ICE Announcements 4.19.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Botanical Garden Soundwalk (begins 4/22)
2. Performance: The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines (4/19-21)
3. Conversation: Val Jeanty & Renee Gladman (4/20)
4. Conversation: Land, Water, Sky (4/22)
5. Lost in the Weeds Event (4/21)
6. Screening and Discussion: Gather (4/22)
7. Lecture: Angela Miller (4/22)
8. Text Analysis Workshop Series (4/22)
9. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/23-25)
10. UGA Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress (4/30 and 5/1)
11. UGA MFA Exhibition (until 5/15)
12. Faculty Sustainability Workshop (5/18)
13. Opportunity: Creative Reuse Day (4/21)
14. Opportunity: Creative Catalyst Fellowships
15. Opportunity: Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships (deadline 4/23)
16. Opportunity: Penn Center Artist Residency (deadline 4/26)
17. Opportunity: a2ru 2021 Conference (deadline 5/21)
18. Opportunity: Georgia Sea Grant (deadline 5/31)
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1. Botanical Garden Soundwalk
Thursday, April 22 through summer 2021
State Botanical Garden of Georgia
https://tinyurl.com/ugasoundwalk
The Botanical Garden Soundwalk is a collection of soundscapes created by members of the UGA Student Composers Association in partnership with the UGA State Botanical Garden. Student and faculty composers engaged with Cora Keber, State Botanical Garden Director of Education, to learn about and respond to different environments within the Garden. Playback of soundscapes on the ECHOES app is prompted by the geolocation positioning of the listener within the grounds of the Garden. Visitors can craft their own interactive soundtrack by virtue of the duration and order of regions they encounter. The Botanical Garden Soundwalk begins at the Garden Visitor Center and continues in all other gardens and collections. Supported in part by an Idea Lab Mini Grant.
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2. Performance: The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines
April 19 - 21 at 8 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/season21
A metaphysical and metatheatrical romp of rebellion and reimagined classics. Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines explores the lived experiences of two of Shakespeare's famous female characters and two actresses who have embodied them onstage. This humorous and intimate testimony reveals what Shakespeare left out of his immortal text and why women are haunted by these roles today.
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3. Conversation: Val Jeanty & Renee Gladman
Tuesday, April 20 at 7 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PKuunp-6Q7qsT8V4qZdomw
Composer, percussionist and DJ Val Jeanty and author Renee Gladman will take part in a public conversation as part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The discussion will be moderated by Ed Pavlic, Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American studies.
Jeanty is a Haitian-born New Yorker whose musical practice combines modern electronic and traditional acoustic instruments for improvised performances and installations she refers to as "Afro-Electronica."
Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians.
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4. Conversation: Land, Water, Sky - Photographers Address the Environment on Earth Day
Thursday, April 22 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PBFSCnAPTMaMKfhJ5sH9Ag
Photographers Tomiko Jones, Jeff Rich, and Marni Shindelman join moderator Katie Geha, director of the Dodd Galleries at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, for a conversation on the occasion of Earth Day 2021, on the heels of a year that has reshaped discourses on countless levels of global society. They will discuss the interaction of their art with the environment, and how their work connects to issues from politics and technology to communication and memory.
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5. Lost in the Weeds: Climate Change and Human Nature
April 17 - May 22, 2021
https://athica.org/updates/weeds/
Streaming talk on UGA's Ethnobotanical Garden by Paul Duncan
Wednesday, April 21 at 7 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqcumqqjMiEtaRbO2PpjsDXDggA2A1-eJK
An exhibition curated by Macon-based artist/curator Craig Coleman and featuring the works of eleven individual artists and four collaborative artist teams from across the country and beyond. All use the stuff of nature to convey the beauty, mystery, and inescapability of its rule, and perhaps, its ruin. The technology-infused works on display take form through new approaches to sculpture, installation, video, interactive sound and video, virtual reality, animation, blown glass, weaving, and more and derive their substance from natural materials, the ecosystems of the world, and data from natural phenomenon. Thought-provoking, energetic, and urgent, these works both analyze our changing environment and substantiate a new way for art to express the effects of humanity on our small planet.
