Lamar Dodd School of Art

Professor Gene Wright Delivers Lecture at National Scientific Illustration Conference

Post • Published August 20, 2019

Professor and Area Chair of Scientific Illustration Gene Wright recently delivered a presentation at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Association of Medical Illustrators (AMI) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Wright’s lecture titled “Critique or Presentation” explored the pedagogy of critique within the area of Scientific Illustration. His Ted-style talk left many of the attendees with an appreciation of a specific style of student presentations. The AMI annual meeting is a gathering of professional, student, and associate members of the Association of Medical Illustrators. The meeting features three days of plenary and concurrent sessions that cover a rich variety of topics...

Dodd Welcomes Amiko Li as Photography Fellow

Post • Published August 8, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes its newest Photography Fellow Amiko Li (b. 1993, Shanghai). The Photography Fellowship is an ongoing program at the School of Art that provides a recent MFA graduate with a year of teaching experience and studio support. Li will spend the 2019-2020 academic year teaching two studio courses within the photography area in both the fall and spring semesters, participating in formal graduate-level photography critiques, and actively pursuing creative work. Amiko Li is a visual artist working in photography, text and video. He completed his undergraduate studies at the School of the Art Institute...

Dodd Alums Named Presidents of AICAD Colleges

Post • Published August 6, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce that two alumni of the School of Art have recently been named as presidents of institutions within the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD). Joseph Girandola (MFA ‘96) has been named as the president of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Sanjit Sethi (MFA ‘98) has been named as the president of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. The Art Academy of Cincinnati’s Board of Trustees has named Joseph Girandola as the college’s next president. Girandola will assume office on August 1, 2019. Girandola currently serves as...

Assistant Professor Demitra Thomloudis Included in Exhibition at 108 Contemporary

Post • Published July 31, 2019

Assistant Professor Demitra Thomloudis has been included in a group exhibition at 108|Contemporary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 108|Contemporary is a non-profit community arts organization that supports Oklahoma’s contemporary fine craft artists. Their exhibitions facilitate a community where world-class craft and design inspires and educates audiences of all ages. 108|Contemporary’s upcoming exhibition Building on the Body: Identity, Materials, Jewelry features architecture as it melds with the human body. This exhibition brings together artists from around the world that use industrial and construction materials to create micro structures that highlight the unique architectural aspects of jewelry and the body it adorns. Through this...

BFA Alum Named Finalist in AXA Art Prize

Post • Published July 12, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce that Joan Daniel Cordova Rodriguez has been selected as one of the 40 finalists for this year’s AXA ART PRIZE Competition out of over 500 applicants. Rodriguez graduated in the Spring of 2019 with a BFA in Painting. The AXA Art Prize shines a spotlight on the re-emergence of figurative art in the contemporary art world. Now in its second year in North America, the prize has established a strong reputation as an insightful overview of emerging talent and recognizes young artists through a prestigious New York exhibition and catalog...

New Summer Exhibitions Opening at the Dodd Galleries

Post • Published July 3, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce that three new exhibitions will open at the Dodd Galleries on July 1st and run through August 30th. Fountain featuring Athens-based artist, Jaime Bull, and New York-based artist, Melissa Brown, combines sculpture and painting to play with notions associated with fountains including the source from which inspiration spurts, to gush forth, and the intricate, purely decorative function of such architecture. Athens-based photographer Brittainy Lauback traveled on a Carnival Cruise this spring to create a new body of work that examines cruise culture in her solo exhibition, Liberty. Adam Sipe, a...

Associate Professor of Art History Mark Abbe Awarded Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship

Post • Published July 1, 2019

Associate Professor of Art History Mark Abbe has been awarded a Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship by the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at UGA. This Program promotes interdisciplinary teaching and research among UGA academic units by providing tenured faculty an opportunity to extend the range of their knowledge through the study of disciplines outside their primary discipline. This Research Intensive Track Fellowship grants Abbe release time to develop new research combining the knowledge learned through Study in a Second Discipline with his primary discipline of Art History. Abbe’s Second Discipline proposal, entitled...

McClellan named Roman J. Witt Resident at University of Michigan

Post • Published June 26, 2019

Visiting Assistant Professor Courtney McClellan was recently named the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Resident at the University of Michigan. As the Roman J. Witt Resident, McClellan will conduct performance research at the University of Michigan Museum of Art to culminate in a 2020 Solo Exhibition, as well as a presentation that summarizes the process and work accomplished. For her Residency, McClellan will create “Witness Lab,” a courtroom installation in UMMA’s Stenn Gallery to be used as a venue for mock trials, staged readings, and other performances, documented via drawing, text, photography, and video by U-M students. The documentation from the...

Demitra Thomloudis Awarded Grant and Fellowship for Greece Residency

Post • Published June 20, 2019

Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork Demitra Thomloudis recently received both a Faculty Research Grant from the Office of Research through the University of Georgia Research Foundation and a Sarah H. Moss Fellowship from the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia. These awards have helped fund Thomloudis’ current ZEM – ZEDET Residency at the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum in Athens, Greece. As a studio jeweler and visual artist, her practice occupies a space where the traditions of craft, new media and expanded visual making/thinking co-exist as a blended contemporary craft practice. During Thomloudis’ two-month residency at...

Course Spotlight: NYC Maymester

Post • Published June 17, 2019

“We returned home tired and with heads spinning, but also undeniably energized by the knowledge that so many artists and intellectuals are dedicated—with stunning, often provocative results—to the practice of contemporary art and design.” – Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art, Associate Director of Research and Graduate Studies The Lamar Dodd School of Art’s New York Maymester Program recently concluded course in New York City. The New York Maymester Program is an intensive educational experience designed to provide students with the opportunity to live and study in New York City for three weeks during the month...

Lauren O’Connor-Korb (MFA ’19) Receives International Sculpture Center Award

Post • Published June 10, 2019

Recent MFA and Dodd Alumna Lauren O’Connor-Korb has been awarded the prestigious International Sculpture Center’s Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award for 2019. Lauren O’Connor-Korb earned an MFA in 2019 from the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Using humor and skepticism as tools to interrogate the world around her, O’Connor-Korb creates objects that question their own inherent form and function. Her current focus is what role machines play in distancing people from the materiality of their environments. Her work has been shown nationally in San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, and New York. She is from the San Francisco Bay Area...

Professor Joe Norman and Students Honored with Award and Praise from Mayor

Post • Published June 7, 2019

Color the World Bright, a group led by Lamar Dodd School of Art Professor Joseph Norman recently completed the restoration of several historical murals in rural Georgia. In this project, Norman and students create and restore public murals of a bygone time. In restoring these “ghost- signs” he says, “A mural becomes a matter of civic pride…”. Participants in the group include Dodd students Lia Davis, Katie Eidson, Benjamin Thrash, Elizabeth Qardan, and Adjunct Professor, Meredith Lachin. The group was recently awarded for their work in Madison, Ga. The Landmark Society of Madison and Color the World Bright received the...

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