ICE Announcements 10.23.18
http://ice.uga.edu
*Lecture: Elizabeth Corr (10/31)*
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session (10/24)
2. a2ru National Conference (registration ends 10/26)
3. Reading: Ira Sukrungruang (10/23)
4. Lecture: Aviva Rahmani (10/31)
5. Frankenread (10/31)
6. Workshop: Arduino from Scratch (register for 11/7)
7. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards (deadline 10/25)
8. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Grants (deadline: 10/29)
9. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/12)
10. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 11/26)
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*Lecture: Elizabeth Corr*
Wednesday, October 31 at 3:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
"The Case for Collaboration: How NRDC Works with Artists to Bolster Environmental Advocacy"
Elizabeth Corr works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today's communities. She is the Director of Art Partnerships at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an international environmental nonprofit organization with over three million members. Corr launched the NRDC's Artist-in-Residence program, an innovative platform for thoughtful and sustained collaboration between artists and environmental leaders. As a curator she has worked with artists such as Jenny Kendler, Sipho Mabona, Antonin Fourneau, and the Luftwerk collective. Corr holds a master's degree in African Studies and a bachelor's degree in psychology and gender/women's studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was recently nominated for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, recognizing scientists, entrepreneurs, engineers, activists, or artists who stand poised to make a game-changing difference. Supported by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session
Wednesday, October 24 at 12:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 5 at 5 PM
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects. Special consideration will be given to projects that address the theme "Cultivating Community."
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include titles and affiliations)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Impact of project
- Timeline of project
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Monday, November 5 at 5 PM.
Information Sessions
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Wednesday, October 24 at 12:30 PM
Tuesday, October 30 at 10 AM
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. a2ru National Conference
November 1-3
Registration Deadline: October 26
University of Georgia
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
Free public sessions:
a2ru Plenary Session
Thursday, November 1 at Noon
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
"The Art of Resilience: What's at Stake for Integrating the Arts and Sciences to Achieve Sustainability and Resilience in the Anthropocene"
Participants in this free, public plenary session of the a2ru National Conference are Cassandra Fraser, professor of chemistry at the University of Virginia; Paul Shrivastava, chief sustainability officer at Penn State University; and Sha Xin Wei, professor and director of the School of Arts, Media + Engineering at Arizona State University.
a2ru Plenary Session
Friday, November 2 at 9 AM
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
Rebecca Rutstein and Samantha Joye: "Expeditions, Experiments, and the Ocean: Arts and Sciences at Sea"
Rebecca Rutstein is an artist whose work spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art and explores abstraction inspired by science, data and maps. Samantha Joye's research examines the complex feedbacks that drive elemental cycling in coastal and open ocean environments, and the effects of climate change and anthropogenic disturbances on critical environmental processes to gain a better understanding of how future changes will affect ecosystem functioning. Her work in deep sea extreme environments explores how microbial processes interact with geological and physical processes.
a2ru Plenary Session
Saturday, November 3 at 4 PM
UGA Center for Continuing Education, Mahler Hall
"Promoting the Arts to Full Partner: A Discussion About Deep Arts Integration on Campus from Various Leadership Perspectives"
Participants in this free, public plenary session of the a2ru National Conference are Peter Linett, chairman and chief idea officer of Slover Linett Audience Research; and Harry J. Elam, Jr., the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, senior vice provost for education, vice president for the arts, and the Freeman-Thornton Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.
Closing event: Human and the Machine
Saturday, November 3 at 8 PM
Georgia Theatre
Free with RSVP
http://humanandthemachine.moogfest.com
The 2018 a2ru conference closing event is presented by Moogfest in partnership with the UGA Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech.
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3. Reading: Ira Sukrungruang
Tuesday, October 23 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, the essay collection Buddha's Dog and Other Meditations, the short story collection The Melting Season, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the 2015 American Book Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. He is also one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida.
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4. Lecture: Aviva Rahmani
Wednesday, October 31 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Aviva Rahmani began her career as a performance artist, founding and directing the American Ritual Theatre (1968-1971), performing throughout California. She graduated from California Institute of the Arts and received a PhD from Plymouth University, UK, Rahmani has presented workshops on her theoretical approach to environmental restoration and her transdisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally including in The Independent Museum of Contemporary Art (IMCA), Cyprus with the National Centres of Contemporary Art (NCCA), Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russian Federation, KRICT, Daejeon, Korea, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO.
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5. Frankenread: A Halloween Event
Wednesday, October 31
UGA Main Library and Cine
On October 31st UGA will take part in Frankenreads: an international celebration of the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein organized by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and the NEH. The Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literary is sponsoring a nearly-complete reading of the novel in collaboration with the Main Library, The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, the Theatre and Film Studies Department, and the Undergraduate English Association.
