Lamar Dodd School of Art

Artwork by MFA student Samuel Horgan, 2024.

Three new student exhibitions explore the ins and outs of the body and the home

October 8, 2024

Meat, bubble gum, and endoscopy— MFA students delve into visceral and sticky subjects in a new round of exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries: Meat-a-physics, Desirable, and Endoscope. Join us this Thursday October 10 at 270 River Road from 6 - 8 pm to celebrate three new shows parsing the ins and outs of the body and the home. These exhibitions, along with Hong Hong: Inland in the Margie E. West Gall

Artwork: Izzy Losskarn (UGA), Prick (Red), 2023. 20 x 20 in. Pastel on paper, mounted to shaped wood panel.

UGA partners with Georgia State University for Atlanta Art Week

September 23, 2024

For the second year in a row, MFA students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are participating in Atlanta Art Week. This year’s exhibition HOMEWORK is a collaboration with Georgia State University's Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design that features 19 graduate students enrolled in two of Georgia's anchor art university programs.

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.

MFA 2023 thesis exhibition catalogue cover, Lamar Dodd School of Art.

2023 MFA thesis exhibition catalogue showcases artworks and essays by graduate students

November 7, 2023

The catalogue for the 2023 thesis exhibition re:(de)construction — shown in May 2023 at the school's downtown contemporary art gallery the Athenaeum — spotlights eleven MFA students, ten art history graduate students, and includes a guest essay by Director and Curator of the ICA Chattanooga Rachel Waldrop.

Victoria Dugger. It Ain’t That Deep, 2021. Gouache, sequins, glitter on panel, 36" x 52”

Victoria Dugger (‘22, MFA) selected for exhibition “New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch”

January 25, 2023

2022 MFA graduate of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Victoria Dugger has been selected as an exhibiting artist for New Worlds: Georgia Women to Watch, a highly-competitive exhibition that will be presented by the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Georgia Committee at the Atlanta Contemporary in 2023.