UGA Arts Collaborative
4.25.23
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*Creativity and Collaboration (Fall course)*
1. Generative Garden (Robot demo 4/27)
2. UGA Sustainability Semester in Review (5/2)
3. Where'd the Goats Go? (5/2)
4. Thumbs Up For Mother Universe (5/2)
5. NEA Big Read Events
6. Georgia Climate Conference (5/15-17)
7. C-Change Conversations (5/15)
8. Webinar: a2ru Arts Data Project (5/17)
9. Land as Liberation (Maymester course)
10. MAP Fund Microgrants
11. Creative Capital Curriculum
12. CFP: Athens Art Book, Print & Zine Fair (deadline 4/30)
13. U.S. Student Fulbright Program Information Session (5/3)
14. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute (deadline 5/10)
15. Arts Writers Grant (deadline 5/17)
16. CFP: Imagining America (deadline 5/31)
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*Creativity and Collaboration*
Fall 2023
https://grad.uga.edu/gradfirst/seminars/
Open to first-year graduate students
Creativity and collaboration are fundamental to addressing today's socio-environmental challenges. This seminar will include arts-based, STEM-friendly activities developed by UGA researchers from the arts, humanities, and sciences designed to help students to think creatively, to collaborate across disciplines, and to work with people with different perspectives, knowledge, and values. It will be an engaging and fun way to enhance the creativity that you bring to your own graduate work and your capacity to effectively participate in collaborative teams.
Co-facilitators: Mark Callahan (UGA Arts Collaborative) and Nate Nibbelink (Forestry)
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1. Generative Garden
April 9-27
C-U-B-E Gallery
Lamar Dodd School of Art
Demonstration: Thursday, April 27 from 2:30-4:30 PM
Stroll through a world of math & art
The Generative Garden lies at the intersection of math and art, digital and analog. With algorithm-driven artwork and mathematical visualizations comprising its flora, this garden is one you would normally encounter in the digital world. Brought into the physical world using a pen-plotter, though, the garden is overgrown with works that explore visualizations of scale and imperfections of the analog.
Drawn to the aesthetic qualities of algorithm-driven art, Sudhan Chitgopkar uses generative art to explore his recreational interests in math. After completing his studies in Computer Science and International Affairs at UGA, Sudhan will continue to explore his interests in optimization, simulation, and visualization while studying computational science at Harvard University.
Supported in part by an Idea Lab Mini Grant.
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2. UGA Sustainability Semester in Review
Tuesday May 2, from 11 AM - 1 PM
Georgia Museum of Art
https://sustainability.uga.edu/community-engagement/semester-in-review/
The Semester in Review celebrates student initiatives that advance sustainability on campus and in the community. The event will include speakers, poster displays, a light lunch, and opportunities to connect with others. Opening remarks will be provided by UGA President Jere W. Morehead.
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3. Where'd the Goats Go?
Tuesday, May 2 from 5 - 7 PM
Driftmier Woods (adjacent to Driftmier Engineering and University Village)
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/landscape_management_whered_the_goats_go
Join the Historic Landscape Management team (EDES 7350) as they discover how the Chew Crew made an impact on the Driftmier Forest, where they went, and how they might return. Guests are invited to pet goats, participate in a goat scavenger hunt, explore the forest, and celebrate the end of the semester with smores in one of the campus's natural areas.
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4. Film Screening: Thumbs Up For Mother Universe
Tuesday, May 2 at 7 PM
Cine, 234 W. Hancock Ave.
https://calendar.uga.edu/event/film_screening_thumbs_up_for_mother_universe
The Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection welcomes Peabody Award winning documentary film producer George King to Athens for a screening of his newest film, "Thumbs Up for Mother Universe- Stories from the Life of Lonnie Holley." The screening is free and open to the general public as well as UGA faculty, students, and staff. Following the screening, Peabody Awards Archivist Mary Miller will lead a conversation with filmmaker George King and other special guests.
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5. NEA Big Read
https://athenslibrary.org/services/programs/nea-big-read/
Celebrate "Deaf Republic" events with the library, the art museum, the council on Aging, and many other partners.
May 3: Word of mouth, "Life after Deaf" (author, Noel Holston) and Athens Poet Laureate, Jeff Fallis! The Globe (upstairs)
May 7: CCI Sisterhood bookclub & Love. Craft. Band, ACC Library
*May 8: FEATURED READING with poet Ilya Kaminsky, poet Katie Farris, and The Mountain Singers!
