UGA Arts Collaborative
9.5.23
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1. Ravish Momin Events (9/7-8)
2. Treehouse Zine Event (9/10)
3. Expression of the Superorganism (opens 9/14)
4. Data Visualization Workshop (9/6)
5. Screening: Black White and the Greys (9/7)
6. Lecture: Melinda Beck (9/13)
7. Symposium on the Book (9/12-13)
8. NEA Call for Panelists
9. Willson Center Opportunities (deadline 9/8)
10. Spotlight on the Arts 2023 Design Competition (deadline 9/15)
11. Rescue: Waste and Redemption (deadline 9/20)
12. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (deadline 11/17)
13. a2ru National Conference (10/19-21)
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1. Ravish Momin Events
Thursday, September 7th
3.30 PM: Ableton Live Workshop
Participants will learn the basics of making music in Ableton Live for electronic music and improvisation! No prior experience necessary. Please download free version of Ableton Live and bring laptop and headphones.
6:30 PM: Rhythm & Improvisation Workshop
Improvisation activities using different rhythmic groupings and styles. Participants may bring their instruments, but this is not required.
Friday, September 8th
4 PM: Composition Seminar
6 PM: Performance
All events will take place at the Dancz Center, Hugh Hodgson School of Music Room 264
Ravish Momin is an Indian-born drummer, electronic music producer and educator residing in New York City. A Structural/Civil Engineer by training, Momin also privately studied with Jazz master-drummer Andrew Cyrille for years while he worked as an engineer in New York City in the late 1990s. He quit his engineering practice in 2003 to become a professional musician. His unique approach quickly led him to work as a sideman with a diverse cast of musicians ranging from to legendary avant-saxophonist Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (of the AACM) to pop-star Shakira. Momin is the recipient of grants/commissions from New Music USA, Meet The Composer, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, US Artists International and NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts.)
For more information about Ravish Momin visit:
https://ravishmomin.com
Hosted by the UGA Student Composers Association.
Ravish Momin visited Athens in 2022 as part of a collaborative project supported by the UGA Arts Collaborative. For more information visit:
https://ugaartscollaborative.com/performance-ravish-momin-and-killick/
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2. Treehouse Zine Issue 3 Release Party
Sunday, September 10 at 2 PM
Buvez, 585 Barber St. Suite A
https://treehousezine.com
See the latest edition of treehouse works! We will have art and clothes vendors, food and drink available, DIY zine and craft station, clay activities, weaving, games, live music, and more! Free and open to the public.
Performances by Neat Freak, Petunia Jane, Nick Christian, Little Mae Band
Supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative.
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3. Expression of the Superorganism
September 14-October 1
Opening reception: Thursday, September 14 from 6-8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Bridge Gallery
https://art.uga.edu/dodd-galleries
Expression of the Superorganism is an exhibition of visual art created by Red Imported Fire Ants in collaboration with artist Jiayi Guo and biologist Haolin Zeng. In the seemingly boundless expression of the superorganism, art created by ants features a post-humanist element, where the aesthetic dimension of being for humans and ants is one of cooperation rather than conflict.
Solenopsis invicta, or Red Imported Fire Ant is considered to be an invasive pest, commonly found in the southeastern United States.
Jiayi "Eva" Guo is a doctoral student in Art Education. She holds a BFA in Ceramic Art and an MFA in Art History from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China. She is an art educator and artist focusing on de-colonialism, public education, and animal studies.
Haolin "Horace" Zeng is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Entomology. He studies the collective behavior and evolution of social structure in Red Imported Fire Ants. Horace earned a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, where he served as the president of a vintage and manual photography club.
Expression of the Superorganism is supported in part by the UGA Arts Collaborative, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts.
For more information about the project, visit:
https://gzstudio.org
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4. Intro to Ggplot for Data Visualization: Part 1
Wednesday, September 6 at 4 PM
Main Library, DigiLab, Room 300
https://digi.uga.edu
This two-part workshop will get users started with data visualization using Ggplot. Taught by DigiLab graduate assistant Keiko Bridwell.
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5. Screening and Q&A: Black White and the Greys
Thursday, September 7 at 5:30 PM
Fine Arts Building, Room 400
https://www.blackwhiteandthegreys.com/
Alumnus Casey Nelson (A.B. Drama, 2002) produced, wrote, directed, and starred in the feature in 2020 and it has gone on to win several awards such as Best Feature and Best of Festival at the BronzeLens (2022), Best Narrative Feature at the Festival of Cinema NYC (2022), and was the Grand Jury Winner for Best Narrative Feature at the Awareness Festival (2022). Nelson will be in attendance for a Q&A following the screening.
