ICE Announcements 10.3.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. ICE Arts + Environment Project Ideas Session (10/4)
2. Guest Talk: Heather McIntosh (10/4)
3. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP and Info Sessions (deadline 10/26)
4. Performance: Rote Hund New Music Ensemble (10/3)
5. Screening and Discussion: Chasing Coral (10/4)
6. Performance: Animal Farm (begins 10/4)
7. Seminar: From Bartram to Leopold (10/5)
8. Colloquium: Kofi Agawu (10/5)
9. Exhibition Opening: Athens Home for Discarded Objects (10/5)
10. Gallery Talk: Zane Cochran (10/7)
11. Exhibition: Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology (10/7-12/31)
12. Lecture: Sondra Perry (10/10)
13. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Project Pilot Grants (deadline 10/11)
14. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
15. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grant (deadline 11/13)
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1. ICE Arts + Environment Project Ideas Session
Wednesday, October 4 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Room S160
An open session to learn about arts + environment project funding opportunities at UGA. Kevin Kirsche and Tyra Byers from the Office of Sustainability and Michael Marshall from the Lamar Dodd School of Art will be available to answer questions about Campus Sustainability Grants and the new Social Ecology Studio Project Pilot Grants. Get feedback on project ideas, meet potential collaborators, and learn more about available resources.
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2. Guest Talk: Heather McIntosh
Wednesday, October 4 at 1:25 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music Room 264
http://www.heathermcintosh.com
Composer Heather McIntosh will share work from recent film and concert projects as a guest speaker at the UGA Dancz Center for New Music.
ICE Honorary Fellow Heather McIntosh (BMUS 2000) is a musician and composer of music for film and video. She created music for Examined Life, Compliance, The Rambler, Faults, Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey, and Z for Zachariah. Known as the house cellist for the Elephant 6 Collective and leader of The Instruments, she has played with of Montreal, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Music Tapes, Gerbils, Elf Power, Circulatory System, Apples in Stereo, Great Lakes, The Ladybug Transistor, Linda Perhacs, Kevin Ayers of the Soft Machine, Faust, Animal Collective, Cat Power, Superchunk, M Ward, The Clientele, St. Vincent, Azure Ray, Icy Demons, Japancakes, Bright Eyes, Washed Out, Dr. Dog, Norah Jones, Belle and Sebastian, Pacific UV, St. Vincent Gnarls Barkley, and Lil Wayne.
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3. Idea Lab Mini Grants Call for Proposals
Deadline: Thursday, October 26
*Information Sessions*
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Tuesday, October 10 at 10 AM
Friday, October 13 at 2 PM
Thursday, October 19 at 9:30 AM
Wednesday, October 25 at 3:30 PM
Stop by ICE to find out more about the Idea Lab Mini Grants. Share project ideas, look for collaborators, and ask questions.
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 with themes about, by, or for marginalized populations.
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 title or majors and role in project)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Project outcomes
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be a UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 5 PM.
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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4. Rote Hund New Music Ensemble
Tuesday, October 3 at 6 PM
Ramsey Concert Hall
Rote Hund's fall chamber recital, "Who's Afraid of New Music?" features music by Nicholas Maw, Erika Svanoe, and UGA's own Emily Koh.
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5. Screening and Discussion: Chasing Coral
Wednesday, October 4 at 6 PM
Tate Student Center Theater
Free
"Chasing Coral" follows a team of divers, photographers, and scientists as they set out to discover why coral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. The film features world-renowned coral research conducted at the University of Georgia. Following the screening, a panel discussion will be held with the filmmakers and key film subjects, including Jim Porter, UGA professor and coral ecologist in the Odum School of Ecology, and Zack Rago, the "coral nerd."
The event is part of a larger project to engage the Athens public about the importance of healthy oceans. During the filmmakers' visit, local area high schools will participate in field trips to see the film and meet the filmmakers, taking part in educational activities on ecology, marine science, and ocean health.
