ICE Announcements 3.6.18
http://ice.uga.edu
*UGA Call for Participation with a2ru National Conference*
1. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project (deadline 3/31)
2. Lecture: Masud Olufani (3/7)
3. Music & Art Research Symposium (3/8)
4. Opportunity: Arts in Community Grants (deadline 3/9)
5. Opportunity: Athens Area Arts Council Grants (deadline 3/15)
6. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships (deadline 3/16)
7. Opportunity: Appalachia Now! (deadline 3/31)
8. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference at UGA (deadline 4/6)
9. Opportunity: Artwerk (deadline 4/8)
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*UGA Call for Participation with a2ru National Conference*
The University of Georgia will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Nov. 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 the November Spotlight on the Arts festival. For more information about the conference and national call for presentations visit:
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA faculty, departments, and offices are encouraged to incorporate the conference themes into their curriculum and programming, including partners in the creative and performing arts, engineering, technology, environment and design, ecology, sustainability, and in other departments, who have an interest in intersecting with the arts. The conference is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage in a conversation about the arts, environment, and technology.
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.
In coordination with the a2ru conference the Willson Center's a2ru Faculty Research Cluster is accepting proposals from UGA faculty to support research projects to be featured during the time of the conference. Projects may be creative or scholarly in form, and they may be disciplinary or interdisciplinary in scope. A limited number of grants up to $1,500 will be awarded to projects that align with the theme and timing of the a2ru conference. A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with a detailed budget, to the Willson Center at [log in to unmask] Please note "UGA a2ru Cluster CFP" in the subject line. Applications will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts and will be judged on proposal quality and alignment with the conference theme. Please contact Isabelle Loring Wallace, [log in to unmask], associate professor of contemporary art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and associate academic director for arts and a2ru in the Willson Center, with any proposal questions. Funding for proposals selected by the committee will be available July 1, 2018 (Deadline: March 22. Notification: April).
In addition to the UGA a2ru Research Cluster call, the Willson Center invites proposals from UGA faculty, students, or offices interested in connecting special projects (programs, exhibits, community engagement, etc.) with a student focus to the November 2018 a2ru National Conference. A limited number of grants up to $500 will be awarded up to projects that align with the theme and timing of the a2ru conference. A one-page proposal describing the project and its significance should be sent, along with a detailed budget, to the Willson Center at [log in to unmask] Please note "UGA a2ru special projects proposal" in the subject line (Deadline: March 22. Notification: April). Please contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask], artistic director of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), with any proposal questions. Projects will be reviewed by a representative panel of faculty in the arts and will be selected based on proposal quality and alignment with the conference theme.
Students who are interested in volunteering during the conference should contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask] Student volunteers will be recruited through early fall semester.
Proposals selected from both the UGA a2ru Research Cluster CFP and special projects submissions may be presented as posters or exhibits and will be branded and advertised in conjunction with the conference and coordinated to best align with the formal conference schedule.
For more information visit:
https://willson.uga.edu/calls-for-proposals-open-for-a2ru-2018-national-conference-at-uga-associated-willson-center-a2ru-research-cluster-and-special-projects-grants/
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1. Opportunity: North Oconee River Project
http://www.northoconeeriverproject.com/arts-project.html
The North Oconee River Project is a community-wide call for submissions of original projects that share knowledge, appreciation, experience, or attitudes towards the North Oconee River.
The North Oconee River Project invites the Athens community to submit proposals of artworks that celebrate the inherent rights of nature for inclusion in a site-specific event along the river and associated publication. Artworks should be inspired by nature and humanity's role within it, with special consideration given to works that demonstrate a knowledge, appreciation, experience, or attitude toward the North Oconee River. We invite submissions from any medium and practice inclusive of music, performance, poetry, visual art, prose and others.
Entries can fall under any discipline, can be presented in any format, and can use any medium. This includes but is not limited to all forms of material and digital art, performances of any kind, musical compositions, dance choreography, theatrical scripts, and fiction or non-fiction literature or films.
In addition, entries may be interdisciplinary in nature and may include information or materials from multiple disciplines and mediums. Entries both from individuals and collaborative teams of two or more people are welcome.
What is the selection process?
