ICE Announcements 4.5.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: April Parker (4/16)
2. ATHICA Talk: Sara Hess (4/6)
3. Webinar: Creative Ideation (4/6)
4. Conversation: E Pluribus Unum (4/7)
5. Creative Reuse Days (begins 4/7)
6. Three Minute Thesis Competition (4/8)
7. Text Analysis Workshop Series (4/8)
8. Workshop: Moving Field Guide (4/8)
9. Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival (4/10)
10. UGA MFA Exhibition (4/12-5/15)
11. Webinar: Interdisciplinary Practice and Collaboration (4/13)
12. Torrance Festival of Ideas (4/23-25)
13. Opportunity: CURO Research Assistantship (deadline 4/7)
14. Opportunity: Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence (deadline 4/12)
15. Opportunity: Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge (deadline 4/15)
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1. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with April Parker
Friday, April 16 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrcOiuqTItGd3ArsO6pyNF2SfGV9JKZKOP
How can organizations and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join April Parker, Arts Administrator in Residence at Elsewhere, a museum and artist residency set in a 3-floor former thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina. She is an activist, community leader, and a Creative Catalyst Fellow in partnership with the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts. Free and open to the public via Zoom. For more about April Parker visit:
https://www.elsewheremuseum.org/projects/creative-catalyst-fellowship
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2. ATHICA Streaming Artist Talk: Sara Hess
Tuesday, April 6 at 7PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArf-uhqzgtGdS-8zUl6-gP1rfmjlpP6jZG
Sara Hess was born and raised in Augusta, Georgia. She is currently living and working in Athens, Georgia as an artist and at a historic cemetery. Sara holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art where she studied painting and printmaking. Her current studio practice utilizes found objects, printmaking, painting, collage, sculpture, and installation. Through her work and relationship to images and materials, she seeks to pay better attention, increase empathy, engage meaningfully, and negotiate objective and subjective experiences. Sara has exhibited her work regionally and nationally, most recently at Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee and IPCNY (International Print Center New York) in Manhattan, New York.
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3. Creative Catalyst Webinar: Creative Ideation
Tuesday, April 6 at 7 PM
https://www.uncsa.edu/kenan/creative-catalyst/webinars/ideation.aspx
This fast-paced, practical workshop will help you learn how to generate new ideas to solve problems, meet a need in your business or just have fun and breathe new life into your day-to-day work or artistic practice. Join the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts and your webinar host, artist Entrepreneur, Krisha Marcano for this virtual Ideation experience. You'll learn new tools, and get a chance to put them to use in a live ideation session.
Krisha Marcano is a dancer, singer, actor, teacher, coach, community-builder and "artpreneur." After a successful career in concert dance and musical theater, she now is an Assistant Professor of Theater Dance & Assistant Dean for Student Services and Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama. Her creative business, The Artistry Center Network, LLC provides education, inspiration and coaching to performing artists, on artistic and entrepreneurial wellness.
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4. Conversation: E Pluribus Unum - Reflections on Immigration in America in Music and Visual Art
Wednesday, April 7 at 7 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mGZuxltfQaK3B3Io2G-owQ
Visual artist Kevork Mourad and composers Badie Khaleghian and Reinaldo Moya join Liza Stepanova, associate professor of piano in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and moderator Alan Flurry of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, for a discussion about their individual experiences with immigration and how those shape their creative processes. The three artists contributed to Stepanova's recent album E Pluribus Unum, which showcases a confluence of voices, narratives and ideals created by nine composers representing a diverse array of immigrant backgrounds and stories.
The conversation is presented as part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the Franklin College.
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5. Open Creative Reuse Days at the Teacher Reuse Store
Wednesday, April 7
http://tinyurl.com/reuseappointment
On the first Wednesday of every month, starting this coming April 7th, the Teacher Reuse Store will be open to community members from several new groups including Artists, Students, & Nonprofits. This waste reduction-oriented program aims to promote reuse by providing FREE resources to the community -- that's right, everything is free! Pre-registration is required and some proof of identification is required. The Teacher Reuse Store is located in the CHaRM (Center for Hard to Recycle Materials) at 1005 College Ave. Learn more at https://www.accgov.com/trs.
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6. Three Minute Thesis Competition
Thursday, April 8 at 7:30 PM
https://www.facebook.com/UGAGradStudies/
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students' capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience. Master's and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance. 3MT is not an exercise in trivializing or 'dumbing-down' research but forces students to consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries.
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7. Text Analysis Workshop Series
Thursday, April 8 at 4 PM
http://bit.ly/textseries2
Text Analysis for Literature and Beyond
Instructor: Katie Kuiper, Ph.D. candidate in linguistics
This series of workshops will show participants their options to analyze text at scale. These sessions are open to all and are intended for beginners. No experience necessary.
