ICE Announcements 2.26.19
http://ice.uga.edu
***Ad-Verse Fest (3/1-3/2)***
1. Lecture: Aaron T Stephan (2/26)
2. Performance: CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance (2/28-3/2)
3. Lecture: Maisha Winn (2/28)
4. Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (3/1)
5. Performance: Gidion's Knot (begins 3/1)
6. Niyi Osundare Events (3/4-5)
7. Workshops: Josefina Baez (3/5)
8. Citizen Rankine Events (3/5)
9. Lecture: Lori Talcott (3/5)
10. Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition (3/9)
11. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships (deadline 2/22)
12. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards (deadline 2/28)
13. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition (deadline 3/18)
14. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference (deadline 4/5)
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*** Ad-Verse Fest ***
Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2 at 7 PM
Downtown Athens, GA
https://www.adversefest.space
Ad-Verse Fest is a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the line between the musical, visual, and performative arts. Audience members will see electronic artists, quasi-pop stars, hip hop artists, drag performers, DJs and experimental composers.
Featured performers: Jennifer Vanilla, Superbody, Ripparachie, Diaspoura, Karen Meat, Taylor ALXNDR, RaFiA, and GRLwood.
Venues: Caledonia Lounge, Flicker Theatre & Bar, and Go Bar
Advanced tickets now available online $12 for both days
Day of show tickets $15 for both days or $10 for single day
Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration, Athens Area Arts Council, Flagpole Magazine, and Scorpion Beach.
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1. Lecture: Aaron T Stephan
Tuesday, February 26 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building, Room S150
Aaron T Stephan is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine. His work presents a wry look at the world around him -- focusing on a complex web of information carried by everyday materials and objects. His work has taken form as a twenty-foot high table and chairs, a shelter made entirely of books, and a series of drawings reproducing iconic artworks ad infinitum. Stephan's work has been featured at venues across the U.S. including DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Samson Projects, The Portland Museum of Art, John Michael Kohler Art Center, California Center for the Arts, Farnsworth Art Museum, Weitz Center at Carlton College, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, DUMBO Center for the Arts, Troy Arts Center, University of Maine Museum of Art, Quint Contemporary, and Albany Airport Gallery.
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2. Performance: CORE Contemporary and Aerial Dance
Thursday, February 28 at 8 PM
Friday, March 1 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 2 at 8 PM
New Dance Theatre, Dance Building
https://www.corecontemporaryandaerialdance.com
CORE Contemporary & Aerial Dance presents Mutual Resonance, aerial and dance vignettes that portray a variety of relationships and interactions reflecting associations found in personal, social and environmental situations. Enhanced by visual projections, the dancers will perform visually stunning movements on silks, lyra, trapeze, and bungee.
Joining UGA student artists, the Staibdance company and guest artists will share the evening program performing excerpts from 2016's critically acclaimed work moat. Artistic Director George Staib reflects on his memories of immigrating from Iran to a small Pennsylvania town during the Iran Hostage Crisis. Fueled by heightened anti-Middle Eastern sentiment in the United States, some locals reacted with hostility, throwing tear gas into the family's yard and bullying the kids at school. The work raises questions of self-protection.
"Mutual Resonance" runs in the New Dance Theatre from Thursday February 28 - Saturday March 2 at 8:00 p.m. $12 students/$16 general admission, $5 students groups of 8 or more. Tickets are available at the UGA PAC website, Tate Student Center, and at the door. Advance purchase is highly recommended.
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3. Lecture: Maisha Winn
Thursday, February 28 at 5:30 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
Dr. Maisha Winn is the Chancellor's Leadership Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis, and the Cofounder and Co-Director of the Transformative Justice in Education Center. In her talk, "'I don't want us to forget the fire': Literacy, Activism and Black Literate Lives Overview," Winn examines the role of the Black Arts Movement in building a literacy continuum for readers, writers, speakers and activists. This program is made possible by the Aralee Strange Fund for Art and Poetry. Cosponsored by the UGA College of Education and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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4. Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Friday, March 1 from 12-5 PM
Lamar Dodd Art Library
https://www.facebook.com/events/2742034735935489/
We're getting ready for our annual Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, and we need your help!
Wikipedia's gender trouble is well documented, with less than 10 percent of its contributors identifying 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. Let's change that! Stop by the Lamar Dodd School of Art Library for an afternoon of communal updating of Wikipedia entries on subjects related to art and feminism. This year's campaign focuses on Gender + The Non-Binary. We will have refreshments, computers, wikipedia experts, and research assistants on hand and are hoping many of you will stop by and bring your classes!
