ICE Announcements 10.19.20
http://ice.uga.edu
*Save the date: Silas Munro (11/11)*
1. Opportunity: 4'33" Research in the Arts Competition (deadline 11/4)
2. Lecture: Joselli Deans (10/19)
3. Artists for Democracy: Christina Quarles (10/20)
4. Screening: At Second Glance (10/20)
5. Screening: Espana en Corto (10/20-1)
6. Discussion: The Unseen Forest (10/21)
7. SPLICE Festival (10/22-24)
8. Lecture: Arlene Shechet (10/22)
9. Performance: Stairs, Chairs, and Squares (10/24)
10. ArtPlace America Virtual Summit (10/26-30)
11. Opportunity: Giving Voice to the Voiceless (deadline 10/30)
12. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/16)
13. Opportunity: UGA Teaming for Interdisciplinary Research (until 11/16)
14. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/7)
15. Opportunity: Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival (deadline 3/1/21)
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*Save the Date*
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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1. 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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2. Lecture: Joselli Deans
Monday, October 19 at 6 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctcO6qpz0pHtNGzoXwTeHGABh1w9KLdT2J
"Timeline of Events and Contributions by African American Ballet Artists in the 20th & 21st centuries," Joselli Deans, dance educator and consultant. Hosted by Lisa Fusillo, professor of dance, with sponsorship from the First Year Odyssey Program and Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. Deans will offer an illuminating presentation about her published chronology of artists and events that define the substantial legacy of African American contributions to American ballet. Deans is a leading scholar on the topic of Blacks in Ballet and a former dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. An artist, scholar and educator, Dr. Deans has taught at Temple University, Eastern University and Bryn Mawr College.
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3. Artists for Democracy: Christina Quarles
Tuesday, October 20 at 8 PM
https://www.artists4democracy.com/
The Dodd Galleries has partnered with Artists 4 Democracy to bring a series of lectures in which artists talk about their work and why they vote.
Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) is rethinking the possibilities for art, architecture, and community engagement. She produces both standalone artworks and site-specific projects, particularly in the South Central neighborhood of Los Angeles where her family has lived for several generations. Combining found, fabricated, and handmade objects, Halsey's work maintains a sense of civic urgency and free-flowing imagination, reflecting the lives of the people and places around her and addressing the crucial issues confronting people of color, queer populations, and the working class. Critiques of gentrification and disenfranchisement are accompanied by real-world proposals as well as celebration of on-the-ground aesthetics. Inspired by Afrofuturism and funk, as well as the signs and symbols that populate her local environments, Halsey creates a visionary form of culture that is at once radical and collaborative.
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4. Screening and Discussion: "At Second Glance" with director Sheri Hagen
Tuesday, October 20 at 11:15 AM
Nigerian-German filmmaker and actress Sheri Hagen will take part in a virtual discussion about her award-winning film At Second Glance. Berna Gueneli, associate professor of German, will host the Q&A with Hagen at 12:45 p.m., preceded by a virtual screening of the acclaimed film at 11:15 a.m. Also joining the discussion will be Olivia Landry, assistant professor of German at LeHigh University in Pennsylvania, author of the book "Movement and Performance in Berlin School Cinema." The film "At Second Glance" can be viewed from now until the event via a Vimeo link available by contacting department of Germanic and Slavic studies at [log in to unmask] To join the 11:15 a.m. screening and 12:45 p.m. virtual discussion, use this link:
https://zoom.us/s/92406958858
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5. Short Film Festival - Espana en Corto
October 20 and 21 at 6 PM
https://www.eventbrite.com/o/georgia-museum-of-art-31409758933
Espana en corto is a two-night short film festival that offers an inside look at current short films directed by Spanish filmmakers. These short films arrive from different regions of Spain and inspire a unique perspective into the languages, cultures, and current topics in the most recent years. The Georgia Museum of Art will host virtual screenings from 6-8 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 21, followed by an online discussion each night. Pre-registration is required for the films and discussion each night.
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6. Curator and Artist Panel Discussion
Wednesday, October 21 at 7 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdOqorzgpGtwFbOAlUU3Twp1gV4epzCmb
Exhibition
October 15 - December 6
https://athica.org
The Unseen Forest, an exhibition curated by Atlanta-based artist/curator Alex Christopher Williams and featuring the images of three photographers working in the south: Nydia Blas, Jaclyn Kolev Brown, and Aaron Hardin. The selected works of these accomplished photographers emphasize the humanity of the individual over the historical tropes and attitudes understood as being inescapably negative characteristics of the region known as "The South."