Our nearly complete reading of the novel will begin at 8 AM in the newly renovated cafe on the bottom floor of UGA's Main Library and continue until 6 PM. In the spirit of the novel's multiple voices, readers will be drawn from across the campus and the larger Athens community. Our reading will be accompanied by a slideshow of images drawn from popular culture and curated by Dr. Christopher Pizzino. The final 30 minutes of this epic readathon will take place at Cine, just prior to a free screening of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
In addition to this epic "read-a-thon," the library will host a movie marathon throughout the day, as well as a Monster Parts Scavenger Hunt. During the entire month of October, the Main Library will present curated exhibits of Frankenstein texts and related curricular materials. Participants and sponsors from the library include Emily McGinn (Digital Humanities Coordinator, UGA Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab), Diane Trap (Reference Librarian and Graphic Specialist, UGA Main Library), and Amy Watts (Reference and Instruction Librarian, UGA Main Library).
If you are interested in signing up for a 10-minute reading opportunity, please contact Dr. Roxanne Eberle ([log in to unmask]) or Dr. Casie LeGette ([log in to unmask]).
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6. Arduino from Scratch: a workshop for beginners
Wednesday, November 7 at 2 PM
Science Library Makerspace
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform for artists, designers, hobbyists, tech lovers, and anyone interested in making. Synthesizers, robots, and e-textiles can all be made with Arduino!
In this workshop, presented by Ariel Ackerly, Makerspace Associate and Andrew Johnson, Emerging Technologies Librarian, you'll learn the basics of circuitry, an overview of the hardware and software of Arduino, and we'll code our boards to do something cool! No prior knowledge of Arduino is needed and all hardware and peripherals will be provided. Open to all UGA undergraduate and graduate students.
Space is limited and reservations may be made by emailing [log in to unmask]
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7. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Public Impact Grant
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty and students. The award provides support of up to $10,000. Faculty may apply for the Public Impact Grant in partnership with graduate students. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants are encouraged to consider other external and internal sources of funds. Award is for the following academic year.
Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Individual Faculty or interdisciplinary groups may nominate Visiting Fellows who contribute to intellectual life on campus by engaging with current research in a public context. Fellows are funded for five-day ($5,000) programs. The amount of the award includes honorarium and travel expenses. Award is for the following academic year.
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8. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Grants
Deadline: 10/29
The Social Ecology Studio is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students for Project Pilot Grants of up to $600 intended to support projects working within the vision of the studio.
Vision: The Social Ecology Studio is a multi-researcher, collaborative art workspace dedicated to advancing sustainability and resilience through the arts. Capitalizing on art's ability to engage, inform and activate a diverse range of constituents, the studio acts as a bridge, humanizing and connecting community members and policy makers with issues entrenched in social ecology. The Studio facilitates collaborations with scientific and social research topics from across campus and the community, serving as a hub for graduate and undergraduate students to identify research opportunities while providing space and resources to work collaboratively.
Granting Priority will be given to projects that fulfill one or more of the following objectives:
- The project engages current social and/or ecological issues.
- The project is collaborative.
- The artist collaborates with researchers from non-arts disciplines in one of the following manners: bringing art thinking into the workflow of non-arts discipline research, utilizing the research of non-arts discipline(s) in the ideation and/or methodology of the artist's workflow, utilizing non-arts research in the production of the work.
- The project interacts with the community outside of the University.
- The project serves as a pilot for a CURO research project proposal, Sustainability Grant Proposal, Willson Center Graduate Research Award application, or other UGA or external research opportunity.
Grant Proposals must include a written statement no more than one page in length (single spaced, 1 inch margin, 11 point type), identifying the proposed project and its alignment with studio vision and granting priorities. On a second page include a general budget outline and short paragraph justifying the budget expenditures.
Grant Amounts will generally be awarded in the range of $200-$600 and will include access to a collaborative studio workspace, and project mentorship from studio director Michael Marshall and a network of affiliated faculty from across campus. Unfunded proposals may still be eligible for facility and mentorship support by invitation.
All expenditures are subject to UGA policies and procedures.
Application Deadline: Monday, October 29, 5:00pm.
Submit your application as a pdf or word document to Michael Marshall via email to [log in to unmask], subject heading: "SES Pilot Grant ProposalYourFirstName YourLastName"
Questions or proposal development advice? Email Michael Marshall at [log in to unmask]
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9. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants
Pre-proposals deadline: October 12
Deadline: November 12 at 9 AM
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations.
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10. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: November 26 at 5 PM
http://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
UGA Libraries is hosting the 2018 Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $1,700 in prizes.
Guidelines: Explain a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top three undergraduate and graduate submissions each receive prizes of $500, $250, and $100.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
Contest Criteria: Submissions will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Clarity of expression
Creativity
Appeal to a broad audience
Formats: Any and all formats and genres are encouraged! Examples include: essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, music, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction, and exhibits. See last years' winners and submissions for more examples.
Sponsored by UGA Libraries & The Office of Research
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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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