The Lamar Dodd School of Art made waves at the 48th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Art Center, with two students and one alumna scoring the show's top prizes and half a dozen students and alumni securing merit awards.
Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna, 2021 Margie E West Prize winner, and Spring 2023 graduation keynote speaker Pam Longobardi ('81, BFA) has spent the last 15 years sourcing, documenting, and compositing these plastics in her arts practice.
With a desire to have a positive impact on and relationship with the local community, Benjamin Britton, an associate professor of painting at UGA, met with the Executive Director of Bigger Vision of Athens Ryan Hersh to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art celebrates a significant gift to our graphic design area by 1990 BFA alumna Kelly Layton through the Layton Graphic Design Endowment.
2022 MFA graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Victoria Dugger has been selected as an exhibiting artist for New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, a highly-competitive exhibition that will be presented by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Georgia Committee at the Atlanta Contemporary in 2023.
Another West Coast artist joins us next week as the third creative participating in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. Troy Lamarr Chew II is a Los Angeles-born and based painter who skillfully and subversively uses traditional European painting techniques "to reframe their exclusion of Blackness."
This past weekend, Ridley Howard's latest solo exhibition Forever opened at the New York City gallery Marinaro. Joseph Peragine was among various colleagues from the school and from the Athens area to attend the celebration.
The school’s New York Maymester course introduces a cohort of emerging artists, art historians, and art educators to celebrated contemporary artworks through a critical curatorial lens.
Fabric Design alumna Chandler Sherry was featured in an article in the The Red & Black UGA student newspaper titled “UGA alum recaptures the Georgia Bulldog through art”.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art launched the 2022-2023 season of exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries with the return of the Art Party Extravaganza on Friday September 16.
