Jack Davis Lecture in Graphic Design with Georgianna Stout

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes designer Georgianna Stout to deliver the 2026 Jack Davis Lecture. Coinciding with the lecture, Stout’s New York-based multidisciplinary design studio 2×4 was invited by Professor of Graphic Design and C-U-B-E Gallery Director Moon Jung Jang to present the exhibition Cross Section, on view October 5 – December 10 in the C-U-B-E.

Georgianna Stout is a founding partner and executive creative director at 2×4, where she leads projects across the cultural and commercial sectors, from large-scale brand identity and packaging programs to retail and corporate environment and digital-experience programs. She has led brand identity and exhibition design for Cooper Hewitt, Brooklyn Museum, Dia Art Foundation, The Clark, and the Studio Museum in Harlem; and directed product development for Knoll, Maharam, and Tarkett. Her clients include Target, Starbucks, Instagram, Nike, Tiffany & Co., Intuit, Hyundai Motor Group, Tom Ford, and Malin + Goetz. She has been a visiting critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Parsons School of Design, MICA, The Cooper Hewitt, and Yale School of Art. She holds a B.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design.

The Jack Davis Lecture is given annually by an outstanding professional illustrator in an effort to recognize Davis’ extraordinary contribution to the field of illustration. A renowned cartoonist and founder of MAD Magazine, Jack Davis was born in Atlanta in 1924. He has been beloved by the UGA community for decades for his quintessential illustrations of the Georgia Bulldogs and Bulldog fandom.