ICE Announcements 10.16.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session (10/16)
2. Rita Coburn Events (10/16)
3. Reading: Ronaldo Wilson (10/16)
4. Performance: Say I Was Orange (10/16)
5. Lecture: Anissa Mack (10/17)
6. Lecture: Andrea Wulf (10/18)
7. Lecture: Xin Xin (10/19)
8. Seminar: Dr. Julia Yezbick (10/19)
9. Cinema Roundtable: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and Cinematic Adaptations (10/19)
10. Lecture: Richard Hunt (10/19)
11. Michael Kress Events (10/22-25)
12. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards (deadline 10/25)
13. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Grants (deadline: 10/29)
14. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants (deadline 11/12)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants Info Session
Tuesday, October 16 at 12:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Call for Proposals
Deadline: November 5 at 5 PM
Idea Lab is a UGA student organization committed to providing an open, interdisciplinary platform for engagement in arts. UGA students from all disciplines are invited to apply for funding up to $500 to support new creative and collaborative projects. Special consideration will be given to projects that address the theme "Cultivating Community."
Grant proposals should be sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project (500 word maximum)
- List of project participants (include titles and affiliations)
- Name of lead applicant (include major and year of study)
- Impact of project
- Timeline of project
- Itemized budget
Selection Criteria:
- Creative merit
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility
Lead applicant must be UGA student. Collaborative teams may include students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. Deadline for grant proposals is Monday, November 5 at 5 PM.
Information Sessions
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Tuesday, October 16 at 12:30 PM
Wednesday, October 24 at 12:30 PM
Tuesday, October 30 at 10 AM
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. Rita Coburn Events (10/16)
Peabody Roundtable Discussion
2:30 PM
Peyton Anderson Forum, Journalism Building
Screening: Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
7:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
"Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise" was honored with a 2017 Peabody Award. Coburn Whack, who co-directed the film with Bob Hercules, is an award-winning multimedia writer, director, and producer. Her television work earned three Emmys for the documentaries "Curators of Culture," "Remembering 47th Street," and "African Roots American Soil." Her work has also been featured on C-SPAN and The History Channel. She is the owner of RCW Media Productions Inc., a multimedia production company.
The Peabody Media Center will host a screening of "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise." Rita Coburn Whack, co-director of the American Masters documentary, will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience immediately after the screening. The event is free and open to the public. Additional sponsors include the Willson Center, the department of theatre and film studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the department of entertainment and media studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
In addition to screening her film, Coburn Whack will also participate in a Peabody Roundtable Discussion, "The Documentary Renaissance." Other panelists are Valerie Boyd of the Grady College, Richard Neupert of theatre and film studies, Taylor Miller of the Grady College and the Peabody Media Center, and moderator Nate Kohn of the Grady College and the Peabody Media Center. The discussion is also free and open to the public.
Additional University of Georgia sponsors include the Willson Center for Humanities & Arts, the Department of Theatre & Film Studies, and the Department of Entertainment & Media Studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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3. Reading: Ronaldo Wilson (10/16)
Tuesday, October 16 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave
Wilson is the author of the cross-genre collection Farther Traveler (Counterpath Press, 2015); Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem Books, 2009), winner of the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry; and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh, 2008), winner of the 2007 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Literature Department and Creative Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz. The Ph.D. students in the Creative Writing Program are pleased to present a reading by poet Ronaldo Wilson. This event, made possible with generous support from The Georgia Review.
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4. Performance: Say I Was Orange (10/16)
Tuesday, October 16 from 6 - 8 PM
Thomas Street Art Complex
SAY I WAS ORANGE, a night of performance by students of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, invites audience members to experiment with this new version of history making, placing the viewer in the crux of the present and offering them the chance to create the past tense others will hear. Across an architectural playground, the audience may explore and discover pits of wildly divergent energy, constructed by performers whose unique skills and inquiries are made manifest by every inkwell available in historic and contemporary performance art. From audience interaction, to live body art, to new media installation, to musical performance, all will be available. Performers and viewers alike will adapt and respond to critical moments suspected and unsuspected; along pathways both habitual and innovative, all are asked to experience, witness, remember, and go on to say what they will.
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5. Lecture: Anissa Mack (10/17)
Wednesday, October 17 at 12:20 PM
Lamar Dodd Room S151
Anissa Mack is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has presented solo exhibitions at Arcadia University Art Gallery (Glenside, PA), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (Ridgefield, Connecticut); Laurel Gitlen Gallery (New York); Josh Lilley Gallery (London); Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Museum, and The Contemporary (Atlanta). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Brennan & Griffin (New York), 67 Ludlow (New York), Fleisher/Ollman (Philadelphia), and the Seattle Art Museum, among many others. She has also created commissioned public projects for the Public Art Fund (Brooklyn), WaveHill (The Bronx), the Queens Museum, and Socrates Sculpture Park (Queens). She received her MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art, PA and her BA from Wesleyan University, CT.
