UGA Arts Collaborative
4.11.24
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1. Arts Collaborative Conversation: Summit Reports (4/19)
2. Organoids News
3. Creativity and Collaboration (Fall 2024)
4. Rescue: Waste and Redemption (until 6/15)
5. "Truth Told Slant" Conversation (4/12)
6. MFA Opening Exhibition (4/12)
7. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/23-25)
8. The Mask You Wear (4/25)
9. Office of Research Virtual Town Hall (4/25)
10. Webinar: Arts Prescriptions on Campus (4/25)
11. Willson Center Workshops
12. CURO Research Awards (deadline 4/15)
13. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute (deadline 5/10)
14. Arts Writers Grant (deadline 5/15)
15. Fulbright Program Info Sessions
Full schedule of arts events at UGA:
https://calendar.uga.edu/calendar/?event_types=110984
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1. Arts Collaborative Conversation: Summit Reports
Friday, April 19 at noon
Lamar Dodd room S360
Learn more about the a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit and South Arts/Creative Placemaking Communities South and Appalachian Creative Placemaking Summit from UGA students who attended them. Sophie James, Emily Dustman, Jana Ghezawi, and Saurabh Anand will share their experiences in an informal conversation open to all.
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2. Organoids News
Congratulations to the Organoid project team, recipients of an inaugural Franklin College Multidisciplinary Seed Grant. The projected was awarded one of five Rapid Interdisciplinary Proposal grants, responding to the need for new paradigms that shape future research, life-long learning, public discourse, service, and dynamic entrepreneurship.
The Organoids project is supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative to develop prototypes and arts-integrative methods to create organoids, three-dimensional cellular structures which are developed from pluripotent stem cells.
For more information visit:
https://franklin.uga.edu/news/stories/2024/franklin-college-multidisciplinary-seed-projects-program-funds-six-research
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3. Creativity and Collaboration
Fall 2024 GradFIRST Seminar
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/
Open to first-year graduate students
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.
Facilitator: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative)
Wednesdays
3-3:50 PM
CRN:60768
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4. Rescue: Waste and Redemption
Open until June 15
Lyndon House Arts Center
https://www.accgov.com/10873/Rescue-Waste-and-Redemption
Rescue Fashion Event: Thursday, May 23 at 6 PM
Rescue: Waste and Redemption exhibition is guest curated by Lizzie Zucker Saltz. This group exhibit was a call for submissions in which Saltz selected 22 artists from 90 submissions. Artists included consider the transformation of industrial byproducts into artworks or craft objects thus creating artworks that save materials from the landfill or rescue raw materials from the fate of becoming environmental pollutants.
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5. High Museum of Art Conversation: "Truth Told Slant"
Friday, April 12 at 11 AM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, S150
https://art.uga.edu/events/high-museum-art-conversation-truth-told-slant
A panel discussion with artists included in the High Museum exhibition "Truth Told Slant," which features emerging photographers who take dynamic and innovative approaches to documentary photography that challenge the established principles of observing the contemporary world. The High Museum will host its own conversation event for the exhibition at the museum the following day.
Photographers Tommy Kha and Jill Frank will participate in the conversation, which will be moderated by Jon Feinstein.
This event is presented by the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the High Museum of Art, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. It is part of the Willson Center's 2024 Global Georgia public events series.
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6. MFA Exhibition: Sharpening a Screw
Friday, April 12 from 6-8 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad Street
https://athenaeum.uga.edu
Join us in celebrating our graduating MFA students!
Sharpening a Screw resists easy resolutions. The works on view signal the value of iteration, returning to a thought, a question, or a method to look for the unexpected. Each of the nine MFA students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art use materials as fasteners, presenting a constellation of themes from which to step back and look anew.
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7. Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 23-25
https://tinyurl.com/2024ideasfest
The 2024 Torrance Festival of Ideas commemorates 40 years of the Torrance Center at UGA with the festival theme of creativity and learning. This global online three-day festival features presentations from world-renowned scholars on their pioneering ideas in creativity, learning, and education.
Registration is FREE but seats are limited!
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8. "The Mask You Wear" Performance and Conversation
Thursday, April 25 at 7:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
"The Mask You Wear" is a musical composition collaboratively created by composer Julien Berger and composer and lyricist Cassie Chantel. Supported by the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic, this work blends classical saxophone quartet music with multi-genre vocalist and recording artist Chantel's riveting lyrics. This event will include a live performance of the piece, featuring saxophone quartet Mixed Media with Chantel, and a discussion with the composers and moderator Nkululeko Zungu.
Berger is an Athens, GA-based composer and saxophonist whose music is rooted in storytelling. Julien is influenced by contemporary wind ensemble music, saxophone chamber and solo music, and other contemporary styles, such as hip hop, jazz, and pop. His aim is to connect with audiences with his music across the boundaries of genre and style.
Leading with the story-telling element of classic hip hop while being as unorthodox as today's rap/pop music, Chantel is an artist whose body of work cannot be categorized with generic labels. The tone of her voice defies gender and sexuality stereotypes with its ambiguous depth and transcends into her image. Known for embodying both feminine and masculine energy, Chantel gives a fresh perspective to the music industry.
Zungu will moderate a discussion with Julien and Cassie, discussing the creative and collaborative process behind this piece. Zungu is a South African-born Black composer whose passion for music started in Cape Town, South Africa where he was surrounded by many styles and genres of music. His own expression is influenced by soundscapes and introspective art that can be found in music exploring avant-pop, trip-hop, electronic music, and spiritual styles. He can be seen performing under the alias 'Kuza.
