ICE Announcements 10.13.15
http://ice.uga.edu
For more events and opportunities visit http://iceannouncements.com
1. Sustainability + Arts Grant (pre-proposal 10/19, deadline 11/16)
2. ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition*: How's Your News (10/15)
3. Upcoming ICE Conversation: George Scheer (10/20)
4. Lecture: Art and Love by Seitu Jones (10/13)
5. Performance: Mrs. Packard (10/13-10/18)
6. Alice Walker Events (10/14-15)
7. Workshops: Thinc PopUp Classes (10/15-16)
8. Exhibition: Roundabout (10/15)
9. Performance: Michele Chidester: Hens and Chicks (10/15-10/18)
10. Open House with Artists' Books at Special Collections (10/16)
11. Cinema and Media Roundtable: Amy Schumer, Queen of Comedy (10/16)
12. Upcoming Lecture: George Scheer (10/20)
13. Opportunity: 2016 CURO Summer Fellowship Proposals (deadline 2/12/16)
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1. Sustainability + Arts Grant
ICE and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a Sustainability + Arts grant in conjunction with the 2014-2015 UGA Campus Sustainability Grants program. One project will be selected to receive up to $5,000. All full-time UGA students in good standing are eligible to apply. For more information and application forms visit:
sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/students/sustainability_grants
Pre-proposal deadline (optional): October 19
Final proposal deadline: November 16
The UGA Campus Sustainability Grants Program provides competitive funding for student-proposed projects and initiatives designed to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift - as well as to inform and conserve - are encouraged. Proposals are accepted from current UGA students and will be selected based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit sustainability.uga.edu.
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2. ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition*: How's Your News (Bradford, 1999)
Thursday, October 15 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
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Discover what life is like for five members of Camp Jabberwocky, a summer camp where those with major mental and physical challenges are given the task to drive around the country and work as field reporters. This film, a favorite on the festival circuit, dispels the notion that disability limits opportunities and choices by showing just how the quintet, who cruised the country in an RV, knocks down myths with plenty of humor and heaps of grace.
*ICE-Vision 2006 selection by Micki Davis
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3. ICE Conversation: George Scheer
Tuesday, October 20 at 4 PM
ICE Office, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S160
How do you describe a space that never stops changing? The Elsewhere Museum, once a thrift store, is a living museum that hosts 50 artists from all over the world year-round. Join visiting artist George Scheer, Director of Elsewhere Museum, to talk about this unique and ever-evolving art space.
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4. Lecture: Art and Love by Seitu Jones
Tuesday, October 13 at 6 PM
Athens-Clarke County Library
Jones will discuss his work as a visual artist who creates large-scale public artworks: spanning from his time as Minneapolis' first artist in residence, to the staging ofCreate: The Community Meal, which took place a year ago in St. Paul and was produced by Public Art Saint Paul.
Jones' lecture is part of the Athens public art master plan process, which is being organized by the Athens Cultural Affairs Council and led by consultant Todd Bressi. This fall, winter and spring guest artists will be working on the plan in Athens, and will give lectures about their work. These lectures will provide a lens on the many ways that artists are working in the public realm these days, and seed ideas for an expansive public art program in Athens.
Jones will also talk about his residency in Athens, where he will spend a week collecting people's stories about food: memories, recipes. These stories will not only seed ideas for the plan, but also provide a unique lens into some of the cultural, social and economic issues that artists might address through their work.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
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5. Performance: Mrs. Packard
Tuesday, October 13 - Friday, October 16 at 8 PM
Sunday, October 18 at 2:30 and 8 PM
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre Room 55
http://www.drama.uga.edu/event/1281/mrs-packard
Written by Emily Mann. Directed by Joelle Re Arp-Dunham. University Theatre Studio Series Elizabeth Packard's husband commits her to an asylum, without proof of insanity, in 1861. Based on historical events, Emily Mann's play tells of one woman's struggle to right a system gone wrong in this winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award. Tickets are $12, $7 for students.
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6. Alice Walker Events
http://willson.uga.edu/event/alice-walker-reading-and-lecture/
Standing in Georgia, Writing to the World
Wednesday, October 14 at 3:30 PM
UGA Chapel
Alice Walker will give a talk and read from her literary works in this keynote Delta Chair event. It is free and open to the public, and seating is general admission. Overflow seating with a live video stream will be available nearby. Parking is available in the UGA North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson Street.
A Conversation with Alice Walker
Thursday, October 15 at 6:30 PM
Morton Theatre
Author Alice Walker is a native of Eatonton and a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her 1982 novel "The Color Purple," which also earned a National Book Award. She has written six other novels, four collections of short stories, four children's books and volumes of essays and poetry. Her first collection of poetry, "Once," was published in 1968, followed by her first novel, "The Third Life of Grange Copeland," in 1970. Throughout her public life, she has been an international activist for civil and human rights and a forceful advocate for women and girls.
Alice Walker visits Athens and the University of Georgia as the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the University of Georgia Institute For African American Studies. She will join Valerie Boyd, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, for a public conversation in this Delta Chair community event. Dr. Boyd is currently editing "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: the Journals of Alice Walker."