At 12:30 and 2:30 there will be brief presentations on wikipedia editing for beginners. At 3 pm Callan Steinmann will lead a tour focusing on women in the GMOA's collection, starting at the banner by Rebecca Rutstein in our atrium.
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5. Performance: Johnna Adam's Gidion's Knot
Fine Arts Building, Arena Theatre (Room 151)
Faculty member Kristin Kundert serves as director for Johnna Adams' harrowing drama Gidion's Knot. Starring Robyn Accetta and T. Lynn Mikeska (two members of the department's Graduate Acting Ensemble [GAE]), the story details a tense and often combative parent-teacher conference centering around the untimely death of a student. Tickets can only be purchased at the door. There is a suggested $5-$10 donation for students and a suggested $10-$20 donation for non-students.
Friday, March 1 at 8 PM
Saturday, March 2 at 8 PM
Sunday, March 3 at 2:30 PM
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6. Niyi Osundare Events
Evening of Poetry with Niyi Osundare and Friends
Monday, March 4 at 7:30 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
The Dire in the Diaspora: African Relocations and the Perils of Displacement
Tuesday, March 5 at 3 PM
Special Collections Libraries Auditorium
Niyi Osundare, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Orleans, visits UGA for the 2019 African Studies Spring Lecture on March 5 and for this special poetry reading event. Widely regarded as one of Africa's most renowned poets, scholars, and public intellectuals, Osundare has authored more than 18 books of poetry, two books of selected poems, poems in over 70 journals and magazines across the world, four plays, two books of essays, and numerous scholarly articles and reviews. Among his many prizes and recognitions are the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) Poetry Prize, the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize (which he won on two different occasions), the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Noma Award (Africa's most prestigious book award), the Tchicaya U Tam'si Award for African Poetry (generally regarded as Africa's highest poetry prize), and the Fonlon/Nichols Award for "excellence in literary creativity combined with significant contributions to Human Rights in Africa."
A leading figure in the vanguard for the performance and popularization of written poetry in Nigeria, he maintains a weekly poetry column in Sunday Nation, a prominent, authoritative Nigerian newspaper, and is a frequent contributor to the media on cultural and social matters. He was also a former guest columnist for Newswatch, a prominent Nigerian news magazine. He has performed his works in many parts of the world, and his poetry has been translated into many languages. He is also a fervent campaigner for Human Rights, social justice, and the environment.
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7. Workshops: Josefina Baez
Tuesday, March 5
9:30 AM Gilbert Hall, Room 116
11 AM Journalism Building, Room 510
Performance Autology Workshop: Body and Text
Josefina Baez is a Dominican-American, storyteller, writer, theater director, actor, dancer, performer, and teacher who is now a resident of Athens, Georgia. In 1986, Baez founded Latinarte/Ay Ombe Theatre in New York. The fundamentals of Ay Ombe Theatre's approach are very broad, spanning biomechanics, Eastern and mystical spirituality, Chinese calligraphy, dance, world music, and literature, among many other sources of inspiration and teaching. Baez is one of the pioneers of literature and theater focusing on the immigrant experience of Dominicans in the United States, especially the New York area. She uses storytelling, theater, poetry, and performative texts to explore how Dominicans negotiate living in a transnational setting. She is the author of Dominicanish; Comrade, Bliss ain't playing; Dramaturgia I & II; Como la una/Como uma; Levente no. Yolayorkdominicanyork; De Levente: 4 textos para teatro performance, Canto de Plenitud; Latin In; and Por que mi nombre es Marysol? Her texts have been translated to Portuguese, French, Hindi, and Italian, among other languages.
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8. Citizen Rankine Events
https://coe.uga.edu/events/this-is-not-what-i-expected-difference-and-dignity-through-literature-and-the-arts
This is (Not) What I Expected: Difference and Dignity Through Literature and the Arts
A series of events centered around and inspired by "Citizen" by Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine's book "Citizen: An American Lyric," serves as a source of healing, or what UGA College of Education professor Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor refers to as "literary and artistic micro-validation": the ways in which books of fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, film, and visual art can provide small, often intended images and words that nurture feelings of inclusion and validation for diverse experiences and perspectives. This series of events includes numerous events that shift expectations of micro-aggression toward validation through deep attention to the past, present, and possible futures at UGA and in our larger Athens community. Claudia Rankine is a poet illuminating the emotional and psychic tensions that mark the experiences of many living in 21st-century America. Watch a video from Claudia Rankine's 2016 MacArthur Fellow award.
