Ideas for Creative Exploration
11.14.22
http://ice.uga.edu
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**Spotlight on the Arts (November)**
1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts Funding Trends (11/18)
2. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP
3. UGA Arts Lab Conversation (11/16)
4. 4'33" Competition (11/16)
5. Fashion Show: Wonderland (11/18)
6. One Night Only (11/18)
7. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (11/17)
8. Campus Sustainability Grants (11/21)
9. Ground Works Journal CFP (deadline 1/31)
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Spotlight on the Arts
November 2022
Schedule of Events:
https://arts.uga.edu/spotlight-on-the-arts/
Spotlight on the Arts is the University of Georgia's annual celebration of the literary, visual and performing arts. Held each November, the month-long festival highlights the arts and humanities on campus with dozens of events and exhibitions.
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts Funding Trends
Friday, November 18 at 10 AM
Main Art Building Room S160
What kinds of arts projects actually get funded? Idea Lab presents a report about trends in arts funding and shares examples of recent grants awarded by Creative Capital, South Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts.
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2. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
Fall 2022
Idea Lab Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a mentor 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 by an interdisciplinary selection committee in order of receipt, pending the availability of funds.
Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRjYNPOF1diC7EG
Proposal requirements:
- brief description of project goals (up to 300 words)
- names and project roles of collaborators
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Ideas for Creative Exploration 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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3. UGA Arts Lab Conversation
Wednesday, November 16 at 2 PM
Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NESXkxxrTg2B339LMGJMZA
Recipients of UGA Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships and Graduate Assistantships will take part in a public conversation with Jean Martin-Williams, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and Associate Dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Please register in advance for the event, which will be conducted via Zoom webinar. Attendance is free and open to the public.
The participants are Faculty Fellows Aruni Kashyap (English & Creative Writing), Grace Jun (Lamar Dodd School of Art), and Melissa Harshman (Lamar Dodd School of Art); and Graduant Assistants Amaro Neto (Hugh Hodgson School of Music), Sayantika Mandal (English), and Abhijit Sarmah (English).
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4. 4'33" Competition
Wednesday, November 16 from 4-6 PM
The Athenaeum, 387 W. Broad Street
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights University of Georgia student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community. The competition is open to any graduate student or undergraduate student working on an advanced project, who is conducting research related to the literary, visual, or performing arts or artists. This year's competition is coordinated by Katie Geha, director of the School of Art Galleries in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, and Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, a professor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education. The 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest is part of UGA's annual Spotlight on the Arts festival.
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5. UGA Fashion Design Student Association Fashion Show
Wonderland: The Land of Dreams
Friday, November 18 at 5 PM
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/wonderland_the_land_of_dreams_fashion_show
This show consists of entirely student-designed, student-sewn, and student-modeled looks that are meant to get weird, wacky, and wonderful! Doors open at 5pm, with a cocktail hour featuring live music and refreshments until the show begins at 6pm. We are also debuting a special collaboration with the Student Composers Association. Join us as we take a peek into wonderland!
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6. One Night Only
Friday, November 18 at 6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 West Broad St.
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/one-night-only/
Come one, come all. Don your paper caps and join us in the parking lot behind the Athenaeum for ONE NIGHT ONLY, an old-time revival of objects, words, sounds, and movements that can't be contained beneath a roof. The church doors have been torn asunder, the museum decorations dragged into the streets. Only the carnivalesque remains. This "syncretic pageantry of a ritualistic sort" aims to conjoin "the sacred with the profane," boasting temporary galleries in the beds of pickup trucks, art installations on the asphalt, and poetry readings in the dark along with improvised music and dance. Graduate students from UGA's various arts programs as well as artists from the wider Athens community will rejoice in ephemera for ONE NIGHT ONLY. Be there with bells on or bust. Refreshments provided.
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7. Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program
Deadline: November 17
https://research.uga.edu/team-pre-seeds/about/
The Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research 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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8. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 21 at 9 AM
https://sustainability.uga.edu/_resources/applications/sustainability-grant-application/
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.
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 http://sustainability.uga.edu.
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9. a2ru Ground Works CFP: Creating Knowledge in Common
Deadline: January 31, 2023
https://a2ru.org/ground-works-releases-cfp-for-creating-knowledge-in-common/
Ground Works, a2ru's peer-reviewed online platform for outstanding arts-inclusive interdisciplinary research, has released a call for proposals for its latest special issue, "Creating Knowledge in Common." The guest editors for this special edition are Shannon Criss (University of Kansas), Kevin Hamilton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), and Mary Pat McGuire (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
This Ground Works special edition, "Creating Knowledge in Common", centers university-community partnered creative inquiry. The editors define creative inquiry as shared, open frameworks of knowledge-building that use a variety of tools for awareness, reflection, and creative making to ask questions and discover answers together. We invite submissions that illuminate arts-integrative creative inquiry conducted by teams who build common ground through university-based and community-based approaches.
In recent decades, universities have positioned themselves within a larger social system of change, sharing resources and using direct engagement and exchange to support knowledge creation across society. Community members also partner with faculty and students to establish common research and project goals, strengthened by a variety of ideas, knowledge, and perspectives. The arts and design fields provide a dynamic element to this partnered research, advancing issues of importance to communities.
This edition asks: What structures are needed to collectively and meaningfully build on diverse knowledge traditions from across academic and community practices? How do these efforts ensure that both processes of inquiry and the knowledge produced are of value to all parties? What new knowledge about collaboration do these efforts produce? How do arts-based approaches extend and enrich university-community collaborations? These types of questions are familiar to interdisciplinary research teams, and essential to supporting the equitability and impact of such projects.
The editors hope to bring together a rich variety of engagement methods, partnership dynamics, and participatory processes in a collection of case studies and models of community-university collaboration. Examples include collaborative partnerships that result in new creative works or that activate arts- or design-based processes in service of shared civic priorities.
Submissions from both academic and community partners are encouraged. Submissions may be collaborative or sole-author but should present a collective story and understanding of the partnered work. Successfully evaluated projects will be included in the special issue of Ground Works entitled Creating Knowledge in Common.
As with all submissions to Ground Works, submission to Creating Knowledge in Common begins with a brief Stage 1 suitability review that includes a short summary of the project, a statement of relevance, and appropriate links.
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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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