ICE Announcements 3.21.17
http://ice.uga.edu
*** Call for Participation: Hyphenated American (deadline 3/28)***
1. ICE Workshop: Unsolved: Math + Design (free registration)
2. Lecture: Kat Cole (3/21)
3. In Conversation: Paul Pfeiffer and Craig Drennan (3/22)
4. Athens Science Cafe: A Nation of Many Voices (3/23)
5. Performance: Canray Poole (3/23)
6. Performance: Estampas de La Isla del Encanto (3/24)
7. Performance: Machinal (until 3/25)
8. Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon (3/25)
9. Athens Hip Hop Awards (3/26)
10. Screening: Jerusalem is Proud to Present (3/27)
11. ICE Reading Room: Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments
12. CURO Opportunity (deadline 3/22)
13. Opportunity: a2ru Conference CFP (deadline 4/7)
14. Opportunity: ICE Project Grants
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***Call for Participation: Hyphenated American***
Last year's "Hyphenated American" project, supported by an Idea Lab Mini-Grant, was a great success featuring visual art, poetry, new music compositions, and guest lecturers who came together for a show focused on Latinos in the U.S. This April,"Hyphenated American" is returning with a broader focus to amplify the voices of immigrants, refugees, and hyphenated Americans of every culture. If you are an ally, we want to hear from you too!
What are we looking for? Creative responses to the theme "Diversity enriches the U.S." Submissions can be in any of the arts including dance, visual art, film, music, and poetry! As a Hyphenated American you have a unique voice and a unique message. Share it in a show that unites people in an increasingly divisive climate.
Send a sample or description of your project idea by March 28 to Monique Osorio: <[log in to unmask]>
Oh and by the way, what is a hyphenated American? Well, you know... Latin-American, Arab- American, Muslim-American, African-American, to name a few, but you get the idea.
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1. ICE Workshop: Unsolved: Math + Design
Saturday, April 8 from 9:45 AM - 3:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
To register please contact <[log in to unmask]>
Free!
"Unsolved: Math + Design" is an interdisciplinary workshop for math, art, and design research, with the goal of making a product to be used in math outreach contexts. This workshop will engage the public in thinking about unsolved problems in mathematics, and participants will take part in problem solving to discover the intersection between math and design.
It will include three sessions: design, math, and synthesis. In the design session, participants will collaborate on drawings by using a conditional design method. In the math session, they will try to solve an unsolved math problem in a collaborative setting. In the synthesis session, they will design and build a final product by combining the two perspectives as they experience the process of shared problem solving.
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2. Lecture: Kat Cole
Tuesday, March 21 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S150
http://kat-cole.com/
Kar Cole is a studio artist in Dallas who received her MFA at East Carolina University and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and has been a Visiting Professor in Metals/Jewelry at Western Michigan University. She was a presenter at Yuma Symposium and Craft Boston, teaches workshops nationally and has exhibited internationally, including Schmuck 2014 and 2015 in Munich, Germany. Cole's work has been published in Lark Books' 500 Enameled Objects, Schiffer Publishing's Art Jewelry Today 3, Metalsmith Magazine, Ornament, American Craft and Art Jewelry Magazine. Her work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and Houston Museum of Fine Art.
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3. In Conversation: Paul Pfeiffer and Craig Drennan
Wednesday, March 22 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
"In Conversation" is a new program presented by the Dodd Galleries which aims to promote conversation between two distinct opinions. For this round, Dodd Professorial Chair, Paul Pfeiffer, and Craig Drennen, Professor of Painting at Georgia State University, will discuss their mutual love of the film "The Exorcist." A screening of "The Exorcist" will precede "In Conversation" at 4 PM.
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4. Athens Science Cafe: A Nation of Many Voices
Thursday, March 23 at 7 PM
Little Kings Shuffle Club
https://athenssciencecafe.wordpress.com
The Athens Science Cafe welcomes Dr. Bill Kretzschmar to speak on the science of English dialects. This event is sponsored by the UGA Science Library and the Science Cafe.
