Ideas for Creative Exploration
March 2023
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Rebecca Kamen Events (3/1-2)
2. Idea Lab Conversation: Creative Placemaking (3/16)
3. a2ru National Conference CFP (deadline 3/5)
4. UGA Arts Council Student Survey
5. Creative Capital Grants Info Session (3/1)
6. Warrior Women (3/11)
7. Sewing Machine Workshops (3/13,20,27)
8. UGA Humanities Festival (3/15-27)
9. Screen Time: Ed Pavlic (3/17)
10. vanessa german (3/22)
11. UGA 3MT Competition (deadline 3/6)
12. Georgia Climate Conference Art Contest (deadline 3/26)
13. ELEVATE: Minority Short Film Festival (deadline 4/4)
14. ACAC Opportunities
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1. Rebecca Kamen Events
https://art.uga.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-rebecca-kamen
Public Lecture
Wednesday, March 1 at 6 PM
Main Art Building Room S150
Curiosity and the Creative Process as Self Care
This presentation will explore how crisis, curiosity and the creative process not only generates unexpected opportunities for discovery, but also informs artwork which fosters new connections between art and science. The presentation will also discuss how dyslexia, brain surgery and the pandemic continue to provide insight and inspiration in Kamen's as an artist.
Idea Lab Conversation
Thursday, March 2 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360
How do artists and scientists work together?
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
The Idea Lab student organization is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Rebecca Kamen's visit is supported by the UGA School of Art Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series.
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2. Idea Lab Conversation: Creative Placemaking
Thursday, March 16 at 2 PM
Main Art Building Room S360
How can collaborations in the arts promote community understanding?
Join Connie Frigo, a professor of saxophone and co-founder of the Athens Hip Hop Harmonic, a partnership between UGA and the local Hip Hop community. She is an organizer of interdisciplinary arts events with a focus on the creative process, social justice advocacy, and community engagement.
Learn more at:
https://www.athenshiphopharmonic.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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3. 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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4. Arts Council Student Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w_JMdZzkBbWgwLGgAjNUAOU7wi7_JtAmq1eVg8TPX6k/
The Arts Council brings together campus leaders to facilitate arts research and practice, to integrate the arts into the UGA student experience, to engage with community partners, and to communicate faculty, staff, and student achievements to regional, national, and international communities. The Arts Council advises the Office of the Provost and advocates for strategic support of the arts at the University of Georgia.
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5. Creative Capital Grants Info Session
Wednesday, March 1 at 1 PM
https://creative-capital.org/events/2024-wild-futures-grant-info-session/
An information session about the 2024 "Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact" grant cycle, which awards grants of up to $50,000 per artist project, as well as advisory services, mentorship, and community-building opportunities. Applications open on March 1, 2023, and the deadline for submitting is March 31, 2023. Round I of the application consists of only 6 short questions!
https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/
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6. Warrior Women: A Community Conversation Sparked by Sculptor Alice Woodruff
Saturday, March 11 at 2 PM
Special Collections Libraries, Room 271
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/warrior_women_a_community_conversation_sparked_by_sculptor_alice_woodruff
Meet local artist Alice Woodruff and view a selection of sculptures from the exhibition "Warrior Women: From Invisible to Formidable One Hundred Strong." A panel discussion will explore themes from the exhibition followed by a community dialogue. Light reception.
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7. Sewing Machine Workshops
McBay Science Library Makerspace
Registration:
https://libs.uga.edu/science/makerspace
Sewing machine basics
Monday, March 13 at 1 PM
Come learn from your peers how to operate a sewing machine, including the various components, how to thread the machine, wind bobbins, and sew forwards and backwards.
Becoming comfortable using a sewing machine
Monday, March 20 at 1 PM
Learn different stitches, speed control, and seam allowance in this intermediate skills sewing machine workshop.
This sewing machine workshop is going to be TOTE-ally awesome
Monday, March 27 at 1 PM
Make a canvas tote bag and learn about other Makerspace embroidery tools and supplies available to personalize it.
Undergraduates Caroline Solomon and Casey Serrano will lead the workshops. Free and open to all UGA undergraduates. Limited to 10 participants. Supplies provided.
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8. UGA Humanities Festival
March 15-27
Full schedule:
https://willson.uga.edu/uga-will-hold-its-first-humanities-festival-in-march-2023/
Public celebration
Wednesday, March 15 at 5:30 PM
Founders Memorial Garden
A public gathering with refreshments and conversation will introduce the UGA Humanities Festival in its first year. Everyone is welcome, and please share this invitation with your communities.
The Humanities Festival is a series of public events showcasing the richness and diversity of research and practice in the humanities at UGA and throughout our extended community. The festival will include talks, conversations, performances, screenings, and other events across campus and the Athens community, on topics from artificial intelligence to the American bald eagle and from the curation of a national collection of art to the legacies of 18th-century African-American poet Phillis Wheatley Peters.
The UGA Humanities Council is supported by the Office of Research, the Office of the Provost, and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, with the participation of more than 30 colleges, schools, departments, and units across the university.
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9. Screen Time: Ed Pavlic
Friday, March 17 at 12:30 PM
The Athenaeum
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/screen_time_ed_pavlic
What's so special about the music of Atlanta, Insecure, I May Destroy You, and Queen Sono? In this talk, Professor Ed Pavlic will highlight how Black characters and Black music weave together in unprecedented closeness in four recent series whose nuance and complexity rivals, and at times surpasses, that of our best contemporary writing.
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10. vanessa german
Wednesday, March 22 at 6 PM
The Athenaeum
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/visiting_artist_lecture_vanessa_german
vanessa german is a self-taught citizen artist working across sculpture, performance, communal rituals, immersive installation, and photography, in order to repair and reshape disrupted systems, spaces, and connections. The artist's practice proposes new models for social healing, utilizing creativity and tenderness as vital forces to reckon with the historical and ongoing catastrophes of structural racism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, resource extraction, and misogynoir.
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11. UGA Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Deadline: March 6
https://grad.uga.edu/about/annual-events/3mt/
Preliminary Rounds: March 14-17
Final: April 5
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. Georgia Climate Conference
Student Art Contest
Deadline: March 26
https://www.2023georgiaclimateconference.org/general-8
Prompt: What does climate change in Georgia look like to you? And how has climate change in Georgia personally impacted you and those around you?
The top 3 artists from each category (2d, 3D, photography) will receive free registration to attend the 2023 Georgia Climate Conference (a $90 value). The first place winners from each category will also receive a $300 prize.
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13. ELEVATE: Minority Short Film Festival
Call for Submissions
Deadline: April 4
https://www.instagram.com/ugabte/
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble is organizing a film festival dedicated to showcasing the filmmaking talent of minority filmmakers, to be held April 22-23.
We are specifically looking to highlight diversity with regards to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities (acquired or developmental), and/or religion. While film crews are encouraged to be diverse and center minority experiences and visions, any and all students are welcome to be part of a production in any capacity.
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14. Athens Cultural Affairs Commission Opportunities
Call for Proposals: Athens Classic Center Arena
Deadline: April 7
https://www.athensculturalaffairs.org/calls-for-public-art-classic-center-arena/
Public Art Selection Panels
https://www.accgov.com/9656/Public-Art-Selection-Panels
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking community members to participate in upcoming public art selection panels. Selection panels review, evaluate, and select from submitted proposals for Athens-Clarke County-funded public art commissions.
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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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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