Ideas for Creative Exploration 3.14.22 http://ice.uga.edu --- 1. Call for Art: Legacy Ball (deadline 3/14) 2. Opportunity: Imaginary Meadow Zine Exchange (deadline 3/15) 3. Best Shot UGA TikTok Competition (deadline 4/1) 4. Lecture: Rebecca Kamen (4/6) 5. Lectures: Nathan Brown (3/21-23) 6. Misplacement: A Symposium (4/1-2) 7. Faculty Opportunity: UGA Living Lab (3/17) 8. Opportunity: Podcasting Institute (deadline 3/24) 9. Opportunity: Creature Comforts AIR (deadline 3/31) 10. Opportunity: Creative Capital Grant (deadline 4/1) --- 1. Call for Art: Legacy Ball Deadline: Monday, March 14 https://forms.gle/e1eRVyF7KQyg3xqz6 Call for Ethnic Minority Artists: Please submit your work to be featured at the 2022 Legacy Ball Gallery! The 2022 Legacy Ball, hosted by Black Felicity Student Association, will be exhibiting a selection of artists' works at Memorial Hall Ballroom on Saturday, April 9. Two and three-dimensional works welcome, as well as digital art. Exhibition supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration. For more information about Legacy Ball visit: https://linktr.ee/NASA_UGA --- 2. Imaginary Meadow Zine Exchange Deadline: Friday, March 15 https://reciprocal.works/ Imaginary Meadow is an international zine exchange. Through an open un-juried call, Reciprocal invites creative people from all around the world to submit a zine! The concept for the exchange is simple -- over the next couple of months participants are asked to create a new zine. This could be illustrative, written word, design heavy, diary entries, philosophical entreaties, anything the participants can dream up! In short, the participants will make a zine, send Reciprocal 12 copies, then the participants will receive 10 zines from other creators. A final event for the Imaginary Meadow zine exchange will be held in Spring 2022! Supported in part by Ideas for Creative Exploration. --- 3. 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! --- 4. Ideas for Creative Exploration Lecture: Rebecca Kamen Wednesday, April 6 at noon http://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElduqtrjwvG9O6emkb5on63BxlZa5Zk1k0 "Making the Invisible, Visible: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery" Rebecca Kamen is a painter, sculptor, and lecturer who explores the intersections of art and science. Her practice is informed by observation and wide-ranging research into cosmology, history, philosophy, and the search for common threads that flow across various scientific fields to capture and reimagine what scientists see. For more information about Rebecca Kamen, visit: https://rebeccakamen.com --- 5. Lectures: Nathan Brown Nathan Brown is Associate Professor of English and Canada Research Chair in Poetics at Concordia University, Montreal, where he directs the Centre for Expanded Poetics. He is the author of three books: The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics (2017), Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (2021), and Baudelaire's Shadow: An Essay on Poetic Determination (2022). He is also the translator of a new edition of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil (2021). Monday, March 21 at 4:30 PM Athenaeum https://athenaeum.uga.edu/lecture-nathan-brown/ Field and Fragment: The Future of the Romantic Compositions from Basquiat to Beethoven In the last two years of his life, Jean-Michel Basquiat began to include frequent allusions to Beethoven's Eroica symphony in his paintings and drawings, including in his late masterpiece, Pegasus (1987). This lecture focuses on these citations as a major thematic feature of Basquiat's late work, his mourning for Andy Warhol, and his reflexive engagement with his own signifying strategies. Addressing genre and differential repetition as formal mediations of ambiguous signs, not only in the context of Basquiat's compositions but also with respect to the rise of the symphony as a form, the lecture concludes by considering the relevance of the Haitian Revolution to Basquiat's reception of Beethoven's symphony and the cancelled homage to Napoleon on its original title page. Wednesday, March 23 at 4:30 PM Gilbert Hall, Room 115 "Knowledge of Nothing: On Apocalyptic Ekphrasis in The Flowers of Evil" In one of the key sonnets of Les Fleurs du mal, "Obsession," Baudelaire's speaker declares a resolute orientation toward the void: How you would please me, o night! without these stars Whose light speaks a language we know! For I seek the void, and the black, and the bare! Framing this orientation as the subtractive limit of spatial imagination in Baudelaire's work, this talk will consider the implications of such spatial negativity for the operation of ekphrasis. In particular, we will ask how certain works of apocalyptic ekphrasis enable Baudelaire to engage poetic impasses attendant upon figuring the void, and how ekphrastic representation might help us think