Ideas for Creative Exploration
January 2022
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
2. Reading Room: Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
3. Arts+STEM Graduate Workshops
4. Lecture: Lisa Tan (1/12)
5. Finding Form in the Void (1/13)
6. Athens MLK Day Parade (1/17)
7. Ecologies of Meaning in Art, Science & Technology Collaborations (1/19)
8. Lecture: Yatika Starr Fields (1/20)
9. 2022 Integrative Conservation Conference (2/3-5)
10. Opportunity: Fire & Flood
11. Opportunity: 2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit
12. Willson Center Graduate Research Awards (deadline 1/18)
13. Opportunity: NEA Grants for Arts Projects (deadlines 2/10 and 7/7)
14. Ground Works Call for Submissions (open)
15. Creative Capital Opportunities List
16. UGA Arts & Humanities Grant Writing Month (February 2022)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
http://ice.uga.edu/grants/
Idea Lab Mini Grants support creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are eligible to receive mentorship, feedback, and up to $500 in project funds. Collaborative teams may include participants from multiple communities and must include at least one student, faculty, or staff member from UGA. Proposals will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary selection committee in order of receipt, pending the availability of funds.
Proposal form:
https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eRjYNPOF1diC7EG
Proposal requirements:
- brief description of project goals (up to 150 words)
- names and project roles of collaborators
The Idea Lab Mini Grant Program is supported by Ideas for Creative Exploration, an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. Ideas for Creative Exploration is supported in part by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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2. Reading Room: Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work
https://toolkit.press
"The motives that drive this kind of work are broad, ranging from desire to survival, or even a combination of the two, from the joy that may emerge from working with others to fostering a sense of belonging for our own self-preservation. In doing this work that is so counter to the ideologies and frameworks we encounter in our day-to-day lives, we insist on the need to embrace our fundamental interconnectivity and interdependence as human beings. We do this by honoring multiple perspectives, picking up the slack when others can't, understanding that individual wellness is a collective responsibility, challenging one another, sharing our power, and more."
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3. Arts+STEM Graduate Workshops
Creativity, Collaboration, and Environmental Problem Framing
Are you a graduate student in an Arts or STEM discipline with an interest in environmental issues and interdisciplinary engagement? This workshop series is just for you!
If you are interested in participating in future workshop offerings, please complete this brief survey: http://bit.ly/gradwrkshp
Workshops will feature creative activities including writing, collage, movement, and group problem-solving. Participants should be full-time graduate students.
All applicants to the Arts+STEM Workshop series are eligible and invited to participate in a National Science Foundation sponsored research study that will evaluate the workshop activities, and how they may contribute to creative inquiry and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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4. Lecture: Lisa Tan
Wednesday, January 12 at 6 PM
Athenaeum
287 W. Broad St.
Lisa Tan is an American artist and educator based in Stockholm, Sweden. She works with video, photography, text, installation, and other gestures. Her own experiences of desire, loss and otherness are drivers for explorations into consciousness, the formation of individual subjectivity, and the role that representation plays in shaping a person's relationship to the world and to others. Writing figures largely in her work, and she regularly draws from literature, literary theory, and the history of photography. For more, see http://lisatan.net.
Exhibition: Lisa Tan: Dodge and Burn 2017-2020 July 4
Open January 14 through April 3
Athenaeum
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/exhibitions/
It begins with a blunder. "I pressed stop instead of record," writes Lisa Tan, in the script for her new work, Dodge and Burn 2017-2020 July 4. The mishap occurs during the first of three, consecutive attempts to film fireworks on the 4th of July, from the vantage point of a passenger on a commercial airliner destined for Los Angeles International Airport. Through this evasion, she discovers how an image refusing capture reveals far more in its absence.
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5. Finding Form in the Void: Artmaking, Storybuilding, Futureweaving
Thursday, January 13 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/finding-form-in-the-void-artmaking-storybuilding-futureweaving/
It's a new year, an auspicious time to cast new stories. We believe artmaking renders us more capable of probing the unknown, building different stories about our future, and weaving them together with the stories of others. Join us for a welcoming, playful, generative experiment that provides space to open windows into, and reflect upon, each other's imaginations. No specific skills necessary, just come curious.
Registration
As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA students, faculty, and staff may register for free.
Facilitators
Emily Norton (she/her) is the Director of the Design Thinking Initiative at Smith College. She holds a B.F.A. in furniture design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, and an MDES in conceptual design from the Design Academy Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Norton's career has spanned international design residencies, design research in wetlands preservation, teaching social innovation and leading cultural change campaigns in communities, organizations and institutions. As a maker, she believes in the power of thinking with her hands.
Perrin Teal Sullivan is an artist, designer and educator. Her work in STEAM education focuses on integrating art and science practices to help learners of all ages develop new perspectives and enhanced capacity for understanding, and creating, the world around them. She works with diverse learning institutions including libraries, museums, science centers and schools to design and develop integrated art and STEM programs specific to their learning contexts.
