Lamar Dodd School of Art

Professor Imi Hwangbo opens solo show in Boston

Post • Published November 22, 2024

The Diviner Series, a solo exhibition of new constructed drawings and prints by Dodd Professor Imi Hwangbo, will be shown at the Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston from November 28 – December 21, 2024. Hwangbo’s delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo’s practice combines image, object, and material.

Art in the Field: UGA students explore mining and ecology in Georgia

Post • Published November 18, 2024

Mines in Southeast Georgia can conjure many images — swamps, pits, pines, machinery. A band of artists may not be at the top of this list. Nevertheless, University of Georgia Professor of Art Michael Marshall and 14 students were invited to don hardhats and visit the Chemours Mission Mine in the Altamaha River Basin this past September to contemplate the setting through different eyes and tell a g

High Museum of Art exhibiting photographer Kelli Connell visits the Dodd

Post • Published November 13, 2024

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes photographer Kelli Connell for a Visiting Artist Lecture on November 19, presented in partnership with the High Museum of Art on the occasion of her solo exhibition this fall, Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis, as well as a seminar on November 20 through the Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop.

Animation alum Mack Williams delivers 2024 Jack Davis Lecture for Centennial Celebration at Special Collections

Post • Published November 1, 2024

The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the UGA Special Collections Libraries welcome animator and director Mack Williams, UGA alum and 2024 Bulldog 100 recipient, to deliver the 2024 Jack Davis Lecture on the occasion of the centennial of Jack Davis’ birth.

Online Master’s in Art Education Launching Fall 2025

Post • Published October 28, 2024

The Master's in Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art is going virtual! Check back mid-November for details on our new online MAEd program launching Fall 2025.

Artwork by MFA student Samuel Horgan, 2024.

Three new student exhibitions explore the ins and outs of the body and the home

Post • Published October 8, 2024

Meat, bubble gum, and endoscopy— MFA students delve into visceral and sticky subjects in a new round of exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries: Meat-a-physics, Desirable, and Endoscope. Join us this Thursday October 10 at 270 River Road from 6 - 8 pm to celebrate three new shows parsing the ins and outs of the body and the home. These exhibitions, along with Hong Hong: Inland in the Margie E. West Gall

Image: 2023 4'33" Contest Winners at the Athenaeum — Vale Prosper, Isabella Tallman-Jones, Adah Bennion, and Keren Sahar.

Compete in the 4’33” Contest, a research competition in the arts during the UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival

Post • Published October 3, 2024

An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights University of Georgia student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community.

Lamar Dodd photography students in Associate Professor Marni Shindelman’s “Constructed Image” class attend a creative studio lighting workshop hosted by the UGA Marketing & Communications photo staff.

Photography students practice studio lighting with UGA photographer Chamberlain Smith

Post • Published October 3, 2024

University of Georgia staff photographer and alumna Chamberlain Smith conducted a creative studio lighting workshop with students in Associate Professor Marni Shindelman's "Constructed Image" class. This visit is part of an ongoing collaboration between Shindelman and the UGA Marketing & Communications photo staff to provide students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art with direction on

Artwork: Mary Hallam Pearse and Joseph Peragine, Steered by Falling Stars, 2024.

Director Joseph Peragine and Professor Mary Hallam Pearse collaborate on sculpture for …an Atlanta Biennial…

Post • Published October 2, 2024

Lamar Dodd School of Art Director Joseph Peragine and Professor of Art Mary Hallam Pearse are presenting a collaborative artwork titled Steered by Falling Stars for …an Atlanta Biennial..., organized by The Temporary Art Center from October 3 - November 3, 2024.

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Moon Jang receives 2024 RISD Art & Design Educator Award

Post • Published October 1, 2024

In recognition of the unique graphic design-centered creative culture she has developed in her 15 years teaching at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, the RISD Alumni Association has awarded Moon Jung Jang MFA 08 GD the 2024 Art & Design Educator Award.

Artwork: Izzy Losskarn (UGA), Prick (Red), 2023. 20 x 20 in. Pastel on paper, mounted to shaped wood panel.

UGA partners with Georgia State University for Atlanta Art Week

Post • Published September 23, 2024

For the second year in a row, MFA students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are participating in Atlanta Art Week. This year’s exhibition HOMEWORK is a collaboration with Georgia State University's Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design that features 19 graduate students enrolled in two of Georgia's anchor art university programs.

Call for Proposals for 2025 Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium

Post • Published September 16, 2024

The 2025 Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium, presented by the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art and the School of Social Work, seeks proposals for the forthcoming conference taking place February 7 – 9, 2025. The Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium provides an opportunity to gain insight into a range of practices aligned with social justice and the arts and aims to start a conversation across disciplinary areas. The goal of this symposium is to include and amplify voices that are often on the margins of academia and to share the theories, methodologies, and...

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