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7. Workshops: Thinc PopUp Classes
225 W. Broad @ Hull (1.5 blocks from the Arch)
https://www.facebook.com/thinc.uga
Design Thinking
Thursday, October 15 5 PM
Learn strategies to created human-centered solutions to problems. Part 1
Front End Web Development
Friday, October 16 5:45 PM
Basic web development course for non-developers. Part 3
8. Exhibition: Roundabout
Opening Thursday, October 15 from 6-8 PM
Thomas Street Gallery, 215 S.Thomas St.
The show will include new works by Jewelry Metals, Sculpture, and (for the first time) Art X MFA candidates. Courtney McCracken's Barter Shop will be serving muscadine shrub cocktails straight from the vine and there are whispers of a performance by Elizabeth Rogers.
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9. Performance: Michele Chidester: Hens and Chicks
Thursday, October 15 through 18
ATHICA
https://www.facebook.com/events/660070030796693
Hens and Chicks is a multi-day performance piece by local visual and performance artist Michele Chidester. Chidester's piece is about human beings as thing makers presented within the theme of Matrilineality. Chidester's performance will be ongoing during gallery hours. Donations to the artist are encouraged. This will be the second installment of Chidester's month long performance series in THE [log in to unmask]
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10. Open House with Artists' Books at Special Collections
Friday, October 16 from 2 - 4 PM
Hargrett Library
The Hargrett Library will host an event to allow visitors to explore some of the fine press and artists' books from our Private Press Collection. These handmade, limited edition books will be available to look at and page through, and staff will be available to answer questions. Encyclopedie provided the lens through which Botnick focused his thinking about the relationships between the hand and the tool, thinking and learning. The images in Diderot Project are modifications of those from the Encyclopedie. The texts are Diderot's, Botnick's and others'. Botnick designed special watermarks for some of the papers in the book, much of which is printed on black paper with silver ink.
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11. Cinema and Media Roundtable: Amy Schumer, Queen of Comedy
Friday, October 16 at 4:00 PM
MLC Room 148
http://willson.uga.edu/event/cinema-and-media-roundtable-amy-schumer-queen-of-comedy/
By any reasonable standard, 2015 has been comedian Amy Schumer's year. She hosted MTV's Video Music Awards, graced the covers of magazines from GQ to Glamour to Entertainment Weekly, and was named one of Time's 100 Most Influential People. Her cheerfully profane, sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer won a Peabody Award and was renewed for a fourth season on Comedy Central. And her subversive romantic comedy Trainwreck, which she wrote and starred in, was released in July to stellar reviews and an eventual gross of $100 million-plus.
The cultural significance of Schumer's remarkable career trajectory is the subject of a Cinema and Media Studies Roundtable, "Amy Schumer: Queen of Comedy." Panelists will discuss a variety of issues related to Schumer's recently attained status as, in the words of Entertainment Weekly, "comedy's funny, filthy, fearless new voice." What does her crossover success - on stage, on screen, and online - mean for the acceptance of women in comedy and in entertainment media in general? Does her current ubiquity represent significant gains for feminist ideas in the arena of popular culture? And is her work genuinely transgressive, or does her irresponsible party girl persona weaken her effectiveness as a feminist role model? These and related questions will be addressed by the panelists, including Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame), Jeffrey Jones (Director, Peabody Awards, UGA), Caren Pagel (Georgia State University), and Ethan Thompson (Research and Teaching Fellow, Peabody Awards, UGA). Christopher Sieving (Theatre and Film Studies, UGA) will moderate the panel. The Cinema and Media Roundtable and discussion are free and open to the public.
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12. Upcoming Lecture: George Scheer
Tuesday, October 20 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S151
http://art.uga.edu/programs/lectures/visiting-artist-scholar-lecture-series/lecture-presenters/visiting-artist-scholar-lecture-george-scheer
George Scheer is the co-founder and Director of Elsewhere, a living museum and artist residency set in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. George is a writer, scholar, and artist who fosters creative communities at the intersection of aesthetics and social change. Other projects include Kulturpark, a public investigation of an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin, and South Elm Projects, a curated series of place-based public art commissions for downtown Greensboro. George is also the grandson of Elsewhere proprietress and puzzle maker Sylvia Gray, whose stuff he has been moving around for years! George holds an MA in Critical Theory and Visual Culture from Duke University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in Political Communications. Currently, George is pursuing a PhD in Communication and Performance Studies, writing about the cultural economy of art and urbanism.
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13. Opportunity: 2016 CURO Summer Fellowship Proposals
Deadline: February 12, 2016
https://curo.uga.edu/sites/default/files/docs/2016SFcallforproposals.pdf
The Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities invites proposals for the 2016 CURO Summer Fellowship.
Each year, CURO awards thirty Summer Research Fellowships to support University of Georgia undergraduates interested in pursuing intensive, faculty-mentored research during the summer. CURO Summer Fellows are awarded $3000 to be distributed via UGA Payroll.
Eligible applicants must be current first, second, or third year students at UGA. Students who accept the 2016 Summer Fellowship agree to present their work at a Summer Fellowship research forum in July and at the CURO Symposium in 2017.
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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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