ICE Announcements 11.9.20
http://ice.uga.edu
*Silas Munro Lecture: Visualizing Black America (11/11)*
1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding (11/13)
2. Spotlight on the Arts Events
3. Symposium: Arts in Public Health (11/12)
4. Lecture: Creative Resilience Collective (11/12)
5. Performance: Breathe (until 11/13)
6. Fred Moten: In Conversation (11/20)
7. Kyna Leski: From Field (12/8)
8. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/16)
9. Opportunity: UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (until 11/16)
10. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/7)
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*Lecture: Silas Munro*
Wednesday, November 11 at 3 PM
Webinar: zoom.us/j/96553248097
"W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America"
Silas Munro is a partner of poly-mode, a bi-coastal design studio, an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and Advisor, Founding Faculty, and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the past year he emerged as one of the most exciting practitioners of community-engaged design and as an influential scholar known for his contributions to W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America published by Princeton Architectural Press in late 2018. The project has been featured in articles in Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, and Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society).
Munro's scholarly research addresses the relationship between designers' personal identities, formal systems and strategies they utilize, and how both interact with the communities they serve. In workshops and lectures he addresses post-colonial relationships between design and marginalized communities and offers practical ways for educators and practitioners to decolonize the way design is taught ("Major/Minor History") and to create inclusive new frameworks ("Nodal Historical Network"). His design work and writing has been published in books, exhibitions, and websites in Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and the UK including Chronicle Books, IDEA magazine, Eye, and Slanted magazine.
He earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has been a critic and lecturer at leading programs including Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, NC State, RISD, and CalArts. His design studio, poly-mode, works with cultural institutions and community based organizations including MoMA, The Phillips Collection, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Walker Art Center, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New Museum, Wynwood Arts District Miami, and the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
Remote presentation and conversation hosted by Ideas for Creative Exploration with the support of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding
Friday, November 13 at 3 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdeuopj4oGtdTQhHaHNy4EvLj-9aujccm
How has Congress considered the arts in its trillion dollars of coronavirus relief funding? Join Brandon LaReau, PhD student, artist, and activist for an informal overview of the ways the federal government has attempted to provide relief funding to artists and venues forced out of work due to the global pandemic.
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2. Spotlight on the Arts 2020
November 4-20
https://arts.uga.edu
The University of Georgia's Spotlight on the Arts festival returns for its ninth year with dozens of virtual events and exhibitions in the visual, literary, and performing arts from Nov. 4-20. Highlights of this year's 17-day festival include performances from Grammy-winning singer Kathy Mattea, multimedia work presented by UGA Theatre, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame keynote address, and several exhibitions at the Georgia Museum of Art and Lamar Dodd School of Art, among dozens of additional events featuring all aspects of the arts. Virtual exhibitions include the 2020 Shelter Projects created by UGA graduate students and community-based artists that reflect on their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, select units will host in-person performances and exhibitions that maintain social distancing.
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3. Arts in Public Health: Pedagogy, Practice, Research and Policy
Thursday, November 12 at 3 PM
https://live.remo.co/e/art-and-public-health-symposium/register
Please join Sandro Galea, Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, Jill Sonke, director for the University of Florida's Center for Arts in Medicine, and thought and program innovators including Kendra Jones, Director for Health Equity, Arts & Culture for the Richmond Memorial Health Foundation and Josh Miller, from IDEAS xLab, to speak about the One Poem at a Time Project from across the country in a mini-symposium to explore the burgeoning field of arts in public health. This discussion will explore how the arts and culture can be leveraged in public health to improve lives in the COVID era and beyond. This free session, hosted via the interactive event platform Remo, will explore the intersections of the arts and public health, present programs at the cutting edge, and give you a chance to connect with pedagogy, practice, research, and policy educators from across the country. This event is designed to launch a community of practice, hosted by the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), that will drive collaboration and action at the intersections of the arts and public health to advance health and health equity in the U.S.
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4. Lecture: Creative Resilience Collective
Thursday, November 12 at 7 PM
https://zoom.us/j/99576439735
Creative Resilience Collective (Philadelphia, PA) will present "On staying together: a collective art and design practice in pursuit of healing justice." Led by Andrea Ngan, CRC's team will host a conversation to discuss the nuanced and intersectional truths that race, class, gender, and ableism bring up within art and community practices.
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5. Performance: Breathe
Streaming November 5-9, 11-13 at 8 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/breathe
"Breathe" is a multimedia work being developed by alumna Angela Hall under the direction of former faculty member Dr. Freda Scott Giles. Through tweets, news articles, and first-hand accounts, "Breathe" contends with our current American moment -- focusing on social and political upheaval with an emphasis on action and "good trouble." This unique experience will see its development influenced by both its writer and the cast, responding in real time to the events that surround us daily.
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6. Fred Moten in Conversation: BLUE(S) AS CYMBAL
Friday, November 20 at 2 PM
https://art.uga.edu/events/fred-moten-conversation-blues-cymbal
In lieu of a traditional lecture, Professor Moten has asked that we discuss one of his recent, unpublished essays. The public and all members of the UGA community are welcome! This event is sponsored by the Willson Center in association with the 21st Century Faculty Research Cluster.
Fred Moten teaches Black Studies, Critical Theory, Performance Studies, and Poetics in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. His latest books are all that beauty (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and consent not to be a single being (Duke University Press, 2017-2018).
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7. Lecture: Kyna Leski
Tuesday, December 8 at 4:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6RMTDey6TOyzVF8my38q0w
Kyna Leski will deliver the 2020 Torrance Lecture. The lecture "From Field" will be delivered online as a Zoom webinar that will simultaneously be livestreamed on YouTube. Webinar places are free but limited, so register as early as possible.
Journalist of dreams; animation artist; author; designer of buildings, bowls and benches; Kyna Leski has dedicated her lifework to the creative process. As a young girl she witnessed her father design projects from his drawings and sketches through to their realization and reception by the public to which they still belong. It was an education in process, the workings of intuition-to design-to building, the difficult relationship of stated intention to experience and the transubjectivity between. These early ponderings underpinned her work as a student at The Cooper Union and Harvard's GSD; her work as a designer and principal (with Chris Bardt) of 3six0 Architecture. It has been fed and nourished by over three decades of teaching design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she is Professor in Architecture. She has served as Department Head and Head of RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. Kyna has given talks from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach California to Pop!tech in Camden Maine. She is the author of "The Storm of Creativity," published by The MIT Press (2015) and translated into five languages.
The annual Torrance Lecture at UGA: The E. Paul Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education annually brings together scholars, professionals and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
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8. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 16
https://sustainability.uga.edu/grants
Funded by the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to implement projects to advance sustainability on campus and in our local community. Special consideration will be given to interdisciplinary projects that advance equity and incorporate the arts.
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9. UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program
Applications open October 1
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program provides early stage developmental funding to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics. The goal of the pre-seed funding is to stimulate the formation of new interdisciplinary research teams that position UGA faculty to be competitive for attracting resources for collaborative research, including internal UGA seed grants and ultimately, external grant support. The Program is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
Finding may be used for team-building activities such as networking meals, part-time student support, group website development, and travel to meet with potential external collaborators or funding agencies. Funds will be made available to teams beginning in January 2021.
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10. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 7
https://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
Guidelines: Convey a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top four submissions receive prizes of $1,000, $800, $600, and $400.
Special Prize: An additional $200 will be made available to the entry that engages most successfully with the topic of either COVID-19 or Racial and Ethnic Justice.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are eligible. Multidisciplinary and collaborative group submissions are highly encouraged. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
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Ideas for Creative Exploration is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA, supported in part by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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