Science cafes are fun, lively meetings held in places like coffee houses, pubs, and community centers where everyday people come together and learn about a variety of topics from professional scientists. But they're not lectures; they're conversations. The scientist in each meeting is there to guide an open and friendly talk among people who want to know more. You don't have to know a thing about science to participate, you just have to be curious.
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5. Performance: Canray Poole
Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 PM
ATHICA, 160 Tracy Street
http://athica.org/
In conjunction with "Out There! Photographs in the Spirit of Jeremy Ayers," ATHICA presents Canray Poole with Daniel Nelson: A Tree Room and ATHICA Joint Event. A multimedia presentation of Ayer's final performance work, "Canray Poole," will be performed live in the Tree Room of the Tracy Street Arts Complex, with a reception in the ATHICA gallery before and after. Performers include director Daniel Allen Nelson, Cal Clements, Ashley Crooks, Sam Lane and Kate Morrissey. Joseph Stunzi will provide multi-media technical direction and video design.
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6. Performance: Estampas de La Isla del Encanto
Friday, March 24 at 6:00 PM
UGA Performing Arts Center, Ramsey Concert Hall
"Estampas de La Isla del Encanto" is a five-movement (one hour) piece to be performed by the Puerto Rican folk music group, Chicago Cuatro Orchestra Project. The piece is composed by Anthony Sanchez and satisfies the recital portion of his DMA dissertation. The music is unique in its blend of Puerto Rican folk elements and contemporary classical music. It extends the rich tradition of playing the Puerto Rican guitar-like folk instrument, the cuatro, into the 21st century through use of modern classical playing techniques. His music and scholarly research focuses on transculturation, especially as it applies to Puerto Rican music from pre-Columbian times to the 21st century.
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7. Performance: Machinal
March 16 - 25
Fine Arts Building, Cellar Theatre room 55
http://www.drama.uga.edu/event/1647/machinal
Sophie Treadwell's episodic play depicts a young woman's disastrous efforts to conform to society's rigid expectations for women. Loosely based on the notorious Ruth Snyder case of 1927, Machinal starkly details the murderous consequences of denying your identity for the sake of others. $12 general, $7 students.
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8. Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon
Saturday, March 25 from 1 to 5 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room N201
https://www.facebook.com/events/244723675992715/
Wikimedia's gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an important repository of shared knowledge.
Let's change that. Join us for an afternoon of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. There will be a FREE tour of the Georgia Museum of Art focusing on women artists in their permanent collection at 12:30. We will provide tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, a children's art activity, and refreshments. Bring your laptop (if you have one - we have computers if you don't), and ideas for entries that need updating or creation. For the editing-averse, we urge you to stop by to show your support. We invite people of all gender identities and expressions to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women.
Please create a Wikipedia account before the event. You can learn how to do that here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACreateAccount&returnto=Main+Page
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9. Athens Hip Hop Awards
Sunday, March 26 at 7 PM
Georgia Center, Mahler Hall
http://ugalive.com
United Group of Artists presents the 5th annual Athens Hip Hop Awards, a celebration of Hip Hop culture and community. This red carpet event spotlights emerging Athens hip hop artists and urban business professionals. This event encourages unity by providing an opportunity for local patrons, entrepreneurs, artists, and fans to come together and celebrate hip hop culture. The Athens Hip Hop Awards is one of Athens' most anticipated events and attracts fans and industry professionals from all over the southeast region. Tickets: $15 advance, $20 day of show.
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10. Screening: Jerusalem is Proud to Present
Monday, March 27 at 7:30 PM
Cine, 234 West Hancock Ave.
https://willson.uga.edu/event/screening-and-qa-jerusalem-is-proud-to-present/
Nitzan Gilady, a producer, director, and scriptwriter from Israel, will be in Athens for a special screening of Jerusalem Is Proud To Present at Cine. His documentary follows the drama of staging an LGBT parade in 2008 that was opposed by orthodox Jews, evangelical Christians, as well as conservative Muslims. Gilady is currently a visiting filmmaker at Emory University. The screening will be introduced by Mr. Gilady and there will be a Q&A following the movie.
