The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (UGA) is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rachel Waldrop (née Reese) as Director and Curator of the Dodd Galleries and Athenaeum, a non-collecting contemporary art venue affiliated with UGA.
The Athenaeum is pleased to present Realia, an exhibition by New York-based artist Matt Keegan. The exhibition will be on display at the gallery from January 10 to March 22, 2025. An exhibition opening will be held at the Athenaeum on January 10 from 6pm to 8pm. Due to inclement weather and UGA campus closure, the exhibition opening has been rescheduled to January 11 from 2 - 4pm.
An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights University of Georgia student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community.
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
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,
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.
The following review was written by curator and writer Daniel Fuller. Kara Walker: Back of Hand is on view through March 25, 2023 at the Athenaeum in Athens, Georgia.
Complementing Walker's solo exhibition Back of Hand the gallery presents a multifaceted discussion on this topic in a one-day symposium titled Troubling Performance this upcoming Saturday, February 25.
A new exhibition at the Athenaeum of recent works on paper by internationally acclaimed American artist Kara Walker, examining themes such as complicity, racism, misremembered histories, and the violence that undergirds the legacy of the South.
The Athenaeum, the University of Georgia’s downtown contemporary art space, was awarded a $60,000 Fall 2022 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support the exhibition Fabienne Lasserre: Listeners, marking the gallery’s first time receiving this prestigious award.
The Athenaeum is thrilled to present Kara Walker: Back of Hand, the first solo exhibition to be held in Georgia of the work of this internationally renowned artist.
