Ideas for Creative Exploration
April 2022
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Lecture: Rebecca Kamen (4/6)
2. Legacy Ball and Exhibition (4/9)
3. Misplacement: A Symposium (4/1-2)
4. Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors Events
5. 2022 CURO Symposium (4/4-5)
6. Lecture: Corey Pemberton (4/7)
7. SpacePants Events (4/11-13)
8. Panel Discussion: The Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project (4/14)
9. Lecture: Andy Battaglia (4/14)
10. MFA Exhibition Opening Reception (4/15)
11. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/19-21)
12. Natasha Trethewey Events (4/21-22)
13. Symposium on the Book (4/27)
14. Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Across Disciplines Symposium (4/28-9)
15. Paid Student opportunity: Office of Sustainability AIR
16. Opportunity: Fulbright Program (info sessions)
17. Call for Films: Elevate (deadline 4/8)
18. UGA Earth Day 2022 Art Challenge (deadline 4/14)
19. Opportunity: JoLLE Arts Editor (deadine 4/5)
20. ACAC events and opportunities
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1. Ideas for Creative Exploration Lecture: Rebecca Kamen
Wednesday, April 6 at noon
http://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElduqtrjwvG9O6emkb5on63BxlZa5Zk1k0
"Making the Invisible, Visible: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery"
Rebecca Kamen is a painter, sculptor, and lecturer who explores the intersections of art and science. Her practice is informed by observation and wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and the search for common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and reimagine what scientists see.
Kamen has worked on collaborative projects at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard University, the Kavli Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rochester Institute of Technology, and at the National Institutes of Health.
She has exhibited and lectured both nationally and internationally including China, Hong Kong, Korea, Austria, Chile, Egypt, Spain, Australia and Singapore. She has been the recipient of a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship, a Pollack Krasner Foundation Fellowship, two Strauss Fellowships, and a Travel Grant from the Chemical Heritage Foundation. As artist in residence in the neuroscience program at National Institutes of Health, Kamen has interpreted and transformed neuroscience research into sculptural form. Her artwork is represented in many private and public collections.
Kamen is a professor emerita of art at Northern Virginia Community College, and currently serves as artist in residence in the Computational Neuroscience Initiative at University of Pennsylvania.
For more information about Rebecca Kamen, visit:
https://rebeccakamen.com
Resources:
"Reimagining scientific discovery through the lens of an artist"
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/reimagining-scientific-discovery-through-lens-artist
"Curiosity as Art and Science: Rebecca Kamen and David Lydon-Staley" (3-minute video)
https://youtu.be/9UO7KpjJWlc
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2. Legacy Ball and Exhibition
Saturday, April 9 at 6 PM
Memorial Hall Ballroom
Tickets: https://linktr.ee/NASA_UGA
The Legacy Ball will be a space for minorities to make connections with people who are looking to enter their respective job market. The event will be a resourceful networking opportunity for students of various minority organizations and a space for all minority students to unite. Each registered person will enjoy a buffet-style dinner, receive a T-shirt, and networking experience. Please be prepared to talk to industry professionals, make new contacts, and dress to impress. Artists featured at the ball will include Areum Kim, Temple Douglass, Vy Tran, Tien Tran, Dre Monsalve, Alexia Benavent-Rivera, Daniela Diaz Rios, and Mary-Jo Eden. Project partners include Black Felicity Student Association, Native American Student Association, Muslim Student Association, Caribbean Student Association, and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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3. Misplacement: A Symposium
April 1-2
Athenaeum
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/misplacement-a-symposium/
Visual artists, writers, and leading scholars in the fields of art history, literature, media studies, race, and queer theory will present recent work around the theme of misplacement. This event is supported by the School of Art, The Georgia Review, the Athenaeum, the Willson Center, and a State-of-the-Art Conference Grant from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Friday, April 1
3:00 PM
Coffee & Chit-Chat
3:15
Welcome Remarks, Isabelle Loring Wallace & Gerald Maa
3:30
What We Bring Home // Lisa Tan // Talk + Q&A
4:30
Black Absence, Black Uprising: Visual Poetry // Courtney Faye Taylor, author of Concentrate // Reading + Q&A
5:30
Stifters Dinge Performance // Marc Perroud // Screening + Food
Saturday, April 2
10:30 AM
Coffee & Chit-Chat
11:00
Threshold of Confinement: Art, Museums, and Prisons // Nicole Fleetwood, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. // Talk + Q&A
12:00
Lost and Found Objects: Heiner Goebbels' "Stifters Dinge" // Martin Harries, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine // Talk + Q&A
1:00
Lunch Break
3:00
The Town of Babylon: Fiction Meets Public Health in a Queer, Coming-of-Age Tale // Alejandro Varela, MPH, author of The Town of Babylon // Reading + Q&A
4:00
Assisted Non Fiction // Jill Magid, Conceptual Artist and Writer // Keynote Shouky Shaheen Lecture
5:00 pm
Roundtable + Concluding Remarks + Wine
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4. Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors Events
Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 14 at 5 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuGspzwjHtRB1V259C5kOdDAOTZ1rPJi
"Fighting Systemic Racism, Classism, and Individualism in Sustainable Fashion"
Join the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors for this virtual panel that highlights Black and Indigenous voices in the sustainable fashion industry. The panel will feature writer and research Teju Adisa-Farrar, fashion designer Korina Emmerich, and environmental educator Dominique Drakeford. The panel is supported by a Campus Sustainability Grant.
