ICE Announcements 8.29.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Screening/Discussion: Maria Ines Mato (8/28)
2. Lecture: Elizabeth Williams (8/31)
3. Colloquium: Katherine Zien (9/1)
4. Exhibition: #colortheory (opens 9/1)
5. Info Session: Creative Capital Awards (9/5 ATL)
6. ICE Conversation: Dance Exchange Summer Institute (9/6)
7. ICE Reading Room: SPARC
8. Opportunity: MAP Fund Application Support
9. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 8/31)
10. Opportunity: UGA Idea Accelerator (deadline 9/14)
11. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grant (deadline 11/13)
12. Conference: a2ru National Conference (11/1-4)
13. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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1. Screening and Discussion: Maria Ines Mato
Tuesday, August 29 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Maria Ines Mato is an open water swimmer and a teacher of semiotics at the University of Buenos Aires. Her achievements include swimming across the English Channel, around the island of Manhattan, the Beagle Channel in Tierra del Fuego, the Fehmarn Belt in the Baltic Sea, and the Strait of Gibraltar, among others. She has also swum in several lakes in Patagonia, the Perito Moreno Glacier, and Antarctica. Mato lost her right leg in an accident when she was four years old. Mato is the subject of the documentary film Huellas en el Agua (Traces on Water), which will be screened at Cine in partnership with the department of Romance languages. Mato will take part in a discussion with the audience following the screening. The 7 PM screening will follow a reception beginning at 6 PM.
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2. Lecture: Elizabeth Williams
Thursday, August 31 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Author Elizabeth Williams will give a talk on New Orleans cocktail culture with a reception in the CineLab. New Orleans drink specials will be available for sale in the BarCafe. Elizabeth Williams is a founder of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum and President of the National Food & Beverage Foundation. Much of her research and writing centers on the legal and policy issues related to food and foodways. Her book, coauthored with Stephanie Jane Carter, The Encyclopedia of Law and Food, was published by Greenwood Publishing in 2011. In 2013 AltaMira published New Orleans: A Food Biography. Her most recent book, Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans, about the drinking culture of New Orleans, was published by LSU Press in the spring of 2016. The event is sponsored by the Willson Center and the University of Georgia Libraries in partnership with The National, home.made, Avid Bookshop, and Cine.
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3. Colloquium: Katherine Zien
Friday, September 1 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 53
Dr. Zien is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at McGill University. Zien's pedagogy and research focus on theatre and performance in the Americas, with emphasis on transnational mobility, cultural management, and frameworks of racialization. Her forthcoming monograph, Sovereign Acts: Performing Race, Space, and Belonging in Panama and the Canal Zone (Rutgers University Press, 2017) investigates intersections of performances with legal constructions of imperialism, race, and national sovereignty in the Panama Canal Zone during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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4. Exhibition: #colortheory
Opening Reception Friday, September 1 from 7-9 PM
Trio Gallery, 766 W. Broad St.
https://www.trioathens.com
A group exhibition celebrating the visual impact of color in all its forms. Whether formal, cultural, or emotional the artists featured in this exhibit use color as a central element of their work. Curated by Tatiana Veneruso. Music by DJ Zelium + Refreshments.
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5. Creative Capital Award Application Info Session - Atlanta
Tuesday, September 5 at 5:30 PM
The Warhorse Coffee Shop at the Goat Farm
1200 Foster Street NW. Atlanta
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-capital-award-application-info-session-atlanta-tickets-36756917931
Meet up with Creative Capital, local artists, and others from the cultural community to learn how artists can apply for funding of up to $50,000 for innovative project ideas, plus receive career development and advisory services valued at an additional $45,000. Creative Capital staff will present an overview of our Awards Program and answer questions about the process, the type of work we seek to support, and how to apply. The session is free and open to the public - artists in all disciplines are encouraged to attend.
Creative Capital was founded on the belief that artists are exceptional innovators and thought leaders who, with the proper financial and advisory support, can change the world. Our pioneering venture philanthropy approach helps artists working in all disciplines realize their visions and build sustainable practices. Since 1999, we have committed $40 million in financial and advisory support to 511 projects representing 642 groundbreaking artists. The next application round opens in February 1, 2018. For a list of info sessions around the country, check out https://www.creative-capital.org.
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6. ICE Conversation: Dance Exchange Summer Institute
Wednesday, September 6 at 12:15 PM
Lamar Dodd Room N120
ICE Graduate Research Assistant Carla Cao will discuss her recent participation in the Dance Exchange Summer Institute "Artmaking in Action: Evolving Creative Practices" and present movement-based activities that ignite inquiry and inspire change.
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7. ICE Reading Room: SPARC
SPARC: Supporting Practice in the Arts, Research and Curricula
"These insights will be of broad benefit for curious leaders, program designers, researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners. The interviews provide a range of perspectives that are useful for new cultural research, creating awareness of activities, and for deepening understanding about the opportunities and challenges facing higher education."
Source: SPARC Knowledge Engine
https://www.sparc.a2ru.org/insights/
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8. MAP Fund Application Support
2018 application opens on September 25
https://mapfundblog.org/request-map-support/
MAP is offering support to applicants who would like staff to read and respond to the project description of their 2018 Round One application. The MAP Fund is founded on the principle that exploration drives human progress, no less in art than in science or medicine. MAP supports live performance projects that embody a spirit of deep inquiry.
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9. Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Grants and Awards
Deadline: August 31
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
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.
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. 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.
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10. UGA Idea Accelerator
Deadline: September 14
https://www.fourathens.com/accelerator/
UGA's Idea Accelerator is designed to determine if your concept can develop from an idea on the back of a napkin into a scalable business. Leveraging its decades of lessons learned from building successful startups, Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) - the Idea Accelerator's sponsor - will validate your idea in eight weeks. Now entering its fourth year, the Idea Accelerator has worked with more than 100 teams in the Athens area to test the viability of their ideas. During the eight-week validation process, you will utilize ATDC's proven methods and tools to test your ideas, interact with customers, and pitch others to join you. ATDC's successful entrepreneurs and subject matter experts will also vet and validate your financial assumptions. For the eight-week duration, all Idea Accelerator participants are expected to openly and honestly engage and interact with one another, with mentors, and ATDC's experts.
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11. Campus Sustainability Grant
https://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
Call for Proposals
Pre-Proposal- October 13th
Proposal- November 13th
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects 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. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
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12. a2ru National Conference
November 1-4
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Registration now open
http://a2ruevents.wixsite.com/a2ruboston
The 2017 theme, "Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement," will use the city of Boston as a starting point for discussion and engagement surrounding creative placemaking. As a 21st century global city, Boston embodies many of the issues that drive diverse contemporary cultural contexts. It supports a rich and continually evolving sense of civic realms, and is home to leading arts, educational, medical, industrial, and corporate entities invested in innovative modes of research, practice, and civic participation. There is also clear recognition that the 'public sphere' is not confined to large metropolitan regions. Creating dynamic communities that engage and extend beyond traditional boundaries - in both virtual and material ways - remains a growing challenge and the work before us.
The a2ru Student Travel Grant Program is open to any undergraduate or graduate student currently attending a partner institution who would like to attend the annual a2ru conference. Grants of up to $250 will be awarded. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and only a limited number are available for each a2ru conference event.
http://a2ru.org/a2ru-launches-new-student-travel-grant-program/
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13. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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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 Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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