through, from a literary perspective, the logic of negation. --- 6. Misplacement: A Symposium April 1-2 The Athenaeum https://athenaeum.uga.edu/misplacement-a-symposium/ Visual artists, writers, and leading scholars in the fields of art history, literature, media studies, race, and queer theory will present recent work around the theme of misplacement. This event is supported by the School of Art, The Georgia Review, the Athenaeum, the Willson Center, and a State-of-the-Art Conference Grant from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost. Friday, April 1 3:00 PM Coffee & Chit-Chat 3:15 Welcome Remarks, Isabelle Loring Wallace & Gerald Maa 3:30 What We Bring Home // Lisa Tan // Talk + Q&A 4:30 Black Absence, Black Uprising: Visual Poetry // Courtney Faye Taylor, author of Concentrate // Reading + Q&A 5:30 Stifters Dinge Performance // Marc Perroud // Screening + Food Saturday, April 2 10:30 AM Coffee & Chit-Chat 11:00 Threshold of Confinement: Art, Museums, and Prisons // Nicole Fleetwood, James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University. // Talk + Q&A 12:00 Lost and Found Objects: Heiner Goebbels' "Stifters Dinge" // Martin Harries, Professor of English, University of California, Irvine // Talk + Q&A 1:00 Lunch Break 3:00 The Town of Babylon: Fiction Meets Public Health in a Queer, Coming-of-Age Tale // Alejandro Varela, MPH, author of The Town of Babylon // Reading + Q&A 4:00 Assisted Non Fiction // Jill Magid, Conceptual Artist and Writer // Keynote Shouky Shaheen Lecture 5:00 pm Roundtable + Concluding Remarks + Wine --- 7. Faculty Opportunity: UGA Living Lab Register: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GRoPBceo8KdS3s UGA Living Lab is a new framework to facilitate connections between students, faculty, and staff to solve sustainability challenges. The goal is to leverage existing resources across the university to improve operational effectiveness and enhance teaching and learning through applied experiential learning projects. Operational staff benefit from student energy and faculty expertise, and students gain hands-on opportunities to apply their knowledge to real problems. Your input will be critical in the development and implementation of this program. UGA Living Lab Breakfast Workshop Thursday, March 17 from 8 - 9:30 AM MLC Reading Room, Room 303 https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0GRoPBceo8KdS3s UGA faculty and staff from all departments are invited to a breakfast workshop focused on using the UGA campus as a living laboratory for sustainability solutions. Please join us for a morning of learning, sharing, and networking. Breakfast provided. --- 8. Opportunity: Podcasting Institute (deadline 3/24) University and College Faculty Podcasting Institute Deadline: March 24 The Willson Center and Franklin College have partnered to support two places for UGA faculty to participate in the University and College Faculty Podcasting Institute hosted virtually by the National Humanities Center June 27 - July 1, 2022. The program is full at capacity, and this year's cohort is a wide-ranging and diverse group of scholars from institutions across the country. If interested, please submit a brief CV and a one page explanation of why you would like to attend and how it would be useful and important to your research to [log in to unmask] --- 9. Opportunity: Creature Comforts Artist-in-Residence Deadline extended: March 31 https://getcurious.com/get-artistic/air/ Creature Comforts Brewing Co. seeks an Athens-based visual artist for its next Artist-in-Residence (AiR). The AiR will work with Creature Comforts and local collaborators throughout the year to create artwork and develop a community-based creative project. Additionally, supported by residency funding, the AiR will engage with professional development resources throughout the year (books, courses, workshops.) The AiR will receive a $5,000 stipend for a commissioned work of art for Creature Comforts' permanent collection and to support their professional and creative development. --- 10. Creative Capital Grant: Wild Futures: Art, Culture, Impact Deadline: April 1 https://creative-capital.org/about-the-creative-capital-award/ Creative Capital invites innovative project proposals in the Performing Arts, Technology, and Literature for its 2023/2024 grant cycle, "Wild Futures." Awards will provide varying amounts up to $50,000 and artist services. The new application takes less than an hour to complete! Open March 1 - April 1, 2022. --- 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. ice.uga.edu facebook.com/ideasforcreativeexploration For more events and opportunities visit: a2ru.org accgov.com/617/Arts art.uga.edu arts.uga.edu athenaeum.uga.edu athica.org calendar.uga.edu ced.uga.edu dance.uga.edu drama.uga.edu english.uga.edu flagpole.com georgiamuseum.org music.uga.edu pac.uga.edu willson.uga.edu