New Members Join the Board of Visitors

New board members add valuable resources to the Lamar Dodd School of Art community.

The Lamar Dodd School of Art recently added six distinguished new members to its Board of Visitors. The newest board members include Lillian Kirbo Ansley, Sue Nunally, Isobel Mills, Ridley Howard, Mary Carlson, Maria Pollard, and Sarah Hobbs.

The Board of Visitors are champions of the School who support the short and long-term goals of the School of Art. The board recognizes that the Dodd has a never-ending objective to strive for excellence as an academic institution of higher learning in the visual arts, and the board desires to play a vital role is this endeavor.

Lillian Kirbo Ansley is a senior executive with experience overseeing organizations with diverse and labor-intensive personnel. Her expertise and proven success includes leading and managing many aspects of operations, customer service, new business development, marketing, communications and training. She is known as a devoted mentor sharing experiences and wisdom with other people to help the next generation navigate their personal and professional aspirations. Lillian has a history of consistently exceeding customer and employee satisfaction goals while successfully organizing, implementing and managing highly successful teams. She is a founder of Olmsted Plein Air, a 501c3 corporation that is dedicated to nurturing the visual and cultural art education and experience through the art of plein air painting.  Having worked on both the client and agency side, Lillian is an experienced corporate communications leader from strategy and planning to organization and implementation.

Sue Nunally is passionate about the arts, education, and the Redcoat Band.  She is a graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art with a BFA in Interior Design and of the Savannah College of Art and Design with an MFA in Historic Preservation. Her professional experience includes work as a space planner for residential and commercial firms. She has also worked as a researcher and archivist on historic building and documentation projects. Sue’s most significant experiences at UGA were being a member of the Redcoat Band and her summer in Cortona. She was fortunate to live abroad twice with her family in Germany and Italy. She credits being a Cortona alum as the start of her love affair with Europe and naturally Cortona. She is at present on the Bike Safe IM board and on the Steering Committee of the Women’s Leadership Group for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. Her interests include historic buildings, Savannah grey bricks, speaking Italian in complete sentences, border collies and going bonkers when the Redcoat Band performs.

Isobel Mills is a textile artist and fabric designer living in New York City. She’s a graduate of the LDSOA fabric design program and has recently applied her passions and education to form I S O B E L , LLC, a fabric design firm that allows her to both create one of a kind, fine fiber art pieces and also, digitally printed, upholstery weight ,interior fabrics for commercial use. She is passionate about art and design and loves nothing more than to create and work with her hands.

Ridley Howard currently lives and works in Athens, GA and Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA and BFA from the University of Georgia and his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently represented by Marinaro Gallery, NY; Andréhn-Schiptjenko Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; and Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami. He has forthcoming exhibitions at Art Basel in Switzerland, and Night Gallery in Los Angeles. His paintings were most recently on view in his May 2017 solo exhibition at Marinaro Gallery NY; as well as the Atlanta Biennial at the Contemporary; Intimisms at James Cohan Gallery, NY; and ‘Hope and Hazard, a Comedy of Eros’ at the Hall Foundation, VT, curated by Eric Fischl. He is also co-founder of gallery 106 Green in Brooklyn, NY. He has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. His work has been shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Savannah College of Art, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the High Museum, Atlanta.

Mary Carlson works in Development at the New Museum and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Prior to the museum, Carlson gained five years of gallery experience in both the primary and secondary art markets working for Dickinson Roundell, Inc. as well as Blum & Poe. Carlson graduated from UGA with a BA in Art History and a Certificate in Organic Agriculture. She had the privilege of studying abroad at Keble College in Oxford, England during the Michaelmas term of 2010. During her time at UGA, Carlson helped establish UGArden, the campus community garden on South Milledge.

Maria Pollard is an interior designer who founded Crosby Designs, LLC, a boutique interior design studio in Alexandria, Virginia. Her background is in drawing and painting and the decorative arts. This heavily influences her design process and the composition in her firm’s designs. Their recent work includes projects in Washington and Virginia as well as  Aspen, Sea Island, Locust Valley, Cashiers, NC and Rehoboth Beach. She enjoys extensive collaboration with architects on ground-up construction as well as total renovations. Before starting her studio in Old Town, Alexandria in 2007, she worked in New York for 10 years with some of the better-known firms in the country: Cullman & Kravis, David Easton, Charlotte Moss, and Katie Ridder, all regularly listed in the shelter magazines’ “top designers.”

Sarah Hobbs is a working artist living with her family in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a BFA in Art History (1992) and an MFA in Photography (2000) from Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA. She is well known to the Dodd Photography faculty and has been involved as an adjunct at UGA.  Her many awards include being an Artadia Grantee, Photolucida Top 50, an Idea Capital Grantee and a Hudgens Prize Finalist. Most recently, Sarah had a solo exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and an exhibition at the Hudgens Center for Art in Duluth both in 2017. She is married to Jason Peck and they have two children Julia (11) and Lucas (9). Sarah grew up in Columbus, Georgia and is currently represented by Hathaway Contemporary in Atlanta where she will had a solo exhibition in March 2019. Her work is included in numerous permanent collection including the High Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sir Elton John Collection, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Her first monograph, Small Problems in Living was published in 2012. Sarah is passionate about her practice and about education.