ICE Announcements 1.20.15
http://ice.uga.edu
For more events and opportunities visit http://iceannouncements.com
1. Opportunity: Thinc-a-Thon: Design + Food
2. ICE Podcast Episode 13
3. Critical Practice (1/20)
4. Lecture: Dr. Tanya Sheehan (1/20)
5. Lecture: Emily J. Lordi (1/22)
6. 2015 Sustainability Science Symposium (1/23)
7. Performance: Urban Bush Women (1/24)
8. PULSE! Art and Technology Festival (1/21-25 in Savannah)
9. Lecture: Mequitta Ahuja (1/27)
10. Lecture: Andrew Daily (1/27)
11. Opportunity: Willson Center Grants (deadline 2/5)
12. Opportunity: Athens Arts in Community Grants
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1. Opportunity: Thinc-a-Thon: Design + Food
Saturday, January 31- Sunday, February 1
http://thincathon3.eventbrite.com
Ready to make a difference over a weekend? Thinc-a-thon returns to UGA! Join us for two fun, intense days of making as we craft, hack, and build human-centred design solutions to real world problems related to food, dining, and health. Use new technologies such as 3D printers, a laser cutter, littleBits, Arduinos, and more. Connect with mentors from design and entrepreneurship such as IDEO, Four Athens, and Hackberry Labs. Prizes will be awarded for the projects that best meet the intersection of viability, desirability, and feasibility. You do not need an idea or a team in advance as projects will be formed at the event. This event is free for students. To sign up please visit:
http://thincathon3.eventbrite.com
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, and the Office of the Vice President for Research.
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2. ICE Podcast Episode 13
Feedback: Mark Farmer
http://ideasforcreativeexploration.com/podcasts/
A conversation with Mark Farmer, Chair of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Georgia. Interviewed by Mark Callahan, Artistic Director of ICE. Farmer and Callahan talk about peer review and mentorship in the sciences.
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3. Critical Practice
Tuesday, January 20 4-6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Gallery 307
http://art.uga.edu/events/critical-practice-2
Critical Practice brings faculty from across campus and students from across disciplines to discuss art and ideas. These remarkable evenings of art debate aim to establish a reactive space that fosters an exchange of ideas and, at times, unexpected conclusions. Featured artists: Heather Foster, Ry McCullough, and Jonathan Nowell. Esteemed panel of critiquers: Chris Garvin, Garrett Hayes, Asen Kirin, Erin Moore, Mary Pearse, Stephen Scheer.
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4. Lecture: Dr. Tanya Sheehan
Tuesday, January 20 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Room S150
http://art.uga.edu/events/revival-and-subversion-the-racial-politics-of-amateur-photographic-humor
Dr. Sheehan, Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Colby College, lectures on "Revival and Subversion: The Racial Politics of Amateur Photographic Humor," which will explore commercial photographs of African Americans who are depicted as frequent subjects of humor in the decades following black emancipation. Her talk will focus on the images and handwritten captions in family photo albums and examine personal and political work performed by comic photographic tropes in the Progressive Era.
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5. Lecture: Emily J. Lordi
Thursday, January 22 at 6:15 PM
Miller Learning Center, Room 213
"Black Sounds Matter: African American Literature and Black Popular Music," a lecture by Emily J. Lordi, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The lecture is part of the Institute for African American Studies Lecture Series and is sponsored by the Ballew Lecture Series in English and the Institute for Women's Studies.
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6. 2015 Sustainability Science Symposium
Friday, January 23 at 8 AM
Georgia Center
http://cicr.ovpr.uga.edu/event/2015-sustainability-science-symposium/
The Center for Integrative Conservation Research will host the Second Annual Sustainability Science Symposium on Friday, January 23, 2015 at the UGA Hotel and Conference Center. The symposium will showcase the wealth of sustainability initiatives at UGA in research, instruction, and public service and outreach, and facilitate cross-disciplinary networking among faculty, staff, students, and community members. The symposium will feature a morning and afternoon keynote, presentations by faculty, staff and students, a networking lunch, and an evening poster session and reception. Keynote speakers will include Dr. Paul Ferraro, Professor of Economics at Georgia State University, and Dr. Elizabeth King, Assistant Professor in the Odum School of Ecology and the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at UGA.
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7. Performance: Urban Bush Women
Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24 at 8 PM
UGA Fine Arts Building, Fine Arts Theatre
http://pac.uga.edu/calendar/2014-2015/pac-off-broadway/urban-bush-women.aspx
Urban Bush Women was founded in 1984 to bring the untold stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance. As UBW celebrates it 30th anniversary, the company continues to use dance to bring together diverse audiences through innovative choreography. UBW creates its art from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community. Cost: $40-45. Contact box office at 706-542-4400.
