ICE Announcements 4.12.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: April Parker (4/16)
2. UGA MFA Exhibition (until 5/15)
3. Panel: Careers in Art Museums (4/13)
4. Webinar: Interdisciplinary Practice and Collaboration (4/13)
5. Lecture: Paul Tazewell (4/14)
6. Lecture: Sofia Cordova (4/15)
7. Text Analysis Workshop Series (4/15)
8. Colloquium: Patricia A. Banks (4/16)
9. Cinema Roundtable: Film & TV During the Covid Era (4/16)
10. Exhibition: Lost in the Weeds (opens 4/17)
11. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/23-25)
12. UGA Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress (4/30 and 5/1)
13. Opportunity: Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence (deadline 4/12)
14. Opportunity: Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge (deadline 4/15)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with April Parker
Friday, April 16 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcOiuqTItGd3ArsO6pyNF2SfGV9JKZKOP
How can organizations and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join April Parker, Arts Administrator in Residence at Elsewhere, a museum and artist residency set in a 3-floor former thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is an activist, community leader, and a Creative Catalyst Fellow in partnership with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. Free and open to the public via Zoom. For more about April Parker visit:
https://www.elsewheremuseum.org/projects/creative-catalyst-fellowship
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2. Whistling in the Dark: UGA MFA at the Athenaeum
April 12 - May 15
The Athenaeum
287 West Broad Street
Galleries open Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 AM - 5 PM
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the opening of the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition, displaying works by students graduating with their Master of Fine Arts Degree. Whistling in the Dark features the work of seven MFA students working in a variety of media from video to installation, painting, photography, and sculpture. Artists in the exhibition include: Mac Balentine, Matthew J. Brown, Caitlin Adair Daglis, Alex McClay, Katharine Miele, Ciel Rodriguez, and Kelsey Wishik.
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3. Careers in Art Museums
Tuesday, April 13 at 3:30 PM
https://uga.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ld-6hpzwvEty-dth-DHD_qdVFeatcN58i
Art museums employ scholars with a diversity of backgrounds and educational credentials for leadership and staff positions. Join us for this panel discussion with museum directors and museum staff to discuss the wide variety of career positions in museums with a particular emphasis on attracting a diversity of scholars to the art museum space. Panelists will share their own professional trajectories, what their roles involve, and how their graduate education prepared them for their specific roles. Panelists include: Linda Harrison (Newark Museum); Maurita Poole (Clark Atlanta University Art Museum); Michael Tomor (Tampa Museum of Art); Shawnya Harris (Georgia Museum of Art); Erin Northington (Block Museum of Art).
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4. Bringing It Together: Interdisciplinary Practice and Collaboration
Tuesday, April 13 at 7 PM
https://creative-capital.org/events/bringing-it-together-interdisciplinary-practices-in-the-arts/
How can interdisciplinary artists use their "generalist" skill set to benefit them in a range of roles across various arts institutions? Sheetal Prajapati and Creative Capital Awardee Pablo Helguera have spent much of their careers conceiving of and organizing public programs with curators, academics, and artists at museums. In this free online conversation, the two discuss their paths working across the field and among creative disciplines, and how this multiplicity of "identities" supports and speaks to their larger practices today.
Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services. Creative Capital seeks to amplify the voices of artists working in all creative disciplines and catalyze connections to help them realize their visions and build sustainable practices.
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5. Georgia Summit of Theatre Visionaries: Paul Tazewell
Wednesday, April 14 at 7 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/gatheatresummit
Paul Tazewell has been designing costumes for Broadway, Regional Theater, Film and Television, Dance, and Opera Productions for close to thirty years. He began his Broadway career with the groundbreaking musical, 'Bring in Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk, directed by George C. Wolfe. Most recently, Paul is known for his work with both of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award-winning, original Broadway productions of Hamilton and In the Heights.
In collaboration, Kennesaw State University, the University of Georgia, Emory University, and Walton High School will host a series of guest live presentations by top-notch theatre visionaries on Zoom Webinar during the Spring semester of 2021. The guests include Julie Taymor, Robert Wilson, George Tsypin, and Paul Tazewell. The goal of this collaboration project is to bring the insights of the theatre visionaries into classrooms. 500 participants comprised of students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to share these once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
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6. Lecture: Sofia Cordova
Thursday, April 15 at 5:30 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkcO-orDMtHt3j8yzHzNd1cCHxGOsva1aH
Born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and currently based in Oakland, California, Sofia Cordova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory potential, the internet, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and extinction and mutation as evolution, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, installation, photography, and sometimes taxidermy. She is one half of the music duo and experimental sound outfit XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, they collectively score all of her video work. She has exhibited and performed at venues such as SFMOMA, the Wattis Institute, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
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7. Text Analysis Workshop Series
Thursday, April 15 at 4 PM
http://bit.ly/textseries2
Creating your own Social Media Corpus
Instructor: Katie Kuiper, Ph.D. candidate in linguistics
This series of workshops will show participants their options to analyze text at scale. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary.
