UGA Arts Collaborative
1.8.24
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*Course Opportunity: Creativity and Collaboration*
1. Online Mini-Course: Code the Universe (begins 1/8)
2. Onodera & Pearse Events (1/13-16)
3. MLK Day Parade & Music Festival (1/15)
4. Jennine Capo Crucet and Brian Truong (1/19)
5. Integrative Conservation Conference (2/16-17)
6. Ground Works Call for Submissions
7. Stillpoint Literary Magazine (deadline 1/15)
8. Call for Art: Flight of the Fireflies (deadline 1/19)
9. Willson Center Graduate Research Award (deadline 1/31)
10. Multidisciplinary Seed Grants (deadline 3/1)
11. UGA Generative AI Competition (deadline 3/22)
12.Creative Capital Opportunities
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*Creativity and Collaboration*
Spring 2024 GradFIRST Seminar
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/
Fridays
1:50-2:40 PM
CRN 69338
Creativity and collaboration are fundamental to addressing today's socio-environmental challenges. This seminar will include arts-based, STEM-friendly activities developed by UGA researchers from the arts, humanities, and sciences designed to help students to think creatively, to collaborate across disciplines, and to work with people with different perspectives, knowledge, and values. It will be an engaging and fun way to enhance the creativity that you bring to your own graduate work and your capacity to effectively participate in collaborative teams.
Lead facilitator: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative)
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1. Code the Universe: Visualizing Nature through Generative Art
Monday, January 8 at 4:30 PM
Friday, January 19 at 6:00 PM
https://engage.gsas.harvard.edu/event/9653886
What do fractals, flocks of birds, and figure skating have in common? Code the Universe is a practical beginner's guide to generative and algorithmic art with a focus on visualizing the beautiful natural and mathematical phenomena that makes up our everyday world. We'll start by getting acquainted with the field of generative art and tools of the trade, dive into discussions about beautiful natural phenomena, and do live-coding sessions visualizing everything from bouncing light rays to birds to the solar system. You'll leave Code the Universe with a few of your own pieces of generative art, and the tools you need to visualize whatever interests you most! All experience levels are welcome.
Instructor: Sudhan Chitgopkar is a Master's student in Harvard's Computational Science & Engineering Master's program. He has been exploring Generative Art and visualization for 3 years, and has given one of the most viewed TEDx talks on the subject. Sudhan's research at UGA was supported in part by the Arts Collaborative:
https://ugaartscollaborative.com/generative-garden/
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2. Onodera & Pearse: Contrasts & Correlations
Exhibition: January 13-February 11
ATHICA
675 Pulaski Street Suite 1200
https://athica.org
Opening Reception
Saturday, January 13 from 6-8 PM
Artist's Talk at ATHICA
Sunday, January 14 at 4 PM
Masako Onodera Lecture
Tuesday, January 16 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
ATHICA is delighted to announce the Winter 2024 exhibition Onodera & Pearse: Contrasts and Correlations, featuring the work of two artists who share backgrounds in craft while embracing sculptural applications of metal, paper, gravity, and motion. Brought together in exhibition by curator Lauren Fancher, the two women were already known to each other through the craft community. Fancher states that "I have been a fan of fellow Athenian Mary Pearse's work as an artist, curator, and educator, and followed closely the development of her magnum opus, Full Bloom, harboring a secret aspiration for this intricate and epic sculpture of lead blossoms to be presented at ATHICA. After I encountered Masako Onodera and her delicate, mysterious, and grave work at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, I proposed that the three of us develop this exhibition, which positions Full Bloom beside pieces from Onodera's Vestiges and Phantoms series, among other works. Both of these masterful artists demonstrate an acute conceptual depth while using materials that align and echo with layers of meaning." Of particular import are their mutual use of non-traditional materials to both play homage to and critique the gilt and silver domestic accoutrements of women. Heavy is light and light is heavy in this thoughtful and subversive exhibition.
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3. MLK Day Parade & Music Festival
Monday, January 15 at 3 PM
Downtown Athens
https://www.athmlkparade.com
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
To honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to promote unity and justice, the United Group of Artists and Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement non-profit 501(c)3 partner is honored to host the 9th annual Athens MLK Day Parade & Music Festival! Join us for live music, food, vendors, and family fun.
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4. The Georgia Review Presents Jennine Capo Crucet and Brian Truong
Friday, January 19 at 7 PM
Athens-Clarke County Library
https://thegeorgiareview.com/event/the-georgia-review-presents-jennine-capo-crucet-and-brian-truong/
The Georgia Review, Avid Bookshop, and the Athens-Clarke County Library invite the public to an author event and book signing with Jennine Capo Crucet and Brian Truong. Join us to hear Crucet and Truong read passionate, funny, and thought-provoking work that highlights the difficulties and blessings of living in immigrant communities.
