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PhD Candidate Jordan Dopp Recieves Dean’s Award

Post • Published March 4, 2021

Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce that PhD candidate in Art History Jordan Dopp was awarded a competitive Graduate School Dean’s Award, a monetary award to cover expenses related to final research projects. This fund assists graduate students with the costs of doing research towards their dissertations. Dopp’s funding from the Dean’s award centers on her dissertation research at the American Center of Oriental Research, or ACOR, located in Amman, Jordan. ACOR “aims to advance knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected Middle East, past and present.” Amongst promoting archaeological work fellowships and excavation opportunities, ACOR, importantly,...

Susie Ganch Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture

Post • Published March 1, 2021

March 18, 2021 at 5:30 via Zoom. Register Here Susie Ganch is a first-generation American artist of Hungarian heritage. She is a sculptor, jeweler, and educator living in Richmond, VA where she is Interim Chair for the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ganch received her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Part of her practice is Directing Radical Jewelry Makeover, an international jewelry mining and recycling project that continues to travel across the country and abroad. Issues of waste and cultural habits of consumption are imbued through her work. Recent solo exhibitions: Have a Nice Day,...

Breakfast with Professionals: Tropico Photo

Post • Published March 1, 2021

March 26, 2021 at 8 AM via Zoom. Join Jaime Bull and Brittainy Lauback as they invite art industry professionals into their Professional Practices class with Breakfast with Professionals. Lectures are open to students across the School of Art. These zoom based lectures are hosted by ARST4990: Professional Practices. Lectures will give students an opportunity to interact with professionals from various creative backgrounds as a way of exposing students to the variety of career possibilities relevant to their course of study. Register Here Tropico Photo Tropico Photo is the collaborative work of Forrest Aguar and Michelle Norris. The duo met...

Adam Grinovich: Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork

Post • Published March 1, 2021

The Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund presents the Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork, Adam Grinovich: L DOPA. Register here via Zoom. Registration required. Adam Grinovich’s work is largely centered around the taboos that surround jewelry – things that should not be done in a context of art, design, and everyday culture. The main element, a traditional faceted cubic zirconia stone, is the quintessential fake of the world of jewelry. The cultural connotation of the cubic zirconia is that of a knockoff diamond – a stand-in for the genuine article of value. His work references costume jewelry only in its...

MFA Candidate Victoria Dugger Praised in Burnaway and Flagpole

Post • Published February 25, 2021

The work of MFA candidate Victoria Dugger has recently garnered praise, with features in Burnaway and Flagpole magazines. Dugger’s solo exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center, Mind the Body, centers around “reclaiming the female body, the Black body and the disabled body [as] a liberating act of defiance,” according to Flagpole magazine. The work received high praise from both publications, making the front cover of the February issue of Flagpole. While stemming from personal experiences about being differently abled, Dugger’s exhibition reinforces that the politics of visibility is a universal issue. We all must conscientiously navigate how and whether we are seen in a...

Breakfast with Professionals: Mark George and Clive Booth

Post • Published February 24, 2021

Join Jaime Bull and Brittainy Lauback as they invite art industry professionals into their Professional Practices class with Breakfast with Professionals. Lectures are open to students across the School of Art. These zoom based lectures are hosted by ARST4990: Professional Practices. Lectures will give students an opportunity to interact with professionals from various creative backgrounds as a way of exposing students to the variety of career possibilities relevant to their course of study. Register Here Mark George I had seemed to have spent most of my life on the back of a Harley until, in 1978, a chance meeting with...

MFA Candidate Luka Carter exhibition in Flywheel Display

Post • Published February 24, 2021

MFA Candidate Luka Carter is featured in the Flywheel window display at the Lyndon House Arts Center from now until April 10. Flywheel is a window display at the Lyndon House Arts Center that captures snapshots of energy and objects suspended in place. Flywheel combines small works featuring a colorful mixture of different dimensions, colors, and mediums juxtaposed and layered. The artist composes sketches, studies, and found objects into a realized mood board of the different facets of his life that keep him moving and inspired. Carter will also present an artist talk on March 18 at 6 pm. Find...

