mathematician, and physicist -- is in the conceptual phase of their work together, their presentation is about potential and process rather than a finished project.
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4. ArtPlace America Virtual Summit
October 26-30
https://artplacesummit.org
This year, ArtPlace America culminates a decade of work as part of an extraordinary community of artists, community developers, culture bearers, designers, government officials, philanthropists, and researchers who have come together from rural, suburban, Tribal, and urban communities across the United States. We are coming together at a moment of nearly unprecedented crisis and opportunity: COVID-19, nationwide uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism, a looming election that will determine the direction, and possibly the fate, of our democracy. It's a crucial time for conversations on the issues facing our communities and our field, and a time to hear from national and local leaders of the ongoing effort to enlist arts and creativity in the work of making our communities healthier, safer, more joyful, and more just.
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5. Call for Submissions: 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition 2020
Deadline: Wednesday, November 4
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/#433
The 4'33'' Research in the Arts Competition 2020 invites all UGA student scholars and artists to share their research and compete for cash prizes in this exciting, virtual event. The competition will highlight 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. To participate in the contest students will submit a filmed, oral presentation on their research no longer than 4 minutes and 33 seconds in length. Technical assistance is available upon request. The 4'33" Competition will be held on Wednesday, November 20.
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6. UGA I-Corps Fall Showcase
Monday, October 26 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uga-i-corps-2020-fall-showcase-tickets-122108452669
Come see the latest UGA I-Corps cohort present their impressive projects! UGA I-Corps is the NSF-funded program that provides UGA teams (faculty, students and community) the training and funds needed to begin understanding the value they might bring to customers. You'll hear about everything from groundbreaking drug discovery technology to seed sensors and VR tools. These presentations represent the newest additions to our pipeline of more than 100 projects progressing toward commercialization.
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7. Screening and Discussion: "Hearts of Glass"
Tuesday, October 27 at 4 PM
https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/uga
"Hearts of Glass" documentary is about Vertical Harvest, an ambitious small business located in Jackson Hole, WY, that combines high-tech local food production and meaningful employment for people with disabilities. Join a discussion with the filmmaker, Vertical Harvest employees, and Clarke County School District and UGA Faculty.
Stream the film between Friday, Oct. 23, and Friday, Oct. 30 and join the panel discussion at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27 here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cn7wp08WRZuaG7hAPn0SjA
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8. Artists for Democracy: Laura Owens
Tuesday, October 27 at 8 PM
https://www.artists4democracy.com/
The Dodd Galleries has partnered with Artists 4 Democracy to bring a series of lectures in which artists talk about their work and why they vote.
Laura Owens (American, b.1970) is a mixed-media painter, best known for her images of animals and landscape incorporating a number of art historical references. Originally from Euclid, OH, Owens received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She later completed her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. After emerging onto the art scene in the late 1990s, she became the youngest artist ever to receive a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. She has also had solo shows at the Bonnefantan Museum, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Milawaukee Art Museum, Aspen Art Museum, and the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art. In addition, she was a featured artist at the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Owens lives and works in Los Angeles.
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9. Intro to Data Visualization Resources at UGA and Beyond
Wednesday, October 28 at 4 PM
What to do with all that data? This series of workshops will introduce a number of methods for visualizing data and creating compelling images. Instructors will introduce the concepts using web tools, Excel, Tableau, and R. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary. Contact [log in to unmask] for Zoom link.
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10. Poetry Class with Nicholas Allen
Thursday, October 29 at Noon
"Seamus Heaney's 'Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication,'" an open poetry class by Nicholas Allen, chaired Professor in Humanities in the department of English and director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. This event will be presented remotely via Zoom. Please email Winnie Smith at [log in to unmask] to register. Allen will lead a one-time public class on Heaney's "Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication," which are "Sunlight" and "The Seed Cutters." Heaney reads them here:
https://vimeo.com/9449501
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11. Lecture: Ali Rosa-Salas
Thursday, October 29 at 7 PM
https://zoom.us/j/94791528219
As Director of Programming at Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement, Ali Rosa-Salas develops the Center's live programming, exhibitions, and residencies. As an independent curator, she has produced exhibitions, performances, and public programs with AFROPUNK, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Danspace Project, DISCWOMAN, Knockdown Center, MoCADA, Weeksville Heritage Center, and more. She has also organized discursive events as an Alumnae Fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women and as the Associate Curator of the 2017 American Realness Festival. She graduated from Barnard with a B.A. in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with interdisciplinary concentrations in Dance and Race/Ethnic Studies and has an M.A. from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University.
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12. Spotlight on the Arts 2020
November 4-20
https://arts.uga.edu
Spotlight on the arts is presented by the University of Georgia Arts Council and includes dozens of virtual exhibitions and performances in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Events are free to UGA students, and the annual Spotlight on the Arts Family Day, held on Nov. 7, will be home-based using a free art kit that participants can pick up from the museum. Highlights of this year's 17-day festival include a performance from Grammy-winning singer Kathy Mattea, a multimedia theatre work "Breathe," exploring our current American moment focused on social and political upheaval with an emphasis on action, and the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame keynote address. The Georgia Museum of Art will host nine exhibitions during Spotlight 2020, including "The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design." The museum is open to the public for exhibition viewing through free timed ticketing to limit the number of people in the building at one time.
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13. Call for Proposals: Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Program
Deadline: October 30
https://grady.uga.edu/call-for-student-proposals-charlayne-hunter-gault-giving-voice-to-the-voiceless-program/
The Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Program invites proposals from students from across the University of Georgia to undertake projects that amplify marginalized voices and thus carry forward the work of distinguished alumna, journalist and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The committee's goal is to recognize and financially support compelling student projects that center on marginalized people or issues, advancing social justice and creating bonds of empathy and understanding. Whatever the platform or medium envisioned or employed (video, podcast, interview, research project or other format) selected projects should show the "giving voice to the voiceless" vision in action. Proposals should be 1-3 pages in length. They should describe the project or story, explain how it will give voice to the voiceless, offer a simple budget to show how funds will be used, and outline hoped-for outcomes, including ideas for sharing the project with audiences.
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14. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 16
https://sustainability.uga.edu/grants
Funded by the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to implement projects to advance sustainability on campus and in our local community. Special consideration will be given to interdisciplinary projects that advance equity and incorporate the arts.
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15. UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program
Applications open October 1
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research 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 is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
Finding may be used for team-building activities such as networking meals, part-time student support, group website development, and travel to meet with potential external collaborators or funding agencies. Funds will be made available to teams beginning in January 2021.
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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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