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6. "Gather" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Film available: April 16 - April 23
https://site.extension.uga.edu/sfsi/gather/
Panel discussion: Thursday, April 22 at 3 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-hW44VmZSbOzMtEuN2uTdA
The Sustainable Food Systems Initiative is excited to present a screening of the film "GATHER", accompanied by a virtual panel discussion. Supported in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture along with UGA's Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, these events will be available to access for FREE.
"Gather" follows Nephi Craig, a chef from the White Mountain Apache Nation (Arizona), opening an indigenous cafe as a nutritional recovery clinic; Elsie Dubray, a young scientist from the Cheyenne River Sioux Nation (South Dakota), conducting landmark studies on bison; and the Ancestral Guard, a group of environmental activists from the Yurok Nation (Northern California), trying to save the Klamath river."
Panelists:
Samuel Gensaw is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe and a co-founder of the Ancestral Guard, committed to the foodways of the North Coast California indigenous as well as supporting indigenous environmental movements worldwide.
Nephi Craig is the founder of the Native American Culinary Association, a network of Native cooks, chefs, scholars, farmers, and community members devoted to the development and preservation of Native American foodways.
Twila Cassadore has been working with San Carlos Apache, White Mountain Apache, and Yavapai peoples for the past 25 years, conducting interviews with elders to bring information back into the community to address health and social problems.
R. Alfred Vick, PLA (moderator) is the Georgia Power Professor in Environmental Ethics at the University of Georgia and Director of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program. He also serves on the Faculty of the Institute of Native American Studies and is a contributor to the book "Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods."
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7. Angela Miller: Friends and Relations: The Queer Symbolic Realists of the Lincoln Kirstein Circle
Thursday, April 22 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvce6urDMvGNBfM0Zac3VsLsCG3ED0ftdC
Angela Miller, professor of art history and archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, will give a Zoom lecture in conjunction with the exhibition "Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery and Imagination in American Realism." This lecture traces the shared interests -- aesthetic, romantic and philosophical -- that brought together three artists who enjoyed the support and patronage of Lincoln Kirstein, founder of the New York City Ballet. What did the paintings and photographs of Paul Cadmus, Jared French and George Tooker share with others in the magic realist mode in the years around World War II?
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8. Text Analysis Workshop Series
Thursday, April 22 at 4 PM
http://bit.ly/textseries2
Text Analysis Applications: Social Media
Instructor: Katie Kuiper, Ph.D. candidate in linguistics
This series of workshops will show participants their options to analyze text at scale. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary.
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9. Torrance Festival of Ideas
Friday, April 23 - Sunday, April 25
https://mfecoe.shorthandstories.com/FestivalofIdeas2021/index.html
Registration for this event is free and is limited to the first 1,000 attendees.
The Festival features 21 speakers from across the globe who explore themes and questions relevant to creativity, imagination, art, music, humor, empathy, consciousness, wellbeing, mindfulness, childhood, aging, education, equality, data, identity, healing, health, crisis, curiosity, innovation, entrepreneurship, authenticity, political resistance, and sociocultural change. The spirit of Athens will also be showcased, with spotlights on local non-profit organizations that serve the community in creative and crucial ways.
We are encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in a creative challenge exploring the theme, "Reflections on 2020." We are seeking submissions of creative contributions through April 1.
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10. History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress
Friday, April 30 and Saturday, May 1
https://www.slaveryatuga.org
The inaugural History of Slavery at the University of Georgia: Symposium on Recognition, Reconciliation, and Redress will feature presentations and performances on the histories of slavery at the University of Georgia. The Symposium will seek to recognize, reconcile, and redress the historical and contemporary impacts of slavery at UGA and in Athens, Georgia. Participating will be scholars, activists, political representatives, artists, educators, students, and practitioners who are interested in exploring racial justice within and beyond the UGA community. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required and is limited to 500 viewers.
