Ideas for Creative Exploration
February 2022
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
2. Integrative Conservation Conference (2/3-5)
3. NEA and NEH Grants Presentations (2/11 and 2/18)
4. Three Minute Thesis Competition (deadline 3/1)
5. Best Shot UGA TikTok Competition (deadline 4/1)
6. Arts+STEM Graduate Workshops
7. Curator Talk: Celebrating African American Artists (2/2)
8. Conversation: Indigenous Photograph (2/3)
9. Performative Lecture: Burning (2/3)
10. Lecture: Dare Dukes (2/10)
11. Lecture: The Black School (2/16)
12. Performance: Eat the Runt (begins 2/24)
13. Opportunity: NEA Grants for Arts Projects (deadlines 2/10 and 7/7)
14. Creative Capital Awards (LOI deadline 4/1)
15. Ground Works Call for Submissions (open)
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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. Integrative Conservation Conference
February 3-5
Virtual event
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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3. NEA and NEH Grants Presentations
The Office for Proposal Enhancement is hosting (via Zoom) presentations/Q&A sessions with program staff from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Topics will include grant opportunities and programs, the nuts and bolts of applying for NEA and NEH grants, and best practices in writing NEA and NEH grant applications.
NEA session
Dr. Melissa Mentzer, Program Analyst, NEA
Friday, February 11 from 3 - 4:30 PM
NEH session
Dr. Jay Harshman, Program Officer, NEH
Friday, February 18 from 3 - 4:30 PM
Registration for both sessions is here: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0oBLX1DinI8vtR4.
We strongly encourage registrants to indicate which specific grant programs they are interested in, as this will help our presenters to tailor their presentations.
As an important side note, the Office for Proposal Enhancement is happy to help all Arts and Humanities faculty develop proposals for extramural funding (capacity permitting -- and the more lead time we get the better we can help!).
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4. Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition
Deadline: March 1
https://grad.uga.edu/index.php/3mt/
Currently enrolled master's and doctoral students at UGA will be eligible to participate in 3MT. Students must present on the research that will culminate in either their master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.
Prizes:
Winner: $1,000
Runner-up: $750
People's Choice: $500
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland. The exercise develops academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of students' capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but non-specialist audience. Master's and doctoral students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their thesis or dissertation topic and its significance. 3MT is not an exercise in trivializing or 'dumbing-down' research but forces students to consolidate their ideas and crystalize their research discoveries.
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5. 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!
How?
Make a TikTok supporting vaccine
Use #bestshotuga
Tag @bestshotuga
Win?
$1000 in prizes to local Athens businesses. Winners will be announced mid-April, and prizes will be given for TikToks that are the most entertaining and informative in their support of vaccines.
What to help but don't have TikTok?
Email us at [log in to unmask] and we can help you create videos!
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6. 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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7. Curator Talk: Celebrating African American Artists
Georgia Museum of Art
Wednesday, February 2 at 2 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3X2sv-A8RQ6UN550Dr2lwg
Shawnya Harris, Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art, will present a special tour on Zoom celebrating African American artists for Black History Month. This program will highlight works of art from the Thompson Collection, as well as other works by Black artists currently on view in the permanent collection wing.
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8. Global Georgia Conversation: Indigenous Photograph
Thursday, February 3 at 4 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9a7GXIGOT5GYRhBF9Jvulw
This conversation with Native American and First Nations photographers is presented as part of the Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts, in partnership with the Institute of Native American Studies and the Georgia Museum of Art.
Panelists will include Cinthya Briones, Tailyr Irvine, Josue Rivas, and moderator Brian Adams. All are affiliated with the photographers' collective Indigenous Photograph, whose mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories.
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9. Performative Lecture: Burning
Thursday, February 3 at 6 PM
Athenaeum
287 W. Broad St.
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/events/
Atlanta-based artist and writer Courtney McCellan will present "Burning" a performative lecture that weaves personal narrative, research about stress, American mythology around progress, and the work of Eadweard Muybridge. Through the study and manipulation of Muybridge's animal locomotion images, McClellan will address how Muybridge's work more than 100 years ago staged film and the personal computer, and in doing so, impacted nearly all aspects of contemporary life. Additionally, she will consider how movement and the creative process combat burnout.
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10. Aralee Strange Lecture: Dare Dukes
Thursday, February 10 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
"Banging against the Barrel: How Cultural Production Nurtures Healing and Power at the Intersection of Personal and Community Narratives"
Dare Dukes has worked as an artist, leader and community organizer in BIPOC communities in New York City and Savannah, Georgia. Working alongside families and youth of color, Dukes' leadership at Deep Center in Savannah transformed a creative writing program into a social justice organization that disrupted the traditional bootstraps narrative in education and insisted on calling out white supremacy in the systems that served young people. In this context, Deep Center remained committed to its roots as an arts and learning organization while evolving to promote a roots-cause model of youth and community development that worked across three parallel tracks: direct service, systems change and narrative change. Deep lifted up youth and their village, advocated for just policies and disrupted dehumanizing narratives with firsthand stories about youth and their families healing, growing and thriving through individual growth and collective action.
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11. Jack Davis Lecture: The Black School
Wednesday, February 16 at 6 PM
Athenaeum
287 W. Broad St.
https://athenaeum.uga.edu/events/
Members of the Black School Design Studio, Joseph Cuillier and Kacy George, will discuss their design process and their work in creating the identity and website for the Athenaeum. The Black School: Studio is an art and design firm that trains youth in paid apprenticeships to execute client work for third party organizations with the long-term intention of self-sustaining TBS programing. Their initial host and client was the Bronx Museum of Art's anti-gun violence program, with whom they are returning for a second year. This engagement offers the opportunity to provide professional artistic training and paid work to TBS Alumni and selected youth of the community the museum serves in exchange for quality, community center graphic design services.
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12. Performance: Eat the Runt
Fine Arts Building Cellar Theatre
https://www.drama.uga.edu/events/content/2022/eat-runt
February 24-26 at 8 PM
February 27 at 4 PM and 8 PM
March 1-3 at 8 PM
Avery Crozier's whip smart satire of cutthroat office politics follows a young job applicant as they vie for a position at an art museum, facing a gauntlet of eccentric, potential coworkers along the way.
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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.
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14. Creative Capital Awards
LOI Deadline April 1
https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/
Creative Capital provides grants to support the creation of groundbreaking art by innovative and adventurous artists across the country through our national, open call process. We are committed to funding and supporting conceptually and formally challenging, risk-taking, never-before-seen projects. Creative Capital receives more than 4,000 applications annually and funds approximately 50 artists each year. More than 75% of our awardees in recent years have been artists of color -- including Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous artists -- of all ages, abilities, and regions across the United States.
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15. 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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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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