Jennine Capo Crucet is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter. She's the author of three books, including the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, which won the International Latino Book Award, was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice book, and was cited as a best book of the year by NBC Latino, the Guardian, the Miami Herald, and other venues; it has been adopted as an all-campus read at over forty U.S. universities.
Brian Truong is a Vietnamese-American writer who grew up in Texas. For his essays, he has won the 2023 Georgia Review Prose Prize, judged by Jennine Capo Crucet, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize. His work is published or forthcoming in Ecotone, The Rumpus, Chicago Review of Books, Thrillist, and The Georgia Review.
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5. Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC)
February 16-17
https://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
*Registration rates will increase on January 16*
ICC 2024 will take place at the University of Georgia Special Collections Library, with some hybrid and online options. This year's theme is New Visions for Conservation. Since the inaugural conference in 2018, ICC has brought students, researchers, and practitioners together to share their work and collaborate towards different futures for environmental conservation.
The 2024 conference objectives are to:
Create opportunities for all attendees to question and re-imagine our own practices.
Value and center multiple ways of knowing, doing, and being by bringing together perspectives both within and traditionally outside of conservation.
Provide opportunities for student engagement, mentorship, and peer support.
Cultivate visions of, and collaborations oriented towards, more just and livable futures.
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6. Ground Works Seeks Submissions to its 2024 Collection
https://groundworks.io/announcements/18
Exploring the possibilities of annual collections, Ground Works is pleased to invite submissions to a 2024 collection; Stage 1 submissions received by January 29 will be given priority consideration. All research projects that integrate the arts with other disciplines will be considered.
Ground Works is a compendium of projects, critically reviewed for their interdisciplinary research aims and impact. As part of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), select projects also receive further examination and analysis of the collaborative process in an effort to illuminate and understand the mechanisms and conditions that foster these innovative projects. Project contributors will work with a team from a2ru to rigorously articulate, document, and reflect on the modes of collaboration found within their work.
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Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Graduate Research Award
Deadline: January 31
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research and practice-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level.
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7. Stillpoint Literary Magazine Open Submissions
Deadline: Monday, January 15
https://stillpointliterarymagazine.com/
The 2023-2024 Stillpoint Literary Magazine is now accepting submissions for the print edition of their magazine! This student-run literary magazine is looking for poetry, prose, short screenplays, artwork, photography, and other visual art to publish and feature in their annual spring volume. Visit the Stillpoint Literary Magazine website to read past volumes, learn about the magazine, review the publishing guidelines, and submit pieces!
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8. Call for Art: Flight of the Fireflies Lantern Parade
Deadline: January 19
https://www.accgov.com/10862/Call-for-Art-Flight-of-the-Fireflies
The Athens-Clarke County (ACCGov) Leisure Services Arts Division invites artists to submit proposals for consideration for a temporary light sculpture for display during the "Flight of the Fireflies" Lantern Parade in Dudley Park which will take place on March 16, 2024. The goal is to select up to four (4) sculptures for display in various sites around Dudley Park. The selected artist(s) will work with government staff to create temporary light art that enhances the participant experience during the event.
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9. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Graduate Research Award
Deadline: January 31
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research and practice-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level.
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10. Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Multidisciplinary Seed Grant Program
Deadline: March 1
https://franklin.uga.edu/multidisciplinary-seed-grant-program
The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences announces two new opportunities for its faculty to tackle complex topics by collaborating across disciplines in research and teaching and in the process engaging with students, scholars, stakeholders, and decision-makers. The program is partitioned into two tracks: Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposals (RIP) and Innovation in Interdisciplinary Instruction (I-Cubed).
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11. The Generative AI Competition: Creating Impact for the UGA Community
Deadline: March 22
https://bit.ly/uga-ai
Use generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, DALL-E, Amper) to create something meaningful that enriches the UGA community/experience. Prizes: 1st: $500 / 2nd: $300 / 3rd: $100 / plus swag!
All currently enrolled UGA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are eligible to submit work solo or in collaborative groups. Multidisciplinary group submissions are highly encouraged. Students may utilize work started for class assignments on the condition that the revised project is not then re-submitted as part of a class portfolio, unless the instructor has agreed in writing that the student or students may re-use this work. The Generative AI Student Competition is facilitated by the Faculty Learning Community "Innovating with AI: In and Beyond the Classroom" and co-sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Office of Instruction, and the Center for Teaching and Learning.
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12. Creative Capital Opportunities
https://creative-capital.org/2023/12/20/artist-opportunities-january-and-february-2024/
Start the New Year off right with new artist opportunities in the form of grants, residencies, and more. Apply for residencies in the Midwest, live performance open calls, and opportunities for playwrights.
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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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