ICE Announcements 1.27.15
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For more events and opportunities visit http://iceannouncements.com
1. Opportunity: Thinc-a-Thon: Design + Food
2. Lecture: Mequitta Ahuja (1/27)
3. Lecture: Andrew Daily (1/27)
4. Lecture: Carol Armstrong (1/29)
5. ICE-Vision: Eraserhead (1/29)
6. Art Party (1/30)
7. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/5)
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1. Opportunity: Thinc-a-Thon: Design + Food
Saturday, January 31- Sunday, February 1
http://thincathon3.eventbrite.com
Ready to make a difference over a weekend? Thinc-a-thon returns to UGA! Join us for two fun, intense days of making as we craft, hack, and build human-centred design solutions to real world problems related to food, dining, and health. Use new technologies such as 3D printers, a laser cutter, littleBits, Arduinos, and more. Connect with mentors from design and entrepreneurship such as IDEO, Four Athens, and Hackberry Labs. Prizes will be awarded for the projects that best meet the intersection of viability, desirability, and feasibility. You do not need an idea or a team in advance as projects will be formed at the event. This event is free for students. To sign up please visit:
http://thincathon3.eventbrite.com
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
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2. Lecture: Mequitta Ahuja
Tuesday, January 27 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
http://art.uga.edu/events/art-talks-mequitta-ahuja
The painter Mequitta Ahuja will discuss her process, thinking, and work related to her exhibition at the Dodd Galleries.
Mequitta Ahuja received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2003 and was mentored by Kerry James Marshall. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. as well as in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, India and Dubai. Ahuja has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, BravinLee Programs in New York, Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, Thierry-Goldberg Gallery in New York and a two person exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. Group exhibitions include Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, State of the Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Houston Collects African American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Poets and Painters at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, KS, Undercover at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Portraiture Now at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery among others.
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3. Lecture: Andrew Daily
Tuesday, January 27 at 11 AM
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium
http://willson.uga.edu/event/andrew-daily-staging-post-negritude-histoire-de-negre-and-diasporic-consciousness/
Andrew Daily, assistant professor of modern French and global history at the University of Memphis and a specialist in French Caribbean intellectual history, will give a public lecture about the preeminent Martinican public intellectual Edouard Glissant's 1972 play Histoire de negre [Black History]. The play is a collaboratively authored, participatory drama performed by and for local audiences throughout Martinique. Daily will also discuss his collaborative work with Emily Sahakian, assistant professor of romance languages and theatre and film studies at UGA, and Christian DuComb and Mahadevi Ramakrishnan of Colgate University to translate, stage, and interpret the play for American audiences and students.
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4. Lecture: Carol Armstrong
Thursday, January 29 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
Carol Armstrong is professor of history of art at Yale University, where she has taught since 2008. She teaches and writes on 19th century French art, the history of photography, the history of art criticism, feminist art theory and women artists. She has published books and essays on Degas, Manet, Cezanne, 19th century photographically-illlustrated books and women photographers from Anna Atkins to Diane Arbus. She is also an active art critic who has written frequently for October and Artforum, as well as a practicing photographic artist, and an occasional guest curator. Her current and upcoming projects include a book on Cezanne and his afterlives, titled "Cezanne's Gravity," as well as a set of essays on mediums and their specificities considered from a feminist point-of-view.
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5. ICE-Vision: Eraserhead (Lynch, 1977)
Thursday, January 29 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
www.facebook.com/groups/120740834290/
Computer Science major Sebastian Marquez brings in a new season of ICE-Vision with his adventurous selections of both domestic and international films, with a block of Japanese cinema being the centerpiece of this semester.
Eraserhead : Henry (John Nance) resides alone in a bleak apartment surrounded by industrial gloom. When he discovers that an earlier fling with Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) left her pregnant, he marries the expectant mother and has her move in with him. Things take a decidedly strange turn when the couple's baby turns out to be a bizarre lizard-like creature that won't stop wailing. Other characters, including a disfigured lady who lives inside a radiator, inhabit the building and add to Henry's troubles.
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6. Art Party
Friday, January 30 from 6-8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
http://art.uga.edu/events/art-party-exhibition-opening-party-extravaganza
Four new exhibitions featuring over 30 artists!
- Mequitta Ahuja: Automythography
- The Exquisite
- Justin Schmitz: Like a Juggernaut
- To-Do List
Custom caricatures by Lawson Chambers & Becker Whitney! Introducing Roving Pop Up Poetry Readings curated by The Georgia Review and featuring Sabrina Orah Mark! Jenny Gropp! & Historic Sunsets! Treats by Wildfood Catering! Music specially chosen by exhibiting artists!
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7. Willson Center Grants
Deadline: Thursday, February 5
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Grant
http://willson.uga.edu/deadlines/willson-center-distinguished-artist-or-lecturer/
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Research Seminar Grant
http://willson.uga.edu/deadlines/willson-center-research-seminar/
The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring to campus scholars from other institutions.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is 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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