Lamar Dodd School of Art

Mary Hallam Pearse Featured in Solo Exhibition “Matters at Hand” at Stove Works

Post • Published July 18, 2022

Jewelry and metals associate professor Mary Hallam Pearse is exhibiting work in a solo show titled Matters at Hand at Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee from July 29th through September 18th, 2022. Matters at Hand explores the contradictions between the material world and mortality. See exhibition statement below.

Margaret Morrison awarded Best in Show at The Butler’s 86th National Midyear Exhibition

Post • Published July 18, 2022

The oil painting Menagerie by drawing and painting professor Margaret Morrison was awarded Best in Show in the 86th National Midyear Exhibition at the Butler Institute for American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The exhibition, on view from June 19 through August 14, 2022, is among the oldest juried shows of two-dimensional work in the country. This year’s exhibition featured 76 works from artists across 11 states. This year’s exhibition juror was William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia. Margaret Morrison received her MFA from the University of Utah in 1988. Morrison has exhibited in museums...

Mark Callahan published as contributor in “Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action”

Post • Published July 13, 2022

Lamar Dodd School of Art faculty and Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE) Artistic Director Mark Callahan is a contributor in the recently published book Critique is Creative: The Critical Response Process in Theory and Action, edited by Liz Lerman and John Borstel.

Explore the Art of Sculpting Wood this Fall with Hank Hambright of Heavy Friends Furniture

Post • Published July 8, 2022

Curious about joinery, the science of wood, and tool maintenance? Don't miss out on an exciting new special topics course this fall — Wood as a Sculptural Medium (ARST 3470)

Joseph Peragine Named Director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art

Post • Published June 23, 2022

Lamar Dodd School of Art is excited to announce the appointment of Joseph Peragine to the position of director, effective August 1, 2022.

Painting by Professor Margaret Morrison Featured in Traveling Exhibit Organized by Georgia Museum of Art and Lyndon House

Post • Published June 22, 2022

Drawing and painting professor Margaret Morrison is featured in "Picture This," the latest iteration in a series of traveling exhibitions titled "Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia."

Art Education Graduate Students Spearhead Linnentown Quilt Project

Post • Published June 20, 2022

In commemoration and recognition of Juneteenth, the School of Art is revisiting the Linnentown Quilt Project, "spearheaded in spring 2021 by University of Georgia art education graduate students Meghan Holcomb, Sarah Livant, and Gabriella Victorio to spread awareness about Linnentown".

Crafting a career through nature and art: Interdisciplinary art student Jay Reddish

Post • Published June 14, 2022

The blending of art and nature on the dress represent how Reddish is also combining aspects of their dual major at UGA: parks, recreation and tourism management at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and interdisciplinary art at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

We are Hiring! Studio Art Technician

Post • Published June 1, 2022

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is hiring an Art Studio Technician for a full-time, non-tenure track faculty appointment. The appointment start date is anticipated for August 1, 2022. Responsibilities This position is an essential member of the Dodd Studio Support team and serves to manage various aspects of UGA’s Studio Art facilities including maintaining safe and smooth operation of studio facilities in a wide range of media, digital labs, safety protocols, hazardous waste, building equipment and expansion projects. As one of two Art Studio Technicians in the School, this position will be directly responsible for supporting the School’s three-dimensional...

Those Gentle Waves of Pay Dirt: Machacek and Enos

Post • Published May 10, 2022

Those Gentle Waves of Pay Dirt, by Alumnus Jess Machacek and Assistant Professor James A. Enos, is the culmination of an artist research project supported by The Columbus State University Visiting Artist + Scholars Residency Program.

MFA Candidates Rachel Seburn & Mickey Boyd curate “Autonomy is Light: A Temporary Collaborative Public Exhibition”

Post • Published May 2, 2022

Autonomy is Light: A Temporary Collaborative Public Exhibition Martin Chamberlin, Zahria Cook, Meredith Emery, Katie Ford and Ethan Snow Curated by: Mickey Boyd and Rachel Lea Seburn We’re thinking about public and private property, and the reorganizing, and rearranging of the contemporary and historical fascination with private property ownership. How can owned yet unused/disregarded/vacant sites within our city be transformed into areas for public artistic inquiry? The unique building where the exhibition takes place offers viewpoints from the street’s sidewalks into an underground concrete and brick room. Sewage, drainage, garbage collection, a smoker’s den, the site is used for waste disposal...

PFSL01 (Port Futures and Social Logistics 01): Earth Day 2022

Post • Published April 12, 2022

Coinciding with Earth Day (Friday, April 22), the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art and College of Environment + Design will host Port Futures and Social Logistics 01: A virtual research summit and online exhibition of works. The summit and exhibition will explore the port city as a platform for furthering global cultural dialog through art and urbanism. The event focuses on environments, histories, and materials of production, extraction, and circulation in the age of energy transition. The exhibition uses the 4-D medium to document fixity and flux, and the virtual platform unites the works amidst distance and separation. PFSL01...

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