ICE Announcements 9.4.18
http://ice.uga.edu
1. a2ru National Conference (11/1-3)
2. ICE Conversation: Georgia Prison Beekeepers (9/12)
3. Art Party Extravaganza!! (9/7)
4. Lecture: Marie Lorenz (9/10)
5. Reading: Selah Saterstrom (9/11)
6. Lecture: Geoff Knorr (9/13)
7. Screening: Athens Rising (9/13)
8. Integrative Conservation Conference (9/20-23)
9. Opportunity: Athens Cultural Affairs Commission (deadline 9/9)
10. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
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1. a2ru National Conference
November 1-3
University of Georgia
https://www.a2ru.org/events/2018-national-conference/
UGA will host the 2018 National Conference for the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) on the theme of "Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability." The conference will be held in partnership with the UGA Arts Council and in conjunction with the November Spotlight on the Arts festival.
The 2018 theme, Arts Environments: Design, Resilience, and Sustainability, is an invitation to explore the relationship between creativity and diverse cultural locations, by framing discussions about design, resilience, and sustainability in context of interdisciplinary artistic and environmental practice. The theme offers an opportunity to think broadly about the ecology of the arts and their environments, in terms of performance, design, and engineering. A land and sea grant institution inextricable from the town of Athens and the broader ecologies of Georgia and the Southeast, the University of Georgia will provide a rich context for thinking creatively about Arts Environments globally.
Call for a2ru Conference Volunteers
Students who are interested in volunteering during the conference should contact Mark Callahan, [log in to unmask] All student volunteers who satisfy volunteer requirements will have free access to conference events.
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2. ICE Conversation: Georgia Prison Beekeepers
Wednesday, September 12 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
How can individuals in prisons mimic honeybee behavior and work together for a common goal? Idea Lab Mini Grant recipient and MFA student Cristina Echezarreta will share progress from a collaboration of a students, faculty, and staff in Art and Entomology with the Georgia Prison Beekeeping program to explore prisoners' relationship to nature through the arts.
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3. Art Party Extravaganza!!
Friday, September 7 from 6 - 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art
We are pleased to announce that four exhibitions and a site-specific installation will open at the Dodd Galleries September 7, 6-8pm. New York-based artist, Marie Lorenz, presents a new installation that examines the dread of single use plastic clogging our waterways; The Florida Room, featuring work by graduate students plays off the kitsch and nostalgia of the sunshine state; studnets in printmaking present an exhibition on the art of exhcange, an undergraduate student-curated show, Middleground, imagines the space between the real and the digital; and a new site-specific wall installation will be on display by Athens-based artist and Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna, Jess Machacek.
Our Fall Art Party Extravaganza will feature all of these new works as well as snacks by Kelly's Jamaican Foods, a live DJ in our new Art Garden, mini putt-putt, and a very fun photo booth. All events at the Galleries are FREE and open to the public.
To read more about these exhibitions and our upcoming programs, please visit:
https://art.uga.edu/galleries
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4. Lecture: Marie Lorenz
Monday, September 10 at 5:30 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S151
Marie Lorenz roots her work in exploration and narrative. Since 2002, Lorenz has been traveling various urban waterways in boats she designs and builds, collecting the tidal debris that accumulates in the harbor. From these floating vantage points, the artist cultivates new perspectives of otherwise familiar landscapes. Lorenz makes videos and installations that document and respond to the debris and discarded objects she encounters. Through printing, casting, or videotaping, Lorenz attempts "to un-know the metropolis by continually exploring it." The resulting works act as a visual equivalent of beach-combing and tell the story of the artist's explorations in "collaboration" with the tide, as well as the connections she forges with her occasional passengers. She lives and works in New York City.
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5. Reading: Selah Saterstrom
Tuesday, September 11 at 7 PM
Cine
Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels The Meat and Spirit Plan, The Pink Institution, and most recently Slab, which was also produced as an award winning play, performed by Square Product Theatre. Her book of essays on Divinatory Poetics, Ideal Suggestions, was published by Essay Press in the fall of 2016. Widely published and anthologized, she also curates Madame Harriette Presents, an occasional performance series. She teaches and lectures across the United States and is the director of Creative Writing at the University of Denver.
