UGA Arts Collaborative
10.10.23
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1. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
2. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events (10/11-14)
3. a2ru National Conference (10/19-21)
4. Conversation: Sustaining Creative Teams (10/23)
5. My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again (10/26)
6. Co-design Processes (opens 10/9)
7. El Hadji Malick Ndiaye (10/11)
8. Call for Participants: Classics Undone (10/11)
9. Edible Plants Walk (10/14)
10. SURFACE: 2023 Juried Exhibition (opens 10/14)
11. Steam Roller Events (10/14-28)
12. Rahim Fortune (10/17)
13. Workshop: Create a topographic model (10/26)
14. Portia Maultsby Events (11/7)
15. Campus Sustainability Grants (pre-proposal deadline: 10/13)
16. Willson Center Faculty Fellowships (deadline 10/14)
17. Opportunity: National Leaders of Color Fellowship (deadline: 10/16)
18. 4'33" Competition (deadline 10/19)
19. Call for Proposals: Integrative Conservation Conference (11/6)
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1. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
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.
Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzPEOTYrxYiVQa
Proposal requirements:
- Brief description of project goals (up to 300 words)
- Names and project roles of collaborators
The Mini Grant Program is supported by the UGA Arts Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts. The Arts Collaborative 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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2. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events
October 11 - 14
https://www.drama.uga.edu/news/stories/2023/visiting-artists-annie-sprinkle-beth-stephens
For the last decade, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens have been creating performance under the rubric of "ecosexuality" in which they playfully provoke audiences to think differently about their relationship to the Earth: instead of imagining Earth as mother, how would we treat the Earth if we thought of it as a lover? How would our behavior change? How might we, then, co-create a more sustainable future?
This series of workshops and events introduces participants to Sprinkle & Stephens' ecosexuality performances and their creative techniques. All activities are open to students, staff, faculty, and community.
*Wednesday, October 11*
Welcome Reception & Book Signing for Assuming the Ecosexual Position
4-6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St.
*Thursday, October 12*
Ecosexual Performance Workshop I
from 6 - 8 PM
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre
*Friday, October 13*
*Ecosexual Performance Workshop II*
1:50 - 3:30 PM
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre
*Screening + Q&A: Water Makes Us Wet*
5 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre (Room 400)
*Saturday, October 14*
National I Love You (Earth) Day Performance
Noon
Location TBD
Note: Attendance at one of the previous workshops is required for participation in the final performance.
Supported by the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, UGA Arts Collaborative, Department of Theatre & Film Studies, Georgia Initiative for Climate & Society, Institute of Women's Studies, UGA Pride Center, and Sustainable UGA.
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3. 2023 a2ru National Conference
October 19-21
Penn State University
https://a2ru.org/event/2023-national-conference-whats-next-imagining-new-educational-futures-for-ourselves-our-communities-and-our-planet/
*Deadline for virtual registration: Sunday, October 15*
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA will cover virtual registration costs for a limited number of a2ru conference participants. If you are interested in participating please contact [log in to unmask] before registering.*
"What's Next?: Imagining New Educational Futures for Ourselves, Our Communities and Our Planet"
The a2ru national conference is an opportunity for practitioners and researchers from across the higher education spectrum to share innovations and perspectives in the arts. a2ru advances the full range of arts and design-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society.
a2ru's work, in partnership with an international network of leading higher education institutions, envisions a world in which universities -- students, faculty, and leaders -- explore, embed, and integrate the arts in everyday practice and research.
This will be an in-person conference, and remote participation will be an option for many sessions.
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4. Arts Collaborative Conversation: Sustaining Creative Teams
Monday, October 23 at 11:30 AM
Main Art Building room S360
How do collaborative teams stay together or fall apart? Join graduate assistants in interdisciplinary arts research for a conversation about how creative partners meet, work together, and keep going. All are welcome to share questions and knowledge about the challenges and benefits of collaboration. Hosted by the Arts Collaborative student organization.