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6. Athens MLK Day Parade and Music Festival 2022
Monday, January 17 from 3 - 6 PM
Downtown Athens
https://www.athmlkparade.com
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools"
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and to promote unity and justice, United Group of Artists and Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement non-profit 501(c)3 partner is honored to host the 6th annual Athens MLK Day Parade & Music Festival! Join us for live music, food, vendors and family fun!
3 PM Parade begins
4 PM Honoree Ceremony and Music Fest Main stage (Hull & Washington)
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7. Ecologies of Meaning in Art, Science & Technology Collaborations
Wednesday, January 19 at 3 PM
https://creative-capital.org/events/ecologies-of-meaning-in-art-science-technology-collaborations/
For this live-streamed event, transdisciplinary artist Erika Blumenfeld will moderate a conversation with transmedia artist Stephanie Dinkins (2019 Creative Capital Awardee), environmental artist Xavier Cortada, and Monica Bello, head curator at Arts at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics). Each will share brief presentations about their respective work across art, science and technology, and discuss the perceived boundaries, entanglements, and kinships of these fields. Together they will consider the contributions artists can make in collaborations with the sciences, and whether novel ethical frameworks can evolve from meaning-making across disciplines. The conversation will include audience Q&A via YouTube chat.
Creative Capital is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to fund artists in the creation of groundbreaking new work in the visual arts, performing arts, literature, film, technology, and multidisciplinary practices, including socially-engaged work in all forms. Our pioneering model of grantmaking also provides thousands of artists with scaffolding and infrastructure support via professional development programs, networking opportunities, and educational resources.
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8. Lecture: Yatika Starr Fields
Thursday, January 20 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
Yatika Starr Fields (Osage, Cherokee and Creek) is a painter known for his vibrant, large-scale murals. His oil paintings range from pure abstractions to images interlaced with symbolic narrative elements. In 2019, Fields produced a series of lithographs and monotypes during a residency at Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts. In this talk, Fields will discuss his larger body of work, with a focus on that print series. "Sun Carrier Series: Scorpion Bowl" is currently on view in "Collective Impressions: Modern Native American Printmakers."
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9. 2022 Integrative Conservation Conference
February 3-5
UGA Special Collections Library
https://integrativeconservationconference.weebly.com
ICC 2022 will focus on decolonizing conservation research and practice. This theme recognizes the importance of engaging with how conservation historically and presently contributes to the disruption and erasure of Indigenous histories, livelihoods, wellbeing, and ways of being on and with the land.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sherry Pictou
Dr. Sherry Pictou is a Mi'kmaw woman from L'sitkuk (water cuts through high rocks) known as Bear River First Nation, Nova Scotia. She is an Assistant Professor and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Governance at the Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law and the School of Public Administration. She is also a former Chief for her community and the former Co-Chair of the World Forum of Fisher Peoples. More recently, she became the first woman Honorary District Chief for the Confederacy of Mainland Mi'kmaq. She is a member of the IPBES Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge. Her research interests include decolonizing treaty relations, Social Justice for Indigenous Women, Indigenous women's role in food and lifeways, and Indigenous knowledge and food systems.
Film screening and discussion supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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10. Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the era of Climate Change
Opportunity for collaboration
Seeking team members with skills in animation and digital video editing to work on "Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the era of Climate Change."
Synopsis:
Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the era of Climate Change is a collaborative documentary weaving a bilingual story of intersectional climate vulnerability and resilience through the voices of multiply-marginalized LGBTQ+ people. The story centers on the near-simultaneity of the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, California and Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and follows collaborators through the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In connecting the wildfire experiences of Californians with the hurricane experiences of Puerto Ricans, the documentary provides a unique view into the enduring legacies of colonization at the root of climate change and the marginalization of queer and trans people. Find out more: www.queerecoproject.org/firefloodfilm
Seeking team members:
I am seeking people with skills in animation and digital video editing who want to be part of a team creating visionary media to support the disaster resilience of queer and trans people in this era of climate change.
The project currently exists as a 104-minute "sneak-peek" documentary that has been shown at over three dozen screenings to raise funds and awareness. This Spring, I will be reformatting the project into an online web-series for young adult and undergraduate audiences and screening the sneak-peek at events on campus. I am seeking a team of passionate and creative folks to help pull this off!
The core project for the Spring 2022 semester involves conceptualizing and executing a series of short animations that will be used across the web series episodes to orient the audience to the historical timeline and geographic scope of the project, and to visualize statistics. Depending on the skills YOU bring to the team, other projects could include title card animation, color-correction, audio engineering, and providing editorial feedback on new cuts of the documentary.
The anticipated workload is 3-7 hours per week.
Ideal Team Members:
The ideal team members have experience working with Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, have prior animation work samples, and a passion for this topic.
