Ideas for Creative Exploration
March 2022
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Queer Space: Athens, GA Tour (3/10)
2. Call for Art: Legacy Ball (deadline 3/14)
3. Opportunity: Imaginary Meadow Zine Exchange (deadline 3/15)
4. Lecture: Rebecca Kamen (4/6)
5. Idea Lab Mini Grants
6. Opportunity: Creature Comforts AIR (deadline 3/13)
7. Best Shot UGA TikTok Competition (deadline 4/1)
8. Lecture: David Chalmers (3/1)
9. Seminar: Holly Haworth (3/1)
10. Lecture: Josie Hodson (3/2)
11. Lecture: Camelot to Counterculture (3/3)
12. Lecture: Danielle O'Steen (3/3)
13. Webinar: A Place to Be Heard, A Space to Feel Held (3/4)
14. Performance: Out in the Open (3/4 and 5)
15. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Jennifer Steinkamp (3/17)
16. Cinema Roundtable: Kenneth Branagh's Belfast (3/25)
17. Outward: The Radical Legacies of Adrienne Rich (3/31)
18. Misplacement: A Symposium (4/1-2)
19. Opportunity: Creative Capital Grant (deadline 4/1)
20. Opportunity: Georgia Sea Grant (deadline 5/31)
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1. Queer Space: Athens, GA Tour
Thursday, March 10 from 12 - 2 PM
Registration required: bit.ly/queerathens
The next "Queer Space: Athens, GA" tour will be held in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Committee on Gay Education's 1972 dance. The tour will be led by Caroline Caden, and lunch will be provided. "Queer Space: Athens, GA" uncovers a UGA theatre director's love story, a lesbian linguist's presence on campus, guitarist Ricky Wilson's time in the B-52's, and much more. This free historical tour explores the queer history of UGA's campus and asks the question "what is a queer space?" Tour sites will include the UGA campus -- with stories about Memorial Hall, the Fine Arts Building and more -- as well as Downtown Athens, where the queer community has come together (and butted heads) over time. Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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2. Call for Art: Legacy Ball
Deadline: Monday, March 14
https://forms.gle/e1eRVyF7KQyg3xqz6
Call for Ethnic Minority Artists: Please submit your work to be featured at the 2022 Legacy Ball Gallery! The 2022 Legacy Ball, hosted by Black Felicity Student Association, will be exhibiting a selection of artists' works at Memorial Hall Ballroom on Saturday, April 9. Two and three-dimensional works welcome, as well as digital art. Exhibition supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration. For more information about Legacy Ball visit:
https://linktr.ee/NASA_UGA
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3. Imaginary Meadow Zine Exchange
Deadline: Friday, March 15
https://reciprocal.works/
Imaginary Meadow is an international zine exchange. Through an open un-juried call, Reciprocal invites creative people from all around the world to submit a zine! The concept for the exchange is simple -- over the next couple of months participants are asked to create a new zine. This could be illustrative, written word, design heavy, diary entries, philosophical entreaties, anything the participants can dream up! In short, the participants will make a zine, send Reciprocal 12 copies, then the participants will receive 10 zines from other creators. A final event for the Imaginary Meadow zine exchange will be held in Spring 2022! Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration.
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4. Ideas for Creative Exploration Lecture: Rebecca Kamen
Wednesday, April 6 at noon
http://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElduqtrjwvG9O6emkb5on63BxlZa5Zk1k0
"Making the Invisible, Visible: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery"
Rebecca Kamen is a painter, sculptor, and lecturer who explores the intersections of art and science. Her practice is informed by observation and wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and the search for common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and reimagine what scientists see.
For more information about Rebecca Kamen, visit:
https://rebeccakamen.com
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5. 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.
