ICE Announcements 11.2.20
http://ice.uga.edu
*Spotlight on the Arts (begins 11/4)*
1. Lecture: Silas Munro (11/11)
2. Opportunity: 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition (deadline 11/4)
3. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding (11/13)
4. Performance: Breathe (begins 11/5)
5. Cinema Roundtable: Wartime Suspense (11/6)
6. Performance: Stairs, Chairs, and Squares (11/8)
7. Save the Date: Kyna Leski (12/8)
8. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/16)
9. Opportunity: UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (until 11/16)
10. Athens Creatives Directory
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*Spotlight on the Arts 2020
November 4-20
https://arts.uga.edu
Spotlight on the arts is presented by the University of Georgia Arts Council and includes dozens of virtual exhibitions and performances in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Events are free to UGA students, and the annual Spotlight on the Arts Family Day, held on Nov. 7, will be home-based using a free art kit that participants can pick up from the museum. Highlights of this year's 17-day festival include a performance from Grammy-winning singer Kathy Mattea, a multimedia theatre work "Breathe," exploring our current American moment focused on social and political upheaval with an emphasis on action, and the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame keynote address. The Georgia Museum of Art will host nine exhibitions during Spotlight 2020, including "The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design." The museum is open to the public for exhibition viewing through free timed ticketing to limit the number of people in the building at one time.
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1. Lecture: Silas Munro
Wednesday, November 11 at 3 PM
Webinar: zoom.us/j/96553248097
"W.E.B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America"
Silas Munro is a partner of poly-mode, a bi-coastal design studio, an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and Advisor, Founding Faculty, and Chair Emeritus at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In the past year he emerged as one of the most exciting practitioners of community-engaged design and as an influential scholar known for his contributions to W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America published by Princeton Architectural Press in late 2018. The project has been featured in articles in Smithsonian Magazine, The New Yorker, and Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society).
Munro's scholarly research addresses the relationship between designers' personal identities, formal systems and strategies they utilize, and how both interact with the communities they serve. In workshops and lectures he addresses post-colonial relationships between design and marginalized communities and offers practical ways for educators and practitioners to decolonize the way design is taught ("Major/Minor History") and to create inclusive new frameworks ("Nodal Historical Network"). His design work and writing has been published in books, exhibitions, and websites in Germany, Japan, Korea, the US, and the UK including Chronicle Books, IDEA magazine, Eye, and Slanted magazine.
He earned a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has been a critic and lecturer at leading programs including Yale School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, NC State, RISD, and CalArts. His design studio, poly-mode, works with cultural institutions and community based organizations including MoMA, The Phillips Collection, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Walker Art Center, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, ICA at Virginia Commonwealth University, The New Museum, Wynwood Arts District Miami, and the U.S. Department of States Bureau of Cultural Affairs.
Remote presentation and conversation hosted by Ideas for Creative Exploration with the support of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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2. Call for Submissions: 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition 2020
Deadline: Wednesday, November 4
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/#433
The 4'33'' Research in the Arts Competition 2020 invites all UGA student scholars and artists to share their research and compete for cash prizes in this exciting, virtual event. The competition will highlight scholarly research about any art form or combination of art forms, including (but not restricted to): visual art, music, theatre, dance, film, literature, media arts, or performance art. To participate in the contest students will submit a filmed, oral presentation on their research no longer than 4 minutes and 33 seconds in length. Technical assistance is available upon request. The 4'33" Competition will be held on Wednesday, November 20.
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3. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Funding
Friday, November 13 at 3 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdeuopj4oGtdTQhHaHNy4EvLj-9aujccm
How has Congress considered the arts in its trillion dollars of coronavirus relief funding? Join Brandon LaReau, PhD student, artist, and activist for an informal overview of the ways the federal government has attempted to provide relief funding to artists and venues forced out of work due to the global pandemic.
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4. Performance: Breathe
Streaming November 5-9, 11-13 at 8 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/breathe
"Breathe" is a multimedia work being developed by alumna Angela Hall under the direction of former faculty member Dr. Freda Scott Giles. Through tweets, news articles, and first-hand accounts, "Breathe" contends with our current American moment -- focusing on social and political upheaval with an emphasis on action and "good trouble." This unique experience will see its development influenced by both its writer and the cast, responding in real time to the events that surround us daily.
