Lamar Dodd School of Art

Lamar Dodd School of Art Welcomes 4 Visiting Artists this March

March 17, 2025

All are invited to a series of visiting artist lectures this week and next at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, kicking off with multi-disciplinary artist Aaron S. Coleman on Wednesday March 19, whose exhibition Aaron S. Coleman: Prints and Collages 2013-2025 is on view through Friday in the Dodd Galleries. Coleman is on site this week working with Professor Jon Swindler, students, and invited classes

Spring exhibitions opening in the Dodd Galleries

February 3, 2025

The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents a round of four new exhibitions in the third-floor Dodd Galleries featuring recent works curated by the UGA Black Artists Alliance, MFA students, alumni and 2025 visiting artist Aaron Coleman. The opening reception for the exhibitions will be held on Friday February 7 from 6-8 pm and is free and open to the public.

‘Where the Sidewalk Ends, Spring 2023 BFA Exit Show’ celebrates graduating students

April 5, 2023

Ushering in graduation season, the Lamar Dodd School of Art proudly presents Where the Sidewalk Ends, BFA Spring 2023 Exit Show in the Dodd Galleries, an exhibition organized by and featuring the work of 42 graduating BFA students.

AJ Aremu ('23, MFA), You Touch the Immortals, 2023

Athenaeum presents ‘re:(de)construction,’ artworks by the 2023 MFA class of the Lamar Dodd School of Art

April 5, 2023

The Athenaeum, the University of Georgia’s contemporary art space in downtown Athens, presents artworks by the Spring 2023 MFA class of the Lamar Dodd School of Art in the upcoming thesis exhibition re:(de)construction.

Visiting Artist Rebecca Kamen is curious about creativity in sculpture and neuroscience

February 27, 2023

Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Kamen for the school's first Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture of 2023, “Curiosity and the Creative Process as Self Care”

Melissa Harshman presents work at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking

January 19, 2023

Printmaking Professor Melissa Harshman is showing work at the Georgia Tech Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking for the exhibition When Print Meets Paper.

UGA students in the 2022 Lamar Dodd School of Art Maymester in New York exploring Andy Warhol: Revelation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

School of Art Maymester Course in New York Immerses Students in an Epicenter of Contemporary Art

October 17, 2022

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.

First-year MFA student Jasmine Best speaks to guests in her studio space in the Lamar Dodd School of Art during the Art Party Extravaganza on September 16, 2022.

Art Party Extravaganza Welcomes Community to Explore Studios and Exhibitions

September 21, 2022

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.

Five Students and Alumni Selected for the 8th Collegiate Paper Art Triennial

September 15, 2022

Melissa Harshman to display work at the Mid-America Print Council Conference

September 15, 2022

Melissa Harshman presents “Growing Over” at IMPACT 12 International Printmaking Conference

September 15, 2022

Printmaking Professor Melissa Harshman and Ohio University professor Melissa Haviland will present the exhibition Growing Over at the IMPACT 12 International Printmaking Conference at The Centre for Print Research, at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK from September 21-25, 2022.

MFA Alumna Amanda Burk’s Flat File Print Shop Featured in the Athens-Banner Herald

August 24, 2022

Amanda Burk, who received her MFA in Printmaking at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2007, opened the Athens print studio Flat File Print Shop this past summer. The Athens-Banner Herald published a feature on the new studio on August 9th.

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