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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6. Opportunity: Creature Comforts Artist-in-Residence
Deadline: March 13
https://getcurious.com/get-artistic/air/
Creature Comforts Brewing Co. seeks an Athens-based visual artist for its next Artist-in-Residence (AiR). The AiR will work with Creature Comforts and local collaborators throughout the year to create artwork and develop a community-based creative project. Additionally, supported by residency funding, the AiR will engage with professional development resources throughout the year (books, courses, workshops.) The AiR will receive a $5,000 stipend for a commissioned work of art for Creature Comforts' permanent collection and to support their professional and creative development.
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7. Best Shot UGA TikTok Competition
Deadline: April 1
https://coe.uga.edu/events/bestshot-uga
Win $1000 in prizes to local Athens businesses! Help support vaccine confidence!
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8. Global Georgia Lecture: David Chalmers
Tuesday, March 1 at 4 PM
Delta Innovation Hub, 210 Spring Street
"Reality+: From the Matrix to the Metaverse," David Chalmers, University Professor of philosophy and neural science and co-director, Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, New York University. This lecture is presented as part of the Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of philosophy. Chalmers is interested in the philosophy of mind (especially consciousness) and the foundations of cognitive science, physics, and technology, as well as the philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology, and many other areas. His latest book, Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy, was published by W.W. Norton (US) and Allen Lane (UK) in January 2022.
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9. Environmental Ethics Seminar: Holly Haworth
Tuesday, March 1 at 5:30 PM
Jackson Street Building, Room 125 or zoom:
https://uga-ced.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u6aVgSWMQiCS9un3iWK5vg
"Writing About Unique Landscapes and Places Through Immersion, Reporting, and Research"
Join the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program seminar for a talk open to the public by special guest Holly Haworth, an environmental journalist and essayist whose work appears in The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Lapham's Quarterly, Sierra, Oxford American, The Utne Reader, the On Being radio program blog, and elsewhere. Haworth will speak about her approach to writing about unique landscapes and places through immersion, reporting, and research. She will share techniques for developing a strong place-based writing practice, and talk about how writing can serve as a tool for getting to know nature and the environment more intimately.
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10. Lecture: Josie Hodson
Wednesday, March 2 at 6 PM
Athenaeum
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/rest-notes-on-sleep-and-black-contemporary-art/
Josie Hodson will discuss Black contemporary artists exploring the space of Black sleep, subverting its biopolitical regulation and the lethal expectation of perpetual industry. Artists such as Jennifer Packer, Noah Davis, and House/Full of Blackwomen show us the ways that visual representations of Black sleep can constitute quiet gestures of fugitivity and interiority in a culture that celebrates endurance over rest. Hodson will discuss projects bound by an ethos of collectivity, arguing that the project of transforming the social and political conditions that reproduce Black sleeplessness cannot be pursued in isolation.
Hodson is a Ph.D. student in History of Art and African American Studies at Yale University, where her interdisciplinary research focuses on Black diaspora aesthetics and notions of Black sociality. Previously, she has worked at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Most recently, her article "Rest Notes: On Black Sleep Aesthetics" appeared in the Spring 2021 issue of October.
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11. Lecture: Camelot to Counterculture: Clothing & Society in the 1960s
Thursday, March 3 at 6 PM
Special Collections Libraries, Room 271
Join guest speaker Madelyn Shaw for an illustrated talk exploring the myths and realities of 1960s fashion. Shaw specializes in the exploration of American culture and history through textiles and dress. She has held positions at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; New Bedford Whaling Museum; The Textile Museum; and the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology. A discussion between Shaw and Ashley Callahan, curator of the new exhibition "Frankie Welch's Americana: Fashion, Scarves, and Politics" will follow the lecture. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Georgia Press, the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences, and the Lucy Hargrett Draper Center and Archives for the Study of the Rights of Women in History and Law.
