Lamar Dodd School of Art

The Athenaeum presents a newly commissioned exhibition by New York-based artist, Rose Salane

August 30, 2024

The Athenaeum is pleased to present a newly commissioned exhibition by New York-based artist, Rose Salane. The exhibition will be on display at the gallery from September 12th to November 23rd. The artist will give a lecture on September 11th at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at 5:30 pm in Auditorium S151. An exhibition opening will be held the following evening at the Athenaeum, September 12th from

Teiger Foundation awards $75,000 for ‘Beverly’s Athens’ curatorial project supported by the Athenaeum and UGA Press

August 27, 2024

August 27, 2024 — The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia is thrilled to announce that curators Mo Costello and Katz Tepper have received the 2024 Single Project Grant from Teiger Foundation—a private foundation devoted exclusively to supporting contemporary art curators. Teiger Foundation has awarded Costello and Tepper $75,000 to support the posthumous exhibition, publication,

UGA Faculty Jang and Callahan collaborated on and published “Seed Pods of Democracy”

August 20, 2024

Image of Hong Hong standing in her studio. Beverly, MA. 2024.

Dodd Galleries Presents 2024 Margie E. West Prize Winner Exhibition

August 20, 2024

The Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia is pleased to announce Hong Hong: Inland, our 2024 Margie E. West Prize recipient exhibition in which Dodd alumna, Hong Hong MFA '14, examines the body as a closed ecological system, where various materials continually interact to sustain and regenerate itself.

School of Art Galleries Director Katie Geha named director of UW–Madison’s Tandem Press

July 21, 2024

Katie Geha, director and chief curator of the galleries at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, has accepted the position of director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Tandem Press, a premier publisher of fine art prints affiliated with the university’s art department in their School of Education.

Visiting Artist Mark Leibert experiments with generative AI imagery in painting, design, installation, and more

April 23, 2024

Georgia Tech Professor Mark Leibert visits the Lamar Dodd School of Art this week to discuss his collaborative process employing AI for generating concepts in painting, time-based works, installation, and more.

Tommy Kha, May (Madonna Sans Child), in Four Acts, East Memphis, Tennessee, 2021. Pigmented inkjet print.

Photographers Tommy Kha and Jill Frank discuss their work in High Museum of Art exhibition “Truth Told Slant”

April 10, 2024

Truth Told Slant is an exhibition currently on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta that “examines a recent shift in how photographers have taken on the challenge of making meaningful images of the world around them.” The show spotlights stylistic, expressive documentary photography by five practicing artists in the Southeast.

Lindsey Kennedy, “A Chaos of Hard Clay,” 2024, archival pigment print, 2024 MFA candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia

2024 MFA thesis exhibition “Sharpening a Screw” opens at the Athenaeum

April 9, 2024

This spring, nine students earning their Master's in Fine Arts (MFA) at the Lamar Dodd School of Art present Sharpening a Screw, a thesis exhibition at the Athenaeum opening to the public on April 12, 2024 from 6 - 8 pm.

tephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48, ongoing video project, 2014-present.

Visiting Transmedia Artist Stephanie Dinkins explores “ecosystems based on care and social equity” through AI

March 19, 2024

Visiting artist and inclusive AI advocate Stephanie Dinkins delivers a public lecture on her use of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence to probe their impact on communities of color and advance “ecosystems based on care and social equity.”