Diversity in Fashion Speaker Series
https://www.fcs.uga.edu/news/story/diversity-in-fashion-speaker-series-launches-this-month
All presentations will be held in Dawson Hall, room 110, beginning at 4:10 PM
Monday, April 4
Angela Nurse: "Race and Gender in Daily Dress"
Monday, April 18
Heather Akou: "Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion"
Friday, April 29
Lauren Downing Peters: "In Search of the Forgotten Woman: Plus-Size Fashion, Fat Bodies and Archival Silences"
Panel Discussion
Thursday, April 14 at 5 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqcuGspzwjHtRB1V259C5kOdDAOTZ1rPJi
"Fighting Systemic Racism, Classism, and Individualism in Sustainable Fashion"
Join the Department of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors for this virtual panel that highlights Black and Indigenous voices in the sustainable fashion industry. The panel will feature writer and research Teju Adisa-Farrar, fashion designer Korina Emmerich, and environmental educator Dominique Drakeford. The panel is supported by a Campus Sustainability Grant.
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5. 2022 CURO Symposium
April 4-5
Classic Center, downtown Athens
https://symposium.curo.uga.edu
The annual CURO Symposium highlights excellence in undergraduate research at the University of Georgia, by offering an opportunity for students to communicate their own research to our broader community.
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6. Lecture: Corey Pemberton
Thursday, April 7 at 5 PM
Main Art building Room S151
Corey Pemberton received his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2012. He has completed residencies at The Pittsburgh Glass Center (PA), Bruket (Bodo, NO), as well as a Core Fellowship at the Penland School of Crafts (NC). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California where he splits his time between Crafting the Future, production glass blowing, and his painting practice. Pemberton strives to bring together people of all backgrounds and identities, breaking down stereotypes and building bridges; not only through his work with Crafting The Future but with his personal artistic practice as well.
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7. SpacePants Events
Lecture
Monday, April 11 at 5:30 PM
Music Building Room 264
Performance
Wednesday, April 13 at 6 PM
Music Building Room 264
While singing (Jen) and playing viola (Diana) at a music festival in Vermont, we met, realized we shared a life-long dream of wearing as many sparkles as possible, and ran joyfully out into a field to celebrate. Our enthusiasm attracted the attention of some rad aliens who invited us to party and jam with them. As luck would have it, they were having a full-on sparkle party. When we woke up the next day, groggy and disoriented, we discovered the rad aliens had left us three parting gifts: a 25-foot long tube, a mission, and several pairs of spacepants. The tube would of course become a central focus of our music-making. The mission, which we accepted, is to wear spacepants while bringing both our own and other earth-bound beings' works of music, poetry, multi-media, storytelling and art to life. Visit: https://spacepantsmusic.com
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8. Panel Discussion: The Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project
Thursday, April 14 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qPi1bV0vQo-vE4lDlW2ntA
In 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris burned. In 2021, Handshouse Studio led a team of experts and students in Washington, DC to reconstruct one of the trusses that once supported the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris.
Handshouse has reconstructed Truss #6, one of the oldest trusses that once stood above the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris. The Handshouse Notre Dame truss reconstruction was made using the official drawings created by the French lead architects Remi Fromont and Cedric Trentesaux, and followed French protocol passed down from the Middle Ages for timber harvesting, fabricating, assembly, tools, and raising techniques.
This conversation will feature Lindsay S. Cook, assistant professor of art history at Ball State University; Tonya Ohnstad, assistant professor of architecture and planning, Catholic University of America; traditional carpenter Gerald David; and Rick Brown of Handshouse Studio.
