Lamar Dodd School of Art

MFA Candidate Rosie Brock in ACP Ones to Watch

Post • Published October 5, 2020

MFA Candidate Rosie Brock has been named an Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACP) One To Watch for 2020. The ACP Ones to Watch is a selection of emerging and established artists who are curated by Mary Stanley for the 22nd Annual Atlanta Celebrates Photography Festival and are on a positive trajectory in their careers. Join the 2020 ACP Festival virtually from your home on Saturday, October 10, 2020, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM. Curator Mary Stanley and the ten artists will present insights into their work for the 2020 ACP Festival. Pick up brunch and join the group at noon to meet the following talented photographers: Rosie Brock...

Alum Guadalupe Navarro Featured in Craft in America

Post • Published September 30, 2020

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce that recent MFA alumnus Guadalupe Navarro has been featured in a prestigious Craft in America exhibition titled “DEMOCRACY 2020: CRAFT & THE ELECTION“. This dynamic virtual exhibition of works made by 21 artists from across the U.S. to address key issues underlying the 2020 election and the American political landscape. Guadalupe Navarro graduated with an MFA in Jewelry and Metals from the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2019. Navarro spent his life up until coming to the University of Georgia in Illinois, where he was born on the south side of...

Associate Professor Triton Mobley in CURRENTS Virtual Festival

Post • Published September 29, 2020

Associate Professor Triton Mobley’s work was recently featured in CURRENTS Virtual Festival via YouTube Twitch and Facebook Live CURRENTS New Media is Santa Fe, New Mexico’s annual art + technology exhibition. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival was presented via an entirely-online show this year: CURRENTS Virtual 2020. The 11th annual festival accessible to a worldwide audience. Mobley’s work in the festival marks a body of research conducted over three years producing a set of speculative design + computation works; an interventionist praxis working towards a critical restructuring for new possibilities on how RGB spectrum could potentially be rendered more equitably. Over this three-year...

MFA Alumni Leaves His Mark on Five Points

Post • Published September 14, 2020

MFA alum Taylor Shaw recently returned to Athens to completed a 33-foot “5 Points” mural at 1739 South Lumpkin Street on the side of Barberitos restaurant, his fifth and largest to date in Athens. Shaw was commissioned for the project after company founder and CEO Downing Barber saw his work featured on the cover of Flagpole Magazine. “I was on board from the beginning,” said Shaw. “For some reason, I picked up on a ’70s funk vibe (when speaking with Barber), and when I actually got to the building, I was surprised to see some retro graphic designs were already there....

MFA Candidate Mac Balentine Solo Show

Post • Published September 14, 2020

MFA Candidate Mac Balentine is currently featured in a solo exhibition at Camayuh Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. His exhibition, titled Chronos Eats Kids, opened Saturday, September 12. From Camayuh: Chronos Eats Kids braids mythology, image and object to consider the inertia of cultural legacies and the power of personal mythologies. The exhibition centrally figures on the Titan Chronos, born of Ouranos (sky) and Gaia (earth). Chronos’ varied characterizations across classical Greek and Roman cultures position him as an apt symbol of the malleable fabric of mythos. The sculptures and video on display in the gallery’s vestibule space, present collected objects from which narrative...

MFA Candidate Forrest Lawson Featured on Artsy.net and Southern Spaces

Post • Published September 11, 2020

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to share that the work of MFA Candidate Forrest Lawson has received notable attention and was recently featured on Artsy.net and Southern Spaces. Lawson’s work has recently been featured in the exhibition, “Existimos (We Exist)” which can be found online at Artsy.net. Originally slated for a gallery exhibit in Proyecto Galería, Mexico City, this online exclusive is a group exhibition focused on LGBTQ+ artists and artwork, curated by Micheal Swank. The exhibition will be on view through October 31, 2020, and brings together queer voices. “Queers have been erased from historical records throughout...

