ICE Announcements 11.28.17
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Lecture: Vincent Desiderio (11/29)
2. Lecture: Laura Forti (11/30)
3. Performance: Always (K)new (12/1-2)
4. Sustainable UGA Semester in Review (12/6)
5. Conversation: UGA to host A2RU National Conference (12/8)
6. Opportunity: Willson Center Graduate Research Award (deadline 1/23)
7. Course Opportunity: Mathematics Outreach Design Lab
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1. Lecture: Vincent Desiderio
Wednesday, November 29 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Vincent Desiderio is an American realist painter who has trained as not only a painter, but also as an art historian and critic. He lives and works in Sleepy Hollow, NY. He currently is a senior critic at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. Desiderio was a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1987, as well as two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in 1987 and 1991. His solo exhibitions have spanned the country, and he has consistently shown his work at Malborough Gallery, NY since 1993. His work is in several public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; and the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Desiderio's paintings float between realistic and heartbreaking depictions of the reality and eerily off images of a world imagined to be. His painting The Sleep was recently used by pop culture icon Kanye West as the basis of imagery in the 2016 music video "Famous."
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2. Lecture: Laura Forti
Thursday, November 30 at 5 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre (Room 400)
"Theatre and Collective Memory: Italy, Europe and the Shoah"
A playwright, journalist and translator, Laura Forti's works have been translated and distributed in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, England and Chile. She is a recognized expert and scholar on the European history of the Holocaust. She has collaborated with the Parma Theater of Parma, which produced some of her works. Forti has also written for radio (working with Radio Swiss for some time as an author with Francesca Giorzi). Her editing includes two works by dramatist George Tabori, Cannibali and Mein Kampf, for the publishing house Einaudi. She is often called to hold conferences on Tabori at conferences all over the world. She was an invited scholar at UGA during the Tabori Symposium in 2015. She is a life-long teacher and currently serves as the Cultural Manager of the Jewish Community of Florence, Italy.
A reception and refreshments will immediately follow Forti's talk. The Department of Theatre & Film Studies will be producing Forti's play, Pesach, in the Fine Arts Building, January 4-7, 2018.
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3. Performance: Always (K)new
Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2 at 7:30 PM
Seney-Stovall Chapel
Free and open to the public
Always (K)new is an original cross-cultural theatrical oral history project that draws from stories of LGBTQ individuals collected in Georgia, Colombia, and Brazil. It is being developed in collaboration with Alberto Tibaji, an internationally recognized theatre artist from Brazil who specializes in using autobiographical techniques in devising original movement/text pieces drawn from personal narratives. The Willson Center, the Latin American Caribbean Studies Institute, the Portuguese Flagship Program, the department of theatre and film studies, and the LGBT Resource Center are collaborating to bring Tibaji to campus for a 10-week artistic residency this fall.
"This piece is not theatrical storytelling in the traditional sense," observed Professor George Contini of the department of theatre and film studies. "The stories we've collected provided an amazing wealth of images, anecdotes, and emotions around the issues of gender and identity. Always (K)new serves to weave them as a tapestry. But similar to the very formation of identity, sometimes the words and images sync and other times they repel one another."
In describing his work, Tibaji stated that through engaging with autobiographical techniques he is became convinced of their significance to both theatre and human rights activism. "The importance of real narratives in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights is undeniable but it is also important to fight for the formation of a new sensibility that can inspire respect for diversity in a broader sense and can queer traditional ways of telling life stories in theatre."
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4. Sustainable UGA Semester in Review
Wednesday, December 6 from 11 AM - 1 PM
Jackson Street Building
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainable-uga-fall-2017-semester-in-review-tickets-38837158988
The Fall 2017 Sustainable UGA Semester in Review celebrates people, programs, activities and academic courses that are creating a culture of sustainability at UGA. The program includes brief presentations from Office of Sustainability interns, posters and table displays from UGA classes, the announcement of 2017 Campus Sustainability Grant winners, light lunch fare, and opportunities for networking. Opening comments will be provided by John R. Seydel, Director of Sustainability for the city of Atlanta.
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5. Conversation: UGA to host a2ru National Conference
Friday, December 8 at 11 AM
Georgia Center Room Y/Z
RSVP by December 4
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) November 1-3, 2018 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 next year's Spotlight on the Arts festival.
Maryrose Flanigan, associate director of a2ru, will lead a conversation about a2ru and the 2018 conference. Those who are interested in being involved with the conference and campus-wide a2ru initiative or incorporating its themes into their curriculum are invited to attend, including partners in the creative and performing arts, engineering, technology, environment and design, ecology, and in other departments, who have an interest in intersecting with the arts. The conference is an opportunity for students and faculty to engage in a conversation about the arts, environment, and technology. Please RSVP to Dr. Lloyd Winstead ([log in to unmask]), senior associate director at the Willson Center, by December 4.
a2ru is a partnership of more than 40 institutions committed to ensuring the greatest possible institutional support for the full spectrum of arts and arts-integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice for the benefit of all students and faculty at research universities and the communities they serve.
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6. Opportunity: Willson Center Graduate Research Award
Deadline: January 23
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
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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7. Course Opportunity: Mathematics Outreach Design Lab
Spring 2018 Experiential Learning
ARGD 4080/MATH 4950
Wed/Fri 12:20-3:30 PM
With David T Gay and Moon Jang
This course is designed to collaborate with students and faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Department of Mathematics, and to design and create mathematical outreach products. We will choose and understand special topics related to math ideas or principles, identify audiences, and make practical projects such as games, animations, and posters about the topics that actually work in real communication. We will learn a lot of innovative math, and design & typography techniques, apply design principles and practices to the projects and explore meaningful and functional designs for the community at large. Your own talents, interests, and motivation will play a big role in guiding the direction of the project.
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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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