Lamar Dodd School of Art

Graphic Design Student Success at 10th Annual AIGA Atlanta Pin-up Show

Post • Published January 31, 2020

Graphic design students attended AIGA Atlanta’s 10th Annual Student Pin-Up Show on October 2 at Matchstic in Atlanta. AIGA is the professional association for design. AIGA Atlanta’s Pin Up Show invites students to display their design work from across the Southeast. Lamar Dodd students Catalina Arnett, Zakk Greene, Charlie Vu, Jessica Hincapie received awards at the AIGA 10th Annual Student Pin-Up Show. Graphic Design student Catalina Arnett received both an Excellency Award and a Judge’s Choice Award for “MICAH’S STUDY” in the illustration category. The judged winners and other selected works will be displayed at the Buckhead Binder’s Gallery...

Alum Erin Dunn Named Associate Curator at the Telfair Museums

Post • Published January 30, 2020

Alumnus Erin Dunn has recently been named the Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Telfair Museums. Dunn has worked for Telfair since 2014, previously as the Richard Middleton Curatorial Fellow. The Telfair Museum, located in Savannah, Georgia, is the oldest public art museum in the South. The Telfair consist of three unique buildings showcasing three distinct collections that bridge three centuries of art and architecture. Dunn has curated over 20 exhibitions including Watershed: Contemporary Landscape Photography (2016), which subsequently toured to the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Westmont-Ridley Tree Museum of Art and received...

Professor Luxenberg and Grad Charlotte Gaillet to Present at Symposium of Decorative Arts

Post • Published January 29, 2020

The 10th Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts will be held this weekend, from Thursday January 30 to February 1 hosted by the Georgia Museum of Art at the Georgia Center. Professor of Art History, Alisa Luxenberg will be participating in the conference presenting on her current research. In addition to Professor Luxenberg, Charlotte Gaillet, currently pursuing her Masters in Art History, will be presenting as well. Professor Luxenberg’s presentation is titled, “Double Reading, Trouble Meaning: Masonic Symbolism in Visual Art”. Luxenberg’s research on Freemasonry and art has resulted in a forthcoming volume edited with Reva Wolf,...

Larry Ossei-Mensah Lecture

Post • Published January 27, 2020

Please join the Lamar Dodd School of Art for a lecture by Larry Ossei-Mensah in S151, Lamar Dodd School of Art at 5:30 PM. Larry Ossei-Mensah is the Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, as the Guest Juror for the Lyndon House Arts Center 45th Juried Exhibition. Larry Ossei-Mensah, uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome in addition to documenting...

CAA Chicago 2020

Post • Published January 26, 2020

RSVP HERE! The Lamar Dodd School of Art will be in Chicago for the 2020 College Art Association’s Annual Conference! Join the Dodd for faculty presentations at the conference as well as an alumni and friends reception. The College Art Association, as the preeminent international leadership organization in the visual arts, promotes these arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. CAA’s 2020 Annual Conference will feature over 300 sessions. Over four days in the spectacular setting of Chicago, CAA will host 500 events on-site and off, including distinguished...

Scientific Illustration Collaboration with Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Post • Published January 23, 2020

Last semester, Area Chair of Scientific Illustration Gene Wright’s students completed a project for the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department Mini Symposium: Cancer Immunotherapies. The Mini-Symposium featured four speakers, who are top researchers from across the nation studying cancer immunotherapies. Professor Wright had his students in ARGD 3310 Techniques and Topics in Science Illustration complete illustrations for the symposia to represent the research of each of the four speakers. Each student teamed with a doctoral student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department in order to create their poster illustration of the current research based off the various speakers work. The posters all portray research exploring how to reprogram our immune system in order to find new ways for our body to recognize and treat cancer cells. The research explored diverse areas across the field...

Professor Glen Kaufman Remembered

Post • Published January 23, 2020

It is with a heavy heart that the Lamar Dodd School of Art shares the passing of Professor Glen Kaufman. Professor Kaufman will be remembered and missed for his kindness and dedication to students. The family will receive friends on Monday, Jan 27 from 6pm to 7:30 followed by a Rosary at Bernstein Funeral Home, 3195 Atlanta Hwy, Athens. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, Jan 28 at 10:30am at the Chapel of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, 958 Epps Bridge Pkwy, Athens. (Note that seating in the School Chapel is limited). A Celebration of Life will be held...

Professor Melissa Harshman in Paper Pulp & Beyond

Post • Published January 22, 2020

Professor Melissa Harshman has been included in the exhibition, Paper Pulp & Beyond at Constellation Studios. This exhibition celebrates the many qualities of various fibers – translucency, fluidity, lightweight, strength, malleability, as these natural materials transform into delicate veils, fantastic dimensional structures, pulp drawings and layered constructions. Through the processes of hydration, beating, forming, and drying these fibers create unusual effects and interactions; considering the special properties of humble paper fibers, artists explore cotton, abaca (banana leaf), flax, kozo and gampi (inner bark fibers) creating works beyond typical handmade sheets. The exhibition is on view from January 24 to February...

Professor Imi Hwangbo and Alumni Jerushia Graham, Sanaz Haghani Featured in Documentary

Post • Published January 13, 2020

Professor Imi Hwangbo and alumni Jerushia Graham and Sanaz Haghani are featured in Paper Routes which was curated by Michael Rooks the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. The exhibition focuses on the transformation of paper into complex works of art. Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020 will demonstrate that paper is not always the overlooked support for drawings, prints, and photographs, but instead an extraordinary medium in and of itself. “Women to Watch” is an exhibition program, held every two to three years, developed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts...

Associate Professor Mark Abbe Awarded Gerda Henkel Stiftung Grant

Post • Published January 2, 2020

The Aphrodite−Al-‘Uzzá Conservation Collaborative: Conserving and Presenting Newly Discovered Marble Sculpture at The Petra Museum, Jordan Associate Professor of Art History Mark Abbe along with several colleagues was recently awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Grant. The grant, valued at $28,000, will focus on the conservation of a pair of marble statues of Aphrodite and an international workshop with Jordanian archaeologists and conservators that will take place in May 2020. In July 2016 the two marble sculptures of Aphrodite were unexpectedly discovered on Petra’s little-explored residential North Ridge in excavations directed by Profs. Megan A. Perry and S. Thomas Parker...

Career Opportunities at the Dodd

Post • Published December 30, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art currently has three faculty position openings. Learn more about each posting below. To apply, please visit UGAjobsearch.com Assistant or Associate Professor Visual Communications/Graphic Design Posting Number: F0597P Anticipated Start Date: 8/01/2020 The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia invites applicants for a faculty position at the assistant or associate rank focusing in visual communication design. Candidates will be judged on their merits and experience, rank and tenure status will be determined at time of offer following the University guidelines for appointment. The Graphic Design area in the Lamar Dodd School of Art...

Work of Alum Joshua Dudley Greer Acquired by Harvard Art Museum

Post • Published December 18, 2019

The work of Alumni Joshua Dudley Greer was recently acquired by the Harvard Art Museums. The Museums purchased twelve photographs from three of Greer’s bodies of work – Somewhere Along the Line, Point Pleasant, and American Histories. Joshua Dudley Greer (b. 1980 Hazleton, PA) is a photographer based in Atlanta, GA where he teaches photography at Georgia State University. His work has appeared in The California Sunday Magazine, PDN, Le Monde, The Georgia Review, GUP Magazine and Oxford American. He has received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Tennessee Arts Commission and the Aaron Siskind Foundation. His work is...

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