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8. Colloquium: Patricia A. Banks
Friday, April 16 at 3 PM
https://sociology.uga.edu/events/content/2021/diversity-capital-race-and-corporate-support-arts
"Diversity Capital: Race and Corporate Support for the Arts," Patricia A. Banks, co-editor-in-chief of Poetics and professor of sociology, Mount Holyoke College. This talk is part of a series on the Black image that is sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for African American Studies.
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9. Cinema Roundtable: Film & TV During the Covid Era
Friday, April 16 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ijpzhpmXTTKtos4xxZdGBg
The pandemic has completely disrupted film production, distribution and exhibition over the past year. Even before cinemas closed, online streaming services were transforming the industry. Covid-related closures sped up some recent trends but also brought severe challenges to the production of film and television productions. This panel will assess short-term and long-term effects of the pandemic on filmmaking and especially spectatorship.
Panelists include three faculty from Entertainment and Media Studies in Grady College: Kate Fortmueller, who works on labor and the effects of the pandemic on Hollywood, Anne Gilbert, who studies movie attendance and streaming, and screenwriter Neil Landau, who will assess hurdles for writers and production. Two former FILM and EMST majors will also join the panel: Jianna Justice has worked at film distributor A24 and is now with Netflix, and Kelsey Cunningham works at Hulu. The panel is moderated by film professor Richard Neupert. The audience will also be invited to participate by asking questions and sharing comments.
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10. Lost in the Weeds: Climate Change and Human Nature
April 17 - May 22
https://athica.org/updates/weeds/
Socially-Distanced Opening Reception: Saturday, April 17 at 6 PM
An exhibition curated by Macon-based artist/curator Craig Coleman and featuring the works of eleven individual artists and four collaborative artist teams from across the country and beyond. All use the stuff of nature to convey the beauty, mystery, and inescapability of its rule, and perhaps, its ruin. The technology-infused works on display take form through new approaches to sculpture, installation, video, interactive sound and video, virtual reality, animation, blown glass, weaving, and more and derive their substance from natural materials, the ecosystems of the world, and data from natural phenomenon. Thought-provoking, energetic, and urgent, these works both analyze our changing environment and substantiate a new way for art to express the effects of humanity on our small planet.
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11. Torrance Festival of Ideas
Friday, April 23 - Sunday, April 25
https://mfecoe.shorthandstories.com/FestivalofIdeas2021/index.html
Registration for this event is free and is limited to the first 1,000 attendees.
The Festival features 21 speakers from across the globe who explore themes and questions relevant to creativity, imagination, art, music, humor, empathy, consciousness, wellbeing, mindfulness, childhood, aging, education, equality, data, identity, healing, health, crisis, curiosity, innovation, entrepreneurship, authenticity, political resistance, and sociocultural change. The spirit of Athens will also be showcased, with spotlights on local non-profit organizations that serve the community in creative and crucial ways.
We are encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in a creative challenge exploring the theme, "Reflections on 2020." We are seeking submissions of creative contributions through April 1.
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12. History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress
Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1
https://www.slaveryatuga.org
The inaugural History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress will feature presentations and performances on the histories of slavery at the University of Georgia. The Symposium will seek to recognize, reconcile, and redress the historical and contemporary impacts of slavery at UGA and in Athens, Georgia. Participating will be scholars, activists, political representatives, artists, educators, students, and practitioners who are interested in exploring racial justice within and beyond the UGA community. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and is limited to 500 viewers.
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13. Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence Intern: Pollinator Project
Deadline: April 12
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/internships/
The Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence (AiR) is a non-traditional position designed to infuse creativity into on-going Office of Sustainability (OoS) programs and activities, promote collaboration between artists and other disciplines, engage the campus community in new ways, and give artists an opportunity to explore ideas and develop work related to sustainability. The AiR will spend up to 10 hours each week at the Office of Sustainability in the Chicopee Building, where they will embed in the Campus Pollinator Project and develop at least one creative project that engages the campus and/or community (such as workshops, exhibitions, performance, intervention, etc.). The AiR receives support and resources from the OoS, with guidance from the Social Ecology Lab and Ideas for Creative Exploration. All arts disciplines are encouraged to apply. This internship will last both Fall and Spring semesters.
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15. Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge
Deadline: April 15
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/art-challenge/
In an act of unity, partnering organizations are collectively calling on the UGA and Athens community to reflect, embody, and create artworks in alignment with the goals of Envision Athens' 2021 Year of the Good Neighbor. Prompt: Create a work of art that celebrates and inspires good neighbors - caretakers of people and the planet - to establish a more unified, equitable, prosperous, and compassionate community. All people are eligible and all art mediums that can be experienced online are accepted. Awards offered in three categories: Appreciation, Awareness, and Action.
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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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