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5. My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again
Thursday, October 26 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Atrium (first floor)
https://thegeorgiareview.com/event/my-body-as-topic-coming-around-again-by-rebecca-pappas-performed-by-ellen-smith-ahern-theo-armstrong-alexis-robbins-and-taylor-zappone/
My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again is a three-volume dancework that unravels the tangled threads of white womanhood and American modern dance. Centered around Land, (In)Visibility, and Care, these dances traverse dualities of freedom/control; sincerity/satire; tenderness/violence; beauty/monstrosity. Rebecca Pappas makes projects that address the body as an archive for personal and social memory. She is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Trinity College, where she is a 2021 CT Office of the Arts Fellow and a Guest Artist in the Masters in Social Practice Art at University of Indianapolis.
Sponsored by the Georgia Review with additional support from the UGA Arts Collaborative, Department of Dance, and Lamar Dodd School of Art.
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6. Co-design Processes
October 9 - November 9
C-U-B-E Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art
This exhibition showcases engaged-design pedagogy and methodologies to explore disability needs. Foregrounding co-design research by interdisciplinary and graphic design students at UGA, the exhibit explores challenges and strategies to promote inclusive and vibrant ways to address accessibility.
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7. El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
Wednesday, October 11 at 2 PM
Gilbert Hall, 118
Dr. El Hadji Malick Ndiaye will present and discuss his work as curator and director of the Theodore Monod Museum in Dakar, Senegal, as well as his new project entitled "Transmission." At the Monod Museum, founded in 1936 as the French Institute of Black Africa (IFAN) and renamed the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa at independence, Ndiaye has experimented with research and exhibition projects that interweave contemporary art and historical heritage. This relationship lies at the heart of "Transmission" and underlies Ndiaye's revitalization of the three museums under his supervision.
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8. Call for Participants: Classics Undone
Wednesday, October 11 from 4:30-6:30 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 201
Zoom
Meeting ID: 880 422 5406 Passcode: Film
We need actors, artists, props, photographers, set designers, costumers, lights, camera, craft services, and so much more!
Come join the professors and professional in this learning opportunity! You will get a feature film credit for your work (IMDB) and you can work pre-production, the whole shoot or just a day! You can get experiential learning credit and undergrads may be able to apply for experiential learning grants to get paid for their time. Classics Undone, inspired by classic plays, addresses cultural explorations of marginalized communities, sexism, dealing with disabilities in an ableist society and mental health was written by two current UGA graduate students. For more information visit: www.classicsundone.com.
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9. ECP Philosopher's Walks: Edible Plants Walk
Saturday, October 14 at 9 AM
https://ced.uga.edu/eecp/news_and_events/
Join the EECP and Concrete Jungle Athens on an edible plants walk through campus where we'll discuss food insecurity and the plants we pass everyday that can help. One in eight Georgians are food insecure, lacking reliable access to affordable, nutritious food, thus contributing to negative health outcomes. Food-insecure individuals are 2-3 times more likely to have diet-related chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. At the same time, food loss and waste in the US is higher than any other country. Concrete Jungle exists in the gap between food insecurity and food waste. The walk is expected to last 1.5-2 hours. Bring comfortable hiking shoes and some water. Starting at the Physics Bus Stop and ending at the Geography Green Roof.
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10. SURFACE: 2023 Juried Exhibition
Opening reception
Saturday, October 14, from 6-9 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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11. Steam Roller Event & Workshop
Saturdays, October 14, 21 & 28, 2023
The Lyndon House Arts Center
https://www.accgov.com/10752/Steam-Roller-Event-Workshop
The Lyndon House Arts Center and Open Studio Membership Program is hosting a steamroller printmaking event in October. Carving takes place Saturday October 14 and 21 from 10 - 4pm. Registration is required. Steamroller printing public event is October 28, 10 - 4 pm. On Saturday, October 28 all are invited to join as we ink the relief blocks and drive the steamroller over them to print large-scale images on paper and fabric. Attendees can assist in rolling ink and pulling prints. All will enjoy the magic of printmaking with a steamroller!
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12. Rahim Fortune
Tuesday, October 17 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art room S151
Rahim Fortune uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement, and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Fortune has published two books of his photographs. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and is included in many permanent collections, including those of the High Museum in Atlanta GA, The LUMA Arles, Nelson Atkins Museum and The Boston Museum of Fine Art.