This event is presented by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. It is part of the Willson Center's Global Georgia public events series.
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9. Office of Research Virtual Town Hall
Thursday, April 25 at noon
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/office-of-research-virtual-town-hall
Please join Vice President for Research Karen Burg and her senior leadership team for an update on all things Office of Research (OoR), with a special focus on programs supporting team research. In addition to other members of the OoR Senior Leadership Team, the event will feature Larry Hornak, associate vice president for integrative team initiatives, and Katie Ehrlich, OoR Faculty Fellow and associate professor of psychology, who will talk about the many programs established in recent years to support faculty who wish to engage in broad-based, interdisciplinary team investigations.
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10. Arts Prescriptions on Campus: Offering Art on Prescription to Students in Higher Education
Monday, April 25 at noon
https://a2ru.org/event/arts-prescriptions-on-campus-offering-art-on-prescription-to-students-in-higher-education/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.*
In January 2024, Stanford University launched a pilot program to connect students with art on prescription. In the program, participants receive an arts prescription which contains 9 "doses" of arts and culture. Each dose is a single engagement for an on campus activity or event (such as attending a concert, participating in a workshop, visiting a museum, etc.). Deborah Cullinan, Vice President for the Arts at Stanford, will share the story behind why the Stanford Arts Prescribing Program was launched, working with a complex network of campus and external partners, and what they've learned since launch.
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11. Willson Center Major Grant and Fellowship Workshops
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts offers assistance preparing applications for external grants and fellowships for research and practice in the humanities and arts, including online workshops tailored to specific opportunities.
NEH Grants and Fellowships
Wednesday, April 17 at noon
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/willson-center-major-grant-and-fellowship-workshop-neh-grants-and-fellowships-with-jennifer-l-palmer
NEA Grants for Arts Projects
Wednesday, April 24 at noon
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/willson-center-major-grant-and-fellowship-workshop-nea-grants-for-arts-projects-with-mark-callahan-and-melisa-cahnmann-taylor
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12. CURO Research Awards (Summer)
Deadline: April 15
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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13. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute
July 25-28
Application Deadline: May 10, 2024
https://www.danceexchange.org/dx-institutes/summer
Dance Exchange's 2024 OAC Climate Institute will focus on the role of artmaking and creative engagement within the climate movement. Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from across the country to explore, energize, and advance creative solutions for a life-giving future in the face of the climate crisis. As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), the 2024 OAC Climate Institute will celebrate process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers.
Dance Exchange's 2024 OAC Climate Institute will be led by Dance Exchange Lead Artists in collaboration with Dr. Jame McCray and Christina Catanese, two artist-activists, climate workers, and Dance Exchange partners doing incredible work in the world.
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14. Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 15
https://www.artswriters.org/application/guidelines
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories -- articles, books, and short-form writing -- the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
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15. U.S. Student Fulbright Program Information Sessions
Are you interested in pursuing a Fulbright grant for year-long independent research, study, creative pursuits, or an English Teaching Assistantship abroad? Attend a Fulbright information session this spring!
The 2025-2026 Fulbright competition opened April 2, 2024, and the campus deadline is September 3, 2024. Note to undergraduate juniors: if you want to go abroad on a Fulbright the year after graduation, this is the time to apply. Seniors, graduate students, and recent alumni are also very welcome to apply. The competition is open to U.S. citizens who will have, at minimum, a bachelor's degree completed by summer 2025.
Join us at one of these information sessions:
ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS (ETAS)
UNDERGRADUATES & MASTER'S STUDENTS
Session #1: Thursday, April 18 | 4:00-5:00pm | 202 Moore Hall
Featuring UGA's US Student Fulbright Program advisers
Session #2: Wednesday, April 24 | 12:30-1:30pm | Zoom
Featuring UGA alumni serving as English Teaching Assistants abroad
Session #3: Friday, April 26 | 12:30-1:30pm | 102 Moore Hall
Featuring Foreign Language Teaching Assistants at UGA
RESEARCH / STUDY / CREATIVE GRANTS
UNDERGRADUATES
Research / Creative: Friday, April 19 | 11:30-12:30pm | Zoom
Featuring Jennifer John Britto '23, Fulbright in India, gender studies research
Graduate Study: Monday, April 29 | 4:00-5:00pm | Zoom
Featuring Maeve Breathnach '23, Fulbright in Ireland, master's program
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Thursday, April 25 | 4:00-5:00pm | 202 Moore Hall
Featuring PhD candidates on Fulbright for dissertation research
To receive the links for the virtual information sessions and notices about future info sessions and deadlines, register for UGA's Fulbright 2025-2026 listserv at: https://forms.gle/eGLcDLGd5n3ddFLr6
Pizza and drinks will be served at the in-person sessions. Note that the in-person sessions are all in the Moore Hall which is on North Campus, behind the Chapel & near the bell (not Terry College's Moore Hall).
No worries if you can't make one of these info sessions! We will hold more info sessions in May and June, and are always happy to set up individual appointments with prospective applicants.
For more information and to schedule an individual advising appointment, contact Maria de Rocher, the campus U.S. Student Fulbright Program Adviser, 212 Moore College, 706-542-6908, [log in to unmask]
All interested applicants should plan to meet with Ms. de Rocher in late spring or early summer to confirm the program is a good fit and to make a plan for preparing a competitive application by the campus deadline.
U.S. Student Fulbright Program website: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/.
Article on UGA as a Top Fulbright Producer: https://news.uga.edu/uga-honored-as-top-producer-of-fulbright-students/
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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
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