Ideas for Creative Exploration
9.15.22
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP
2. 4'33" Competition CFP (deadline 10/12)
3. Lecture: Peter Schulte (9/16)
4. Art Party Extravaganza!! (9/16)
5. Digital Humanities Exchange (9/22)
6. Screen Time: Cody Marrs (9/23)
7. Lecture: Douglas Kearney (9/27)
8. Lecture: Katie Geha (9/30)
9. Lecture: Angus Fletcher (10/12)
10. Common Field Convening (9/30-10/2)
11. a2ru 2022 National Conference: Exploring Artistic Research (11/3-5)
12. Arts Lab Fellowships (deadline 9/30)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
Fall 2022
Idea Lab Mini Grants support new creative interdisciplinary projects. Grant recipients are provided with a mentor and are eligible for up to $1000 in support for project expenses. Collaborative teams must include participants from multiple disciplines and 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. Call for Participation: Spotlight on the Arts LIVE Research Competition 4'33"
Deadline for Proposals: Wednesday, October 12 at 5 PM
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 the literary, visual, or performing arts or artists.
4'33" Research Presentation: oral presentation no longer than four minutes and thirty-three seconds in length. Live presentations will be held on Wednesday, November 16, from 4:00-6:00 pm at the Athenaeum (387 W. Broad Street). The first prize winner will receive $433. All applicants must be available to attend the live presentation.
To apply send the following information in one pdf document to kgeha at uga.edu by Wednesday, October 12th by 5 PM:
- Name and major degree area
- Name of faculty advisor
- Description of your research in the arts (300-500 word maximum) which can be accompanied by up to 3 images. A jury will read these descriptions and select who will move on to the live presentation round.
Additional information:
- Description should clearly explain the significance and originality of your research.
- Research in the arts may include historical, theoretical, and critical research that students are undertaking either to inform their scholarly writing or their own artistic activity in 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.
- Presentation may be accompanied by Powerpoint slides as necessary. Media should be used to support and illustrate the presentation, not as a substitute for it.
- For FAQ and a list of past winners, see:
https://arts.uga.edu/4minutes33seconds
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3. Lecture: Peter Schulte
Friday, September 16 at noon
Main Art building room S150
Pete Schulte is and artist based in Birmingham, Alabama, He has presented recent solo exhibitions and installations at Mckenzie Fine Art, New York, New York; The Lamar Dodd School of Art at The University of Georgia; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson New York; Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia; and The Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State University. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Hyperallergic, Art in America, World Sculpture News, Burnaway, and The New Art Examiner have reviewed his work, among other publications. In 2017 Schulte was awarded the inaugural Southern Art Prize Fellowship for the state of Alabama. He has been awarded residencies at The Chinati Foundation (2019), Hambidge Center for Creative Arts (2016), Yaddo (2015), Altantic Center for the Arts (2010), Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2010), and Threewalls (2010). Pete Schulte received an MFA in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa in 2008. He is Associate Professor of Art at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
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4. Art Party Extravaganza!!
Friday, September 16 from 6-8 PM
Main Art building, 270 River Rd.
https://art.uga.edu/events/art-party-extravaganza-4
After a two year hiatus, join us for our for our favorite event of the year -- The Art Party Extravaganza!!!
Help us celebrate the opening of four exhibitions, a new Wall-Works, and open graduate studios in drawing & painting, printmaking & book arts, photography & expanded media, ceramics, and fabric design. Guests are invited to enjoy improvised music by local electronic musician Libba Loops, an art book petting zoo hosted by the University of Georgia Art Library, a zine exchange, a special photo booth, and snacks and drinks. Beverages will be provided courtesy of Creature Comforts Brewing.
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5. Digital Humanities Exchange
Thursday, September 22 at 3 PM
Willson Center, 1260 S. Lumpkin St.
https://digi.uga.edu/news-events/
The Willson Center for Humanities and UGA Libraries DigiLab will host the first DH Exchange event. Faculty, graduate students, and anyone in the wider UGA community are invited to come and learn more about Digital Humanities and Scholarship at UGA, to connect, collaborate, and share ideas about future and current projects.
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6. Screen Time: Cody Marrs
Friday, September 23 at 12:30 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St.
The humanities faculty at UGA are piloting a new series on campus featuring accessible talks about TV shows: "Screen Time with Your Humanities Professors." The series highlights the sorts of questions and analytical modes that are characteristic of humanistic thinking, while making connections through mutual interests in pop culture. It's an a.v.-club-slash-humanities spin on UGA's motto, Et docere et rerum exquirere causas. Talks are about 30 minutes long, with plenty of time for questions and discussion. Free lunch, students of all majors welcome.
Why Did the Ending of Game of Thrones Suck?