This event will take place along the North Oconee River, from Dudley Park to North Avenue at the North Oconee River Park. Performances will take place along the riverbed, and more stationary artworks will be exhibited in the park.
All proposals must be submitted online by March 31. There is no fee for submission. Proposals for funding will be considered on a rolling basis, so the earlier the submission the better.
This project is made possible by the support of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Watershed UGA, and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia.
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2. Lecture: Masud Olufani
Wednesday, March 7 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Masud Olufani is an Atlanta-based mixed media artist whose studio practice is rooted in the discipline of sculpture. He is a graduate of Arts High School in Newark, N.J., Morehouse College and The Savannah College of Art and Design where he earned an M.F.A. in sculpture in 2012. Masud has exhibited his work in group and solo shows in Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans; Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; Richmond, Virginia; Lacoste, France; and Hong Kong, China. The artist has completed residencies at Savannah College of Art and Design; Savannah, GA.; The Vermont Studio Center; The Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences in Rabun, GA.; Creative Currents in Portobello, Panama; and The Creatives Project in Atlanta, GA. He is the recipient of the 2016 Southern Art Prize for the state of Georgia; the winner of a 2015-16' MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant; a 2015 Idea Capital Grant, and the 2015 Southwest Airlines Art and Social Engagement grant; and is a 2014-15 Walthall Fellow. He is an artist in residence at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center.
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3. Music & Art Research Symposium
Thursday, March 8 from 9:30 AM - 6 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music (Edge Hall) and Lamar Dodd School of Art (S150)
https://art.uga.edu/events/music-and-art-research-symposium
This day-long student-run symposium will include research presentations and performances related to music and/or art by graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as a small exhibition.
Edge Hall (Music)
9:30-10:45 INTERDISCIPLINARY INSPIRATION
Caroline Owen, Claude Debussy and the Arts of Exoticism: Japanese Art and "Pagodes"
Matthew Burkhalter, Black Sorrow Songs on White Canvas: Lamar Baker's Ezekiel Saw the Wheel and Southern Vernacular Religion
Alison Redman, Magical and Mysterious Resonances: Circularity in E. T. A. Hoffmann's Kreisler Works and Robert Schumann's Kreisleriana
11:00-12:15 TRANSFORMING PERCEPTION
Kathryn O'Shaughnessy, Awakening the Injured Brain: Music as a Healing Tool for Traumatic Brain Injury
Mallory Lind, Heterotopia in the Art Museum: An Exploration of Different Spaces in Muse: Mickalene Thomas Photographs and tete-a-tete
Shelby Marquardt, And Andrey Isn't Here: The Problem of Adapting War and Peace for the Stage Without the War
12:30-1:45 LUNCH BREAK & FIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION (DANCZ CENTER FOR NEW MUSIC, HHSOM 264)
Andres R. Luz, Premonitions, Landscape at Twilight for fixed media, op. 12
Shaped by Music Exhibition, 3rd floor atrium of HHSOM (March 7-9, 2018)
ROOM S150 (Art)
2:00-3:15 LANGUAGE AND AUTHORSHIP
Kwanza Williams, Erykah Badu: A Mix of Music and Auteurism
Quintina Carter-Enyi, The Language Agenda in Post-Colonial African Music
Cameron Steuart, Rediscovering the Music of Signora Corilla
3:30-4:45 ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
Megan Neely, Artistic Apotheosis: The Allegory of Titian's Flaying of Marsyas
Joshua C. Johnson, Power and Purity: Maternal Authority in the Virgins of Leonardo and Michaelangelo
Usha Rahn, Chinese Porcelain in Still-life Paintings of the Dutch Golden Age
5:00-6:00 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Dr. David Garcia, Mapping Black Music in Modernity
Associate Professor, Department of Music, UNC at Chapel Hill
The idea of Africa as a uniquely temporalizing and spatializing marker is one of modernity's most productive machines. People have put its imaginings of Africa toward the creation of much music, dance, and film since at least the early part of the twentieth century. This talk focuses on a particularly precarious period of modernity, the 1940s and early 1950s. As a point of departure, the talk will use jazz historian Marshall Stearns's diagram of the history of "Afro-Euro-American Music" to navigate through the music and dance of Chano Pozo and mambo in order to discover modernity's precariousness and efficiency as an ordering machine.
