ICE Announcements 8.19.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Welcome Fall 2019
2. Reading Room: MAP Fund Grantees 2019
3. The Georgia Review Issue Celebration (8/20)
4. Inaugural Classic City Block Party(8/24)
5. Willson Center Grants (8/29)
6. Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium (deadline 9/1)
7. Integrative Conservation Conference (deadlines 9/16,10/16)
8. a2ru 2019 National Conference (Early registration through 9/1)
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1. Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to Ideas for Creative Exploration, please take a few moments to explore the site and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Elizabeth Boyce (Music), Brandon LaReau (Theatre and Film Studies), and Annie Simpson (Art). These three exceptional graduate students will develop creative research and collaborative work across disciplines with faculty, students, and community members.
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2. Reading Room: MAP Fund Grantees 2019
Link: http://mapfundblog.org/2019-map-fund-grantees/
The MAP Fund invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining -- and ultimately co-creating -- a more equitable and vibrant society. MAP awards $1 million annually to up to 40 projects in the range of $10,000 - $45,000 per grant.
"This exceptional group of grantees is grappling with the most difficult and joyous aspects of creating and living in the United States today. At a time of deep division, the grantees propose to interrogate marginalizing structures in the United States while asserting new possibilities for thriving interdependence. Each approach is distinctive. Some will employ performance practices like processions as a strategy for transforming spaces with racist histories, such as contentious borders, waterways, or landmarks. Others will consider collective and individual rebuilding by generating shared rituals, dances, and songs in celebration of life. From exploring the mental health of firefighters in Detroit, to surfacing larger psychological ramifications of border politics for immigrants, each grantee asks: What does meaningful care for people and the environment look like?"
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3. The Georgia Review Issue Celebration
Tuesday, August 20 from 7 - 9 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Join us to celebrate our Summer 2019 issue with a reading and reception featuring poets Alberto Rios and Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor. Open to the public free of charge, this event will take place at Cine at 7 PM with a reception to follow. Copies of Rios's and Cahnmann-Taylor's books (through Avid Bookshop) and The Georgia Review will be available for purchase, and ASL interpretation will be provided. The event will also include live music by Sarah Zuniga and light refreshments.
Alberto Rios, Arizona's first poet laureate, is the author of thirteen books of poetry, three collections of short stories, and a memoir. The son of a Mexican father from Tapachula, Chiapas, and an English mother from Warrington, Lancashire, Rios was raised on the American side of the city of Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexican border. Rios's honors include the Arizona Governor's Arts Award, the Walt Whitman Award, and the Western States Book Award for Fiction, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is regularly taught and translated, and has been adapted to dance and both classical and popular music. A chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Rios resides in Chandler, Arizona.
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor is a professor of TESOL and World Language Education at the University of Georgia. She is the winner of a 2015 Beckman Award for Professors Who Inspire; a 2013-14 Fulbright fellowship to Oaxaca, Mexico; several Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes; and a Leeway Poetry Grant. Her poetry collection, Imperfect Tense, was published in July 2016 by Whitepoint Press, and she has co-authored two books, Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre (2010) and Arts-Based Research in Education (2007). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Barrow Street, and Puerto Del Sol, among others.
Ecuadorian and Nicaraguan singer-songwriter Sarah Zuniga has performed at Athens' most esteemed music venues, including Hendershot's Coffee Bar, the Georgia Theatre, the 40 Watt Club, and the main stage at Athfest, and at festivals and venues nationwide. Zuniga studied acting and music in New York City, instructed by veteran professionals from the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, the Metropolitan Opera, and Broadway. Her debut album is titled Someday Soon.
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4. Inaugural Classic City Block Party
August 24 from Noon - 6 PM
College Square, Downtown Athens
The inaugural Classic City Block Party is an event that serves as a celebration and formal introduction to those coming into Athens, Georgia. Whether it be for school or work, This event showcases all Athens has to offer by featuring local businesses, orgs, restaurants, arts and entertainment on College Square of Downtown Athens in a day-long celebration.
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5. Willson Center Grants
Deadline: August 29
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/
Graduate Research Award (funding for current academic year)
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research-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/Lecturer (funding for current academic year)
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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6. Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium
February 21-23, 2020
Lamar Dodd School of Art Building
https://art4socialjustice.wordpress.com/about/documentation/
Call for Participation
Deadline: September 1
UGA will host the 10th Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium. Proposals are welcome from faculty, students, and community members. Collaborations are encouraged! This is a collaborative project between UGA's Department of Art Education, the UGA School of Social Work, & the FSU Department of Art Education.
This call for proposals invites scholars, practitioners, artists, and educators -- from the community and the academy -- to share their work. Social justice is a broad objective that inspires an interdisciplinary approach and of interest is how art and education can support such initiatives. The goal of this symposium is to include and amplify voices that are often on the margins of academia and to share the methodologies and results of practices that strive to have a direct public impact. The encounter will focus on the guiding question: How are art and education inspiring, affecting, and promoting social change?
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7. Integrative Conservation Conference
February 6-9, 2020
UGA Special Collections Library
http://cicr.uga.edu/icc-2020/
Call for Participation
Session deadline: September 16
Abstract deadline: October 16
The Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) invites you to connect across boundaries to create more just and innovative solutions to today's conservation challenges. Connections across academic disciplines, sciences and the arts, and academia and the general public highlight the collaborative nature of conservation initiatives. ICC fosters inclusive spaces that promote cross-cutting conservation work by exploring how different values and knowledge systems impact conservation theory and practice.
The ICC 2020 Program Committee welcomes abstract submissions for presentations that span a variety of formats and stages of research. In addition to more conventional oral and poster presentations, participants are encouraged to present their work through different modes of communication and diverse media. Presentations that reflect any stage of the research process are welcome -- from initial ideas and data collection to completed projects.
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8. a2ru 2019 National Conference
November 7 - 9
University of Kansas
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2019-national-conference/
Early Registration through September 1
The 2019 theme, knowledges: artistic practice as method is an invitation to explore modes of knowing, especially as arrived through the discovery of artistic practice. This theme is anchored in, but not limited to, the following questions:
- How do artistic practices map onto other methods of knowledge production?
- If contemporary artists are trained from the outset to be critical of their medium(s), how might this critical reflection inform more discrete disciplines, which often treat academic form as neutral vessels for the delivery of content?
- What can researchers across the arts, sciences, and humanities learn from one another's practices and approaches?
The University of Kansas, host of this year's a2ru conference, aims to infuse the arts into its research culture by advancing interdisciplinary projects across the sciences and humanities. This is accomplished through existing structures, such as the Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the Spencer Museum of Art, The Commons, and the Research Excellence Initiative through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The exhibition and dialogue among artists and scholars developed through the IARI colloquium (November 6, 2019) will launch the 2019 a2ru national conference.
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