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11. ICE Reading Room: Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments
"A deep fear came to pass for many artists, museums, and cultural organizations nationwide early Thursday morning when President Trump, in his first federal budget plan, proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities."
By Sopan Deb
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/arts/nea-neh-endowments-trump.html
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12. CURO Research Assistantship
https://curo.uga.edu/
The CURO Research Assistantship provides stipends of $1,000 each to outstanding undergraduate students across campus to actively participate in faculty-mentored research.
Summer applications are due by March 22. The application can be found at: http://curo.uga.edu/students/curo_research_assistantship.html
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13. a2ru National Conference
Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement
November 1-4, 2017
Deadline: April 7
Boston, MA
http://a2ru.org/events/2017-national-conference/
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) is pleased to announce the 2017 a2ru National Conference, hosted by the Northeastern University with additional conference events throughout hosted by Boston University, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, and Tufts University.
Arts in the Public Sphere: Civility, Advocacy, and Engagement will use the city of Boston as a starting point for discussion and engagement. As a 21st century global city, Boston embodies many of the issues that drive diverse contemporary cultural contexts. It supports a rich and continually evolving sense of civic realms, and is home to leading arts, educational, medical, industrial and corporate entities invested in innovative modes of research, practice and civic participation. There is also clear recognition that the 'public sphere' is not confined to large metropolitan regions. Creating dynamic communities that engage and extend beyond traditional boundaries - in both virtual and material ways - remains a growing challenge and the work before us.
a2ru invites proposals from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners investigating the intersections, synergies, and interfaces of arts in the public sphere and their influence on civility, advocacy, and engagement. We seek proposals from: university-level faculty, administrators, and students, as well as civic leaders and representatives from industry, private enterprise, sectors outside the arts that incorporate the arts and design in their work, and public/private arts, culture, and civic organizations. We invite proposals from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners around the 2017 them and/or that address issues relevant to the mission of a2ru.
FORMATS FOR PARTICIPATION
Papers or alternative equivalents such as performances or time-based media presentations. 3-4 papers/performances/presentations will be grouped by the selection committee into 90-minute sessions around common themes.
Discussion panels. Panels should focus around a conference-themed topic and include a moderator and at least 3 panelists; each panelist is encouraged to offer a brief position paper or introductory presentation to uniquely enhance audience discussion. Panels should build in a direct dialog interface with attendees within an overall 90-minute session.
Working groups. Groups provide opportunity for immersive work sessions that participants sign up for in advance of the conference. Proposals should include a focus topic in relation to the conference themes as well as the intended working methods and outcomes of the group process.
Proposals will be reviewed and accepted through a blind peer review process by a2ru partner scholars, practitioners, and researchers.
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14. ICE Project Grants
Invitation for Letter of Inquiry
(no deadline)
Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia. ICE invites Letters of Inquiry from UGA faculty and students for innovative and collaborative projects. Selected inquiries will be invited to submit a full proposal and then be considered for an ICE Project Grant.
Projects should be consistent with the ICE mission:
ICE is a catalyst for innovative, interdisciplinary creative projects, advanced research and critical discourse in the arts, and for creative applications of technologies, concepts, and practices found across disciplines. It is a collaborative network of faculty, students, and community members from all disciplines of the visual and performing arts in addition to other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. ICE enables all stages of creative activity, from concept and team formation through production, documentation, and dissemination of research.
Letter of Inquiry should be no more 500 words and sent via email to:
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Please include the following information:
- Title and brief description of proposed project.
- List of proposed participants (include titles and affiliations).
- Impact of project and potential for future development.
ICE Project Selection Criteria:
- Intellectual and artistic merit
- Degree of innovation
- Extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity
- Feasibility under sponsorship of ICE
- Potential for future funding and development
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Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at UGA. ICE is 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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