ICE Announcements 3.22.21
http://ice.uga.edu
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants CFP
2. Idea Lab Conversation: Montu Miller (3/26)
3. a2ru Webinar: Funding Arts and Design (recorded)
4. UGA I-Corps Spring Showcase (3/22)
5. Lecture: John Douglas Powers (3/23)
6. NEA Webinar: The Art of Reopening (3/23)
7. Leonardo Panel: Art and Biology (3/23)
8. Lecture: George Tsypin (3/24)
9. Lecture: Jee Leong Koh (3/25)
10. Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival (4/10)
11. Opportunity: Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge (deadline 4/15)
12. Opportunity: a2ru 2021 Conference (deadline 5/21)
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1. Idea Lab Mini Grants
Call for Proposals
No deadline
http://ice.uga.edu/grants/
Idea Lab, a UGA student organization dedicated to fostering interdisciplinary creative collaboration, is offering up grants up to $500 each to support projects and team formation. Recipients of Idea Lab mini grants will receive mentorship and feedback from Idea Lab members. Proposals will be reviewed by an interdisciplinary selection committee in order of receipt, pending availability of funds.
Proposal requirements:
- brief description of project goals (up to 150 words)
- team should include at least one currently enrolled UGA student
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. Idea Lab Conversation: Arts + Community with Montu Miller
Friday, March 26 at 1 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqduGsrDgpGt0wRCSQHjOY5SZdTXlmtw29
How can organizations and artists work together to support vibrant communities? Join Montu Miller, ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment Chief-Operating-Officer and Hip-Hop Advocate. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
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3. Funding Arts and Design: Advancing scholarship, education, and creative practice
https://www.a2ru.org/webinars/
Part One: Federal Funding
https://vimeo.com/525810510
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT) at Virginia Tech invite members from a2ru institutions to participate in a series of three interactive Zoom workshops to learn about and discuss funding strategies and opportunities in the arts and design.
Part Two: Foundations
Thursday, April 8
Part Three: Corporate Foundations
Thursday, April 29
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4. UGA I-Corps Spring Showcase
Monday, March 22 at 5:30
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uga-i-corps-showcase-spring-2021-tickets-145128570461
Come see the latest UGA I-Corps cohort present their impressive projects! UGA I-Corps is the NSF-funded program that provides UGA teams (faculty, students and community) the training and funds needed to begin understanding the value they might bring to customers. You'll hear about everything from groundbreaking animal health technologies to voice training applications. These presentations represent the newest additions to our pipeline of more than 120 projects progressing toward commercialization.
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5. Lecture: John Douglas Powers
Tuesday, March 23 at 5:30 PM
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpc-Ggrj8oGtRkUq1jwJ31M7Kdp4Ztsc6y&n
Join us for an artist talk with John Douglas Powers, the inaugural recipient of the Margie E. West Prize, an annual prize given to an esteemed alumni from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, inviting the artist to create a new exhibition for the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery. Powers will discuss his exhibition "The River Oceanus" on view at the Dodd Galleries from March 4 - April 1.
John Douglas Powers was born in Frankfort, Indiana in 1978. His sculptural work has been exhibited nationally at venues including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The MIT Museum, The Mariana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, The Huntsville Museum of Art, The Wiregrass Museum of Art, The Alexander Brest Museum, The Masur Museum, The Gadsden Museum of Art, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Georgia Museum of Art, The Vero Beach Museum of Art and Cue Art Foundation. His videos and animations have been screened internationally.
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6. Webinar: The Art of Reopening
Tuesday, March 23 at 3 PM
https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_KC0h42zvSFeQxIVyGKmAxQ
The National Endowment for the Arts will host "The Art of Reopening: A Virtual Conversation Reengaging Arts Audiences in Physical Spaces." A panel discussion with NEA Research & Analysis Director Sunil Iyengar and three arts organization leaders, the event will feature opening remarks by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
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7. Panel: Art and Biology
Tuesday, March 23 at 2 PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m_m9Y_AsScCjAVNxxdiAQA?fbclid=IwAR0CYc7fRTz83_MlXvIJYzO4fNo6IkFEGou2RB38qP_ipoQ6NQpqcM42Xo8
There is an emerging field at the boundary of art and science, using tools and technologies of science to create artworks that explore the relationship between humans and nature: Our three panelists work with Biology and Art: Emilia Tikka at Aalto University in Helsinki. Jennifer Parker at UC Santa Cruz. Our third panelist, Danielle Siembieda, is the Deputy Director of Leonardo/ISAST. Vanessa Chang hosts this discussion. Ms. Chang is on the board of Immersive Arts Alliance. She is a writer, scholar, curator, and educator who builds communities and conversations about our virtual and physical encounters with new media and technology.
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8. Georgia Summit of Theatre Visionaries: George Tsypin
Wednesday, March 24 at 7 PM
https://www.ugatheatre.com/gatheatresummit
George Tsypin is a sculptor, architect and designer of opera, film and video. He won an International Competition of "New and Spontaneous Ideas for the Theater for Future Generations" some twenty years ago. Since then his opera designs have been seen all over the world, including Salzburg Festival, Opera de Bastille in Paris, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan and Metropolitan Opera in New York.