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11. Whistling in the Dark: UGA MFA at the Athenaeum
April 12 - May 15
The Athenaeum
287 West Broad Street
Galleries open Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 AM - 5 PM
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the opening of the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition, displaying works by students graduating with their Master of Fine Arts Degree. Whistling in the Dark features the work of seven MFA students working in a variety of media from video to installation, painting, photography, and sculpture. Artists in the exhibition include: Mac Balentine, Matthew J. Brown, Caitlin Adair Daglis, Alex McClay, Katharine Miele, Ciel Rodriguez, and Kelsey Wishik.
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12. Faculty Sustainability Workshop
Tuesday, May 18 from 9 AM - 12 PM
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_a00QDdYNocruMzc
Interested in interdisciplinary conversations around local and global challenges? Are you new to teaching sustainability or been teaching about it for years and want some fresh ideas? Join your peers for a half day workshop focused on integrating sustainability concepts and ideas into the classroom. Through small and large group discussion, we will discuss techniques and strategies for inclusion, student engagement, and opportunities to collaborate across disciplines. Faculty are invited to share their experience and learn from each other through facilitated conversations and activities. This workshop will include a focus on community sustainability, resilience, and recovery from COVID-19.
Location: Flinchum's Phoenix in Whitehall Forest. The large discussions will be indoors with windows open at a safe Covid capacity. We will make use of the ample porch and outdoor spaces for our small group conversations. A box lunch will be available at noon to take with you or eat on location for additional networking and conversation outside.
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13. Open Creative Reuse Days at the Teacher Reuse Store
Wednesday, April 21
https://www.accgov.com/TRS
The Teacher Reuse Store will now be open every other Wednesday (2 - 6:30 pm) to certain community groups. No appointment or registration required, but please do bring some form of identification that you are from one of these groups: students, artists, nonprofits, camp & after school programs, religious organizations, and teachers from ANY county. Oh, and a reminder: everything is totally FREE.
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14. Creative Catalyst Fellowships
Various deadlines
https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/creative-catalyst/fellowships/index.aspx
Creative Catalyst Fellowships, in partnership with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts at UNC School of the Arts, are highly competitive, paid fellowships that advance artist leadership through skill-building, mentoring, and community of practice; strengthen creative community networks to better address regional gaps; foster systemic approaches to increase access, inclusion and equity; and embrace participation and exchange across the creative sector. Creative Catalyst Fellows will also gain access to educational and community-building opportunities.
CITY OF GREENSBORO/CREATIVE GREENSBORO - GREENSBORO, N.C.
Fellowship in Neighborhood Arts
HANGAR THEATRE COMPANY - ITHACA, N.Y.
Education & Engagement Associate
MIXXER - WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
Fellowship in Community Engagement
POCOSIN ARTS - COLUMBIA, N.C.
Fellowship in Community Engagement
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15. Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: April 23
https://willson.uga.edu/call-for-applications-arts-lab-faculty-fellowships/
Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships are designed for faculty members in the performing or creative arts to develop practice, research and curriculum in the arts. Support comprises one course release, and support funds up to $2000. Funds for arts instructional faculty who cannot commit to a semester away from instruction, but have need of a shorter period of study, practice, or research, can be considered by the selection committee. Two Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships will be held between January 1, 2022 - June 30, 2022.
Applicants must submit the following materials by email to Winnie Smith at [log in to unmask] by 3 p.m. Friday, April 23, 2021.
An artist's statement (five pages maximum), comprising:
A clear list of objectives for the fellowship, which may include the possibility of archival, training, or networking travel; preparation for possible external grant sources
A clear timeline for these activities, which may include justification for a whole, or partial, semester course release
A description of the possible impacts of the fellowship on future teaching, scholarship, and practice
A CV, which includes links to examples of practice and performance (five pages maximum)
An email of approval for the application from the applicant's unit head
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16. Call for Submissions: Penn Center Artist Residency
Deadline: April 26
http://www.penncenter.com
Penn Center, one of the nation's most important institutions of African American culture and history, invites submissions for an artist residency program, which is offered in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia, and made possible by the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Applications can be made by individual artists, or by a collective in a single submission. Proposals can be in any media (visual/ sonic/ literary/ performance), but must relate to the histories and cultures of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor in contexts of the theme, "Civil Rights and Social Justice." The residency will be held during the period September 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022, subject to pandemic safety protocols.
