ICE Announcements 1.24.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Lecture: Keetra Dean Dixon (1/24)
2. ICE Conversation: Keetra Dean Dixon (1/25)
3. Lecture Demonstration: The People Movers (1/25)
4. Art Talk: Michi Meko (1/25)
5. Art Party Extravaganza (1/27)
6. ICE Reading Room: Theaster Gates
7. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants
8. Opportunity: CURO
9. Opportunity: Dance Exchange Summer Institutes
10. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. Keetra Dean Dixon
Tuesday, January 24 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Keetra Dean Dixon is a designer, director and artist who has worked as an experiential design director in New York but has also run her own independent studio practice in rural Alaska focusing on lettering, sculpture, and product design projects. Her hybrid background often leads her work towards speculative terrain, leveraging emergent technologies and process-focused making. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist & Scholar Series.
Dixon's work has been recognized broadly including in the permanent design collection at SFMOMA and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun (Art Director's Cub) in 2008. She completed commissions for the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration and the 2012 olympic games, has shown at the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and has acted as Design Director for installations featured at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2013 she participated in INCONGRUOUS, a residency for "brazen experimentation in design practices" at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. She recently left her rural Alaska studio to join the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. Dixon holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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2. ICE Conversation: Keetra Dean Dixon
Wednesday, January 25 at 11:30 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
An informal conversation with visiting artist Keetra Deen Dixon about experimental design and collaboration.
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3. Lecture Demonstration: The People Movers
Wednesday, January 25 at 10:20 AM
Dance Building Room 272
http://www.peoplemoversdance.com
Peter van Zandt Lane (UGA Music, ICE Advisory Board) and visiting artist Kate Ladenheim will give a lecture demonstration about their collaborations.
The People Movers is a contemporary dance company that creates and performs original works by creative director Kate Ladenheim. It is the mission of The People Movers to create complex works that reveal the abstract and inherently performative qualities of our world through thoughtful and technical movement, and to support the dance community as a whole by producing relevant and engaging events and performances that involve artists and audiences alike.
Followed by an open Master class from 12:20 - 2 PM.
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4. Art Talk: Michi Meko
Wednesday, January 25 at 12:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
http://michimeko.com
Atlanta-based artist Michi Meko will discuss his solo exhibition at the Dodd Galleries, One Last Smile Before the Undertow, as well as his practice as an artist who works in a variety of media. Meko was born in Alabama in 1974 and has exhibited widely throughout the Southeast. He is represented by Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta and has work in the permanent collection of the High Museum of Art.
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5. Winter Art Party Extravaganza!!
Friday, January 27 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd Building
Join us for our Winter Art Party Extravaganza!!! Help us celebrate 4 new exhibitions featuring Atlanta-based artist, Michi Meko, Dodd graduate students Alexis Spina, Katherine Miller, & Yeonsoo Kim, and a group show of undergraduate work curated by our friend Candice Greathouse, director of ATL's Mint Gallery. You can read up on all the upcoming exhibitions here:
http://art.uga.edu/galleries/upcoming-exhibitions
As always there will be FREE snacks, drinks, tunes (hellllo DJ Blau Blau!!), and a zany photobooth for all your memory-making needs.
In addition to all of this, at 7 PM we're beyond thrilled to premiere a new dance performance by CADEN:CE (Contemporary African Dance Ensemble : New Conscious Explorations), choreographed in response to Michi Meko's exhibition (!!!)
So much, all in one night, and FREE and open to the public!!!
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6. ICE Reading Room: Theaster Gates: "I want to believe that there is power in my poverty"
"The Chicagoan artist, who made a name for himself with his art-meets-urban regeneration projects in the city, is back in a gallery with work that challenges assumptions about race, class and what it means to be poor."
By Su Wu
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/12/theaster-gates-interview-poor-race-regen-projects-review
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7. Willson Center Grants
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Program
Deadline February 16
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.
Lectures and locations should be coordinated through the Willson Center. In accepting the award, the faculty sponsor agrees to communicate all relevant information regarding the visitor's activities while at UGA and to credit the Willson Center in all publicity about the visitor.
Research Seminar Program
Deadline February 16
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 following academic year.
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8. CURO Opportunities
https://curo.uga.edu/
Research Assistantship
The CURO Research Assistantship provides stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Summer applications are due by March 22. The application can be found at: http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
Summer Fellowship
The 2017 CURO Summer Fellowship provides a $3000 stipend for intensive, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Proposals are due by February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
2017 CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium
CURO invites submissions for its 2017 Symposium to be held on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4, 2017. This Symposium provides undergraduates from all disciplines the opportunity to present original, faculty-mentored research and creative works. Applicants are also encouraged to apply for the Best Paper and UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards.
Symposium online submission closes February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/symposium/
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9. Dance Exchange Summer Institutes
http://danceexchange.org/2017-institutes/
As part of our Organizing Artists for Change initiative, Dance Exchange Institutes emphasize process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers through innovative creative practices and dancemaking. Institute participants will join from our local region and across the globe to gather as leaders, innovators, movers and thinkers. Anyone 18+ years of age is welcome and encouraged to join this intergenerational experience. Summer Institute
Module 1: July 7-14
Artmaking in Action: Evolving Creative Practices
Join participants from across the globe to gather and grow as movers, makers, collaborators, and leaders. Work with DX artists as we experience daily movement classes and share tools and practices for researching, generating, and making artwork and action. We will use the four questions central to the work of DX to collectively vision the future of the socially engaged artist.
Module 2: July 16-23
Dancemaking Performance Intensive
Continue exploring DX core practices through local community engagement and the creation of a new work that contributes to the research and development of Growing Our Own Gardens, an intergenerational performance project rooted in queer world-making conceived and directed by Assoc. Artistic Director Matthew Cumbie. Participants will share their work in a public performance at the end of the week.
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10. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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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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