As a collaborative documentary Project, Fire & Flood aspires to create self-representations of queer climate justice for and by queer community. As such, I highly encourage people who identify as LGBTQ+ to reach out, particularly QTBIPOC, native Spanish speakers, people with disabilities, and/or those from Puerto Rico or Santa Rosa, California. People of all identities are welcome to reach out to get involved.
If you are interested in this project but do NOT have skills in animation or editing, please reach out anyway: There may be other ways we could collaborate, such as social media and organizing campus screening events of the sneak-peek and finished production.
Compensation & Benefits:
This opportunity has been created thanks to a grant from the University of Georgia's Office of Sustainability, funded by the Student Green Fee! Team members can receive compensation as student employees and will have access to a project budget. Payment logistics and hourly rate TBD.
Additional benefits include one year of free access to Adobe Creative Cloud and opportunities for professional networking within climate justice and LGBTQ+ social justice organizations. There is a potential opportunity for ongoing work in Summer 2022 to complete the production of the project pending further funding.
To get involved:
Please email [log in to unmask] with information about your experience with animation and digital video editing, and your connections to or interest in the topic of the project. Please include a prior animated work sample if available. Let's talk!
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11. Opportunity: 2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit
https://a2ru.org/event/2022-emerging-creatives-student-summit/
As a member institution of the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), UGA may select two student representatives. Please contact [log in to unmask] for more information about how to participate.
a2ru is now accepting student teams from member institutions to participate in the 2022 Emerging Creatives Student Summit, an intensive interdisciplinary working summit with experts and fellow students from across the country. Student teams must consist of one student from an arts-based discipline and one student from a non-arts-based discipline.
The event, which will be co-sponsored by two leading companies from the private sector, Steelcase Learning and CannonDesign, in partnership with a2ru founding partner institution Virginia Tech, will take place March 9-11 in Washington, D.C. at Steelcase's WorkLife Center. During the summit, students will work in interdisciplinary teams to create collaborative projects that explore the theme of "Learning in Liminal Spaces: Transformative Visions for the 21st Century." Students will learn collaboration techniques and receive expert guidance as they design and develop their shared projects.
There is no fee to attend the summit and some meals will be provided as part of the Summit experience. Students or their institutions will be responsible for travel and board. Limited number of student travel grants and a2ru scholar awards are available to eligible institutions; please contact a member of your institution's a2ru contact team for more details.
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12. Willson Center Graduate Research Awards
Deadline: January 18
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support of up to $1,250 toward research and practice-related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. Applicants should explain the importance of their proposed activity and justify it within their field(s) of study in a context of research excellence. The Willson Center is particularly interested in fostering interdisciplinary research at the graduate level. Application is open to any humanities and arts graduate student registered for an advanced degree. Previous Willson Center Graduate Research Award recipients are ineligible. Graduate students may be supported in travel to archives, installations and performances, and other sites related to their research or creative activity.
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13. NEA Grants for Arts Projects
Deadlines: February 10 and July 7
https://www.arts.gov/grants/grants-for-arts-projects
Grants for Arts Projects is our principal grants program for organizations based in the United States. Through project-based funding, the program supports public engagement with, and access to, various forms of art across the nation, the creation of art, learning in the arts at all stages of life, and the integration of the arts into the fabric of community life. Applicants may request cost share/matching grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Designated local arts agencies eligible to subgrant may request from $10,000 to $150,000 for subgranting programs in the Local Arts Agencies discipline. A minimum cost share/match equal to the grant amount is required.
General Webinar
Wednesday, January 12 at 3 PM
Media Arts Webinar
Friday, January 14 at 3 PM
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14. Ground Works Call for Submissions
https://groundworks.io/proposals/1/home_show
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) issues a call for submissions to its online peer-reviewed collection of interdisciplinary arts projects, Ground Works.
We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with other disciplines. We seek a wide range of interdisciplinary works that pose a challenge to traditional peer review methods by inviting examination from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Eligible projects have achieved some initial recognition; they may be collaborative or sole-author, but should demonstrably advance multiple fields within and beyond the arts.
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15. Creative Capital
Artist Opportunities with Upcoming Deadlines in January and February 2022
https://creative-capital.org/2021/12/16/artist-opportunities-with-upcoming-deadlines-in-january-and-february-2022/
Each month, we compile a list of residencies, grants, and open calls for artists working in all disciplines. This month's list includes the Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants of up to $5,000 for professional dancers in need; the Right of Return USA Fellowship supporting formerly incarcerated artists in the creation of original works with an award of $20,000; and the Frankenthaler Climate Awards which provides $15,000 to selected artists and collectives with visual artworks that tackle the climate change emergency.
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16. Arts & Humanities Grant Writing Month
February 2022 is Arts and Humanities Grant Writing month at UGA. Reserve Friday afternoons in February for a series of grantsmanship events, including Zoom presentations and Q&As with program officials from both the National Endowment for Humanities and National Endowment for Arts. Contact Jake Maas ([log in to unmask]) in the Office for Proposal Enhancement with questions.
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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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