Graphic Novel Workshop
Thursday, November 10 at 6:30 PM
MLC Room 147
Amazing opportunity for animators and artists. Create storyboards for a new graphic novel and animation project that explores the history, politics, and intrigue of nuclear weapons. Hosted by Dr. Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, Executive Director, Center for International Trade and Security, UGA and Kyle Morrison, ICE Graduate Research Assistant and Vice President of the Society for Students in Animation.
Links from Wednesday’s ICE Conversation: Ecovention
Ecovention exhibition catalogue
http://greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/
The Harrison Studio
http://theharrisonstudio.net
Buster Simpson
http://www.bustersimpson.net
Agnes Denes
http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com
Tera Galanti
http://teragalanti.com/home.html
Brandon Ballengee
http://brandonballengee.com
Eco-Art
http://eco-art.org
Links compiled by Carla Cao, ICE Graduate Research Assistant
Image: Water Glass by Buster Simpson
Arts + Environment Roundtable
Thursday, November 10 at 4 PM
Miller Learning Center Room 350
How Artists, Scientists, and Environmental Activists Can Work Together
A roundtable discussion featuring:
Elizabeth Corr, Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Laurie Fowler, Watershed UGA/Ecology/Law
Chris Cuomo, Philosophy/Women’s Studies
Lizzie King, Ecology/Forestry
Nate Nibbelink, Center for Integrative Conservation Research (CICR)
Mark Callahan, Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)
Special guest Elizabeth Corr works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today’s communities. She launched NRDC’s Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC’s art and climate-related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE.
Winners of the Daylighting the Watersheds Design Competition will also be announced.
Reading: “How Artists and Environmental Activists Both Do Better Together” by Elizabeth Corr and Jenny Kendler
http://creativz.us/2016/02/17/how-artists-and-environmental-activists-both-do-better-together/
Four Trends In Understanding Audience: Measurement, Streaming and Politics
“Is there a correlation between value and attention in the arts? Data’s in: the plus/minuses of live-streaming… Some ideas from a researcher on measuring aesthetic experience… How might the arts weigh in on politics without being dismissed? Why Are We Measuring Cultural Value In Attention? The currency of value is attention.”
By Douglas McLennan
Link: https://www.artsjournal.com/artsaudience/2016/10/16/four-trends-in-understanding-audience-measurement-streaming-and-politics/
ICE Conversation: Elizabeth Corr
Thursday, November 10 at Noon
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Environmental Advocacy + Art Partnerships
Elizabeth Corr, Art Partnerships Manager with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), will share examples of projects that combine art, science, and environmental activism. Sponsored by Watershed UGA and ICE.
Elizabeth Corr works with artists, architects, and designers to heighten public awareness of and interest in the environmental issues that face today’s communities. She launched NRDC’s Artist-in-Residence program and is expanding support for NRDC’s art and climate-related projects, from such organizations as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Public Concern Foundation, and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.
Reading: “How Artists and Environmental Activists Both Do Better” Together by Elizabeth Corr and Jenny Kendler
http://creativz.us/2016/02/17/how-artists-and-environmental-activists-both-do-better-together/
ICE Conversation: Stephen Wood
Friday, November 11 at 1 PM
Lamar Dodd Building Room S160
Stephen Wood is a composer, educator, and performer who travels the United States in search of inspiration from our country’s wildest places. He has served as Composer-in-Residence for Cumberland Island National Seashore, the Okefenokee N.W.R., the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Red River Gorge Geological Area, and participated in Denali N.P.’s monumental Composing in the Wilderness Field Seminar.