Lamar Dodd School of Art

Artist Resources During Covid-19

Post • Published April 1, 2020

As we navigate these unprecedented times, it has become more apparent than ever how supportive the arts community can be. Several organizations have come together recently in order to embrace the spirit of lifting each other up in the midst of uncertainty. The Lamar Dodd School of Art is proud to share these opportunities with our own community and we invite you to submit news or student opportunities that you feel belong here. Creative Capital has compiled a comprehensive list of resources for artists working in all disciplines, as well as arts philanthropists, and arts professionals that will be updated for...

New Faculty Spotlights: Annika Kappenstein

Post • Published April 1, 2020

Lamar Dodd School of Art is excited to welcome Annika Kappenstein as a new faculty member. She will be joining the Graphic Design Area, sharing her creative and professional design work experiences in the industry, as well as her perspective for owning and operating a design firm. Her expertise in brand strategy, visual identity systems, logo design, web design, typography, print collateral and information graphics will enhance the department’s curriculum, which is designed to prepare students to communicate ideas and experiences by integrating visual and textual content across various media. Annika received her MFA in Communication Design from Braunschweig University of...

Fall 2020 Registration Update & Details

Post • Published March 25, 2020

UGA ticketed registration opens on Tuesday, April 14. The School of Art wanted to remind you of procedures and resources to help students with the registration process. Dodd Class Registration Page Use the Dodd Class Registration page to find helpful information pertaining to the Dodd’s schedule of classes, answers to commonly asked registration questions, and more. For Studio Art Minor or a Design and Media Minor, please refer to the Studio Course Guide to find the sections of courses available to minors. Additionally, there are a number of new pages for you to learn more about the ARST 4915: Thematic Inquiries being offered each semester, as well...

A Message From the School of Art

Post • Published March 19, 2020

UPDATE: The Lamar Dodd School of Art is officially locked until further notice. There is not a set time when campus and the School of Art will re-open. Students will be notified immediately if there is a future opportunity to come retrieve belongings. Students’ materials that were not retrieved are being left safely in their place and will not be disturbed. March 19, 2020 To Undergraduate Students: I hope this finds you well, safe, and navigating our new temporary normal. Please know that I am thinking about all of you, and hoping you all stay safe and healthy. I...

Update on Lamar Dodd School of Art Students in Italy

Post • Published March 2, 2020

The University of Georgia has asked students studying in Italy to leave the country, impacting the students studying in Cortona for the spring semester. Chris Robinson, Director of the Cortona Studies Abroad Program shared this message on Friday, February 29, 2020: “On February 28, 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control issued a “Level 3 Alert: Avoid Non-Essential Travel” to Italy based on the spread of New Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. The American State Department also raised Travel Advisory to “Level 3: Reconsider Travel” on February 28, 2020. This is an increase in previous warnings. Given the developments and after...

Mary Pearse Reviewed in Metalsmith Magazine

Post • Published February 26, 2020

Associate Professor Mary Hallam Pearse was part of the invitational exhibition DOMESTIC MATTERS: The Uncommon Apron at the Peter Valley School of Craft in Layton, New Jersey this past fall. Metalsmith Magazine featured a review of Pearse’s piece Leaded in Volume 40, No. 1. The exhibition DOMESTIC MATTERS: The Uncommon Apron presented a group of forty-seven women artists exploring the apron as an icon, often socially and politically charged, for broader themes of domesticity, femininity, family history and personal experience. The exhibition focuses on work in craft media made specifically for the show. It makes reference to historic connections to occupation, community, and...

Atlantic Georgia: Freemasonry, Religion, and the 18th-Century British Empire

Post • Published February 5, 2020

Please join the Georgia Museum of Art for a lecture from Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida, on February 27, 2020 at 5:30 PM. From its emergence as a British colony in the 1730s, Georgia was fully imbricated in far-reaching networks that undergirded the expanding British Empire and interconnected the societies of the Atlantic world. This talk explores the fraternal and religious networks that took root in colonial Georgia and contributed to the province’s rapid development from the 1750s. Particular attention will be paid to the Free and Accepted Masons, whose cosmopolitan fraternalism was both manifest in...

Reflecting on Rembrandt: Lamar Dodd Collaborative Student Exhibition with GMOA

Post • Published February 5, 2020

In the fall of 2019, students from ARHI 4310/6310 and ARST 3315 worked in collaboration with the Georgia Museum of Art in order to create and organize a unique exhibition honoring the legacy of Rembrandt van Rign. Students in ARHI 4310/6310, an upper-level undergraduate and graduate art history class on Northern baroque art at UGA taught by Professor Shelley Zuraw, worked with museum staff to organize an exhibition in honor of the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s death in 1669. Inspired by Rembrandt’s extraordinary facility and fame as an etcher, this exhibition seeks to consider his own development over a 40-plus-year...

Recent Alumni Accomplishments

Post • Published February 4, 2020

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the recent accomplishments of several alumni including, Shawn Campbell, Ridley Howard, Adam Forrester, Guadalupe Navarro, and Joshua Dudley Greer. Joshua Dudley Greer Alumni Joshua Dudley Greer was recently included in the Atlantic for a photograph taken in New Orleans, LA. According to the feature, “Greer was in New Orleans as part of a series of road trips he’d begun taking in 2011, during which he photographed people and places on and around the American network of superhighways. “Rather than moving quickly through these spaces,” Greer has written, he “made the decision to...

Four Students Included in APG Honor Roll

Post • Published February 2, 2020

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is please to announce that four students have been included in Atlanta Photography Group (APG) for Honor Roll, a juried group exhibition supporting the work of student photographic artists attending Georgia’s colleges & universities. Students with work on view are graduate students Alec Kaus, Lauren Chappell, and Matthew Brown along with undergraduate student Alec Peyton. This exhibition will be on view from Saturday, February 1, 2020 until February 22, 2020. This exhibition was juried by Gregory Harris, High Museum – Associate Photography curator, Erin Jane Nelson, Burnaway – Executive Director, and Spalding Nix, Spalding...

Bill Kelley Jr. Keynote Speaker

Post • Published February 1, 2020

An Inquiry into Theorizing Community-based Art: A Curatorial Perspective Bill Kelley, Jr. will be speaking as the keynote in conjunction with the Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium and Visiting Artist Series at UGA. February 22, 2020 1:00 pm in S151, Lamar Dodd School of Art Bill Kelley, Jr. is an educator, curator and writer based in Los Angeles. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) and a Masters in Art History from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (UNM). His current research focuses on collaborative and collective art practices...

Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium 2020

Post • Published February 1, 2020

Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium : February 21-23, 2020 Hosted by The University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art and The School of Social Work (in partnership with Florida State University) The University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art and The School of Social Work (in partnership with Florida State University), are hosting the 10th annual Art and Education for Social Justice Symposium. This symposium follows an interdisciplinary approach into how art and education can support social justice. The goal of this symposium is to include and amplify voices that are often on the margins...

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