Dodd Graduate Students Awarded 2020 Willson Center Research Awards

Post • Published February 10, 2021

School of Art graduate students Mac Balentine, Jordan Dopp and Ronika Mcclain received Willson Center for the Humanities & Arts Graduate Research Awards during the Spring 2020 semester. The Willson Center Graduate Research Awards are merit-based grants given to University of Georgia graduate students to support expenses for arts and humanities research projects. Students submit applications to fund their continued research on a range of projects, and the School of Art is excited to highlight the well-deserved awards of three of its students. Despite the unprecedented and unexpected Spring 2020 semester, Balentine, Dopp and Mcclain were all able to adapt...

Faculty and Alumni in ATHICA’s Streaming Music Night

Post • Published February 10, 2021

Assistant Professor and Area Chair of Studio Core James Enos, Senior Lecturer Ben Reynolds, and Art Studio Technician Jon Vogt in A Good Pleasure join alumni AC Carter in Klypi in the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art’s Streaming Music Night with Old Friends from Near and Far: Annie Leeth, A Good Pleasure, and Klypi. Thursday 2/18 7:30PM Free tickets required. Register here. About A Good Pleasure James Enos studied Ash Grove disseminations of flatpicking out west. He then moved to Athens and quietly joined the community. At the School of Art he met a rhythm section in scene veterans...

Faculty and Students Included in Bascom Exhibition

Post • Published February 9, 2021

Faculty and students from the School of Art were recently included in the exhibition100 Miles II at the The Bascom Center for the Visual Art’. 100 Miles II continues The Bascom’s tradition of showcasing new artwork by faculty and their students from colleges and universities surrounding Highlands, North Carolina area. This diverse exhibition provides emerging artists and established instructors the opportunity to come together for professional development in a gallery setting. Professor Melissa Harshman‘s piece A Long Spring was included in the exhibition alongside graduate student Alex McClay‘s work titled Every 37 Seconds. Assistant Professor Demi Thomloudis‘ work Proposed Excavation accompanied undergraduate student Rachel Goehringer’s piece, Congratulations! You’re An Idiot…...

Scholarship Application Deadline

Post • Published February 4, 2021

Applications for scholarships for the 2021-2022 academic year at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are approaching quickly. For Spring 2021, the application period will be Monday, February 22nd through Friday, March 26th at 5 PM. Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, as well as art-intended majors enrolled at UGA, are eligible to apply. Students graduating in Spring or Summer 2020 are NOT eligible to apply. Students must be enrolled full-time in Fall 2021 to be eligible for an award. Students must have FASFA on file at the Office of Student Financial Aid for the 2020-2021 academic...

Madeline Schwartzman Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture

Post • Published February 1, 2021

Register Here February 25, 2021 at 5:30 PM via Zoom Madeline Schwartzman is a NYC writer, filmmaker and architect whose work explores human narratives and the human sensorium through social art, book writing, curating and experimental video making. Her book See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog 2011) is a collection of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded (Black Dog, 2018) focuses on the human head—presenting an array of conceptual and constructed ideas for how we might physically extend the head, mind, and brain into space. Schwartzman’s experimental art practice, Face...

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PhD Candidate Jordan Dopp Recieves Dean’s Award

Susie Ganch Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture

Breakfast with Professionals: Tropico Photo

Adam Grinovich: Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund Visiting Artist in Jewelry and Metalwork

MFA Candidate Victoria Dugger Praised in Burnaway and Flagpole

Breakfast with Professionals: Mark George and Clive Booth

MFA Candidate Luka Carter exhibition in Flywheel Display

Dodd Graduate Students Awarded 2020 Willson Center Research Awards

Faculty and Alumni in ATHICA’s Streaming Music Night

Faculty and Students Included in Bascom Exhibition

Scholarship Application Deadline

Madeline Schwartzman Visiting Artists & Scholars Lecture