UGA Arts Collaborative
10.31.23
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*Arts Collaborative Mini Grants*
1. Spotlight on the Arts (November)
2. Conversation: Arts Funding Trends (11/6)
3. Cinema Roundtable: Billion Dollar BARBIE (11/3)
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. Treehouse Zine CFP (deadline 10/31)
9. CURO Research Awards (deadline 11/1)
10. Mod Squad Graduate Student Travel Grants (deadline 11/1)
11. Office of Sustainability Internships (deadline 11/3)
12. Call for Proposals: Integrative Conservation Conference (11/6)
13. MAP Fund CFP (deadline 12/19)
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*Arts Collaborative Mini Grants*
Call for Proposals
No deadline
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.
Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa
Proposal requirements:
- Brief description of project goals (up to 300 words)
- Names and project roles of collaborators
The Mini Grant Program is supported by the UGA Arts Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. The Arts Collaborative is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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1. 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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2. 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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3. Cinema Roundtable: Billion Dollar BARBIE: Greta Gerwig, Pop Culture & Barbiemania
Friday, November 3 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building, 400 (Balcony Theatre)
Greta Gerwig's Barbie has taken global cinemas by storm, earning over $1.4 billion and counting. Beyond all the box office revenues, which have provided a boost to movie theaters around the world this summer, Barbie has also spurred rave reviews from its vast fandom and critical reactions from cultural commentators. Even the French Communist paper L'Humanite pondered the phenomenon: "Can a movie be both a thinly disguised commercial to sell toys and an inspiring feminist comedy? It appears so."
This Willson Center Cinema Roundtable addresses the story, themes, style, cultural implications and gender politics of Gerwig's big pink production. Panelists include Kate Fortmueller (Film, Media & Theatre, Georgia State University), Antje Ascheid (Film Studies), designers Ivan Ingermann and Julie Ray (Theatre and Film Studies), and Chris Cuomo (Philosophy and Women's Studies). Richard Neupert (Film Studies) moderates. The event is free and open to the public, which will be invited to join in the lively conversation.
This event is part of the 2023 Spotlight on the Arts festival, presented by the UGA Arts Council.
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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. Treehouse Zine
Call for participation
Deadline: October 31
https://treehousezine.com
Treehouse invites artists, writers, musicians, hobbyists, doodlers, storytellers, and creatives to share their work. Everyone deserves a place to be creative and feel community. Building on the Athens underground, Treehouse Zine aims to support and spotlight art in all its forms.
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9. CURO Research Awards
Deadline: November 1
https://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
The CURO Research Award supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. Each year, as part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Award provides 500 scholarships of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research. Because of the scholarship nature of the award, students must be registered for a course during the semester in which they receive the award.
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10. "Mod Squad" Graduate Student Travel Grants
Deadline: November 1
https://willson.uga.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/09/Mod-Squad-Graduate-Grants-23-24.pdf
The Interdisciplinary Modernism Workshop, an initiative of UGA's Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, invites applications for graduate student travel grants. Applicants may be enrolled in an MA, MFA, or PhD program at the University of Georgia. We aim to award up to three grants of up to $750 each in support of graduate student travel to give a research presentation or performance, mount a gallery exhibition or equivalent project, or to conduct archival or field research. The applicant's project must have some connection with modernist cultural production, broadly defined.
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11. Office of Sustainability Internships
Deadline: November 3
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/internships/
The Office of Sustainability Student Internship Program provides opportunities for experiential learning and professional development while making a positive and tangible impact within the University of Georgia and Athens communities. The Office of Sustainability partners with campus and community organizations to identify real-world challenges and develop sustainable solutions. Leadership training is enhanced through a collaboration with J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development.
The Office of Sustainability is committed to cultivating an inclusive, diverse and respectful workplace. All current students are welcome and encouraged to apply. Applications for Spring Semester 2024 are due by November 3, 2023.
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12. 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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13. 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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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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