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8. PULSE! Art and Technology Festival
January 21-25
Savannah, Georgia
http://www.telfair.org/museum-events/pulse/
The PULSE Art + Technology Festival enters its ninth year with a multisensory mix of fun and innovative technology-based art. Come to PULSE's opening night to experience virtual reality in two interactive works made for the Oculus Rift VR system, including the award-winning game PaperDude VR by the Canadian design group Globacore, and Keith Roberson's creepy-cool Apalachicola Night Anomaly. See people become bees in artist Katja Loher's video sculpture exhibition and lecture. Thursday night see a dance performance with Purring Tiger's interactive projection Mizaru, and try it yourself afterward. Make constellations in the interactive installation Wondrous by SCAD physical computing students and enjoy art GIFs by internationally-known internet artists. Friday night features an amazing performance by the renowned multimedia artist Miwa Matreyek, who combines animation and live action. Matreyek will perform two of her works in the historic Telfair Academy Rotunda, while the Savannah-based artist Switzon Wigfall III will animate the Academy's outdoor sculptures with projections.
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9. Lecture: Mequitta Ahuja
Tuesday, January 27 at 2 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150
http://art.uga.edu/events/art-talks-mequitta-ahuja
The painter Mequitta Ahuja will discuss her process, thinking, and work related to her exhibition at the Dodd Galleries.
Mequitta Ahuja received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2003 and was mentored by Kerry James Marshall. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. as well as in Paris, Brussels, Berlin, India and Dubai. Ahuja has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, BravinLee Programs in New York, Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris, Thierry-Goldberg Gallery in New York and a two person exhibition at the Bakersfield Museum of Art in California. Group exhibitions include Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, State of the Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Houston Collects African American Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Poets and Painters at the Ulrich Museum in Wichita, KS, Undercover at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Usable Pasts at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Portraiture Now at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery among others.
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10 . Lecture: Andrew Daily
Tuesday, January 27 at 11 AM
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium
http://willson.uga.edu/event/andrew-daily-staging-post-negritude-histoire-de-negre-and-diasporic-consciousness/
Andrew Daily, assistant professor of modern French and global history at the University of Memphis and a specialist in French Caribbean intellectual history, will give a public lecture about the preeminent Martinican public intellectual Edouard Glissant's 1972 play Histoire de negre [Black History]. The play is a collaboratively authored, participatory drama performed by and for local audiences throughout Martinique. Daily will also discuss his collaborative work with Emily Sahakian, assistant professor of romance languages and theatre and film studies at UGA, and Christian DuComb and Mahadevi Ramakrishnan of Colgate University to translate, stage, and interpret the play for American audiences and students.
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11. Willson Center Grants
Deadline: Thursday, February 5
Distinguished Artist or Lecturer Grant
http://willson.uga.edu/deadlines/willson-center-distinguished-artist-or-lecturer/
The Willson Center Distinguished Artist or Lecturer program supports individual faculty or interdisciplinary groups in bringing leading thinkers and practitioners to campus in support of ongoing and innovative research projects. The program provides a $1,500 honorarium out of which the artist or lecturer pays his or her travel expenses. Distinguished artists and lecturers are nominated by the faculty and are selected by the Willson Center's Academic Advisory Board. Faculty are encouraged to conceive of this program as an opportunity to create broader impacts that include engagement with the student body, the public, the locality and state.
Research Seminar Grant
http://willson.uga.edu/deadlines/willson-center-research-seminar/
The Willson Center Research Seminar Program provides $2,000 to faculty organizing year-long interdisciplinary discussion groups on particular research topics. The funds are to be used to bring to campus scholars from other institutions.
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12. Opportunity: Athens Arts in Community Grants
Deadline: February 27
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (ACAC) announces its second annual Arts in Community Grants (AICG). To promote creative placemaking in our community, the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission invites artists, local organizations and groups to apply for the Arts in Community Grant (AICG).
Grants will be awarded based on particular criteria, including: level of community enrichment through the arts, contribution to the local identify, and quality or artistic merit. Projects may involve any art form, including performance, events, technology, and all the visual arts or may be used as matching funds for a greater project.
In 2015 ACAC will award two grants of $1000 each. Application deadline is February 27,
11:59 pm, with no consideration for late submissions. Grantees will be notified by March 20 and funds will be released by April 17, 2015. All awarded works must be completed by December 30, 2015. A final report will be requested at the completion of the project.
2014 ACAC awarded two Arts in Community Grants at the amount of $500 to the Georgia Museum of Art for the ARTSwap, an artist trading card project held at Athfest and curator Lizzie Zucker Saltz for the exhibit, "Reverberations: a Athens Celebrates Elephant Six exhibit".
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is a volunteer committee formed to foster the development and enjoyment of performing, visual, cultural and other arts in the Athens-Clarke County community.
For more information and to request an application, please email: [log in to unmask]
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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 Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School.
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