ICE Announcements 8.14.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Welcome Fall 2018
2. a2ru National Conference (11/1-3)
3. Reading Room: Branches from the Same Tree
4. Exhibition: The Golden Record (opens 8/18)
5. Performance: Sean Hamilton / Klimchak / Killick Hinds (8/20)
6. Reading: Creative Writing Program (8/22)
7. Integrative Conservation Conference (9/20-23)
8. Opportunity: Faculty Learning Communities (deadline 8/24)
9. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards (deadline 8/30)
10. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships (deadline 11/1)
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1. Welcome Fall 2018
Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to Ideas for Creative Exploration, please take a few moments to explore ice.uga.edu 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: Alex McClay (Art), Kelly Catlin (Music), and Phil Brankin (Theatre and Film Studies). These three exceptional graduate students will develop creative research and collaborative work across disciplines with faculty, students, and community members.
This fall we look forward to participating in the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) National Conference, exploring new projects in social justice, technology, and the environment, hosting provocative public conversations and exciting guests, and supporting your ideas for innovative and interdisciplinary research in the arts.
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2. a2ru National Conference
November 1-3
University of Georgia
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
Call for a2ru Conference Volunteers
Students who are interested in volunteering during the conference should contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask]
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3. Reading Room: Branches from the Same Tree
"The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs."
Source: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Link:
https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24988/the-integration-of-the-humanities-and-arts-with-sciences-engineering-and-medicine-in-higher-education
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4. Exhibition: The Golden Record
Opening Reception Saturday, August 18 from 6-9 PM
ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art
New Location: 675 Pulaski Street Suite 1200
http://athica.org
Join us on August 18th for the opening reception of The Golden Record: Far Beyond Our Galaxy. Forty-one years after the launch of NASA's Voyager vessels, ATHICA celebrates the legacy of the Golden Record in an inaugural exhibition at the new location in the Leathers Building. On view from August 18th to October 7th.
The Golden Record exhibition is inspired by the images and sounds seared into the records affixed to the Voyager spacecraft. The exhibition features works in all media, including sound, video, interactive media, found and handmade materials. It reflects on the beautiful and daft hopefulness of the Golden Records going forth for 40,000 years to the next closest star.
Curated by Brooke Leeton, Rebecca Brantley, Jon Vogt, and Paula Runyon
Featuring works by regional and national artists: Mickey Boyd, Catherine Clements, Matthew Flores, Keaton Fox, Mary Gordon, Gerald Habarth, Katlin Shae, Braden Skelton, Stephanie Sutton, T2R, Robby Toles, Momma Tried, and Harrison D. Walker.
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5. Performance: Sean Hamilton / Klimchak / Killick Hinds
Monday, August 20 at 8 PM
Trio Gallery, 766 West Broad Street
$10 suggested donation
https://www.trioathens.com/new-events/2018/8/20/sean-hamilton-klimchak-killick-hinds
An evening of experimental music by 3 musicians who push their acoustic instruments way beyond normal expectations. Drums become choruses, strings become woodwinds and the human voice becomes an orchestra in the blink of an eye.
Sean Hamilton is a percussionist from Tampa, FL who blends virtuosic classical styles, free improvisation, electroacoustic music, new music, and experimental music to push the limits of the idea of "percussionist". His solo music can be heard on his album LOCI, and he has collaborated with artists such as VERB Ballets, New Orleans Airlift, Lindsey Kelley Dance, Death Posture, Eli Blasko, Tatsuya Nakatani, Jacqui Dugal, Mbulelo Ndabeni, and Claire Lefevre.
Klimchak lives at the intersection of chaos and order. His composer/percussionist side builds elaborate structures of interlocking melody & rhythm. Then his performer side takes over and obliterates those structures with bursts of noise, random drones and slabs of spontaneous improvised sound. Expect to see some combination of home built instruments, computerized sound design and a mess of drums, flutes and maybe a theremin.
Killick Hinds is an improvising guitarist, composer, and writer living in Athens, Georgia. He plays a variety of unusual stringed instruments with a comprehensive approach to genres known and as-yet-unlabeled.
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6. Reading: Creative Writing Program
Wednesday, August 22 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 West Hancock Avenue
The UGA Creative Writing Program is pleased to present a reading by incoming graduate students Kara Krewer and Sam Regal. These accomplished poets will read pieces at this catered event. Free and open to the public.
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7. Integrative Conservation Conference
September 20-23
University of Georgia
http://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
The inaugural Integrative Conservation Conference at the University of Georgia will bring together academics, practitioners, researchers, resource managers, and students to address current and emerging conservation challenges. By bridging diverse perspectives across disciplines and sectors, we will explore challenges and benefits of synthesizing methods, frameworks, and conceptual approaches within social and ecological sciences.
Topics will include key issues associated with simultaneously preserving ecosystem integrity while addressing human needs and increasing adaptive capacity in a constantly changing world. By embracing the complexity inherent in human-environmental systems, the Integrative Conservation Conference will create space for the process of constructive engagement across disciplines and between research and practice, resulting in new insight for conservation.
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8. Opportunity: Faculty Learning Communities
Application deadline: 8/24
http://www.ctl.uga.edu/flc/current-flcs
The Center for Teaching and Learning is pleased to announce the 2018-2019 Faculty Learning Communities (FLCs). A Faculty Learning Community is a specifically structured community of practice that includes the key goals of building community, engaging in scholarly (evidenced-based) teaching, and the development of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Cox & Richlin, 2004). The CTL provides $750 to each FLC to support community activities. FLCs may have as few as six or as many as sixteen participants. Participants can expect to meet approximately once every three weeks during the 2018-2019 academic year.
Topics include:
Assessment in Creative Disciplines
Collecting and Analyzing Data on Student Learning in Active Classrooms
Everything You Wanted to Know About Teaching (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Hybrid Course Development
Improvisation, Creativity, and Critical Thinking for Enhanced Learning and Teaching
Intersection of Active Learning, Student Development, and Student Success
Junior Faculty
Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Service-Learning Research
Spaces for Productivity and Collaboration - Sponsored by Faculty Affairs
Sustainability Across the Curricula
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9. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
Deadline: 8/30
Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer
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.
Willson Center Graduate Research Award
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.
Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree. Previous graduate student research award recipients are ineligible. Graduate students may be supported in travel to archives, installations and performances, and other sites related to their research projects. Applicants who give a lecture or presentation of their work at another institution during the award of this grant must recognize the Willson Center as a source of support.
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10. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantships
Deadline for Spring 2019: 11/1
http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
The CURO Research Assistantship supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. As part of an initiative to enhance the UGA learning environment, the CURO Research Assistantship Program provides 500 stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
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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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