Ideas for Creative Exploration
February 2023
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Kyle Morrison (2/17)
2. Treehouse Zine Launch Party (2/17)
3. Wind Ensemble concert feat. Linqua Franca (2/16)
4. Symposium on the Book (2/16)
5. Nabil Ayers (2/20)
6. Angela Brown Events (2/23-24)
7. Vaughn Watson (2/23)
8. Troubling Performance Events (2/24-25)
9. Rebecca Kamen Events (3/1-2)
10. a2ru Ground Works Journal CFP (deadline 2/14)
11. UGA 3MT Competition (opens 2/20)
12. a2ru National Conference CFP (deadline 3/5)
13. Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (deadline 3/12)
14. ART.COOP podcast
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Kyle Morrison
Friday, February 17 at 10 AM
Main Art Building Room S360
How is virtual reality being used in art and industry? Join Kyle Morrison, VR developer and simulation engineer for an informal conversation about his research and professional expertise in the field of Extended Reality (XR). Kyle was a Graduate Assistant in Interdisciplinary Arts Research at UGA and a master's student in Theatre and Film Studies before joining Collins Aerospace.
http://kylecmorrison.com
The Idea Lab student organization is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA.
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2. Treehouse Zine Launch Party
Friday, February 17 from 4 - 7 PM
Art Library, Main Art Building
https://www.treehousezine.com
Treehouse is a collaborative art zine excited to be hosting its first issue launch party! This is a community event in support of local artists where food will be provided, as well as live music, art vendors, and a zine-making workshop. Treehouse is supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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3. UGA Wind Ensemble Concert
Thursday, February 16 at 8 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/wind_ensemble_at_cbdna_conference
Includes world premiere composition collaboration by faculty member Peter Van Zandt Lane and Athens-based hip hop artist Linqua Franqa. Part of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) National Conference:
https://music.uga.edu/news/stories/2023/wind-ensemble-premiere-new-music-athens-hip-hop-artist-linqua-franqa-new-york
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4. Symposium on the Book
Thursday, February 16
Special Collections Library
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/symposium_on_the_book
"The Blood of Christians: Phillis Wheatley Peters and White Christianity"
Professor Kim Coles
10 AM
Printing Early Modern Race: A Rare Books Workshop
2 PM
The Symposium on the Book explores the nature of material texts in all their forms, across time and space.
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5. Nabil Ayers
Monday, February 20 at 4 PM
Sanford and Barbara Orkin Hall, D007
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/nabil_ayers_in_conversation_with_david_barbe
Writer and music executive Nabil Ayers will join David Barbe, director of the Music Business Program in the Terry College of Business, for a conversation about Ayers's recent memoir and his life in the music industry.
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6. Angela Brown Events
https://willson.uga.edu/famed-soprano-and-music-education-advocate-angela-brown-visits-february-20-24-as-delta-chair/
Performance
Thursday, February 23 at 7:30 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Recital Hall
Workshop
Friday, February 24 at 4 PM
Delta Innovation Hub, 210 Spring St.
The Willson Center will welcome Angela Brown, a renowned operatic soprano who leads Morning Brown, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides cultural enrichment opportunities to underserved communities, to UGA as the annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding.
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7. Aralee Strange Lecture: Vaughn Watson
Thursday, February 23 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/aralee_strange_lecture_vaughn_watson
Dr. Vaughn W.M. Watson, associate professor in the department of teacher education at Michigan State University, directs the Diasporas, a participatory literacy collaboration with Black African immigrant youth and university and community educators.
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8. Troubling Performance Events
The Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St.
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/events/
Poetry reading by Dawn Lundy Martin
Friday, February 24 at 6 PM
Symposium
Saturday, February 25 from 9 AM - 7 PM
Registration: https://gail.uga.edu/events/as/troubling-performance-symposium
This symposium will consider representations of race in performance in connection to the work of visual artist Kara Walker, whose exhibition "Back of Hand" will be on display at the Athenaeum. Taking Walker as a departure point, invited speakers will address themes related to rethinking Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, satire, stereotypes, gender, and identity.
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9. Rebecca Kamen Events
https://art.uga.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-rebecca-kamen
Public Lecture
Wednesday, March 1 at 5:30 PM
Main Art Building Room S151
Idea Lab Conversation
Thursday, March 2 at 3 PM
Main Art Building Room S360
Rebecca Kamen, sculptor and lecturer on the intersections of art and science, seeks 'the truth' through observation. Her artwork is informed by wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and by connecting common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and re-imagine what the scientists see.
Through the lens: A digital depiction of dyslexia
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/through-lens-digital-depiction-dyslexia
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10. a2ru Ground Works CFP: Creating Knowledge in Common
Deadline extended: February 14, 2023
https://a2ru.org/ground-works-releases-cfp-for-creating-knowledge-in-common/
Ground Works, a2ru's peer-reviewed platform for arts-integrated research, announces a call for submissions to a special themed issue entitled Creating Knowledge in Common. With this issue, we seek to lift up university-community partnered research and inquiry that center the arts.
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11. UGA Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Registration opens February 20
https://grad.uga.edu/about/annual-events/3mt/
Master's and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance.
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12. a2ru National Conference Call for Proposals
Deadline: March 5
https://a2ru.org/event/2023-national-conference-whats-next-imagining-new-educational-futures-for-ourselves-our-communities-and-our-planet/
a2ru's 2023 National Conference, "What's Next? Imagining New Educational Futures For Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet," will be hosted by Penn State University's College of Arts and Architecture on its University Park, PA campus October 19-21, 2023.
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13. Athens Cultural Affairs Commission
Call for Members
Deadline: March 12
https://www.athensculturalaffairs.org/acac-seeks-3-new-members/
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) is seeking three qualified candidates to fill a 3-year volunteer positions. The mission of the ACAC is to foster the development and enjoyment of performing, visual, cultural, and other arts in the Athens-Clarke County (ACC) community and to make recommendations to the Mayor and Commission in many areas of ACC planning and development.
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14. Remember the Future, a podcast by ART.COOP
https://rememberthefuture.buzzsprout.com
Art.coop invites listeners to Remember the Future together by listening to the stories of artists and culture bearers who know that the practices of the Solidarity Economy are not some new technology, but actually are ways of being in relationship with people and planet that are as old as time.
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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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