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7. SPLICE Festival
October 22-24
https://splicemusic.org/festival/iv/about
SPLICE Festival is a three-day festival that blends engaging live performances with new technologies. Composers and performers gather for a weekend of concerts and presentations covering topics such as aesthetics, technology, and issues of performance practice, with the goal of inspiring, educating, and sharing information amongst attendees and host institution students. SPLICE Festival is designed to foster community and to create bonds between performers and composers dedicated to music that involves dynamic, live performance with technology. SPLICE Festival IV will take place at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA from October 22-24, 2020. SPLICE Festival IV is supported by a Public Impact Grant from the Willson Center for Arts and Humanities at UGA, a State-of-the-Art Grant from the Office of the Provost, The Hugh Hodgson School of Music and the Roger and Phyllis Dancz Center for New Music.
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8. Lecture: Arlene Shechet
Thursday, October 22 at 5:30 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdu-hqjMiGNTVm-dwyarZbwTtl8LHqnIn
Arlene Shechet is a multidisciplinary sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. A major, critically acclaimed 20-year survey of the artist's work, "All At Once," which the New York Times called "some of the most imaginative American sculpture of the past 20 years, and some of the most radically personal" (Cotter), was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2015 with an accompanying monograph. Shechet's work also includes historical museum installations; Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection was on view at The Frick Collection, New York (2016-17), and From Here On Now at The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2016-17). Her ambitious large-scale public project Full Steam Ahead featured monumental porcelain and mixed media sculptures installed at Madison Square Park, New York (2018-19).
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9. Performance: Stairs, Chairs, and Squares
Saturday, October 24 at 2:30 and 3:30 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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10. ArtPlace America Virtual Summit
October 26-30
https://artplacesummit.org
This year, ArtPlace America culminates a decade of work as part of an extraordinary community of artists, community developers, culture bearers, designers, government officials, philanthropists, and researchers who have come together from rural, suburban, Tribal, and urban communities across the United States. We are coming together at a moment of nearly unprecedented crisis and opportunity: COVID-19, nationwide uprisings against police brutality and systemic racism, a looming election that will determine the direction, and possibly the fate, of our democracy. It's a crucial time for conversations on the issues facing our communities and our field, and a time to hear from national and local leaders of the ongoing effort to enlist arts and creativity in the work of making our communities healthier, safer, more joyful, and more just.
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11. Call for Proposals: Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Program
Deadline: October 30
https://grady.uga.edu/call-for-student-proposals-charlayne-hunter-gault-giving-voice-to-the-voiceless-program/
The Charlayne Hunter-Gault Giving Voice to the Voiceless Program invites proposals from students from across the University of Georgia to undertake projects that amplify marginalized voices and thus carry forward the work of distinguished alumna, journalist and author Charlayne Hunter-Gault. The committee's goal is to recognize and financially support compelling student projects that center on marginalized people or issues, advancing social justice and creating bonds of empathy and understanding. Whatever the platform or medium envisioned or employed (video, podcast, interview, research project or other format) selected projects should show the "giving voice to the voiceless" vision in action. Proposals should be 1-3 pages in length. They should describe the project or story, explain how it will give voice to the voiceless, offer a simple budget to show how funds will be used, and outline hoped-for outcomes, including ideas for sharing the project with audiences.
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 7
https://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
Guidelines: Convey a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top four submissions receive prizes of $1,000, $800, $600, and $400.
Special Prize: An additional $200 will be made available to the entry that engages most successfully with the topic of either COVID-19 or Racial and Ethnic Justice.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are eligible. Multidisciplinary and collaborative group submissions are highly encouraged. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
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15. Elevate: Minority Student Film Festival
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble (BTE) is organizing a film festival dedicated to showcasing the filmmaking talent of minority students, to be held April 10, 2021. We are specifically looking to highlight diversity with regards to race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disabilities (acquired or developmental), and/or religion. While film crews are encouraged to be diverse and center minority experiences and visions, any and all students are welcome to be part of a production in any capacity. BTE will maintain a filmmakers' network to form crews and bring all involved filmmakers access to panels, Q&A and advice sessions with professional filmmakers. The festival is competitive and awards will be given for various categories.
Guidelines:
Films must be a minimum of 2 minutes and maximum 20 minutes long.
Animated and live action films are welcome, and we will accept films made in pre-Covid times.
It is strongly encouraged that the cast and/or crew reflect diversity and inclusion.
The due date to submit films is March 1. Films or Vimeo/youtube links with passwords should be sent to [log in to unmask]
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