ICE Announcements 1.6.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. ICE CV Workshop (2/7)
2. ICE Art+Tech Workshop (2/7)
3. Lecture: Jordan Casteel (2/6)
4. UGA French Film Festival (begins 2/6)
5. Global Georgia Initiative: Qiu Xiaolong (2/8)
6. William Westney Events (2/8-10)
7. Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya (2/9)
8. Opportunity: Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Grants (deadline 2/15)
9. Opportunity: Willson Center Research Seminar Program (deadline 2/15)
10. Opportunity: a2ru Summer Intensive (deadline: 2/16)
11. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline: 2/28)
12. Course Opportunity: Poetry for Interdisciplinary Understanding
13. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference (deadline 4/6)
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1. ICE CV Workshop
Wednesday, February 7 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Room S160
A CV and resume workshop to share practical skills and advice for creative people working across disciplines. Sponsored by Ideas for Creative Exploration and open to all.
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2. ICE Art+Tech Workshop
Wednesday, February 7 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd Room S160
The first in a series of informal art and technology workshops focusing on the intersection of art and and computation. Discuss new trends and learn some code. Led by Connor Trotter, computer science/art student and Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) Summer Fellow.
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3. Lecture: Jordan Casteel
Tuesday, February 6 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Jordan Casteel is a painter living and working in New York, NY. She is an assistant professor at Rutgers University-Newark. She received a BFA from Agnes Scott College in 2011 and her MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2014. Casteel has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, and Elle Magazine. She has participated in residencies at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs (2015), The Studio Museum in Harlem (2015), and is currently a recipient of the Shape-Walentas Studio Program in Brooklyn, NY. Casteel's work is comprised of large portraits of black figures that aim to add depth to a harsh mainstream narrative, often showing men in situations with their children, at rest, or nude in their own homes. She also has a series that investigates the history of Harlem through portraits of the men who live there.
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4. UGA French Film Festival
Tuesdays at 8 PM
Tate Theater
The University of Georgia French Film Festival returns to campus every Tuesday during the month of February. Screenings will be held at 8 p.m. in Tate Theater beginning Feb. 6 and every subsequent Tuesday through Feb. 27. Screenings will be free for all UGA students and $3 for non-students. The four films to be shown during the festival emphasize strong female roles both on screen and behind the camera in a range of genres with starring performances by familiar names such as Marion Cotillard and Isabelle Huppert. Each screening will begin with a short introduction and will be followed by an optional discussion with UGA's own student-run film organization Cine-club. The French Film Festival is funded in part by the Romance languages department's French fund and co-sponsored by the theatre and film studies department and Cinematic Arts.
Feb. 6: Lost in Paris (Paris pied nus, 2016), a comedy following a Canadian woman's trip to Paris in search of her aging aunt. Lost in Paris is directed by Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, who also stars in the film.
Feb. 13: Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit, 2014), starring Marion Cotillard as a working class woman who must fight for her job after an extended absence.
Feb. 20: Gabrielle (2013), the tale of a 21-year-old woman with Williams Syndrome who seeks to live her life despite her affliction.
Feb. 27: Things to Come (L'avenir, 2016), starring actress Isabelle Huppert in a role written specifically for her.
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5. Global Georgia Initiative: Qiu Xiaolong
Reading and Conversation: A Chinese Cop in the Global Age
Betty Jean Craige Lecture in Comparative Literature
Thursday, February 8 at 4 PM
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai, China. He published prize-winning poetry, translation and criticism in Chinese in the eighties, and became a member of the Chinese Writers' Association. In 1988, he came to the United States as a Ford Foundation Fellow, started writing in English, and obtained a Ph.D. in comparative literature at Washington University.
He is the author of Death of a Red Heroine (2000), A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), When Red Is Black (2004), A Case of Two Cities (2006), Red Mandarin Dress (2007), The Mao Case (2009), Don't Cry, Tai Lake (2012), Enigma of China (2013), Shanghai Redemption (2015), and Becoming Inspector Chen (in French and Italian, 2016 and 2017) in the critically acclaimed, award-winning Inspector Chen series; a collection of linked stories Years of Red Dust (first serialized in Le Monde, 2010); three poetry translations, Treasury of Chinese Love Poems (2003), Evoking T'ang (2007) and 100 Classic Chinese Poems (2010); and his own poetry collections, Lines Around China (2003) and Poems of Inspector Chen (2016).
The event will include readings by Qiu and a conversation with Nicholas Allen, Franklin Professor of English and director of the Willson Center. It is presented as the Department of Comparative Literature's annual Betty Jean Craige Lecture. Betty Jean Craige is University Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and a former director of the Willson Center.