For more about the project, visit:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/americans-helping-rebuild-notre-dame-12th-century-tools-180979794/
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9. Lecture: Andy Battaglia
Thursday, April 14 at 6 PM
Athenaeum
UGA alumnus Andy Battaglia ('97) will talk about his path from Athens to New York, where he has been writing about art and culture for more than 20 years -- the past five of which he has worked as deputy editor of ARTnews magazine. The list of publications he has written for starts with the Red & Black and Flagpole and continues through Art in America, Frieze, Artforum, the Paris Review, the Onion A.V. Club, the Wall Street Journal, Pitchfork, the Guardian, and many others. Among the artists and thinkers he has engaged with are Matthew Barney, Kevin Beasley, Carol Bove, Fred Moten, La Monte Young, Robert Wilson, Morton Subotnick, Michael Stipe, Alanna Heiss, and others. With a special interest in music and sound, he has also worked as an organizer and curator for Unsound, a project devoted to music and sound-art that presents concerts, discussions, and presentations in Krakow, Poland, as well as New York and points beyond. The talk will touch on the ups and down of a life lived through journalism, different approaches to reporting and criticism, and ways that coverage of art in its many forms has evolved and changed.
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10. MFA Exhibition Opening Reception
Friday, April 15 from 6 to 8 PM
Athenaeum
Celebrate the graduating class of MFA students in their final thesis exhibition. Artists in the exhibition include Rosie Brock, Luka Carter, Casey Connelly, Victoria Dugger, Isys Hennigar, Matthew Hoban, Craig Howarth, Forrest Lawson, and Annie Simpson.
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11. Torrance Festival of Ideas
April 19-21
https://whova.com/web/tfoi_202204/
The Torrance Festival of Ideas is a free annual online educational and cultural event where renowned experts from across disciplines present their innovative ideas to the general public.
The 2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas showcases unique perspectives on a range of topics including creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, aesthetics, flow, imagination, emotions, motivation, AI, digital art, music, literature, wellbeing, community health, mental health, sociocultural engagement, childhood, aging, equality, identity, political resistance, and social change.
Call for Creative Submissions
Deadline: April 15
Participate in a creative challenge exploring the theme "Reflections on 2021" for the 2022 Torrance Festival of Ideas.
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12. Natasha Trethewey Events
Reading and Public Reception
Thursday, April 21 at 4 PM
UGA Chapel
Public Conversation
Friday, April 22, at 6 PM
Morton Theatre, downtown Athens
Reservations required: https://www.mortontheatre.com
The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts welcomes American author and Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey as the annual Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Trethewey, who is Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University, will visit Athens for a slate of public events and informal conversations with students. Trethewey, who is a UGA alumna, was appointed United States poet laureate in 2012 and again in 2013, and won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her 2006 collection Native Guard. The program is presented in partnership with the Institute for African American Studies, the department of English, and the Creative Writing Program.
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13. Symposium on the Book
Wednesday, April 27 at 11 AM
Special Collections Libraries Room 277
"'We had not thus trespassed against your consent': The Blackamoor Poems by Henry Rainold and Henry King (1630s-1650s)."
Dr. Brandi K. Adams is assistant professor of English at Arizona State University. Her research interests include the history of reading, the history of the book, and premodern critical race theory of early modern England as well as modern editorial practices of early modern English drama. She has recently published on unbookishness in Othello and Keith Hamilton Cobb's American Moor in the journal Shakespeare and has contributed the essay 'Fair/Foul' to the volume Shakespeare/Text edited by Claire M.L. Bourne for Arden Bloomsbury's series Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance. She has begun working on her first monograph, tentatively titled "Representations of Books and Readers in Early Modern English Drama."
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14. Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Across Disciplines Symposium
April, 28-29
https://genderbodyfieldwork.wixsite.com/genderbodyfieldwork
The Gender, the Body, and Fieldwork Across Disciplines Symposium is a platform for graduate students to open dialogue on questions and experiences of gendered bodies and sexuality in undertaking fieldwork. The aim is to relocate questions and conversations that are often understood as 'private' into the 'public' sphere of academia, embrace ideas of discomfort in spaces of discussion, and collectively reimagine 'the field' and what it means to do fieldwork. Symposium sessions are in development and registration will open in early April. This year's Keynote Address will be delivered by Dr. Brigette Baptiste, and will take place in a hybrid format, with the in-person event at the Miller Learning Center- Room 171, 4:00 - 5:30 pm. Please register to attend the keynote address virtually at this link.
