UGA Arts Collaborative
11.14.23
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*Spotlight on the Arts*
1. Opportunity: a2ru Emerging Creatives
2. 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest (11/14)
3. Colson Whitehead (11/15)
4. Mother Courage and Her Children (11/15-19)
5. Dodd Market (11/17)
6. Surface Roundtable (11/19)
7. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (deadline 11/17)
8. Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/20)
9. MAP Fund CFP (deadline 12/19)
10. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants (no deadline)
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*Spotlight on the Arts*
November 2023
Schedule: https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/
Spotlight on the Arts is the University of Georgia's annual celebration of the literary, visual and performing arts. Held each November, the month-long festival highlights the arts and humanities on campus with dozens of events and exhibitions.
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1. a2ru Emerging Creatives Student Summit
March 14-17, 2024
https://a2ru.org/event/2024-emerging-creatives-student-summit-play-the-impact-of-play-on-how-we-create-and-relate-to-the-world/
*As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA may nominate up to four student representatives, evenly distributed between students from arts-based disciplines and students from non-arts disciplines. Please contact [log in to unmask] for more information about how to participate.*
The 2024 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, "PLAY: The Impact of Play on How We Create and Relate to the World." will be hosted at Rochester Institute of Technology on March 14-17. How are we--our mindsets, our approaches, our whole selves--different when we are at play? What do the structures and assumptions of board games, or team sports, or role-playing games imply about who we are, how we think, and how we relate to others? What about the world of unstructured play--of just "messing around"?
This year's Emerging Creatives Student Summit on the theme of "Play" will bring together students from across the a2ru network to explore how these questions and more inform our interdisciplinary and collaborative work. The Rochester Institute of Technology will host Emerging Creatives at its Student Hall for Exploration and Development (SHED), a brand-new space that provides flexible spaces for technology, art, and design under one roof.
In the SHED's cutting-edge facilities, attendees will work in interdisciplinary teams with fellow students from across the a2ru network to create arts-integrative projects responding to the conference theme. Participants will receive training from a2ru staff on best practices for interdisciplinary collaboration, as well as mentorship and feedback from network faculty on their projects in progress. The four-day summit will conclude with presentations of each team's project for peers and mentors.
Students nominated for Emerging Creatives can apply for funding to defray the costs of attending the Summit through one of two programs: the a2ru Student Travel Grants (providing up to $250 in support) or the a2ru Scholar Awards (providing up to $1000 in support).
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2. 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest
Tuesday, November 14 at 4 PM
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/research-in-the-arts-contest/
An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights UGA student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. This year's competition is coordinated by Katie Geha, director of the School of Art Galleries in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Gerald Ma, Editor-in-Chief of the The Georgia Review.
The 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA's annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.
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3. Colson Whitehead
Wednesday, November 15 at 5:30 PM
The Chapel
Author Colson Whitehead will visit UGA and Athens for the Ferdinand Phinizy Lecture, which will be included in the university's Spotlight on the Arts festival and in the UGA Signature Lecture Series. The event is free and open to the public, with no advance registration required. In addition to his public talk in the UGA Chapel, Whitehead will visit with students at UGA and at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens.
Whitehead is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of 11 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. His reviews, essays, and fiction have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Harper's, Granta, and many other publications. He has received the National Humanities Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Award, the Carnegie Medal for Fiction, and numerous other honors. Whitehead's latest novel is Crook Manifesto, the second in his Harlem Trilogy. It was published in July 2023.
The Ferdinand Phinizy Lectureship is endowed through the University of Georgia Foundation, administered by the department of history, and presented in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the University of Georgia Press.
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4. Mother Courage & Her Children
November 15-18 at 8 PM
November 19 at 2 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/mothercourage
Set against the backdrop of the Thirty Year's War, Mother Courage and Her Children follows the resilient and enterprising Mother Courage as she traverses and scavenges war-torn landscapes, profiting from the ongoing conflict while providing for her three children. As she navigates this world, Courage must contend with the tragic consequences of prioritizing personal gain over compassion and empathy in Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin's timeless critique of war, capitalism, and the strength of values in the face of untold adversity.
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5. Dodd Market
Friday, November 17 from 10 AM - 6 PM
Main Art Building
https://www.doddmarket.com
Come support and buy from UGA student artists!
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6. SURFACE Artists' Roundtable Discussion
Sunday, November 19 from 4-6 PM
ATHICA, 675 Pulaski St., Suite 1200
https://athica.org
SURFACE, ATHICA's 2023 Juried Exhibition, features contemporary art in all media that explores or references SURFACE, a term that can apply to the literal surface of an artwork, an environment, an individual, or reference the act of becoming evident, breaking up from the watery depths, applying concrete, or bring something to our attention. #SURFACE is a noun and a verb, both transitive and in-, and sometimes an adjective, such as when someone might be unkindly described as being "surface." SURFACE was juried by Clay Aldridge and Josiah Golson of Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee, an arts space that has a very similar mission to ATHICA and to which we look with admiration.
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7. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research
Deadline: November 17
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (TIR) Pre-Seed Program provides early stage developmental funding to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics. The goal of the pre-seed funding is to stimulate the formation of new interdisciplinary research teams that position UGA faculty to be competitive for attracting resources for collaborative research, including internal UGA seed grants and ultimately, external grant support. The Program, first launched in the 2019-2020 academic year, is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
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8. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 20
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/sustainability-grants/
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects that advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address UGA's strategic priorities and integrate social, environmental, and economic solutions to help ensure that all people can thrive, both now and in the future. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, effective partnerships, implementation feasibility, and available funding. Special consideration given to solutions that address Drawdown Georgia climate solutions, advance equity, and incorporate the arts.
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9. MAP Fund Call for Proposals
Deadline: December 19
https://mapfund.org/2024-cycle/
This opportunity is the latest in MAP's 35-year history of support for performing artists and their work as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society. In this grant cycle, MAP will invest $2.8M in the performance sector -- our largest investment in the performing arts ecology to date.
We encourage those who do not wish to seek project funding at this time to express interest in serving as a reviewer.
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10. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa
Arts Collaborative Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a project liaison and are eligible for up to $1000 in support for project expenses. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Proposals will be reviewed monthly by an interdisciplinary selection committee, pending the availability of funds.
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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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