Scientific Illustration Instructor Teaches at CDC

Post • Published September 10, 2020

On February 7th, 2020, what now seems eons ago, Lamar Dodd School of Art Scientific Illustration instructor Wes Price spent an afternoon at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Wes, a Certified Medical Illustrator and Creative Director for the Center for BioMedical Visualization at St. George’s University School of Medicine, was invited to teach a workshop on “Digital Sculpting Techniques for Science” to a group of in-house medical illustrators who are employed as Visual Information Specialists for the Center. These artists collaborate with leading scientists to visually communicate risks and prevention of health threats that...

BOUNDLESS at Lyndon House Arts Center with Dodd Students, Alumni and Faculty

Post • Published September 3, 2020

The Lyndon House Arts Center is pleased to announce the opening of Boundless, an exhibition featuring installation based works by five Athens-based artists who explore common materials in unusual ways. BOUNDLESS will be on view in the Upper Atrium and South Gallery with a Special Preview Opening. Register today for up to 4 free scheduled tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/special-preview-opening-tickets-118020966889 Tues, Sept 8, 12 – 8 Wed, Sep 9, 10 – 5 Thurs Sept 10, 12 – 8 Using found metal scraps, Don Chambers encourages the natural process of rusting, incorporating this rust as a media into paintings and drawings. A long-time Athens resident, Don Chambers is...

Former Dodd Chair, Paul Pfeiffer Plays Pivotal Role in Changing the Culture of UGA Football

Post • Published September 1, 2020

In an announcement posted on social media in June, acting director of the University of Georgia Redcoat Band, Brett Bawcum, revealed the band’s decision to replace their football post game concert opener “Tara’s Theme,” which comes from the 1939 film “Gone with the Wind,” with “Georgia on My Mind,” popularized by Ray Charles in 1960. As Brett Bawcum explains: Last week, I notified Hodgson School of Music director Dr. Pete Jutras and Redcoat Band Alumni Association president Dave Hanson that we are ending performances of “Tara’s Theme,” effective immediately, and replacing it as our signature with “Georgia on My Mind.”...

Over 200 Dodd Students and Faculty Participate in Imagination Squared

Post • Published August 31, 2020

How are we resilient? The Athens community and UGA respond to resilience prompt. The Lyndon House Arts Center will soon unveil the exhibition Imagination Squared: Pathways to Resilience, a social experiment which collected symbols, stories, and sounds on resilience in Athens between 2018-2020. The exhibition is set to open September 8, 2020 and will be on view until January of 2021. Imagination Squared was a collaborative project created by MFA alumna Christina Foard. The project began in early 2018 and concluded abruptly amid the March 2020 COVID shutdowns. Imagination Squared asked diverse members of the Athens community, to modify a five-inch...

MFA Candidate Rosie Brock Featured in New Yorker

Post • Published August 28, 2020

The School of Art is pleased to announce that the work of MFA candidate Rosie Brock was recently featured in the New Yorker. Brock’s photographs accompanied an article written by Peter Slevin. “The North Carolina Republicans Who Are Defecting from Trump” focused on members of the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners who have left the North Carolina Republican Party and say they will not support Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Brock photographed the assignment in Brevard, NC in late August. Rosie Brock is a photographer and writer based in Athens, Georgia. Brock’s work is influenced by...

Paintings by Professor Margaret Morrison on Display at GMOA

Post • Published August 27, 2020

Two large paintings by Lamar Dodd School of Art Professor Margaret Morrison will be on view in the Georgia Museum of Art’s M. Smith Griffith Grand Hall and Patsy Dudley Pate Balcony this semester. Margaret Morrison received her MFA from the University of Utah in 1988. Morrison has exhibited in museums and institutions around the world. Morrison has also had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New York City and has been featured in the New York Times, ARTnews, Art & Antiques, M Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Florida Design, Juxtapoz, Aesthetica Magazine International, Pinch Magazine, Agave Magazine, WideWalls and the Georgia Review,...

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