ICE Announcements 1.29.19
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Ad-Verse Fest (3/1-3/2)
2. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
3. Lecture: Lauren Haynes (1/29)
4. Colloquium: Brad Darvas (2/1)
5. Art Party Extravaganza!! (2/1)
6. Reading: Chika Unigwe (2/5)
7. Lecture: DIS (2/6)
8. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
9. Opportunity: 3MT Info Session (2/25)
10. Opportunity: Call for Public Art: Hot Corner (deadline 1/27)
11. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships (deadline 2/18)
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1. Ad-Verse Fest
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7 PM
Downtown Athens, GA
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts. Audience members will see electronic artists, quasi-pop stars, hip hop artists, drag performers, DJs and experimental composers.
Featured performers: Jennifer Vanilla, Superbody, Ripparachie, Diaspoura, Karen Meat, Taylor ALXNDR, RaFiA, and GRLwood.
Venues: Caledonia Lounge, Flicker Theatre & Bar, and Go Bar
Advanced tickets now available online $12 for both days
Day of show tickets $15 for both days or $10 for single day
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration, Athens Area Arts Council, Flagpole Magazine, and Scorpion Beach.
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2. Opportunity: Refocus Reality
Explore the Oculus Rift VR system with Ideas for Creative Exploration. Possible areas of exploration could include but are not limited to audience interaction, data visualization and research productivity. Lab times are available by appointment for the following days:
Mondays 8-11 AM, 7-10 PM
Wednesdays 8-10 AM, 7-10 PM
Fridays 8-10 AM, 2-5 PM
Located in the Lamar Dodd building room S160. To schedule, please contact [log in to unmask]
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3. Lecture: Lauren Haynes
Tuesday, January 29 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd building, Room S150
Lauren Haynes is Curator of Contemporary Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Her most recent projects at Crystal Bridges include The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art (co-curator) and Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (institutional curator). Prior to joining Crystal Bridges in October 2016, Haynes spent nearly a decade at The Studio Museum in Harlem. As a specialist in African-American contemporary art, Haynes curated dozens of exhibitions at the Studio Museum and contemporary art institutions in New York. Haynes is a recipient of a 2016 Gold Rush Award from Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow.
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4. Colloquium: Brad Darvas
Friday, February 1 at 12:20 PM
Fine Arts Building Room 53
Brad Darvas will discuss make-up effects for television and film and his work on The Walking Dead. Professor Darvas is currently the Head of Design of Theatre at the University of West Georgia, specializing in Scenic Design, Props, and Special Makeup Effects. He is a graduate from Wayne State University, where he received his MFA in Scenic Design and Technical Direction for the Theatre. In addition to designing scenery for the theatre, he works as a professional special makeup effects artist for television and film in the Atlanta metro area. In 2013, he opened his own business, Brad Darvas Designs, specializing in display edition, latex masks, silicone and resin busts, as well as makeup effects services.
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5. Art Party Extravaganza!!
Friday, February 1 from 6 - 8 PM
Lamar Dodd Building
https://art.uga.edu/events/art-party-extravaganza-2
Join us as we celebrate 5 new exhibitions!! Free snacks and drinks!! A crazy Congeal photo booth!! DJ Ruby Mars!! Not to be missed!!! FREE and Open to the Public!!
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6. Reading: Chika Unigwe
Tuesday, February 5 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer who now lives in the United States. She is the author of four novels, as well as numerous short stories and essays. Her books include The Phoenix, On Black Sisters' Street, Night Dancer, and The Black Messiah. In 2014, she was selected for the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define future trends in African literature.
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7. Lecture: DIS
Wednesday, February 6 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. Most notably these include, DIS Magazine, co-founded with Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg and S. Adrian Massey III in 2010 as a virtual platform that examines art, fashion, music and culture, constructing and supporting new creative practices.
Since being founded, the magazine has expanded into an international community of writers, photographers, musicians and DJs. Recent ventures include DISimages, 2013, a fully operational stock photography agency that enlists artists to produce images available for private and commercial use, and DISown, an ongoing retail platform and laboratory to test the current status of the art object.
Across its various endeavors, DIS explores the tension between popular culture and institutional critique, while facilitating projects for the most public and democratic of all forums -- the Internet.
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8. Call for Participation: Eco-Art at Lake Herrick
A group of UGA graduate students are piloting an environmental stewardship project at Lake Herrick, a 15-acre body of water that is part of the UGA campus, located within the Oconee Forest Park complex, near the UGA intramural fields. Opened in 1982, the lake quickly became a popular public space for swimming, boating, and fishing. However, in 2002, all water activities were prohibited at the lake due to deteriorating water quality tied to human activities at the lake and the greater watershed. With a decrease in human visitors over the last 16 years, Lake Herrick has become a haven for local wildlife. For example, citizen scientists have identified at least 200 bird species there, making it one of the most diverse sites for birds in Athens-Clarke County! Additionally, the area is home to beavers, water snakes, turtles, and many other animals.