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15. Paid Student opportunity: Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence
Deadline: April 1
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/internships/
The Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence (AiR) is a non-traditional position designed to infuse creativity into on-going OoS programs and activities, promote collaboration between artists and other disciplines, engage the campus community in new ways, and give artists an opportunity to explore ideas and develop work related to sustainability. The AiR will spend up to 10 hours each week at the Office of Sustainability in the Chicopee Building, where they will embed in circular materials initiatives and develop at least one creative project that engages the campus and/or community (such as workshops, exhibitions, performance, intervention, etc.). The AiR receives support and resources from the OoS, with guidance from the Social Ecology Lab and Ideas for Creative Exploration. All arts disciplines are encouraged to apply. This internship will last both Fall and Spring semesters.
The Office of Sustainability Student Internship Program provides opportunities for experiential learning and professional development while making a positive and tangible impact within the University of Georgia and Athens communities. The Office of Sustainability partners with campus and community organizations to identify real-world challenges and develop sustainable solutions. Leadership training is enhanced through a collaboration with J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development. The Office of Sustainability is committed to cultivating an inclusive, diverse and respectful workplace. All current students are welcome and encouraged to apply.
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16. U.S. Student Fulbright Program Information Sessions -- Spring 2022
Are you interested in pursuing a Fulbright grant for year-long independent research, study, creative pursuits, or an English Teaching Assistantship abroad? Come to a Fulbright information session this spring! The 2023-2024 Fulbright competition opens March 31, 2022, and the campus deadline is September 6, 2022. Note to undergraduate juniors -- if you want to go abroad on a Fulbright the year after graduation, this is the time to apply. Seniors and graduate students 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 2023.
ENGLISH TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIPS:
Tuesday, April 19, 4:00-5:00pm, 302 Moore Hall
Friday, April 22, 12:20-1:10pm, 102 Moore Hall
RESEARCH/STUDY/CREATIVE GRANTS - UNDERGRADUATES:
Monday, April 25, 12:20-1:10pm, 102 Moore Hall
RESEARCH/STUDY/CREATIVE GRANTS - MASTER'S & PHD STUDENTS:
Tuesday, May 3, 12:30-1:30pm, via ZOOM
To receive Zoom info, register here: https://forms.gle/MoTRUcQDjeEDhnFn9
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 we will begin making individual appointments with interested applicants starting in late April. U.S. Student Fulbright Program website: http://us.fulbrightonline.org/.
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17. Call for Student Short Films: Elevate
Deadline: April 8th
https://filmfreeway.com/UGABTE
In an effort to showcase filmmakers and highlight diversity and inclusion within the arts, the Black Theatre Ensemble invites artists to submit short films (documentaries, narratives, animated, music videos, experimental) to the Elevate Minority Short Film Festival. BTE encourages participating filmmakers to have a cast and crew that reflects diversity and inclusion within their projects. We look to highlight diversity in regard to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities, or religion. Films must be 2-20 minutes long, can be animated or live action, and can be made during pre-Covid times.
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18. UGA Earth Day 2022 Art Challenge
Deadline: April 14
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/art-challenge/
We are inspired by the impact of Georgia's pollinators on the sustainability of our food systems. We invite you to submit artworks similarly inspired by themes related to pollination. All members of the UGA or Athens community are welcome to submit up to two original artworks in any medium that can be experienced online. Selected works will be displayed on the UGA Office of Sustainability website, starting on Earth Day April 22, 2022. Awards will be given to three selected artists.
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19. JoLLE Arts Editor
Deadline: April 5
http://bit.ly/3Hsp1gX
JoLLE (The Journal of Language and Literacy Education) is seeking someone to join our team as next year's Poetry, Fiction, and Visual Arts Content Editor. This person would be responsible for soliciting, providing feedback on, and publishing creative arts contributions to our biannual publication. Interested applicants should email [log in to unmask] with two paragraphs to explain their interest in the position and their qualifications.
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20. Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) events and opportunities
Poetry Month
https://www.athensculturalaffairs.org/acac-celebrates-poetry-month/
Poet Laureate Reading
Sunday, April 10 at 2:30 PM
ACC Library
The Athens-Clarke County Library is proud to present Mr. Jeff Fallis, Athens first Poet Laureate.
Poems by Mail
Throughout April, Athens inaugural Poet Laureate, Jeff Fallis, will be fulfilling requests for poems by mail! Poems can be sent to yourself, or a loved one.
Poetry Window Display
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission and the Athens Downtown Development Authority are looking for businesses to display poems in their storefront windows. A variety of poems printed on posters (11x17 in) will be displayed for the month of April to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry, promote literacy and elevate the arts in Athens.
ACAC Seeks New Member
Deadline: April 22
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) is seeking one qualified candidate to fill a 3-year volunteer position. 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. Applications can be found online: https://www.accgov.com/FormCenter/Athens-Cultural-Affairs-Commission-36/Application-for-Athens-Cultural-Affairs-777
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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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