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6. Lecture: Melinda Beck
Wednesday, September 13 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art room S151
https://melindabeck.com
Melinda Beck is an illustrator, animator, and graphic designer who has had the pleasure of working for such clients as 2K Games, Harper's Magazine, The New York Public Library, Nickelodeon, Nike, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Random House, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Target, Time Magazine, and the U.S. Postal Service. Recent projects include a series of stamps for the US Postal Service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of TITLE IX, an eighty-foot mural for Mural Arts Philadelphia, a series of murals for the teen center of the newly renovated Mid-Manhattan New York Public Library on 42nd St. and 5th Ave., and the children's book We Are Shapes, which she wrote and illustrated.
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7. Symposium on the Book Events
September 12-13
Special Collections Libraries
https://www.english.uga.edu/events/symposium-on-the-book-events
This two-day event unites talks from book historians and practicing book artists, featuring a plenary address by artist Suzanne Coley and panel featuring special guest Jennifer Low, an early modern scholar and apprentice book artist. The symposium will demonstrate the diversity and range of contemporary book arts and book history.
Faculty Panel
Tuesday, September 12 at 11 AM
Join three experts in pre-modern book and textual history -- Drs. Sargan, Mattison, and Jacobson -- as they share scholarship on new ways to read medieval and Renaissance book bindings through Queer and Trans theory, attention to fragments, and historical fantasies about binding.
Plenary: Suzanne Coley
Tuesday, September 12 at 2 PM
Suzanne Coley's main artistic fields are printmaking, poetry, and book arts. She has pioneered the style of book making called "couture textile books," combining precision and intentionality of design with bold experimentation and abstraction. Over the past fifteen years, Suzanne has merged couture sewing techniques with embroidery and poetry in her art. Suzanne's fine art textile books are in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution (National Museum of African Art Library), The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
Faculty Panel with Featured Guest Jennifer Low
Wednesday, September 13 at 11 AM
Drs. Iyengar and Low's talks will respond to Coley's work by analyzing further the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary book arts and artists' books. Dr. Benedict's talk brings a new perspective to the medieval and early modern papers by attending to artists' books from contemporary Latin America.
Masterclass with Cynthia Camp
Wednesday, September 13 at 1:50 PM
Dr. Camp's masterclass will focus on a curious Book of Hours held by UGA's special collections libraries that combines different localized artistic and religious traditions in the later Middle Ages.
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8. NEA Call for Our Town Panelists
https://www.arts.gov/form/volunteer-to-be-a-national-endowment-for-the-arts-panelist
National Endowment for the Arts panelists play a central role in reviewing applications for funding. We rely on panels composed of individuals who represent a broad range of artistic and cultural viewpoints, as well as wide geographic and ethnic diversity, to provide advice about the artistic excellence and artistic merit of proposals in a variety of funding categories. We are recruiting panelists now for NEA Our Town, for application review taking place in late November and early December 2023. The commitment is roughly 40 hours of work over a six-week period.
https://www.arts.gov/grants/our-town
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9. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts
Fellowships and Grants
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/
Graduate Research Award
Deadline: September 8
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research and practice-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.
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program
Deadline: September 8
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.
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10. Spotlight on the Arts 2023 Design Competition
Deadline: September 15
https://art.uga.edu/spotlight-arts-2023-design-competition
The inaugural Spotlight on the Arts 2023 Student Design Competition is sponsored to select an original design that may be used on the 2023 art festival T-shirts as well as other promotional materials such as stickers, magnets, mugs, tote bags, etc. The winning design will be the exclusive design for the 2023 festival and would not replace the festival's logo.
Awards include $500 for 1st place, $125 for 2nd place and $75 for 3rd place. The award funds will be paid directly to student accounts. The Spotlight on the Arts 2023 Design Competition is sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the UGA Arts Council.
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11. Rescue: Waste and Redemption: call for artwork
Deadline: September 20
https://www.accgov.com/10647/Rescue-Waste-and-Redemption-call-for-art
Lyndon House Arts Center and guest curator Lizzie Zucker Saltz seeks artists who transform industrial byproducts into artworks or craft objects, creating artworks that save materials from the landfill or rescue raw materials from the fate of becoming environmental pollutants. We encourage artists whose practice involves the use of environmentally conscious processes and materials -- including but not limited to fabric art, jewelry, woodworking, metalworks, installation or multi-media constructions -- to apply for the exhibition titled Rescue: Waste and Redemption, to be on view April 6 to June 1, 2024.
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12. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research
Deadline: November 17
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (TIR) 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, first launched in the 2019-2020 academic year, is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
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13. 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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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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