In collaboration, Kennesaw State University, the University of Georgia, Emory University, and Walton High School will host a series of guest live presentations by top-notch theatre visionaries on Zoom Webinar during the Spring semester of 2021. The guests include Julie Taymor, Robert Wilson, George Tsypin, and Paul Tazewell. The goal of this collaboration project is to bring the insights of the theatre visionaries into classrooms. 500 participants comprised of students, faculty, and staff will have the opportunity to share these once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
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9. Lecture: Jee Leong Koh
Thursday, March 25 at 4:30 PM
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1mWzOrsfTD6LkSvEZ0sNbQ
Jee Leong Koh is the author of Steep Tea (Carcanet), named a Best Book of the Year by UK's Financial Times and a Finalist by Lambda Literary in the USA. He has published three other books of poems, Payday Loans (Poets Wear Prada Press, Math Paper Press), Equal to the Earth (Bench Press), and Seven Studies for a Self Portrait (Bench Press), and a collection of zuihitsu, The Pillow Book (Math Paper Press, Awai Books), which was shortlisted for the Singapore Literature Prize. His work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Malay, Russian, and Latvian.
The author lives in New York City. He is the founder of the literary non-profit Singapore Unbound, which organizes the biennial Singapore Literature Festival in New York City and the monthly Second Saturdays Reading Series, and publishes works of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction through the Gaudy Boy imprint, and book reviews and artist interviews on SP Blog.This event is presented by COMPASS, the Comparative Literature & Intercultural Studies Graduate Student Organization, in partnership with the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts as part of the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series.
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10. Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival
Saturday, April 10 at 8 PM
UGA Parking Lot E01
UGA's Black Theatrical Ensemble presents the event of the semester -- Elevate: Minority Short Film Festival!
The festival is dedicated to showcasing the talent of minority filmmakers at UGA and in the Athens community.
Please join us for a drive-in screening of nominated films on April 10 at 8 PM at parking lot E01 by the Intramural Fields. We look forward to celebrating these amazing films with you - you don't wanna miss this!!
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11. Earth Day 2021 Art Challenge
Deadline: April 15
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/art-challenge/
In an act of unity, partnering organizations are collectively calling on the UGA and Athens community to reflect, embody, and create artworks in alignment with the goals of Envision Athens' 2021 Year of the Good Neighbor. Prompt: Create a work of art that celebrates and inspires good neighbors - caretakers of people and the planet - to establish a more unified, equitable, prosperous, and compassionate community. All people are eligible and all art mediums that can be experienced online are accepted. Awards offered in three categories: Appreciation, Awareness, and Action.
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12. a2ru 2021 Conference Sharing Stories: The Case for Art
Conference dates: November 3-5
Proposal deadline: May 21
https://www.a2ru.org/events/a2ru-2021-conference-sharing-stories-the-case-for-art/
Over the last twelve months, we have seen a range of sources acknowledge the powerful importance of the arts, particularly in the Covid era. As arts practitioners and leaders, we embrace our role in this unprecedented moment, even as we continue to rethink our disciplines, how our methods have changed during this time, and what the future of the arts might look like.
The Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) will use this year's online conference to meet this unique moment in a uniquely artful way. We will engage and explore how we can best deploy what we hope has not changed -- our passion for the arts, for arts education, and for arts integration -- through storytelling, rather than traditional conference presentations. We invite participants to connect their research and/or practice with their preferred storytelling method and explain how the arts, arts education, arts advocacy, and/or arts integration are important, particularly in this moment. We especially welcome STEM researchers and practitioners who can use storytelling to demonstrate the power of arts integration in their field.
a2ru also acknowledges that not all forms of art are viewed equally. In addition to proposals that make the case for the importance of art in the Covid era, we welcome proposals that advocate for a re-examination of which arts, as well as which artists, are viewed as important in the field overall.
Storytellers will present their case for the importance of the arts in a short -- approximately five minute -- creative nonfiction story format. Live stories should be told, and not read. Storytelling can also take any number of creative forms: acting, film, painting, sand animation, sculpting, song, spoken word poetry, etc. We also encourage performances, such as dance, music, puppetry, etc. Performers may submit a narrative to accompany their performance, but this is not necessary. Group narratives are welcome. Additional time will be allotted as needed. Regardless of format choice, all submissions are subject to the criteria listed below.
We will prioritize proposals that have an interdisciplinary focus, and we stress that this call is open to the full range of disciplines, including but not limited to: art, design, engineering, humanities, medicine, public health, and the sciences. a2ru also encourages proposals that include empirical and/or qualitative evidence. Finally, as we recognize the unique way that artistic practice contributes to knowledge, and because this year's conference format calls for a shift away from our "default settings," we encourage submissions that are not only about the arts, but are themselves instantiated through 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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