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13. Workshop: Create a topographic model to 3D Print from a two-dimensional digitized map
Thursday, October 26 at 2 PM
McBay Science Library Makerspace
Register: https://calendar.libs.uga.edu/event/11396452?hs=a
In this 90-minute project-based workshop, learn to locate a topographic dataset for an area of interest from the USGS's National Map 3DEP Lidar Explorer; import, define, and create an image of your desired landscape in QGIS (a free, open source geographic information system software); export and create a 3D model from that image file in Blender (a free, open-source 3D creation software); and how-to export that model to the makerspace's 3D printers to bring your once, two-dimensional topographical image into envy-creating three-dimensional 3"x3"x3" desk candy.
This workshop will be co-taught by GIS Librarian, Meagan Duever of Research & Computational Data Management and Emerging Technologies Librarian, Andrew Johnson of Research & Instruction. No experience with noted software or 3D printing necessary. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Space limited. Reservations required. Please sign up on the McBay Science Library Makerspace web page's calendar.
This workshop may be of particular interest to students in Geography, Forestry & Natural Resources, and Geology conducting field work and looking to create a more dynamic poster session with the addition of a three-dimensional object of their research site, artists incorporating landscapes into their works, or avid hikers of any discipline. A waitlist is enabled to gauge interest for possible future workshops.
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14. Portia Maultsby Events
Tuesday, November 7
Georgia Museum of Art
The Singular Creativity of African-American Music
Mini-conference
10 AM - 2 PM
Register: https://2023-torrance-conference.eventbrite.com/
Community, Culture and Black Musical Creativity
Annual Torrance Lecture
2:30 PM
Register: https://maultsby-torrancelecture.eventbrite.com/
Renowned Ethnomusicologist Portia Maultsby delivers the 2023 Annual Torrance Lecture. Portia K. Maultsby, PhD, is Professor Emerita of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Founding Director of the Archives of African American Music and Culture, and of the Indiana University Soul Revue. Her pioneering scholarship on African American music--religious, popular, music globalization, and the music industry--intertwines with creative endeavors. The latter includes Leader of R&B, Soul, and Funk Bands, songwriter-arranger and producer of commercial recordings, music consultant for PBS Black history documentary series, Eyes on the Prize II, and co-producer / consultant for museum films. Professor Maultsby has co-edited two books African American Music:An Introduction. 2nd. Ed. (2015) [3rd Ed. in progress] and Issues in African American Music (2017), Routledge Press.
Free Public Concert Celebrating Contemporary Black Music @ Athens, GA
4 - 5 PM
MC: Knowa Johnson, Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement
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15. Campus Sustainability Grants
Pre-proposals (optional): until October 13
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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16. Willson Center Faculty Fellowship
Deadline: October 14
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Willson Center Fellowship supports excellence in arts and humanities research or creative practice and activity. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible to apply. Fellowships can be held every five years. Willson Center Fellowships are intended to support humanities and arts scholars or practitioners. Interdisciplinary research or creative practice and activity is encouraged, including with the sciences, social sciences and other domains. Fellowships provide course release from two normally assigned courses in one academic year.
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17. Opportunity: National Leaders of Color Fellowship
Deadline: October 16
https://www.southarts.org/grants-opportunities/national-leaders-color-fellowship
The 2024 application cycle of the National Leaders of Color Fellowship is now open. During this no-cost eight-month fellowship, selected fellows will receive access to specialists in the field, strategic learning objectives determined to deepen thought on anti-racist and culturally-oriented leadership practices, and national-level network and cohort building. Upon completion of this program, participants are granted alumni status and have opportunities to collaborate with their local US Regional Arts Organization as advisors, funding panelists, and/or other professional capacities.
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18. 2023 Call for Participation: Spotlight on the Arts LIVE Research Competition 4'33"
Deadline: October 19
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
This competition highlights UGA student research in the arts and provides an opportunity to win award funding and to share creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators, and alumni throughout the university community. The competition is open to any graduate or undergraduate student working on an advanced project related to the literary, visual, or performing arts. On Tuesday, November 14, finalists will present their research in talks exactly four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length. Awards include $433 for the grand prize winner and $150 for three runners-up.
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19. 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference at UGA
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 6
https://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
The Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR) is now accepting submissions for the 2024 Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC). With this year's theme of New Visions for Conservation, we hope to further rethink conservation both within and outside of the academy. We welcome proposals for organized sessions as well as presentations, including posters and creative contributions. ICC 2024 will take place February 16-17th at the UGA Special Collections Library, with some hybrid and online options.
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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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