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6. Lecture: Andrea Wulf (10/18)
Thursday, October 18 at 4 PM
The Chapel
Andrea Wulf reveals in her most recent book the extraordinary life of the visionary German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) and how he created the way we understand nature today. Though almost forgotten today, his name lingers everywhere from the Humboldt Current to the Humboldt penguin. Humboldt was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. Perceiving nature as an interconnected global force, Humboldt discovered similarities between climate zones across the world and predicted human-induced climate change. He turned scientific observation into poetic narrative, and his writings inspired naturalists and poets such as Darwin, Wordsworth and Goethe but also politicians such as Jefferson. Wulf also argues that it was Humboldt's influence that led John Muir to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau's Walden. Wulf traces Humboldt's influences through the great minds he inspired in revolution, evolution, ecology, conservation, art and literature. In The Invention of Nature Wulf brings this lost hero to science and the forgotten father of environmentalism back to life. Andrea Wulf is an award-winning author of five acclaimed books, including the Founding Gardeners and The Invention of Nature, which were both on the New York Times Best Seller List.
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7. Lecture: Xin Xin (10/19)
Friday, October 19 at 12:20 PM
Miller Learning Center 214
"What is Southern Futurism: Reimagine Automation through DIY Hacktivism and Open-sourced Distribution Methods"
Xin Xin is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working at the intersection of technology, labor, and identity. Xin co-founded voidLab, a LA-based intersectional feminist collective dedicated to women, trans, and queer folks. They initiated the School of Otherness which seeks to empower marginalized communities through storytelling, forums, and workshops that process experiences of the other. Their work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, the Hammer Museum, Gene Siskel Film Center, Tiger Strikes Asteroid and Machine Project. They recently completed an art residency at Plug In ICA in Winnipeg, Canada and serve as the Director and Lead Organizer for Processing Community Day, a worldwide initiative celebrating art, code, and diversity. Xin received their MFA from UCLA Design Media Arts and teaches at UGA as the Assistant Professor of Media Design and Women's Studies.
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8. Seminar: Dr. Julia Yezbick (10/19)
Friday, October 19 at 3:30 PM
Baldwin Hall Rom 264
A screening and discussion of the short film "How to Rust: explorations in the relational ontologies of a postindustrial landscape." Julia Yezbick is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist based in Detroit. She received her PhD in Media Anthropology and Critical Media Practice from Harvard University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. Her audio and video works have shown at the Berlinale-Forum Expanded, MOMA PS1, the New York Library for Performing Arts, Pravo Lujdski Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Mostra Internacional do Filme Etnografico, Rio de Janeiro, the Montreal Ethnographic Film Festival, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit. She is the founding Editor of Sensate, an online journal for experiments in critical media practice, and co-directs Mothlight Microcinema in Detroit. Yezbick is a 2018 Kresge Arts Fellow for film.
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9. Cinema Roundtable: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and Cinematic Adaptations (10/19)
Friday, October 19 at 4 PM
Fine Arts Building, Balcony Theatre (Room 400)
This roundtable gathers together panelists from literature and film, including Roxanne Eberle, Nancee Reeves, and Holly Gallagher from the English department, along with Christopher Sieving from theatre and film studies, and special guest Eddy von Mueller, co-editor of Frankenstein: How A Monster Became an Icon (2018) and former senior lecturer in film and media studies at Emory University. The panel will address the core themes of Shelley's work and Frankenstein's cinematic legacy. The audience will be invited to participate and the event is free and open to the public. Richard Neupert of theatre and film studies will moderate the panel.
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10. Lecture: Richard Hunt (10/19)
Friday, October 19 at 4:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
The Georgia Museum of Art at UGA will hold a conversation with artist Richard Hunt and Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art at the museum and curator of the exhibition "Richard Hunt: Synthesis."
Hunt is an African American sculptor who was raised in Chicago. His mother encouraged his artistic interests by taking him to visit museums at a young age. When he was 13, Hunt attended the Junior School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he explored a variety of working materials. The German sculptor Nelli Bar became his mentor and inspired him to follow a career path as an artist.
Hunt's early work and sculptures show his interest in animals and plants. His first big success came when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, bought one of his sculptures in 1957. Life magazine named him one of its "Red Hot Hundred" young leaders in 1962. His big break in public sculpture came in 1967 with "Play," which the John J. Madden Health Center in Illinois hired him to create. This work represented the start of a new phase in Hunt's career, where he started to make works that responded to architectural specifics as well as the personality of the surrounding community.
"Richard Hunt: Synthesis" will focus on formative periods in Hunt's career. The artist has created 130-plus public commissions in more than 24 states. The exhibition features both his sculptures and his works on paper, showing the different stages of his career from the 1950s to the present.
