ICE Announcements 10.7.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Opportunity: Idea Lab Mini Grants and Info Sessions (deadline 10/25)
2. Reading Room: Creative Capital Artist Retreat
3. Lecture: Paul Tough (10/7)
4. Performance: She Kills Monsters (until 10/13)
5. Screening: Community Action Center (10/8)
6. DIGI Colloquium: Black Mirrors and Melting Wizards (10/9)
7. Lecture: Stephanie Dickey (10/10)
8. Exhibitions: Dodd Galleries (10/11)
9. Opportunity: UGA 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest (deadline 10/7)
10. Opportunity: Grass Roots Art Writing Program (registration open)
11. Opportunity: Monster Draw Rally (deadline 10/15)
12. Opportunity: Integrative Conservation Conference (deadline 10/16)
13. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 10/24)
14. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/11)
15. Opportunity: Cynosure Magazine (deadline 11/15)
16. Opportunity: Capturing Science Contest (deadline 12/2)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
Deadline: October 25, 2019
Information sessions:
Tuesday, October 8 at 11 AM, Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Wednesday, October 16 at 9:30 AM, MLC Reading Room
Wednesday, October 23 at 4:30 PM, Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
*shape: re-examining our spaces, structures, and systems*
Idea Lab, a UGA student organization dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary creative collaboration, is offering funding of up to $500 for UGA students, faculty, and staff with ideas for interdisciplinary projects within the community, with extra consideration for those which enage with the idea of "shape." Project groups must include at least one UGA student and may include members from outside the UGA community.
Recipients of Idea Lab mini grants will receive mentorship and regular feedback from Idea Lab members and Ideas for Creative Exploration Graduate Research Assistants.
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Proposal requirements:
Title and brief description of proposed project
List of participants (include titles and affiliations)
Impact of project
Itemized budget
Proposed timeline of project
No more than 500 words
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2. Reading Room: Presentations from the 2019 Creative Capital Artist Retreat
https://creative-capital.org/2019/10/01/watch-presentations-from-the-2019-creative-capital-artist-retreat/
A central part of the Creative Capital Award, the retreat is an intensive week-long gathering designed to help artists develop their ambitious and forward-thinking new work. The retreat centers around artists presenting their works in progress to a group of experts and supporters from all creative disciplines who can help make their visions a reality. These presentations cover a broad range of genres and subjects, from poetry dedicated to extinct species, a puppet installation imagining the legacy of plastic, to a performance exploring a personal connection to the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- all representing a diversity of work by some of the most groundbreaking artists in the country.
Creative Capital supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services.
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3. Lecture: Paul Tough
Monday, October 7 at 6 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Education writer Paul Tough will give a talk associated with his newest book, "The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us," which will be published Sept. 10. The event is presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Institute of Higher Education at UGA in partnership with Avid Bookshop.
Tough is the author of "Helping Children Succeed and How Children Succeed," which spent more than a year on the New York Times hardcover and paperback bestseller lists and was translated into 28 languages. He is also the author of "Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America." He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to the public radio program "This American Life."
"The Years That Matter Most" tells the stories of students trying to find their way, with hope, joy, and frustration, through the application process and into college. Drawing on new research, the book reveals how the landscape of higher education has shifted in recent decades and exposes the hidden truths of how the system works and whom it works for. And it introduces us to the people who really make higher education go: admissions directors trying to balance the class and balance the budget, College Board officials scrambling to defend the SAT in the face of mounting evidence that it favors the wealthy, researchers working to unlock the mysteries of the college-student brain, and educators trying to transform potential dropouts into successful graduates.
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4. She Kills Monsters
Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre
Tickets: https://pac.uga.edu/event/she-kills-monsters/
Qui Nguyen's bittersweet comedy follows Agnes Evans as she deals with the untimely death of her teenage sister Tilly. Upon finding Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons campaign book, Agnes gets to know her sister more intimately than ever before with the help of her unrepentantly nerdy friends. Packed with humor, heartache, and fantastical creatures from assorted realms, She Kills Monsters is a must-see.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 - 8:00pm
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 - 8:00pm
Thursday, October 10, 2019 - 8:00pm
Friday, October 11, 2019 - 8:00pm
Sunday, October 13, 2019 - 2:30pm
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5. Screening: Community Action Center
Tuesday, October 8 at 7 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
The Dodd Galleries and the Video Databank present A.K. Burns and A.L.Steiner's 2010 film "Community Action Center." Due to sexual content this film may not be appropriate for all audiences. From the Video Databank website:
Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by artists A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner which incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by porn-romance-liberation films, such as works by Fred Halsted, Jack Smith, James Bidgood, Joe Gage and Wakefield Poole, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes and the body politic of a particular time and place. Community Action Center is a unique contemporary womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler.