MAR 5: Poetry, Performance, and Indigenous Citizenship Featuring Poet Heid Erdrich
MAR 21: Zong! - Talking Code, Stalking Silence
MAR 22-23: FREE Staged Reading of "Citizen: An American Lyric"
Heid E. Erdrich: Poetry, Performance, and Indigenous Citizenship
Tuesday, March 5 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
This event explores the connections between African-American citizenship, Claudia Rankine's book Citizen: An American Lyric, and the indigenous poet's experiences and reflections. It is presented by Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature LeAnne Howe.
Featured speaker Heid E. Erdrich is the author of five collections of poetry including Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media (2017). Erdich's nonfiction work, Original Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories and Recipes from the Upper Midwest, earned a City Pages Best Food Book of 2014 designation. Her writing has won awards from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, The Loft Literary Center, and First People's Fund. Her book National Monuments won the 2009 Minnesota Book Award. In 2013 she was named a City Pages Artists of the Year. Erdich's poem films have been screened at festivals and have won Best of Fest and a Best Experimental Short awards. She is an independent scholar and curator, a playwright, and founding publisher of Wiigwaas Press, an Ojibwe-language publisher. She teaches in the MFA in creative writing program of Augsburg College. Erdrich grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, and is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain.
The event will open with a reading by Josina Guess, who writes poetry, essays and reviews that explore intersections of faith, race, family and home rooted in the rural and urban landscapes of her life and memory. Her recent work as appeared in The Christian Century, Crop Stories, Communities, Sojourners, and Geez Magazine. She has two poems in the Anthology Fight Evil with Poetry Volume 1 edited by Micah Bournes and Chris Cambell. Her essay "Putting Our Lives on the Line" is in The Wisdom of Communities Volume 4: Sustainability in Community. She is also a contributor to the forthcoming Rally: Litanies for the Lovers of God and Neighbor (Upper Room Press 2019). She lives in an old farmhouse on four acres in Comer, Georgia, with her husband Michael, and their four children. They lived for six and a half years at Jubilee Partners, an intentional Christian community that works with refugees.
This event has been generously supported by funds from the Leighton M. Ballew Lecture Series in English and the UGA Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts.
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9. Lecture: Lori Talcott
Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building, room S150
The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund presents the Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork Artist, Lori Talcott. We live in the long shadow of Enlightenment thinking. Primarily thought of as oppositional to all that is modern and rational, the idea of magic is often viewed with skepticism. This presentation will reframe assumptions and biases and examine jewelry's relationship with language and how this potent connection is evidenced in ritual and magic. Drawing on historical context, as well as the artist's own work, Talcott will discuss how jewelry functions as a magical, mnemonic device -- as an archive that gives us access to a body of knowledge and experience.
Lori Talcott is a Seattle-based visual artist, the fourth generation in a family of watchmakers and jewelers. Through the format of jewelry, her work and research engage with contemporary theories on magic, the agency of objects, and the nexus of language and matter. Her performance projects explore the role of jewelry as a rhetorical device, and in this capacity, how it functions as an agent in rituals that negotiate social, temporal, and spiritual boundaries. After her undergraduate work in art history (Lund University, Washington State University) and metal design (University of Washington), she worked as an apprentice to a master silversmith in Norway, and later completed her MFA in Visual Arts (Vermont College of Fine Arts). Talcott is the recipient of two Washington Artist Trust fellowships and an Arts Fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her work is in numerous private and public collections, including the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Rotassa Foundation. Talcott's work is represented by Sienna Patti Gallery in the USA, and Platina Gallery in Europe. For the past ten years she has been a Guest Lecturer in the graduate program at Rhode Island School of Design.
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10. Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition
Saturday, March 9 at 7 PM
Georgia Tech, Ferst Center, Atlanta
http://guthman.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech's Margaret Guthman New Musical Instrument Competition is an annual event aimed at identifying the world's next generation of musical instruments. The competition invites musicians, inventors, and artists to exhibit original instruments. Competitors demonstrate their instruments in front of a panel of judges -- who are experts in the Music Technology field -- and then perform captivating music for a live crowd.