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11. Michael Kress Events (10/22-25)
Monday, October 22 at 2 PM
Public Lecture
Lamar Dodd School of Art S150
Tuesday, October 23 from 11 AM - 3 PM
Workshopping Memory / Locating Athens
Lamar Dodd School of Art N140
Wednesday, October 24 from 5 - 7 PM
HyperCulture Public Supper
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Arts Quad
Thursday, October 25 from 5 - 7 PM
DISYOURSELF, exhibition opening,
Lamar Dodd School of Art, CORE Project Space
Sponsored by the Willson Center Short Term Fellowship, Michael Kress will explore an Athens iteration of his 2014 public participation work ADORE (Yokohama, JP) while in residence at UGA. Working with students, local artists, and musicians as interlocutors Kress will host video and conversational-photography workshops exploring how: "Pop music like Rock, Blues, Soul or Punk provides a first contact to one's own aesthetic self-definition, as a kind of a pop ID."
In the case of Athens, Kress is uniquely interested in working with undergraduate and graduate students to embrace global POP phenomena as a connective material for gauging seemingly distant hinterland-urban dependencies. At UGA, Kress hopes to include these new student collaborations as North American consequences, expanding upon the work ofHyperCultural Passengers, which asks:
"What can art and culture mean as part of a world of simultaneity in which tourists from the north bathe in the southern seas while enjoying a year's vacation, while deprived escaped fugitives in identical waters go on a fatal journey? What does culture promise if their mobility shortens distances in supersonic speed and their places coincide in time? What is culture from the non-European perspective of the East and the South in times of global digital exchange of data and information? How can we reconcile ideas such as art, culture, aesthetics in a way that breaks up identity solidifications?"
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Kress is a conceptual and participation artist living and working in Hamburg (DE), with the focus of his work being, to explore semiotics and language as normative moments in the construction of media-identities. Since 2004 Kress has been examining these 'identities' as spatial imaginaries evidenced within films of the 1960's such as Lawrence of Arabia. His practice uses different media such as video, drawing, writing, sound and photography to expose conceptions of place and site as forms of conversation.
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12. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Public Impact Grant
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty and students. The award provides support of up to $10,000. Faculty may apply for the Public Impact Grant in partnership with graduate students. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants are encouraged to consider other external and internal sources of funds. Award is for the following academic year.
Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: October 25
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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13. Opportunity: Social Ecology Studio Grants
Deadline: 10/29
The Social Ecology Studio is accepting applications from undergraduate and graduate students for Project Pilot Grants of up to $600 intended to support projects working within the vision of the studio.
Vision: The Social Ecology Studio is a multi-researcher, collaborative art workspace dedicated to advancing sustainability and resilience through the arts. Capitalizing on art's ability to engage, inform and activate a diverse range of constituents, the studio acts as a bridge, humanizing and connecting community members and policy makers with issues entrenched in social ecology. The Studio facilitates collaborations with scientific and social research topics from across campus and the community, serving as a hub for graduate and undergraduate students to identify research opportunities while providing space and resources to work collaboratively.
Granting Priority will be given to projects that fulfill one or more of the following objectives:
- The project engages current social and/or ecological issues.
- The project is collaborative.
- The artist collaborates with researchers from non-arts disciplines in one of the following manners: bringing art thinking into the workflow of non-arts discipline research, utilizing the research of non-arts discipline(s) in the ideation and/or methodology of the artist's workflow, utilizing non-arts research in the production of the work.
- The project interacts with the community outside of the University.
- The project serves as a pilot for a CURO research project proposal, Sustainability Grant Proposal, Willson Center Graduate Research Award application, or other UGA or external research opportunity.
Grant Proposals must include a written statement no more than one page in length (single spaced, 1 inch margin, 11 point type), identifying the proposed project and its alignment with studio vision and granting priorities. On a second page include a general budget outline and short paragraph justifying the budget expenditures.
Grant Amounts will generally be awarded in the range of $200-$600 and will include access to a collaborative studio workspace, and project mentorship from studio director Michael Marshall and a network of affiliated faculty from across campus. Unfunded proposals may still be eligible for facility and mentorship support by invitation.
All expenditures are subject to UGA policies and procedures.
Application Deadline: Monday, October 29, 5:00pm.
Submit your application as a pdf or word document to Michael Marshall via email to [log in to unmask], subject heading: "SES Pilot Grant ProposalYourFirstName YourLastName"
Questions or proposal development advice? Email Michael Marshall at [log in to unmask]
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14. Opportunity: Campus Sustainability Grants
Pre-proposals deadline: October 12
Deadline: November 12 at 9 AM
http://sustainability.uga.edu/get-involved/sustainability-grants/
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.
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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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