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12. Lecture: Danielle O'Steen
Thursday, March 3 at 5:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TYJyaTDSRYq7mk5QxV5_vw
Danielle O'Steen, art historian and independent curator, will give a Zoom lecture in conjunction with the exhibition "Lou Stovall: Of Land and Origins." O'Steen is curator of "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," on view at the Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C., January 20 - April 16, 2022. Stovall is the 2022 recipient of the museum's Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Award. The exhibition "Lou Stovall: Of Land and Origins" celebrates his unique artistry and contribution to the visual arts, which are inspired by his life, nature and his poetic meditations. Born in Athens, Georgia, in 1937 but raised in Springfield, Massachusetts, Stovall matriculated at the Rhode Island School of Design before attending Howard University, where he studied under important artists such as James A. Porter, James Lesesne Wells and David Driskell. Stovall graduated from Howard in 1965 and in 1968 opened a printmaking studio, the Workshop, Inc., adjacent to his residence in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. His designs and work in community poster printmaking were transformative in the visual culture of both art and politics in the 1960s and 1970s, attracting artists and collaborators for later printmaking projects. Over the decades, Stovall has successfully worked with notable American artists such as Sam Gilliam, Josef Albers, Jacob Lawrence, Alexander Calder and Robert Mangold.
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13. Webinar: A Place to Be Heard, A Space to Feel Held: Black Perspectives on Creativity, Trustworthiness, Welcome and Well-Being
Friday, March 4 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/black-perspectives-on-creativity-trustworthiness-welcome-and-well-being-new-research-by-slover-linnett/
*UGA is an institutional member of a2ru. Free registration with UGA email address*
Join researchers from Slover Linett Audience Research as they discuss findings from their new report "A Place to Be Heard, A Space to Feel Held: Black Perspectives on Creativity, Trustworthiness, Welcome and Well-Being." This webinar will also include a discussion of the report's possible implications and impacts for the higher education sector.
The report offers insights from conversations with Black and African American adults around the U.S., as part of Slover Linett's pandemic-era national research collaboration, "Culture + Community in a Time of Transformation: A Special Edition of Culture Track."Interviews were conducted by Melody Buyukozer Dawkins, PhD of Slover Linett and by Ciara Knight, an independent researcher specializing in equitable evaluation methods, with support from Slover Linett team members Tanya Treptow, PhD and Camila Guerrero. The participants generously shared stories and reflections about how cultural activities, creativity and expression, and self-care can contribute to connection and well-being. The co-authors have synthesized those rich insights and offered reflections and strategic provocations that can inform practice, funding, and policy across the arts and culture field.
Report:
https://sloverlinett.com/insights/black-perspectives-on-creativity-trustworthiness-welcome-and-well-being-a-qualitative-study/
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14. Performance: Out in the Open
Friday, March 4 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 5 at 8 PM
35 South Main Street, Watkinsville
https://smallboxseries.bigcartel.com/product/out-in-the-open
Curated by Lisa Yaconelli, Out in the Open will be an outdoor performance in Watkinsville at the beautiful property of Alice Woodruff.
Out in the Open is inspired by the experiences of us coming out of a two year pandemic, facing new truths and new vulnerabilities, and sharing what we've learned, or are learning. Come enjoy theater, poetry, dance, music, and those sitting next to you. Featuring works by Kristen Baskin, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Jennifer Morlock, Krys Seli, Nicole Solano, Alison Wakeford, and Alys Willman.
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15. Zoom Panel Discussion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Jennifer Steinkamp and the Technology of Nature
Thursday, March 17 at 4 PM
https://georgiamuseum.org/event/panel-discussion-interdisciplinary-perspectives-on-jennifer-steinkamp/
Jennifer Steinkamp masterfully uses digital animation to examine the boundaries between reality and illusion, nature and technology and the natural and artificial. Led by curator of American art Jeffrey Richmond-Moll, this Zoom panel discussion will feature faculty from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and State Botanical Garden of Georgia. Together the panelists will discuss Steinkamp's "Mike Kelley" -- an animated windblown tree that cycles through the seasons -- in relation to the fields of contemporary art, digital media, forest ecology and botany.
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16. Cinema Roundtable: Kenneth Branagh's Belfast - History, Autobiography, and Film Style
Friday, March 25 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2FhpCRPgR-a4d1bhm-b68A
Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical Belfast intertwines romanticized visions of his family and childhood with the real-world troubles of Northern Ireland in 1969. Belfast has earned the Best Screenplay prize at the Golden Globes and seven Academy Award nominations, among other festival honors. This roundtable discusses the political context along with ways Branagh's movie employs stylized performances, evocative music, and black-and-white cinematography, to tell a personal, nostalgic, and powerful coming-of-age tale.