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11. Opportunity: Elsewhere Internships
Deadline: February 22
http://www.goelsewhere.org/internships/
Elsewhere is a museum set within a former thrift store that re-invents old things to build collaborative futures. Since opening in 2003, Elsewhere has supported creative projects, learning initiatives, and public works with global artists and local neighbors that enliven and inspire downtown Greensboro and beyond.
Elsewhere is seeking Interns for Summer and Fall 2019! Each intern is paired with a supervisor of a core department (Programs, Operations, Communications, House) to assist with museum events, design, marketing, community outreach, admin, services, and maintenance. Our internship is great for recent-post-undergraduate-age applicants dedicated to creative culture, social engagement and arts administration. Onsite housing is offered to select applicants. Ideal candidates are visionaries and challenge seekers dedicated to seeing experimental organizations thrive. Interns leave with an understanding of the inner-workings of an internationally recognized non-profit and skills required to leverage a life in the arts.
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12. Opportunity: Creative Capital Awards
Deadline: February 28 at 2 PM ET
https://creative-capital.org/2019/02/01/the-creative-capital-award-application-is-open-through-february-28/
Artists working in all disciplines can apply for funding of up to $50,000 for innovative project ideas, plus receive career development and advisory services valued at an additional $50,000, for a total value of $100,000 per award.
Artists who receive the 2020 Creative Capital Award will have access to up to $50,000 in funding to develop their project, plus advisory services valued at $50,000, for a total value of $100,000. We are interested in projects that push the boundaries, as well as artists who are ready to take full advantage of our non-monetary services. Generally, that means that the projects will premiere at least a year and a half after the announcement of the Creative Capital Awards. Read more about the Creative Capital Award.
After the open application period closes at the end of February 2019, we will invite evaluators from all over the country to review the applications we received. We ask evaluators to review projects based on the originality of the proposed idea, the artist's capacity to make the work, the timeliness of the project, and the artist's readiness to make use of Creative Capital's career development services.
In the final stage of the application, we administer an in-person panel review of projects that made it to the third round. We asked some of the panelists that just completed that process for the 2019 Creative Capital Award cycle for some tips about what makes a great application.
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13. Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition (deadline 3/18)
Opportunity: Three Minute Thesis Competition
Deadline: Monday, March 18
http://grad.uga.edu/index.php/current-students/professional-development/3mt/
Three Minute Thesis is a research communication competition open to all graduate students, regardless of discipline. It challenges students to present their work in just three minutes, using only one static slide. Competitors are judged on both the content of their presentations and the delivery. Preliminary heats will be held the week of March 25th, and finals will take place at 7:30 pm on April 10th at Cine. Winners receive cash prizes and the chance to represent UGA at the regional competition. Please note: Students must present their own research, and it must be from their current degree program (so, doctoral students must present their dissertation research, not research from a prior master's degree).
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14. Call for Proposals: 2019 a2ru National Conference
Deadline: April 5
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2019-national-conference/
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) invites proposals for the 2019 a2ru national conference, knowledges: artistic practice as method to take place at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, November 7-9, 2019. The 2019 theme is an invitation to explore modes of knowing, especially as arrived through the discovery of artistic practice. This theme is anchored in, but not limited to, the following questions:
- How do artistic practices map onto other methods of knowledge production?
- If contemporary artists are trained from the outset to be critical of their medium(s), how might this critical reflection inform more discrete disciplines, which often treat academic form as neutral vessels for the delivery of content?
- What can researchers across the arts, sciences, and humanities learn from one another's practices and approaches?
The University of Kansas, host of this year's a2ru conference, aims to infuse the arts into its research culture by advancing interdisciplinary projects across the sciences and humanities. This is accomplished through existing structures, such as the Integrated Arts Research Initiative (IARI) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation at the Spencer Museum of Art, The Commons, and the Research Excellence Initiative through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The exhibition and dialogue among artists and scholars developed through the IARI colloquium (November 6, 2019) will launch the 2019 a2ru national conference.
a2ru invites proposals for presentations from researchers, artists, field leaders, and other practitioners about arts-integrative research, practice, and curricula that explore the potential of artistic and other practice-led methods for inquiry across disciplines. In an effort to unpack different ways of knowing, proposed sessions will follow a structure that mimics the process of knowledge generation. Proposal formats will include 1) inquiries, 2) lightning talks, and 3) presentations. a2ru encourages proposals that represent diverse backgrounds, pursuits, affiliations, locations, ages, and institutions. This active format invites participants into the collective co-creation of knowledge.
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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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