It is a truth almost universally acknowledged that the final season, and especially the final episode, of Game of Thrones was terrible. But why? In this talk, Professor Cody Marrs will contrast GoT (and analogues like Lost and Killing Eve) with shows that concluded successfully (like Breaking Bad and The Sopranos), to explore why certain endings are satisfying -- or not.
Cody Marrs is Professor of English at UGA. He's a specialist in American literature, and recently he has taught classes on writers such as Mark Twain and Herman Melville, as well as courses on "Literature and Philosophy" and "The Great American Novel."
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7. Douglas Kearney: An Experimental Dialogue
Tuesday, September 27 at 6 PM
The Athenaeum, 287 W. Broad St.
Douglas Kearney is a poet, performer, and librettist who has published seven books that bridge thematic concerns such as politics, African-American culture, masks, the Trickster figure, and contemporary music. His most recent book, Sho (Wave Books, 2021), was the winner for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2022 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, the poems in this collection are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular strategies, while examining histories and current events through the lyric, brand new dances, and other performances. This program is co-sponsored by the UGA English Department, The Georgia Review, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Art.
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8. Institute for Women's Studies Friday Speaker Series
Dr. Katie Geha, Lamar Dodd School of Art
Friday, September 30 at 12:40 PM
Miller Learning Center 148
"Alternative Curatorial Practices"
Dr. Katie Geha is a writer, curator, and art historian. She is Director of the Galleries in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and regularly teaches modern and contemporary art history seminars on artists' writing. She received her PhD from the University of Texas, Austin and her MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Geha's research is focused on American art from the 1960s to the present. She examines technology, science, mysticism, gender, and poetics as principles within the art of this period. Most recently, her work has focused on expanding notions of conceptual art by reintroducing and emphasizing systems as forms of representation within the art of 1960s and 1970s.
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9. Annual Torrance Lecture: Angus Fletcher
Wednesday, October 12 at 4 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
"Why are Children More Creative than Computer AI - Until They Go to School?"
Angus Fletcher is Professor of Story Science at Ohio State's Project Narrative, the world's leading academic institute for the study of stories. His research on how narrative can boost empathy, courage, and creativity has been called "mind-blowing" by Malcolm Gladwell and "life-changing" by Brene Brown.
For decades, researchers have observed that children get less creative the longer they attend school. In this talk, I'll explain why - and what we can do about it. I'll reveal how children's creativity is rooted in a neural process that cannot be reproduced by computer AI. I'll detail my work with US Special Operations to up-train that neural process in adults. I'll present my lab's new findings on how the training can restore creativity in elementary students. And I'll propose that we devote less time in school to critical thinking and mindfulness - and more time to causal thinking and art.
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10. Common Field Convening
September 30-October 2
https://www.commonfield.org/convenings/5111/information
Common Field welcomes you to join us this fall in Seattle or online for WHAT NOW? Towards Artist-Led Movements. This hybrid event marks the final gathering of Common Field, which has connected, supported, and advocated for a network of independent arts organizations and organizers since 2015. The 2022 gathering, organized in collaboration with an incredible Seattle team, hopes to harness the momentum of existing work, and the potential to grow from within decentralized, artist-driven movements, created by and for communities. Registration is open now through Monday, Sep 26, 2022.
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11. a2ru 2022 National Conference: Exploring Artistic Research
November 3-5
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
a2ru.org/event/2022-national-conference/
**As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff are eligible for reduced registration rates.**
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) national conference will take place from November 3-5, 2022, on the University of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus. This will be an in-person conference, though we anticipate remote attendance will be an option for many sessions.
The a2ru national conference is an opportunity for practitioners and researchers from across the higher education spectrum to share innovations and perspectives in the arts. a2ru advances the full range of arts and design integrative research, curricula, programs, and creative practice to acknowledge, articulate, and expand the vital role of higher education in our global society. a2ru's work, in partnership with an international network of leading higher education institutions, envisions a world in which universities -- students, faculty, and leaders -- explore, embed, and integrate the arts in everyday practice and research.
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12. Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships
Deadline: September 30
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Following the report of the UGA Task Force on Arts Research and Practice, an Arts Lab Cluster has been formed to support creativity across the university. As part of this, six Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships are available for faculty in the performing or creative arts for academic year 2023-2024. Funding for this round of Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships is provided by the Office of the Provost, and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
Arts Lab Faculty Fellowships are designed for faculty members in the performing or creative arts to develop practice, research and curriculum in the arts
Support comprises one course release, and support funds up to $2000. The course release portion of the award is a transfer to the Franklin College to support the unit's instructional replacement costs. Funds for arts instructional faculty who cannot commit to a semester away from instruction, but have need of a shorter period of study, practice, or research, can be considered by the selection committee.
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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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