With the dedicated efforts of the UGA Office of Sustainability and researchers, Lake Herrick reopened on October 17, 2018 to the public for passive recreation. Reopening the lake provides an important space for people to interact with nature, but human recreation often has negative effects for wildlife and environmental health.
Lake Herrick's history tells an important story of ecological restoration, resilience, and coexistence. Balancing recreational impacts with preserving the ecological integrity of this space will require environmental mindfulness of human visitors. We aim approach this with collaborative storytelling and eco-art as a medium: translating scientific research through artistic expression to inspire environmental stewardship of this beautiful space in Athens. To do this, we are organizing an eco-art event for April 2019 to showcase art that is representative of the Lake's natural history, ecological community, and the importance of natural spaces.
Currently, we are searching for interested artists, faculty, and Athens residents to collaborate with us throughout this project. The work will entail being paired with a UGA researcher to collaboratively create artwork that translates key messages from academic research that helps to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world and our place in it. And, planning a community event to showcase work, and engage with the public. With this work, we hope to create lasting partnerships with UGA faculty and local Athens artists to create an annual environmental event for Lake Herrick, and support science communication efforts generally. Are you interested in helping with this event or creating an eco-art pieces? We want to hear your ideas! You can contact us at: [log in to unmask]
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9. Three Minute Thesis Information Session
Monday, February 25 at 12:15 PM
Geography/Geology Building Room 200 C
RSVP: http://bit.ly/UGA3MT2019
UGA's Three Minute Thesis competition challenges graduate students to explain their research to non-specialist audiences in only three minutes. 3MT provides an opportunity to hone your communication skills, get feedback on your presentation style, and win cash prizes! Pizza will be provided at the information session! Please register by February 22 to provide an accurate count. All Master's and Doctoral students welcome. Students do not have to attend the info session to compete, but it is an excellent opportunity to learn more about the competition and to speak with past winners.
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10. Call for Public Art - Hot Corner: An Athens Legacy
Deadline: January 27
https://www.accgov.com/8509/Call-for-Public-Art---Hot-Corner-Mural
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) invites professional artists to submit a proposal and images of a mural concept for consideration in the Hot Corner: An Athens Legacy project in Athens. Georgia. The selected artist(s) will work with the ACAC and Athens-Clarke County government staff to create public art that enhances the project and complements the selected site.
In the heart of historic downtown Athens, Hot Corner is two blocks from the University of Georgia (UGA) campus. Surrounded by popular bars, restaurants, and music venues, the cultural, economic, and social history of this part of downtown Athens remains hidden in plain sight among a fairly transient population of students and young professionals. Yet the Morton Building and Hot Corner remain prominent symbols of minority entrepreneurship to the relatively small number of Athenians who understand its origins.
With the main goals of giving voice to the African American community and investing in creative place-making to foster pride in our shared history, the ACAC plans visual and storytelling workshops to complement the new mural. In partnership with the Lyndon House Arts Center (LHAC) and the Morton Theatre (now an active city-owned venue), we will engage the Athens and UGA communities in a timely discussion about the intersection of arts and history. At LHAC, we plan a workshop/lecture on visual storytelling led by the selected artist; at the Morton, we will host a community storytelling event featuring interviewees from the Hot Corner Oral History Project. Both events - and the mural's June 2019 unveiling - will coincide with the annual Hot Corner Festival, a celebration of Athens' African American-owned businesses past and present.
To immerse the selected artist ("Lead Artist") into the community, the local Artist Assistant will serve as an apprentice and Steering Committee liaison to the Lead Artist. The Artist Assistant will employ a small team of local artists (ages 16-24) to facilitate the mural's creation. Employing these young artists will help build a talent pipeline to assist with the future development of public art in our city.
The budget for this project is $24,000 all-inclusive. This means including, but not limited to, design, materials, installation, insurance, travel, and artists' fees.
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11. Opportunity: CURO Summer Fellowships
Deadline: Monday, February 18 at 5 PM
http://curo.uga.edu/students/summer_fellowship.html
Each year CURO awards 30 Summer Research Fellowships to support UGA undergraduates interested in pursuing intensive, immersive, faculty-mentored research during the summer. An applicant must be a current 1st through 3rd year student who has completed a minimum of 15 in-residence credit hours at UGA. CURO Summer Fellows are awarded $3,000.
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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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