UGA Arts Collaborative
10.3.23
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1. Arts Collaborative Mini Grants
2. a2ru Webinar: AI Provocateurs (10/5)
3. Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens Events (10/11-14)
4. My Body as the Topic Coming Around Again (10/26)
5. Silent Sky (until 10/8)
6. Courtney Starrett (10/5)
7. Naheed Phiroze Patel (10/5)
8. a2ru National Conference (10/19-21)
9. Portia Maultsby Events (11/7)
10. Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline: 11/20)
11. Willson Center Faculty Fellowships (deadline 10/14)
12. Opportunity: National Leaders of Color Fellowship (deadline: 10/16)
13. 4'33" Competition (deadline 10/19)
14. Call for Proposals: Integrative Conservation Conference (11/6)
15. Creative Capital Opportunities
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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. a2ru Webinar: AI Provocateurs
Thursday, October 5 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/ai-provacateurs/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for free registration.*
Generative AI is emerging as the latest technology to disrupt the arts, design, and media fields. How are creative faculty responding, sometimes in unexpected ways? This webinar brings together working artists, educators, researchers, and technologists to discuss how they are exploring AI from diverse perspectives -- ethically, creatively, and productively.
This panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Yvonne Houy, the Editor of Tradition-Innovations in Art, Design, and Media Higher Education. The inaugural edition of this new a2ru peer-reviewed digital journal -- out in late Fall 2023 -- will focus on Artificial Intelligence and possible futures for the Arts.
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3. 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.
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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4. 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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5. Silent Sky
September 28 - October 8
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre
https://www.ugatheatre.com/silentsky
Silent Sky brings to life the untold story of Henrietta Leavitt, a brilliant astronomer whose groundbreaking discoveries changed our understanding of the cosmos. Fueled by determination, intellect, and an unyielding spirit, Henrietta struggles against the societal expectations of the early 20th century in Lauren Gunderson's thought-provoking meditation on perseverance, the pursuit of knowledge, and the indomitable human spirit.Silent Sky is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection.
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6. Lecture: Courtney Starrett
Thursday, October 5 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art room S150
https://art.uga.edu/events/visiting-artist-lecture-courtney-starrett-data-material
Courtney Starrett is associate professor at Texas A&M University in the Department of Visualization and holds the Harold L. Adams '61 Interdisciplinary endowed Professorship in Visualization. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, is included in permanent collections at the Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte, NC, and Center for Contemporary Art & Culture at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR, and has been published in print in periodicals and books such as Metalsmith Magazine, How Design Magazine, Taiwan Craft Magazine, Art Jewelry Magazine, Cast: Art and Objects, 500 Necklaces, and 500 Plastic Jewelry Objects. Starrett's innovative design workflow utilizing data as a raw material as a base for the design of 3-dimensional objects, data materialization, has been published in a leading journal on the application of science and technology to arts and music: Leonardo (MIT Press) and cited in forthcoming the Handbook on Human Computer Interaction (Springer; 1st ed.2023) chapter on Data Physicalization (Dragicevic, Jansen, and Vande Moere, 2019).
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7. Reading and Craft Lecture: Naheed Phiroze Patel
Thursday, October 5 at 4:30 PM
Park Hall Room 265
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/reading_and_craft_lecture_by_naheed_phiroze_patel
Naheed Phiroze Patel is a graduate of the MFA program at Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her writing has appeared in the New England Review, The Guardian, Lit Hub, Poets & Writers, Chicago Review of Books, HuffPost, Scroll.in, BOMB Magazine, Public Books, PEN America, The Rumpus, Asymptote Journal and elsewhere. Her debut novel, "Mirror Made of Rain" was published by Unnamed Press in May 2022 and is praised by NPR as "a personal, empathetic view on mothers who society has deemed 'failures.'" Her public craft talk, "Should Your Protagonist be Likable: The Literary Significance of Writing Unlikeable Women," will draw from her experiences of writing women characters who are often dismissed by the literary world for being unpopular. A reading, an audience interaction and a book signing will follow this talk.
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8. 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/
*As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for reduced registration rates.*
"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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. Creative Capital
Opportunities for October and November
https://creative-capital.org/2023/09/27/artist-opportunities-october-and-november-2023/
As the leaves change color, fall into new artist opportunities in the form of grants, residencies, and more. Put your practice first by applying to public art open calls, jazz grants, and research fellowships.
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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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