ICE Announcements 1.17.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Alonzo King Residency (1/17-18)
2. Lecture: David Dai (1/18)
3. The Georgia Review Issue Release (1/19)
4. Lecture: Keetra Deen Dixon (1/24)
5. ICE Conversation: Keetra Deen Dixon (1/25)
6. A2RU Student Summit
7. ICE Reading Room: Crowdfunding in the Arts
8. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants
9. Opportunity: CURO
10. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. Global Georgia Initiative: Alonzo King Residency
January 17-18
Full schedule: https://willson.uga.edu/event/global-georgia-initiative-alonzo-king-a-life-in-art/
Performance: Tuesday, January 17 at 8 PM
APERO Conversation: Wednesday, January 18 at 12:20 PM, Tate Room 480 (free and open to the public)
Alonzo King founded the San Francisco-based LINES Ballet company in 1982 with a mission to create bold new dance innovations that break the mold of what ballet can be. LINES Ballet thrives on collaboration, pairing music from all over the globe with King's unique choreography that digs into the mysteries of movement, bringing honesty and spirituality to the stage.
Tickets for the Fine Arts Theatre performance are $41 to $52 and can be purchased at the Performing Arts Center, online at pac.uga.edu or by calling the box office at 706-542-4400 or toll free at 888-289-8497. UGA students can purchase tickets for $6 with a valid UGA ID, limit one ticket per student. A pre-concert lecture will be offered 45 minutes prior to the performance in the Fine Arts Building Balcony Theatre.
The Willson Center's Global Georgia Initiative presents global problems in local context with a focus on how the arts and humanities can intervene. The series is made possible by the support of private individuals and the Willson Center Board of Friends.
Sponsors of the performance and residency include South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Georgia Council for the Arts, the President's Venture Fund, the Office of the Provost, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the UGA Parents & Families Association, and the Southern Company.
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2. Lecture: David Dai
Wednesday, January 18 at 12:30 PM
Aderhold G5
"Toward a Developmental Account of Talent and Creative Productivity." David Dai, candidate for the endowed chair position at the UGA Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent.
About the presentation: Since Francis Galton (1896) proposed a genetic explanation of "genius," the debate has continued to date between those who argue that manifest talent and creativity can be traced to genetic makeup and are at least partly genetically determined, and those who dismiss this "nature" account, and argue that talent and creativity is made (i.e., achieved), not born. Both sides have supporting evidence. How we evaluate and reconcile these competing views of talent and creativity has a direct bearing on educational policy and practice. In this presentation, I propose a developmental solution to the nature-nurture conundrum by specifying when "nurture" reveals "nature" and when "nurture" surpasses "nature" at different junctures of talent development. I use my research program on early college entrants to illustrate how I approached this topic and how this line of research sheds light on development al processes leading to different kinds of talent and creative productivity.
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3. The Georgia Review's Winter Issue Release with Jericho Brown
Thursday, January 19 at 7 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
https://thegeorgiareview.com/events/winter-issue-release-launch-with-jericho-brown/
The Georgia Review will celebrate the launch of its Winter issue with a reading by contributor Jericho Brown as part of its ongoing 70th anniversary festivities at the Georgia Museum of Art. Brown, an award-winning poet and Guggenheim fellow, will read at 7 PM in the main auditorium. The event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
This gathering will also mark the closing of the exhibition "Storytelling," a selected retrospective of paintings, works on paper, photographs and 3-D compositions by Review contributors, including Benny Andrews, Kara Walker, Vanessa German and Masao Yamamoto, among others. The exhibition will be open for viewing, and a catered reception will follow Brown's reading.
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4. Keetra Deen Dixon
Tuesday, January 24 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Keetra Dean Dixon is a designer, director and artist who has worked as an experiential design director in New York but has also run her own independent studio practice in rural Alaska focusing on lettering, sculpture, and product design projects. Her hybrid background often leads her work towards speculative terrain, leveraging emergent technologies and process-focused making. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art Visiting Artist & Scholar Series.
Dixon's work has been recognized broadly including in the permanent design collection at SFMOMA and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun (Art Director's Cub) in 2008. She completed commissions for the 2009 U.S. presidential inauguration and the 2012 olympic games, has shown at the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and has acted as Design Director for installations featured at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2013 she participated in INCONGRUOUS, a residency for "brazen experimentation in design practices" at the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. She recently left her rural Alaska studio to join the faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. Dixon holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.
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5. ICE Conversation: Keetra Deen Dixon
Wednesday, January 25 at 11:30 AM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
An informal conversation with visiting artist Keetra Deen Dixon about experimental design and collaboration.
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6. A2RU Student Summit
February 8-11
University of Florida
http://a2ruevents.wixsite.com/a2ruh20
ICE is proud to sponsor four students who will represent UGA at the 2017 A2RU Emerging Creatives Student Summit, "Water: New Directions Through Arts and Science." Carla Cao (Music), Suzie Henderson (Ecology), Hary Harris (Art), and Stewart Engart (Music) will travel to Gainesville, Florida with the additional support of travel grants from A2RU. Congratulations!
For more about the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities visit: http://a2ru.org
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7. ICE Reading Room: Crowdfunding in the Arts
"The early signs from a mix of funders, local authorities and foundations suggest that match funding is set to grow significantly over the next few years. It is highly likely that these organisations will grow more confident using crowdfunding as a mechanism to sit within a range of other funding tools such as grant funding or loan financing."
By Peter Baeck and Sam Mitchell
Links to articles:
http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/300/feature/collaborating-crowds
http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/magazine/300/feature/matching-crowd
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8. Willson Center Grants
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Graduate Research Award
Deadline January 24
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level.
Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree. Previous graduate student research award recipients are ineligible. Graduate students may be supported in travel to archives, installations and performances, and other sites related to their research projects. Applicants who give a lecture or presentation of their work at another institution during the award of this grant must recognize the Willson Center as a source of support.
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Program
Deadline February 16
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.
Applicants are encouraged to involve more than one department; applications may include partnership with relevant departments, centers and institutes other than the Willson Center. A primary criterion is the academic excellence of the nominee and the interdisciplinary impact they will have on the UGA research community in the arts and humanities.
Lectures and locations should be coordinated through the Willson Center. In accepting the award, the faculty sponsor agrees to communicate all relevant information regarding the visitor's activities while at UGA and to credit the Willson Center in all publicity about the visitor.
Research Seminar Program
Deadline February 16
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. Award is following academic year.
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9. CURO Opportunities
https://curo.uga.edu/
Research Assistantship
The CURO Research Assistantship provides stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Summer applications are due by March 22. The application can be found at: http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
Summer Fellowship
The 2017 CURO Summer Fellowship provides a $3000 stipend for intensive, faculty-mentored research experiences.
Proposals are due by February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
2017 CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium
CURO invites submissions for its 2017 Symposium to be held on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4, 2017. This Symposium provides undergraduates from all disciplines the opportunity to present original, faculty-mentored research and creative works. Applicants are also encouraged to apply for the Best Paper and UGA Libraries Undergraduate Research Awards.
Symposium online submission closes February 10
http://curo.uga.edu/symposium/
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10. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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