To be selected, projects must engage with, or partner with, one or more of the Sea Island communities. Projects may also build from material or archival holdings in Penn Center, or other relevant museums, archives, or collections. Outcomes -- readings, exhibitions, performances or installations -- will be mounted at Penn Center, or another suitable site, which may be in coordination with the annual Penn Center Heritage Festival.
Each year the artist residency offers:
- An honorarium of up to $10,000
- Materials and exhibition support of up to $15,000
- Travel, accommodation, and subsistence support of up to $5,000
- These costs may be shared among a group of artists if a collective application is chosen.
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17. a2ru 2021 Conference Sharing Stories: The Case for Art
Conference dates: November 3-5
Proposal deadline: May 21
https://www.a2ru.org/events/a2ru-2021-conference-sharing-stories-the-case-for-art/
Over the last twelve months, we have seen a range of sources acknowledge the powerful importance of the arts, particularly in the Covid era. As arts practitioners and leaders, we embrace our role in this unprecedented moment, even as we continue to rethink our disciplines, how our methods have changed during this time, and what the future of the arts might look like.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) will use this year's online conference to meet this unique moment in a uniquely artful way. We will engage and explore how we can best deploy what we hope has not changed -- our passion for the arts, for arts education, and for arts integration -- through storytelling, rather than traditional conference presentations. We invite participants to connect their research and/or practice with their preferred storytelling method and explain how the arts, arts education, arts advocacy, and/or arts integration are important, particularly in this moment. We especially welcome STEM researchers and practitioners who can use storytelling to demonstrate the power of arts integration in their field.
a2ru also acknowledges that not all forms of art are viewed equally. In addition to proposals that make the case for the importance of art in the Covid era, we welcome proposals that advocate for a re-examination of which arts, as well as which artists, are viewed as important in the field overall.
Storytellers will present their case for the importance of the arts in a short -- approximately five minute -- creative nonfiction story format. Live stories should be told, and not read. Storytelling can also take any number of creative forms: acting, film, painting, sand animation, sculpting, song, spoken word poetry, etc. We also encourage performances, such as dance, music, puppetry, etc. Performers may submit a narrative to accompany their performance, but this is not necessary. Group narratives are welcome. Additional time will be allotted as needed. Regardless of format choice, all submissions are subject to the criteria listed below.
We will prioritize proposals that have an interdisciplinary focus, and we stress that this call is open to the full range of disciplines, including but not limited to: art, design, engineering, humanities, medicine, public health, and the sciences. a2ru also encourages proposals that include empirical and/or qualitative evidence. Finally, as we recognize the unique way that artistic practice contributes to knowledge, and because this year's conference format calls for a shift away from our "default settings," we encourage submissions that are not only about the arts, but are themselves instantiated through the arts.
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18. Georgia Sea Grant Artists, Writers and Scholars Program
Deadline: May 31
https://gacoast.uga.edu/research/funding/aws-program/
Georgia Sea Grant strives to strengthen artistic voices, and enhance Georgia's profile as a place where artists, writers and scholars can live and thrive while offering fresh perspectives on our coastal resources. Georgia Sea Grant's Artists, Writers and Scholars (AWS) program will support artists, writers, and scholars in the humanities to produce professional-quality art and literature that increases awareness of Georgia's coastal, ocean and marine environments, improves understanding of Georgia's coastal communities, or helps document history, culture, or heritage of Georgia's coast. Creative projects that could be supported by this program include paintings, graphic art, sculpture, musical compositions, photography, poetry, science fiction, film, and digital media.
Georgia Sea Grant will award 3-5 grants that range from $1,000 to $5,000. These grants will be awarded directly to artists and writers.
Eligibility
Artists, writers or scholars who live in Georgia and whose work is related to Georgia's coastal, ocean and marine environments will be eligible for funding consideration.
Georgia Sea Grant encourages applications from individuals from historically marginalized groups, including Black or African-American, American Indian, Hispanic or Latino, female, first-generation college students, veterans, LGBTQ+ and individuals with disabilities.
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