In the UGA Office of Research article “11th Spotlight festival takes a tour through the arts” published last week, author Hannah Gallant showcases a variety of programs presented by the Lamar Dodd School of Art during the university's 11th annual Spotlight on the Arts Festival this past November.
Formed in 2020, the Black Artists Alliance has served as a critical space for University of Georgia Black student artists within and outside the Lamar Dodd School of Art to find a supportive, safe, and familiar community.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art has opened applications to graduate programs in studio art, art history, and art education for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested applicants are encouraged to learn more about our application process and prepare materials by the January 1, 2023 deadline.
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."
Twin Realms is a collaboration between Dodd MFA candidates Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy. The artists come together to create a new, shared body of work that investigates dimensional illegibility and impermanence as ways of prompting an experience of instability.
Los Angeles artist Ruby Neri carries West Coast street art into her ceramic practice through the interplay of bright glazes and bold, hand-crafted shapes. At the invitation of retiring professor and long-time ceramics area chair Ted Saupe, Neri will be visiting the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
On the evening of Thursday September 29, the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited students, faculty, and the community at large to explore graduate studio spaces in sculpture and jewelry & metalwork at the Thomas Street Art Complex.
Three faculty and four graduate students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art photography & expanded media area were selected to present work at the University of Iowa’s 2022 National Photography Invitational.