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6. Lecture: Geoff Knorr
Thursday, September 13 at 6 PM
Hugh Hodgson School of Music, Edge Hall
"Tradition Meets Implementation: Exploring the Music of the World in Civilization VI"
Geoff Knorr is an award-winning composer of music for media and the concert hall. He has worked as a composer, orchestrator, sound designer, and mixing engineer on many video game titles, including Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, Civilization VI, Civilization: Beyond Earth -- Rising Tide, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and Civilization V, among others. His recent work on the Civilization series has garnered numerous industry nominations and awards. Notably, the soundtrack for Civilization: Beyond Earth won the 2014 IFMCA Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media award. His concert music has been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Wheaton College Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Knorr also teaches an introductory course in sound and music for video games at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Knorr is a graduate of the Peabody Institute, having received a BM and MM in Music Composition and BM in Recording Arts and Sciences. While at Peabody, he studied with composers Christopher Theofanidis and Michael Hersch. He currently resides in Towson, MD. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.
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7. Screening: Athens Rising
Thursday, September 13 at 7 PM
Trio Gallery
Tickets: $6
https://www.facebook.com/events/668328480210621/
Athens Rising: The Sicyon Project is the first full-length documentary in an ongoing series from local filmmaker James Preston that celebrates the creative class in the Classic City. Featuring dozens of performances from the living rooms, backyards, and unconventional venues throughout Athens, GA, the film takes a deep look at music, dance, food, stand-up comedy, strange theater, visual art, and the origins of AthFest. View trailer:
https://vimeo.com/271659752
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8. Integrative Conservation Conference
September 20-23
University of Georgia
http://cicr.uga.edu/icc/
The inaugural Integrative Conservation Conference at the University of Georgia will bring together academics, practitioners, researchers, resource managers, and students to address current and emerging conservation challenges. By bridging diverse perspectives across disciplines and sectors, we will explore challenges and benefits of synthesizing methods, frameworks, and conceptual approaches within social and ecological sciences.
Topics will include key issues associated with simultaneously preserving ecosystem integrity while addressing human needs and increasing adaptive capacity in a constantly changing world. By embracing the complexity inherent in human-environmental systems, the Integrative Conservation Conference will create space for the process of constructive engagement across disciplines and between research and practice, resulting in new insight for conservation.
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9. Opportunity: Athens Cultural Affairs Commission
Athens Cultural Affairs Commission
Call for Art
Deadline: September 9
https://www.accgov.com/4161/Athens-Cultural-Affairs-Commission
The Athens Cultural Affairs Commission is seeking 2-D designs to be laser-cut out of the metal panels in standard bus shelters. Artists are asked to submit design(s) without "floating" material that can fabricated by the standard bus shelter supplier. Multiple submissions are welcome, selected designs will receive a $1,000 artist fee.
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10. Opportunity: Willson Center Awards
https://willson.uga.edu/opportunities/fellowships-grants/willson-grants-awards/
Public Impact Grant
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Public Impact Grant supports faculty in the organization on campus of conferences, exhibitions, and performances that showcase humanities and arts research in broad context. The Public Impact Grant is designed to offer interaction between national and international scholars and UGA faculty and students. The award provides support of up to $10,000. Faculty may apply for the Public Impact Grant in partnership with graduate students. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged. Applicants are encouraged to consider other external and internal sources of funds. Award is for the following academic year.
Short-Term Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: October 25
The Willson Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowships bring distinguished scholars, artists and performers to the arts and humanities community at the University of Georgia. Individual Faculty or interdisciplinary groups may nominate Visiting Fellows who contribute to intellectual life on campus by engaging with current research in a public context. Fellows are funded for five-day ($5,000) programs. The amount of the award includes honorarium and travel expenses. Award is for the following academic year.
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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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