May 13:Georgia Museum of Art Family Day - free children's book giveaway!
May 15: Film screening: CODA, ACC Library with hearing loop!
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6. Georgia Climate Conference
May 15-17
Athens, GA
https://www.2023georgiaclimateconference.org
The 2023 Georgia Climate Conference aims to support and accelerate Georgia's efforts to take practical steps to minimize the risks and maximize the opportunities associated with a changing climate. The event will bring together hundreds of attendees representing multiple sectors and areas of expertise to collaborate, raise awareness of work across the state, highlight progress, and identify opportunities to do more.
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7. C-Change Conversations Event
Monday, May 15 at 5:15 PM
Cine, 234 W Hancock Ave.
Cine and C-Change Conversations Athens are pleased to host a dynamic and completely non-partisan introduction to and discussion of climate change. Doors open at 4:30 pm for a mix and mingle with C-Change members with a presentation and Q&A from 5:15-6:30pm. Popcorn will be provided by C-Change Conversations and drinks will be available for purchase.
Speaker Dallas Hetherington is a retired global specialty chemicals professional and volunteer with C-Change Conversations. He will present the C-Change Primer, which C-Change developed with input from scientists and energy and policy experts and is appropriate for all audiences, but especially those who are uncertain about the risk of warming global temperatures. It is widely hailed as an intelligent, dispassionate introduction to and illumination of climate change and has been presented nationwide and overseas.
In connection with the C-Change Primer presentation, "Mad Max: Fury Road" will be screened as a part of this important climate focused theme. The Academy Award-winning film will be accompanied by a short, science-based video presentation entitled, "Will Climate Change Drive Us to a Mad Max World?" In this video C-Change Conversations founder, Kathleen Biggins, and Dallas Hetherington discuss the impact of climate change as it relates to the movie. The film is part of Science on Screen, a program supported by The Coolidge Corner Theater and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with additional support from the Georgia Council for the Arts.
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8. An Update on the Arts Data Project at the University of Michigan: Insights and Opportunities
Wednesday, May 17 at 3 PM
https://a2ru.org/event/an-update-on-the-arts-data-project-at-the-university-of-michigan-insights-and-opportunities/
As an a2ru member institution, UGA students, faculty, and staff may register for free.
This webinar is a follow up to Arts Data to Strengthen Casemaking: An Arts Asset Mapping Pilot Study at University of Michigan, presented in May 2022. Join this webinar to hear about the latest developments in this effort to determine standardized categories that can be used to measure the arts on campuses across the country; about challenges and opportunities the project presented; and about what's next as we design future qualitative and participatory assessment phases of the project.
This project endeavors to map the full spectrum of arts assets for a large university to produce a report on formal and informal arts assets. The project also resulted in a model instrument and protocol (what we will call a "schema") to deploy in later research stages to audit the broader arts landscape in higher education. a2ru designed this pilot project as part of the University of Michigan Arts Initiative. By establishing a foundation of core categories to measure the impacts of the arts, our schema will respond to needs such as those identified by the NEA Research Agenda -- mapping the "state of the arts in higher education." This schema will demonstrate the value of the arts, make clear how higher education arts assets lead to a unique skillset developed by students who study the arts, and how these skills benefit their lives, careers, and communities.
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9. Land as Liberation in the African American Freedom Struggle
Maymester Directed Reading class
https://penncenter.uga.edu/about/public-programs/research-residencies/student-testimonials-on-summer-research-residencies/
We will think about how land and property have figured in the literature and culture of African Americans in general and coastal Gullah Geechee communities in particular. For example, we will discuss how land cooperatives became an empowering strategy for African Americans in the South during the twentieth-century civil rights movement, and we will examine how and why land and property ownership have figured in the goals of rural Black communities from Reconstruction to the present. We will read works by Leah Penniman (Black Earth Wisdom), Monica White (Freedom Farmers), and Octavia Butler (Parable of the Sower), among others, on the intersection of nature, freedom, and community.
We will spend four days during the term learning about these themes on Penn Center National Historic Landmark District, St. Helena Island, SC, and Gullah Geechee communities on Hilton Head Island, SC. All meals, lodging, and excursions will be covered, and you will interact with students from Georgia State University, the College of Charleston, and the American College of Building Arts.