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6. William Westney Events
February 8-10
https://www.music.uga.edu/uga-piano-pedagogy-symposium
William Westney, professor of piano, holds two endowed positions at Texas Tech University and has been awarded that school's highest teaching honor. Author of "The Perfect Wrong Note," and pioneer of the groundbreaking "Un-Master Class," Westney's work has been described as "fascinating" by The New York Times and has been presented at top music schools across the globe. Westney will present a series of sessions at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music as part of the HHSOM's biannual Piano Pedagogy Symposium. These sessions will cover a variety of engaging and thought-provoking talks on music learning and teaching. Sessions are free, and the public is invited.
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7. Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya
Friday, February 9 at 12:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room N100
Paul Mpagi Sepuya lives and works in Los Angeles, where he received an MFA in photography at UCLA. Sepuya makes photographs, books, and installations rooted in portraiture, homoerotic visual culture, and the function of the studio. Portraiture is the foundation of his practice. He has participated in Artist-in-Residence programs at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Fire Island Artist Residency. Sepuya's work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the International Center for Photography, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. He is a recipient of the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Foundation's grant for emerging Los Angeles artists.
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8. Opportunity: Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Grants
Deadline: Thursday, February 15
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Applicants are encouraged to involve more than one department; applications may include partnership with relevant departments, centers and institutes other than the Willson Center. A primary criterion is the academic excellence of the nominee and the interdisciplinary impact they will have on the UGA research community in the arts and humanities.
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9. Opportunity: Willson Center Research Seminar Program (deadline 2/15)
Opportunity: Willson Center Research Seminar Program
Deadline: Thursday, February 15
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring to campus scholars from other institutions. Award is for the following academic year. A one page proposal should be submitted by email to the Willson Center ([log in to unmask]).
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10. a2ru Summer Intensive
Digital Storytelling: Tools & Techniques
June 11-22
Hosted by University of Florida
Applications due February 16
Students from the a2ru institutions are invited to participate in a two-week interdisciplinary summer intensive at the University of Florida Digital Worlds Institute, June 11 - 22, 2018. Participants will have the opportunity to work in collaborative groups utilizing the facilities of Digital Worlds (DW) to create new digital media for showcase to both local and global audiences near the end of the residency period. Technologies and facilities available at DW include wireless motion capture stage, ultra-wide screen immersive theater with 7.1 surround sound, 2D and 3D animation, support for mobile and video game creation as well as interactive audio and video environments, and digitally-enhanced live performance. Students with interests and backgrounds in, but not limited to, performing arts, computer and game programming, visual arts, storytelling and creative writing, animation and videography are invited to apply.
For more information about the institute and registration visit:
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-summer-intensive/
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11. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
Applications open through February 28
https://apply.creative-capital.org
Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, and career development services. Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all creative disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices.
In a shift from previous cycles, artists working in all art forms are now welcome to apply in the same award round. Artists who receive the Creative Capital Award will have access to up to $50,000 in funding to develop their project, plus advisory services valued at $45,000. We are interested in groundbreaking and original projects, as well as artists who are ready to take full advantage of our non-monetary services.
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12. Course Opportunity: Register now for Summer
LLED 8710 Poetry for Interdisciplinary Understanding
Writing bootcamp for the heart & mind
July 3 - July 30
The course will meet face to face for 7-10 class days of mid July. The beginning of the course will be individually designed syllabi; the ending of the month will be individually tailored portfolio development. Why, how, and where to bring poetry into our lives as practitioners, writers, scholars, artists, and activists--these are some of the questions addressed in this course. When we meet face to face we will workshop our new creative writing, have craft talks that we apply to our own creative writing, teaching literature and writing, and doing research across languages, disciplines, and genres.Questions? Wishes? Email: [log in to unmask]
About the instructor: Melisa "Misha" Cahnmann-Taylor is Professor of TESOL & World Language Education at the University of Georgia and director of National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read -- Athens Programming." 2017 Georgia Poetry Society Keynote speaker and chapbook judge; 2018 Atlanta Writers Club keynote, she is the winner of the 2017 Resplandor award, 2015 Beckman Award for Professors Who Inspire, a 2013-14 Fulbright Award (Oaxaca, Mexico), Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes and a Leeway Poetry Grant. She's published several books: Imperfect Tense - poems (Whitepoint Press, 2016); Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (Teachers College Press, 2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education (Routledge, 2008; 2017). She has published numerous articles, and poetry about language learning, sustainable or fragile states of bilingualism, and teacher education. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Women's Quarterly Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, Puerto Del Sol, Mom Egg, and many other literary homes. She judges the annual Anthropology & Humanism poetry contest and is the editor of the ethnographic poetry section. Follow her blog at:
http://teachersactup.com
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13. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference
"Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability"
November 1-3, 2018
Hosted by the University of Georgia
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
Deadline: Friday, April 6
The 2018 theme, "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability," is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the intersections, synergies, and interfaces between arts, environments, and their influence on design, resilience, and sustainability. Presentations vary in length and number of participants. We accept panel, paper, performance, and working group proposals. a2ru encourages proposals featuring panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, and ages. The ideal panel discussion will consist of participants who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences, and represent more than one institution.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is a partnership of institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is 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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