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5. Cinema Roundtable: Wartime Suspense in "Dunkirk" and "1917": A Conversation with Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell
Friday, November 6 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-uprj0pGNxrtcLmBp1zfiddH5L358LX
Leading figures in the field of film studies, Thompson and Bordwell are the authors of innumerable books and articles both separately and together, including the textbooks Film Art and Film History. On their influential blog, Observations on Film Art, they point out that "the war film bristles with a lot of narrative possibilities," and suspense is at the heart of that genre's appeal, resulting from specific narrative and stylistic choices. This conversation confronts two recent high-profile war films, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, with its scrambled time-scheme, and Sam Mendes's 1917, with its long takes for the illusion of near real-time storytelling.
This Willson Center Cinema Roundtable brings together two of the world's most renowned film scholars, Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell, both of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to discuss storytelling in two important recent films. It is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the department of theatre and film studies.The roundtable will be presented remotely via Zoom. Please pre-register to attend here. The virtual audience will be invited to participate in the discussion and ask questions.
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6. Performance: Stairs, Chairs, and Squares
Sunday, November 8 at 2:30 PM
Peforming and Visual Arts Complex Quad
"Stairs, Chairs & Squares" is a playful site-specific dance piece created for performance on the Performing and Visual Arts Complex quad outside the Georgia Museum of Art. Created entirely over Zoom, this project is a collaboration between the Georgia Museum of Art, UGA's Department of Dance and Cornfield Dance Company, presented in conjunction with the exhibition "The Art of Seating: 200 Years of American Design." The (socially distanced) audience will be able to watch from any viewpoint in the quad and is encouraged to move around as the dancers change their locations.
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7. Lecture: Kyna Leski
Tuesday, December 8 at 4:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6RMTDey6TOyzVF8my38q0w
Kyna Leski will deliver the 2020 Torrance Lecture. The lecture "From Field" will be delivered online as a Zoom webinar that will simultaneously be livestreamed on YouTube. Webinar places are free but limited, so register as early as possible.
Journalist of dreams; animation artist; author; designer of buildings, bowls and benches; Kyna Leski has dedicated her lifework to the creative process. As a young girl she witnessed her father design projects from his drawings and sketches through to their realization and reception by the public to which they still belong. It was an education in process, the workings of intuition-to design-to building, the difficult relationship of stated intention to experience and the transubjectivity between. These early ponderings underpinned her work as a student at The Cooper Union and Harvard's GSD; her work as a designer and principal (with Chris Bardt) of 3six0 Architecture. It has been fed and nourished by over three decades of teaching design at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she is Professor in Architecture. She has served as Department Head and Head of RISD's European Honors Program in Rome. Kyna has given talks from the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach California to Pop!tech in Camden Maine. She is the author of "The Storm of Creativity," published by The MIT Press (2015) and translated into five languages.
The annual Torrance Lecture at UGA: The E. Paul Torrance Lecture, sponsored by the Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development at the University of Georgia's Mary Frances Early College of Education annually brings together scholars, professionals and creative artists to discuss a wide range of topics and themes that are informative about the nature of creativity. It was established in 1985 to honor Torrance, a native Georgian and pioneer in research on the identification and development of creative potential.
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8. Campus Sustainability Grants
Deadline: November 16
https://sustainability.uga.edu/grants
Funded by the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to implement projects to advance sustainability on campus and in our local community. Special consideration will be given to interdisciplinary projects that advance equity and incorporate the arts.
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9. UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research Pre-Seed Program
Applications open October 1
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 is offered by the Office of the Vice President for Research, in partnership with the Office of the Provost.
Finding may be used for team-building activities such as networking meals, part-time student support, group website development, and travel to meet with potential external collaborators or funding agencies. Funds will be made available to teams beginning in January 2021.
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10. Athens Creatives Directory
https://athenscreatives.directory
Athens Creatives Directory is an online hub of Athens creatives to promote the local creative economy. This new resource was developed in cooperation with the Athens-Clarke County Economic Development Department, CREATE Athens (the Arts and Culture workgroup of Envision Athens), and many other local organizations. Visit https://athenscreatives.directory to add your listing or see the work of local artists.
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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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