Roundtable panelists include two Irish-born professors, Nicholas Allen, director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and Peter O'Neill of Comparative Literature, both of whom have written extensively about Irish literature and culture. The roundtable also features media historian Kate Fortmueller and cinematographer Sanghoon Lee, both from the Grady College's Entertainment and Media Studies Department, and composer Tom Hiel from the School of Music. Richard Neupert of Theatre and Film Studies moderates, and the audience will be invited to join the conversation and ask questions of the roundtable panelists.
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17. Global Georgia Conversation: Outward: The Radical Legacies of Adrienne Rich - A Conversation with Ed Pavlic, Christine Cuomo & Cynthia Wallace
Thursday, March 31 at 7 PM
Athenaeum
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/global-georgia-conversation-ed-pavlic-christine-cuomo-cynthia-wallace/
Ed Pavlic's book, "Outward: Adrienne Rich's Expanding Solitudes" was published in 2021 by the University of Minnesota Press. In it, Pavlic considers Rich's entire oeuvre to argue that her most profound contribution in poems is her emphasis on not only what goes on "within us" but also what goes on "between us." He shows how Rich's most radical work depicts our lives -- from the public to the intimate -- in shared space rather than in owned privacy.
Pavlic is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American studies, and affiliated faculty in creative writing, at UGA. His 13 published and forthcoming books range across (and at times between) genres: poetry, non-fiction, critical studies, and a novel.
Christine Cuomo is professor of philosophy and women's studies at UGA, and an affiliate faculty member of the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program, the Institute for African-American Studies, the Institute for Native American Studies, and the UGA Initiative for Climate and Society.
Cynthia R. Wallace is associate professor and head of the department of English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, where she teaches and writes at the intersections of gender, race, religion, and politics in contemporary literature. Her book Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering was published by Columbia University Press in 2016.
Presented as part of the Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the department of English, the Creative Writing Program, and the Institute for Women's Studies.
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18. Misplacement: A Symposium
Friday, April 1 - Saturday, April 2
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/misplacement-a-symposium/
The School of Art, in conjunction with the Georgia Review, is hosting a two-day interdisciplinary conference organized around the theme of misplacement. Visual artists and leading scholars in the fields of art history, literature, media studies, race, and queer theory will present their research at the newly opened Athenaeum. Events will include an exhibition, keynote address, and lectures.
This event is supported by the School of Art, the Georgia Review, the Athenaeum, the Willson Center and a State-of-the-Art Conference Grant from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
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19. Creative Capital Grant: Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact
Deadline: April 1
https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/
Creative Capital invites innovative project proposals in the Performing Arts, Technology, and Literature for its 2023/2024 grant cycle, "Wild Futures." Awards will provide varying amounts up to $50,000 and artist services. The new application takes less than an hour to complete! Open March 1 - April 1, 2022.
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20. Georgia Sea Grant Artists, Writers and Scholars Program
Deadline: May 31
https://gacoast.uga.edu/research/funding/aws-program/
Georgia Sea Grant strives to strengthen artistic voices, and enhance Georgia's profile as a place where artists, writers and scholars can live and thrive while offering fresh perspectives on our coastal resources. Georgia Sea Grant's Artists, Writers and Scholars (AWS) program will support artists, writers, and scholars in the humanities to produce professional-quality art and literature that increases awareness of Georgia's coastal, ocean and marine environments, improves understanding of Georgia's coastal communities, or helps document history, culture, or heritage of Georgia's coast. Creative projects that could be supported by this program include paintings, graphic art, sculpture, musical compositions, photography, poetry, science fiction, film, and digital media. Georgia Sea Grant will award 3-5 grants that range from $1,000 to $5,000. These grants will be awarded directly to artists and writers.
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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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