Idea Lab Conversation: Rent
Friday, October 15 at noon
Main Art Building Outdoor Courtyard
Meet the director and cast members of UGA’s production of Rent, Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reimagining of Puccini’s opera “La Boheme.” Director Brandon LaReau is a doctoral student in Theatre and Film Studies and a former Graduate Assistant in Interdisciplinary Arts Research. Rent performances begin on November 4 and tickets are available at https://www.ugatheatre.com.
Conversation: Creature Comforts Artist-in-Residence Noraa James
Thursday, November 4 at Noon
Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYbcJw31J9Y
Noraa James, the Creature Comforts Brewing Co. Artist in Residence for 2021, will take part in a conversation on art and community in Athens with Creature Comforts hospitality manager Madeline Blankenship and Mark Callahan, artistic director of Ideas for Creative Exploration and associate academic director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at UGA. Free and open to the public via Zoom.
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Reading Room: Musically Cogitating Career Exploration Series
https://www.musicallycogitating.com
Musically Cogitating is a show about the relevance and importance of living music and how it impacts our everyday lives. Ciyadh Wells (former Graduate Assistant in Interdisciplinary Arts Research at UGA) explores artist careers in consulting, teaching, performing, and administration.
Creative Placemkaing Resource Hub
a2ru
Source: https://a2ruconnect.wpengine.com/hub/
The Creative Placemaking Resource Hub is a living archive of creative placemaking scholarship and practice, designed for the students, teachers, artists, and community leaders who move the field forward. The core of the Hub are the resources gathered and created by ArtPlace America during its ten years of field-making activities (2010-2020). ArtPlace transferred its archive to a2ru with the intention that the Hub should continue to grow over time, incorporating additional resources from the creative placemaking field to reflect its continued evolution.
Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to Ideas for Creative Exploration, please take a few moments to explore the site and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. You may be interested in joining the ICE Announcements listserv, a newsletter with local events and opportunities in the arts.
Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Meredith Emery (Art) and Erica Parson (Theatre and Film Studies). These exceptional graduate students will develop creative research and collaborative work across disciplines with faculty, students, and community members.
Ideas for Creative Exploration Conversation Series
Podcast Episode 15: Arts + Community
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Audio highlights from a public conversation series on the theme of arts and community, edited from conversations that took place during fall 2020 and spring 2021 via remote video conferencing technology. We invited guests from a range of backgrounds to share their ideas about what artists and organizations should know about each other, and about how they can work together to support vibrant communities. This episode includes the voices of Stephanie Raines, Andrew Salinas, Montu Miller, Madeline Blankenship, Alden DiCamillo, Carmon Colangelo, and April Parker.
Stephanie Raines is an artist advocate, independent curator, and Arts Division Administrator of the Athens-Clarke County Unified Government, where she collaborates with arts leaders to manage the Athens Creative Theatre, East Athens Educational Dance Center, Lyndon House Arts Center, and the Morton Theatre.
Andrew Salinas is the Chair of the Athens Cultural Affairs Commission, a volunteer-led group that advises local government about cultural affairs and public art projects.
Montu Miller is Chief Operating Officer of ATHfactor-Liberty Entertainment. He is a cultural worker, educator, producer, community organizer, and a Hip-Hop advocate.
Madeline Blankenship is the Program Lead of “Get Artistic,” an initiative sponsored by Creature Comforts Brewing Company to help creative communities thrive.
Alden DiCamillo earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia and has remained active in the Athens community. They identify as a queer artist, poet, arts writer, and mutual aid organizer through Athens Mutual Aid.
Carmon Colangelo is Dean of the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He was also the founding director of the UGA Arts Collaborative, then known as Ideas for Creative Exploration. Carmon spoke about the power of collaboration and community from his perspective as an artist and university administrator, and about social justice as a unifying theme for the art, architecture, and art museum programs at Wash U.
April Parker is a community leader, activist, and the first Arts Administrator-in-Residence at Elsewhere, a museum and artist residency program in Greensboro, North Carolina. Her works of creative resistance engage public scholarship, performance art, and direct action while centering the lives and legacies of queer and trans Black people.