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6. DIGI Colloquium: Black Mirrors and Melting Wizards, Digital Storytelling Tools and Techniques
Wednesday, October 9 at 4 PM
Main Library, DigiLab Room 300
Dr. Jim McGrath (Brown University) will present an overview of his approaches to digital storytelling in the classroom, emphasizing ideas of audience and engagement in digital public humanities work, how to manage and develop digital projects at various scales, and what academics can learn from podcasts, video games, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, and other pop cultural narratives.
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7. Lecture: Stephanie Dickey
Thursday, October 10 at 5 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
"Rembrandt's Women / Then and Now"
Rembrandt's representations of women have long inspired strong reactions in viewers, from empathy for his loving sketches of his wife Saskia to disgust at his lifelike depictions of the nude. Meanwhile, his own relationships with women form a complicated chapter of his biography. This talk aims to inspire a fresh look at how Rembrandt's images of women challenge us to reckon with the female form as a central motif in the history of European art.
Stephanie Dickey holds the Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. She earned her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her brilliant fellow students included Prof. Shelley Zuraw. Stephanie is the author of numerous publications on Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century, with a focus on Rembrandt and artists in his circle. Her research interests include portraiture, the history of printmaking, and representations of gender and emotion. She is currently working on a study of the collecting and connoisseurship of Rembrandt's etchings and an exhibition on Rembrandt and the Amsterdam art market that will open in December 2020 at the Stadel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and in May 2021 at the National Gallery of Canada.
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8. Exhibitions: Dodd Galleries
Reception Friday, October 11 from 6-8PM
Lamar Dodd Building
The Dodd Galleries is pleased to present four new exhibitions. Kiki Kogelnik, Julia Scher, Erika Vogt, Lisa Williamson is a group show that examines technology in relation to the human body, performance, and formal representations of the female figure. In Codified Color, Dodd graduate students Mary Gordon, Christina Foard, and Nick Abrami employ color as a means to examine personal histories. Baci from Cortona celebrates 50 years of UGA in Cortona and features a series of photographs, both professional and personal, that document this history. Dodd MFA candidate, Robby Toles, in his exhibition Immortal Beloved, challenges authenticity as the artist's image takes precedence over place and questions where the 'real' might exist if everything is performed.
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9. UGA Spotlight on the Arts
4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest
Deadline: October 7
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
This competition highlights UGA student research in the arts and provides an opportunity to win prizes and to share creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators, and alumni throughout the university community. The competition is open to any graduate student, or undergraduate student working on an advanced project, who is conducting research related to art or artists. Students may apply to participate in one or both of two competition formats:
4'33" Research Presentation: oral presentation no longer than four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length. Presentations will be held on Tuesday, November 12, from 7:00-8:30 pm in the Georgia Museum of Art Auditorium. The first prize winner will receive $433.
4'33" Research Exhibition: 2D or 3D multimedia display that fits in a four foot by thirty-three inch section of wall or table. Exhibition will be on display from November 6 through November 12 in the Georgia Museum of Art Education Center. Judging will be held on Tuesday, November 12 from 5:00-7:00 pm. Three $150 prizes will be awarded in three categories: Most Effective Communication, Most Innovative Research, and Most Creative Presentation.
To apply send the following information to [log in to unmask] by Monday, October 7 at 5 PM:
- name and major degree area
- name of faculty advisor
- competition format (you can apply for either or both options: Presentation / Exhibition)
- description of your research in the arts (500-word maximum)
For more information and FAQ visit:
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds/
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10. Grass Roots Art Writing Program
Deadline: open until filled
http://athica.org/updates/athica-grass-roots-art-writing-program/
ATHICA is pleased to announce its inaugural Grass Roots Art Writing Program for Fall 2019: a series of four half-day workshops spread over the months of October and November that will cover the basics of critical art writing, editing strategies, and artist statement development.
Instructors will include artist and writer Maggie Davis, writer and former ArtsATL Editor Laura Relyea, Piedmont College professor and museum director Rebecca Brantley, and John English, Emeritus Professor of UGA's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Registration is open until filled with a maximum of 12 attendees per session. A registration fee of $10 per session goes to cover expenses. All materials will be provided. Any attendee who completes all four sessions will receive a certificate of completion and a $25 honorarium for completion of the program.
Participants will hone critical thinking skills, engage in discussions about the history and current status of critical art writing, participate in peer-editing, and will build a small writing portfolio.
Session 1: What is critical art writing?
Saturday, October 19, 2019, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Participants will be introduced to the history, theories, and approaches of art criticism.
Session 2: What makes good art critical writing?
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
*This session is a prerequisite for session three*
Participants will use different examples of critical art writing styles to workshop diverse markers of successful art writing.