If you are interested in themes of environment, culture, and justice, and eager to read exciting literature and screen moving films, contact me about enrolling: [log in to unmask]
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10. MAP Fund Microgrants
https://mapfund.org/2022micrograntees/
MAP is excited to announce our first ever microgrant initiative! Following artist-led mutual aid networks and our ongoing desire to expand MAP's circle of support, we invited all eighty-eight 2022 MAP grantees to choose an artist in their community to receive an unrestricted $1,000 grant. Micrograntees did not have to complete applications nor will they have to submit final reports. Recipients can use their funds to cover artistic space and supplies, personal expenses, and more.
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11. Creative Capital Curriculum
https://creative-capital.org/workshops-and-education/
For more than 20 years, Creative Capital has offered professional development programs that have served more than 32,000 artists across the country. Core to our mission is our belief that professional education is key to helping artists build sustainable careers, creating equity in the arts, and fostering community through horizontal, peer education models.
We are innovating on our approach to artist education by transforming our influential professional development workshops into a cohesive and current online curriculum. The Creative Capital Curriculum combines evergreen elements of artist professional development with contemporary critical frameworks in cultural discourse to create cohesive, multi-week asynchronous courses. Artists in the United States and around the world can take courses at their own pace with free and low cost options.
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12. CFP: Athens Art Book, Print & Zine Fair
Athens Art Book, Print & Zine Fair
Call for Participants
Deadline: April 30
https://art.uga.edu/athens-art-book-print-zine-fair
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the inaugural Athens Art Book, Print & Zine Fair on Saturday, June 24th at the Athenaeum in downtown Athens, GA. Presented alongside AthFest, an annual free, three-day festival that celebrates Athens, GA's vibrant creative culture, featuring local and regional musicians and visual artists.
If you are interested in renting a table in conjunction with the fair, please fill out our online application form.
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13. U.S. Student Fulbright Program Information Sessions
The 2024-2025 Fulbright competition opens April 1, 2023, and the campus deadline is September 5, 2023. Note to undergraduate juniors -- if you want to go abroad on a Fulbright the year after graduation, this is the time to apply. Seniors, graduate students, and recent alumni are also very welcome to apply. The competition is open to U.S. citizens who will have, at minimum, a bachelor's degree completed by summer 2024.
RESEARCH/STUDY/CREATIVE GRANTS - PHD STUDENTS:
Wednesday, May 3, 2:00-3:00pm, Webinar
Featuring Fulbright alumni on funding for PhD dissertation research
To receive the links for the virtual information sessions and notices about future info sessions and deadlines, register for UGA's Fulbright 2024-2025 listserv at: https://forms.gle/9wqe3EB5ChSKosbX9
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14. Dance Exchange OAC Climate Institute
July 20 - July 23
Apply by May 10
https://www.danceexchange.org/dx-institutes/summer-2023
Dance Exchange's 2023 OAC Climate Institute will focus on the role of artmaking and creative engagement within the climate movement. Join movers, makers, artists, and leaders from across the country to explore, energize, and advance creative solutions on the frontlines of the climate crisis. As part of our Organizing with Artists for Change Initiative (OAC), the 2023 OAC Climate Institute will celebrate process and performance, dialogue and dancemaking, and the role of artists as changemakers.
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15. Arts Writers Grant
Deadline: May 17
https://www.artswriters.org/application/guidelines
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant supports emerging and established writers who write about contemporary visual art. Ranging from $15,000 to $50,000 in three categories -- articles, books, and short-form writing -- the grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from short reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies. The program also supports art writing that engages criticism through interdisciplinary methods and experiments with literary styles. As long as a writer meets the eligibility and publishing requirements, they can apply.
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16. 2023 Imagining America National Gathering
Call for Participation
Deadline: May 31
https://iagathering.org
Radical Reckoning: Invoking the Elements for Collective Change
October 20-22
Providence, RI
In partnership with College Unbound, AS220, the City of Providence, and a diverse local Steering Committee, Imagining America (IA) invites participants to gather in Providence, Rhode Island for the in-person 2023 IA National Gathering. Invoking the cleansing work of fire, the changing form of water, the steadiness of the earth, and the ethereal nature of air, the 2023 IA National Gathering conjures the elements to guide the radical work of reckoning with the past to create a future of collective liberation.
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The UGA Arts Collaborative is an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at the University of Georgia, 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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For more events and opportunities visit:
https://calendar.uga.edu/
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