Financial support for this project comes from Kirbo Charitable Foundation, Reef Ball Foundation, ECOGIG Research Consortium at UGA's Department of Marine Sciences, Peabody Media Center, Katherine and Bertis Downs, Odum School of Ecology, and the Willson Center. Additional promotional support was provided by UGA's Speak Out for Species club, UGA Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant. The field trip series was developed in partnership with the Clarke County School District.
Chasing Coral won the Audience Award for the U.S. Documentary category at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
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6. Animal Farm
October 4 - 6 at 8 PM
October 7 at 2:30 and 8 PM
October 8 at 2:30 PM
Seney-Stovall Chapel
http://www.drama.uga.edu/event/1828/animal-farm
By George Orwell. Adapted by Ian Wooldridge. Directed by Anthony Marotta. George Orwell's satiric fable features greedy pigs taking advantage of the animals who unwittingly placed them in power.Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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7. Seminar: From Bartram to Leopold
Thursday, October 5 at 4 PM
Warnell Forestry Room 1-304
A special Warnell seminar, in which we will host a panel discussion titled: "From Bartram to Leopold: A cultural and literary history of American environmentalism." We are pleased to have three esteemed panelists from UGA who will share their wisdom on this topic:
Ron Balthazor, Ph.D.
Ron teaches composition and Environmental Literature and is the director of the UGA Sustainability Certificate Program. He is a scholar of Henry David Thoreau, and his broader interests include Environmental Literature and Eco-criticism, web development, honey bees, chickens, worms, and the rich ecosystem of the backyard garden.
Dorinda Dallmeyer, J.D.
Dorinda is director of the UGA Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. A native of Macon, she holds three degrees from UGA: B.S. & M.S. in geology and a J.D. She teaches courses in environmental dispute resolution and marine environmental ethics. Dorinda is also a scholar of William Bartram, a poet and essayist, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Claiborne Glover, Ph.D.
Claiborne is a Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology. With an undergraduate degree in English from Duke, he is a has the heart of a humanist, and teaches a course on science and human values focused on broader impacts of science, and how we think about science from literature to culture to ethics.
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8. Colloquium: Kofi Agawu
Thursday, October 5 at 5:00 PM
Edge Hall, Hugh Hodgson School of Music
Music theorist and pioneering ethnomusicologist Kofi Agawu will give a talk titled "Iconicity in African Musical Thought and Expression" in which he examines instances of iconicity in the visual and auditive fields. He draws examples from West and Central Africa, including instances of communal lamentation (North Borna), talking drumming (Akan and Yoruba), instrumental imitation of a griot (Labe), vocal imitation of instrumental music (Wagogo), recreation of a traditional dance on the piano (Fred O's Etude, 'Agbadza'), and a five-man rendition of a war chant (Banda Linda).
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9. Exhibition Opening: Athens Home for Discarded Objects
Thursday, October 5 from 6 - 8 PM
UGA Science Library
The Athens Home for Discarded Objects invites people to take a second look at objects that have been left behind in our environment. This two-part installation in the UGA Science Library features objects that were found as part of a highway and stream cleanup of Barnett Shoals Road in Athens and Tanyard Creek on the UGA campus. Participants are invited to "adopt" an object by filling out a "birth certificate" and imagining a story, name, and date of birth. The installation features some of the objects and their stories from the adoption event, which was held as part of Sustainable UGA's Zero Waste Extravaganza in February 2017, displayed alongside original prints by Abigail West and a handmade book by Kira Hegeman. This second part will be open for participants to newly adopt objects from a recent cleanup of Barnett Shoals, filing the new birth certificates in a book set up so that others can come read through these stories.