Session 3: Editing before the editor
Saturday, November 9, 2019, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Participants will use examples of editing to strengthen their drafting skills following by peer-editing activities and a review of final editing tactics.
Session 4: Finessing an artist statement
Saturday, November 16, 2019, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Participants will discuss the strategies of developing an artist statement. Exercises and in-class readings will be used.
The ATHICA Grass Roots Art Writing Program is sponsored in part by The James E. and Betty J. Huffer Foundation, The Georgia Council for the Arts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
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11. Call for Artists for Monster Draw Rally to Benefit Cine and ATHICA
Deadline: October 15
http://bit.ly/monsterartist
Cine and ATHICA are joining forces to host this Monster (as in "REALLY BIG") fundraising event on November 2, 10-3 PM, in which over 60 artists produce works in front of a live audience, which are then immediately donated and made available for sale to the attendees. Artists are sought to make art in this unique mix of live performance, art sale, and art party. Get your choice of perks for participation. All proceeds to benefit Cine and ATHICA. Support your local non-profit arts organizations!
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12. Integrative Conservation Conference
February 6-9, 2020
UGA Special Collections Library
http://cicr.uga.edu/icc-2020/
Call for Participation
Abstract deadline: October 16
The Integrative Conservation Conference (ICC) invites you to connect across boundaries to create more just and innovative solutions to today's conservation challenges. Connections across academic disciplines, sciences and the arts, and academia and the general public highlight the collaborative nature of conservation initiatives. ICC fosters inclusive spaces that promote cross-cutting conservation work by exploring how different values and knowledge systems impact conservation theory and practice.
The ICC 2020 Program Committee welcomes abstract submissions for presentations that span a variety of formats and stages of research. In addition to more conventional oral and poster presentations, participants are encouraged to present their work through different modes of communication and diverse media. Presentations that reflect any stage of the research process are welcome -- from initial ideas and data collection to completed projects.
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13. Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: October 24
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Individual Faculty or interdisciplinary groups may nominate Visiting Fellows who contribute to intellectual life on campus by engaging with current research in a public context. Fellows are funded for five-day ($5,000) programs. The amount of the award includes honorarium and travel expenses. Award is for the following academic year.
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14. Campus Sustainability Grants
Pre-proposals due October 11, 2019
Applications due November 11, 2019 at 9 AM
https://sustainability.uga.edu/student-programs/sustainability-grants/
Ideas for Creative Exploration and the Office of Sustainability invite you to apply for a UGA Campus Sustainability Grant. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts.
Drawn from the Student Green Fee, grants up to $5,000 are available to current UGA students who wish to initiate projects to advance sustainability through education, research, service, and campus operations. Successful projects will address priorities outlined in UGA's 2020 Strategic Plan to actively conserve resources, educate the campus community, influence positive action for people and the environment, and provide useful research data to inform future campus sustainability efforts. Interdisciplinary projects designed to inspire, beautify and uplift -- as well as to inform and conserve -- are encouraged. Special consideration will be given to projects incorporating sustainability + arts. Grants are awarded based on merit, positive impact, implementation feasibility, and available funding.
The Office of Sustainability coordinates, communicates, and advances sustainability initiatives at UGA in the areas of teaching, research, service and outreach, student engagement, and campus operations. For more information visit sustainability.uga.edu.
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15. Call for Submissions: Cynosure Magazine
Deadline: November 15
Cynosure Magazine is an annual thematic publication based at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. We are looking for visual art, design, creative writing, or research that addresses this year's theme, See You//See Me. We are asking the following questions: How do you illuminate the unknown? Make the invisible visible? Give space to the marginalized? Give voice to the unheard? Shine a light on what's in the dark?
Submission Requirements:
Visual Art/Design/Writing/Research
5 Images maximum at 300 DPI in .JPEG or .PNG format
10 pages maximum in .PDF or .DOC format
Send submissions to: [log in to unmask]
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16. Capturing Science Contest
Deadline: December 2 at 5 PM
http://guides.libs.uga.edu/capturingscience
UGA Libraries is hosting the 2019 Capturing Science Contest to encourage STEM communication in a diversity of formats. Undergraduate and graduate students are eligible for $3,000 in prizes.
Guidelines: Explain a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) concept to a broader audience using any medium of your choice.
Prizes: The top three undergraduate and graduate submissions each receive prizes of $1,000, $350, and $150.
Eligibility: All currently-enrolled UGA undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Students may submit works used for other class assignments. Multiple entries are acceptable.
Contest Criteria:
Clarity of expression
Creativity
Appeal to a broad audience
Formats: Any and all formats and genres are encouraged! Examples include: essays, board games, virtual reality, videos, music, software, apps, curricula, lesson plans, poems, infographics, fiction, and exhibits. See last years' winners and submissions for more examples. Sponsored by: UGA Libraries & The Office of Research
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