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8. Moving Field Guide: A Kinesthetic Approach to Environmental Education
Thursday, April 8 at 3 PM
North American Association for Environmental Education Webinar
https://naaee.org/eepro/learning/webinars/moving-field-guide-kinesthetic-approach
This experiential workshop explores creative tools and practices for embodied environmental education through Cassie Meador's Moving Field Guide (MFG). Designed in collaboration with Dr. Jame McCray, the workshop will introduce you to Moving Field Guide techniques and model kinesthetic activities you can use to support learners of all ages in connecting to their bodies, each other, and their environment.
The workshop will also provide a preview of the new Moving Field Guide Discover series, currently being piloted with the US Forest Service as well as Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The video series promotes discovery of the environment through art and science, moving people of all ages to grow their connection, appreciation, and ultimately stewardship and advocacy for the environment.
The Moving Field Guide was developed through a partnership with Dance Exchange and the US Forest Service. Since 2012, Dance Exchange has led more than 200 MFGs nationwide, from the islands of Hawaii to the deserts of Arizona, in the coastal wetlands of Maine, and the mountains of North Carolina. We've worked with formal and informal educators, moving with students and communities in city parks, schoolyards, botanic gardens, and nature centers.
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9. Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival
Saturday, April 10 at 8 PM
UGA Parking Lot E01
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble presents the event of the semester -- Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival! The festival is dedicated to showcasing the talent of minority filmmakers at UGA and in the Athens community. Please join us for a drive-in screening of nominated films on April 10 at 8 PM at parking lot E01 by the Intramural Fields. We look forward to celebrating these amazing films with you -- you don't wanna miss this!! Concessions will be provided by Rashe's Cuisine and the Lil' Ice Cream Dude, and the first 150 guests eat free!!!
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10. Whistling in the Dark: UGA MFA at the Athenaeum
April 12 - May 15
The Athenaeum
287 West Broad Street
Galleries open Thursday - Saturday, 10:30 AM - 5 PM
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the opening of the annual MFA Thesis Exhibition, displaying works by students graduating with their Master of Fine Arts Degree. Whistling in the Dark features the work of seven MFA students working in a variety of media from video to installation, painting, photography, and sculpture. Artists in the exhibition include: Mac Balentine, Matthew J. Brown, Caitlin Adair Daglis, Alex McClay, Katharine Miele, Ciel Rodriguez, and Kelsey Wishik.
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11. Bringing It Together: Interdisciplinary Practice and Collaboration
Tuesday, April 13 at 7 PM
https://creative-capital.org/events/bringing-it-together-interdisciplinary-practices-in-the-arts/
How can interdisciplinary artists use their "generalist" skill set to benefit them in a range of roles across various arts institutions? Sheetal Prajapati and Creative Capital Awardee Pablo Helguera have spent much of their careers conceiving of and organizing public programs with curators, academics, and artists at museums. In this free online conversation, the two discuss their paths working across the field and among creative disciplines, and how this multiplicity of "identities" supports and speaks to their larger practices today.
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12. Torrance Festival of Ideas
Friday, April 23 - Sunday, April 25
https://mfecoe.shorthandstories.com/FestivalofIdeas2021/index.html
Registration for this event is free and is limited to the first 1,000 attendees.
The Festival features 21 speakers from across the globe who explore themes and questions relevant to creativity, imagination, art, music, humor, empathy, consciousness, wellbeing, mindfulness, childhood, aging, education, equality, data, identity, healing, health, crisis, curiosity, innovation, entrepreneurship, authenticity, political resistance, and sociocultural change. The spirit of Athens will also be showcased, with spotlights on local non-profit organizations that serve the community in creative and crucial ways.
We are encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in a creative challenge exploring the theme, "Reflections on 2020." We are seeking submissions of creative contributions through April 1.
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13. CURO Research Assistantship
Deadline for Summer: April 7
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HnF7PtW66Kzjtr
The CURO Research Assistantship supports experiential learning opportunities that only a major research university can provide. Each year, 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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14. Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence Intern: Pollinator Project
Deadline: April 12
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/internships/
The Office of Sustainability Artist in Residence (AiR) is a non-traditional position designed to infuse creativity into on-going Office of Sustainability (OoS) programs and activities, promote collaboration between artists and other disciplines, engage the campus community in new ways, and give artists an opportunity to explore ideas and develop work related to sustainability. The AiR will spend up to 10 hours each week at the Office of Sustainability in the Chicopee Building, where they will embed in the Campus Pollinator Project and develop at least one creative project that engages the campus and/or community (such as workshops, exhibitions, performance, intervention, etc.). The AiR receives support and resources from the OoS, with guidance from the Social Ecology Lab and Ideas for Creative Exploration. All arts disciplines are encouraged to apply. This internship will last both Fall and Spring semesters.
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15. Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge
Deadline: April 15
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/art-challenge/
In an act of unity, partnering organizations are collectively calling on the UGA and Athens community to reflect, embody, and create artworks in alignment with the goals of Envision Athens' 2021 Year of the Good Neighbor. Prompt: Create a work of art that celebrates and inspires good neighbors - caretakers of people and the planet - to establish a more unified, equitable, prosperous, and compassionate community. All people are eligible and all art mediums that can be experienced online are accepted. Awards offered in three categories: Appreciation, Awareness, and Action.
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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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