Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE)

Welcome to a new semester at UGA! If you are new to ICE, please take a few moments to explore the site and learn about some of the current and past projects and events. You may also be interested in joining the ICE listserv, a weekly email announcement with local events and opportunities in the arts.

Please also welcome our new recipients of Graduate Assistantships in Interdisciplinary Arts Research: Rachel Debuque (Art), Tifany Lee (Theatre and Film Studies), and Mike Krzyzaniak (Music). These three exceptional candidates will develop creative research under the auspices of ICE, including collaborative work across disciplines and facilitating collaborative projects and proposals with faculty, students, and community members.

ICE-Vision: The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977)
Thursday, September 2 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“Gripping 1977 American thriller from Wim Wenders that turns back on itself with deadly European irony. Dennis Hopper is an international art smuggler, Bruno Ganz is a Hamburg craftsman. Together they commit a murder and briefly become friends. The film has a fine grasp of tenuous emotional connections in the midst of a crumbling moral universe. Wenders’s films (Paris, Texas; Wings of Desire) are about life on the edge; this is one of his edgiest.”
-Dave Kehr

ICE Studio window installation by Daisy Whelan.
Angora, Vanessa, Pomona, Chardonel
Icelandic sheep fleece, wool, and mohair
Fall 2010

ICE-Vision: The Big Combo (Joseph Lewis, 1955)
Thursday, August 26 at 8 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

Film Studies major Will Stephenson continues ICE’s informal weekly series, selecting a variety of world cinema classics and subcultural curiosities.

“This 1955 film noir borders on total abstraction for most of its length and then achieves it in an astonishing final scene—a shoot-out in the fog that suggests an armed and dangerous Michelangelo Antonioni. Where the usual noir takes place in a nightmare world, this one seems to inhabit a dream: there’s no longer fear in the images, but rather a distanced, idealized beauty. With Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, and Richard Conte; the director is Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy). 89 min.”
-Dave Kehr

Here is a sneak peek at AUX volume 2, an ICE-sponsored publishing project. Printmaking/Book Arts graduate candidate Dave Savino is seen here screenprinting a CD package design featuring art by UGA alumnus Joshua Ray Stephens. Click here for information about volume 1.

Read the full report here (212k download):

FY10 Annual Report