Kira Hegeman and Abigail West are both students of Lamar Dodd School of Art and interns in the UGA Office of Sustainability. Hegeman is a PhD student in Art Education and serves as the first artist-in-residence for the UGA Office of Sustainability. West is currently an undergraduate student in Printmaking and Book Arts and serves as a Material Reuse Intern of UGA Office of Sustainability. She has been key to managing the Material Reuse Project, coordinating with students and staff at Coile Middle School and preparing materials and challenges for the project. They hope to encourage people to think about the full life cycles of the common objects, with the goal of promoting mindfulness and reuse in a culture of consumption and consumerism.
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10. Gallery Talk: Zane Cochran
Saturday, October 7 at 2 PM
Lyndon House Arts Center
Zane Cochran will share the prototypes and process that led to the creation of Aurora, an interactive installation of 40 suspended structures that begin to glow and fade as visitors explore the gallery. The multifaceted structures, which draw inspiration from the Northern Lights, are generated from a computer algorithm created by the artist that inspire both the shape and coloration of the interactive lights.
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11. Exhibition: Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology
October 7- December 31
Georgia Museum of Art
This exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the ecology program at UGA, established as the Institute of Ecology in 1967 (it became a school in 2007). As Martha and Eugene Odum traveled the country to further Eugene's scientific knowledge, Martha painted watercolors of the natural landscapes she observed. Her work highlights depleted resources in the South as well as the love of ecology and the environment that she and her husband shared. This exhibition includes both her paintings and silver hollowware that she created, which draws on natural forms. Together, they show just how much Odum revered the natural world.
In addition to Martha Odum's paintings and silver, the exhibition includes other works from the museum's collection to illustrate how human history has interacted with ecology over the years. Each object shows the overlap of art and ecology. "Martha Odum: Art Intersects Ecology" is not only an expression of wonder in the face of natural structures and elements, but also an argument that these structures are worthy of being preserved.
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12. Lecture: Sondra Perry
Tuesday, October 10 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S151
Sondra Perry holds an MFA from Columbia University and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas. Her solo-exhibition, Resident Evil, a large multimedia installation, was on display at The Kitchen, NY in 2016 and received critical acclaim. Sam Korman wrote in Art in America that Perry elucidates "the role of digital technology in the formation of African-American identity." Perry's work has also been featured in the 2015 Greater New York exhibition at MoMA PS1, NY, and a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles opened in 2017 titled OPEN WINDOW: Sondra Perry, netherrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 1.0.3. Perry's studio practice resides in the video realm and focuses on her own black identity, using herself in video montages as a representative form of black women. Her work explores expanded meaning in technology, black family history, heritage, and femininity.
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13. Social Ecology Studio Project Pilot Grants
Deadline: Wednesday, October 11 at 5 PM
The Social Ecology Studio is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate students for Project Pilot Grants 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 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 budget and short paragraph justifying the budget expenditures.
Grant Amounts will be awarded in the range of $200-$800 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.
Expenditures are subject to UGA policies and procedures.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, October 11, 5:00 pm.
Submit your application as a pdf or word document to Michael Marshall via email to
[log in to unmask], subject heading: "SES Pilot Grant Proposal YourFirstName YourLastName"
Questions or proposal development advice? Email Michael Marshall at [log in to unmask]
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14. CURO Research Assistantships
Deadline for Spring: November 1
http://curo.uga.edu/
Information Sessions:
From finding a faculty mentor to applying for CURO funding, our information sessions are designed to help you get the most out of your research experience at UGA.
Thursday, Oct 12, 2-2:50pm
Monday, Oct 23, 1:25-2:15pm
Tuesday, Nov 7, 11-11:50am
The CURO Research Assistantship (CRA) supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Assistantships are one-semester awards for either Fall, Spring, or Summer. Assistantship students are encouraged to register for academic credit regardless of major, GPA, or Honors status. All Assistantship recipients are required to present their research at the spring CURO Symposium. If beneficial for their programs of study, students may conduct research with faculty members outside their department, college or school.
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15. Campus Sustainability Grant
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Pre-Proposal- October 13th
Proposal- November 13th
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.
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