David Garcia is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the music of the Americas with an emphasis on African diasporic and Latinx music. This lecture is the Keynote Presentation of the 2018 Music & Art Research Symposium. Dr. Garcia's visit is supported by the Musicology/Ethnomusicology Student Association and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.
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4. Opportunity: Arts in Community Grants
Deadline: March 9
http://www.athensculturalaffairs.org/2018-arts-community-grants/
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is pleased to announce our fifth annual Arts in Community Grants competition. Communities across our nation are engaging artists and designers to enhance their neighborhoods and public spaces with projects, events, and activities that serve to boost the quality of local life, increase arts education and arts industry, and establish a distinct sense of place.
To promote creative place making in our community, the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is inviting local organizations, groups, and artists to apply for an Arts in Community Grant to support a public art project, event, or art activity in Athens-Clarke County. Proposed activities should contribute to the livability of our communities through arts and culture. Grants will be awarded based on criteria including: level of community enrichment through the arts, contribution to the local identity, accessibility, and quality or artistic merit. Projects may involve any art form, including: performance, visual arts, events, and technology. Grant funds may be used as matching funds for a greater project. In 2018, the commission will award three grants of $1500.00 each.
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5. Opportunity: Athens Area Arts Council Grants
Deadline: March 15
https://athensarts.org/grant/
Each fiscal quarter, the Athens Area Arts Council grants $500 to organizations, artists, or events that best align with our mission in Athens, GA: "connecting arts to the community" in the most meaningful, substantial, and sustainable ways. Our ideal candidate will present a specific, detailed and feasible plan for the use of their grant funds. A great application includes not only goals for the project but an aspirational timeline for plan implementation.
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6. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships
Deadline: March 16
http://www.goelsewhere.org/internships/
Elsewhere's 3-floor museum contains an evolving collection of artworks made of cultural and material surplus that provide an experimental setting for +40 artists to create new work and community partners to enjoy every season.
Internships offer a professional, creative, and hands-on opportunity to work alongside a small team of arts organizers, peer interns, artists, and community partners within a collaborative work environment. Internships begin May 2018.
Each year, interns are selected to live onsite 3-4 months for a Spring, Summer and Fall session. Interns are paired with core departments (Communications, Operations, House, Programs) and work with a supervisor to refine their skill-sets in advancement of emerging leadership and the organization.
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7. Opportunity: Appalachia Now!
Open Call for Entries
Deadline: March 31
https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=5138
Appalachia Now! An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia will feature emerging and established artists from North Carolina and its bordering states: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The exhibition includes artists of all media, such as painting, sculpture, new media, dance and film. Public programs and performances will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. A full color catalogue featuring the selected works will be made available in print and online along with an online registry of all Open Call applicants. The registry will include information provided by the applicants through the Open Call and will be an invaluable resource for both promoting artists of the region and providing the public with a finding tool for information about southern Appalachian artists.
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8. Call for Proposals: a2ru 2018 National Conference
"Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability"
November 1-3, 2018
Hosted by the University of Georgia
https://a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
Deadline: Friday, April 6
The 2018 theme, "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability," is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the intersections, synergies, and interfaces between arts, environments, and their influence on design, resilience, and sustainability. Presentations vary in length and number of participants. We accept panel, paper, performance, and working group proposals. a2ru encourages proposals featuring panelists who are diverse in their backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, and ages. The ideal panel discussion will consist of participants who represent a broad range of perspectives and experiences, and represent more than one institution.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is a partnership of 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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9. Opportunity: Artwerk
Deadline: April 8
https://www.trioathens.com/new-events/2018/5/12/artwerk
ARTWERK: A new event series merging art + fashion...
Fashion Show: May 12 from 7 - 9 PM
Trio Contemporary Art Gallery
Call for entries: ARTWERK is seeking wearable art pieces that utilize non-traditional materials for a one-of-a-kind fashion show. All types of garments and accessories are welcome (Clothing, jewelry, headpieces, shoes, handbags, etc.) 20-25 pieces will be chosen for the ARTWERK fashion show on May 12th at Trio Contemporary Art Gallery. This fashion show is in conjunction with Trio's spring exhibit, "Media Circus."
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