Lamar Dodd School of Art

Video Concepts & Practice Class Creates Music Video for Local Band

Post • Published May 14, 2019

MFA Will Major’s Video Concepts & Practice Class produced a music video for the Athens band Kwazymoto, titled ‘Death Gallop’. The video was directed by Will Major and created as a final project for the class he teaches at the Lamar Dodd School of Art . Frontman Ian Hemerlein’s sister, Lauren Hemerlein, had been a part of many of the visual aspects of Kwazymoto in the past. She was a student in Major’s class, Video Concepts & Practice, and approached the band with the idea to volunteer their song for the class’s final project. The song is from Kwazymoto’s EP...

Megan Neely Awarded Summer Research Travel Grant for Doctoral Students

Post • Published May 3, 2019

Ph.D. Student in Art History Megan Neely was recently awarded a Summer Research Travel Grant for Doctoral Students. During the summer of 2019, Lind plans to use these funds to travel to both Spain and Italy to see works by Titian discussed in her dissertation Neely’s dissertation considers how the Venetian artist Titian transformed a political allegory, the Flaying of Marsyas, into an image of self-reflection. Embedded in my investigation is a re-contextualization of some of the artist’s most famous works, the poesie, inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Rather than merely refashioning Ovid’s poetry for the canvas, Titian viewed the author as a model to prove...

Mallory Lind Awarded Summer Research Travel Grant for Doctoral Students

Post • Published April 30, 2019

Ph.D. Student in Art Education Mallory Lind was recently awarded a Summer Research Travel Grant for Doctoral Students. During the summer of 2019, Lind plans on living and working within Bentonville, Arkansas, home of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. She will use this funding to support her travel to rural geographies and populations in Northwest Arkansas, as well as support her complete immersion within the context of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and the communities it reaches. Lind’s dissertation will be an ethnographic, post-qualitative study on the possibilities of rural access to art museums through the theoretical lens of...

MFA 2019 Exhibition

Post • Published April 30, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to announce the 2019 MFA Exhibition to be held in two venues in Athens, Georgia: the Georgia Museum of Art on the campus of the University of Georgia and the Deupree Building, located in downtown Athens at 458 E. Clayton Street. Together, these exhibitions feature the works of 20 MFA students working in a variety media across a diverse array of themes and theoretical frameworks including ecology, migration, surveillance, the inhuman, propaganda, and the body. The exhibition includes objects and ephemera; paintings, prints, and photographs; lens-based work and installations; jewelry, textiles and...

CHALKFEST: 2019 Sidewalk Chalk Competition

Post • Published April 26, 2019

2019 CHALKFEST April 26, 2019 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM The Dodd Ambassadors introduces Lamar Dodd School of Art’s first-ever sidewalk chalk competition, CHALKFEST! We invite you to come show off your skills and decorate our Art Garden with chalk masterpieces. Not interested in competing? Come anyway for awesome art, food, and music from local vendors. All proceeds go to support the Art Supply Pantry. Information about parking and directions can be found here. Paid parking is available at the Performing Arts Center beginning at 3 PM and free parking is available in the E07 Lot beginning at 4 PM....

Professor Imi Hwangbo and Sanaz Haghani Included in “Women to Watch 2020”

Post • Published April 23, 2019

Professor Imi Hwangbo and MFA candidate Sanaz Haghani will exhibit their work in Paper Routes: Women to Watch 2020, an exhibition of contemporary works on paper organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The exhibition is curated by Michael Rooks of the High Museum, and will take place in January 2020 at MOCA GA. Hwangbo and Haghani are two of five Georgia artists working in paper selected for the MOCA GA show. As regional semifinalists, they will be considered for the Women to Watch exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in June 2020. ...

Giving Week at UGA and the Dodd

Post • Published April 22, 2019

At the University of Georgia, we dedicate our hearts, our time and our resources to preparing the next generation of leaders, transforming lives and communities, and making groundbreaking discoveries. And we’re just getting started. Beginning on April 20, 219, the University of Georgia will launch its first ever Giving Week. Throughout this week UGA encourages alumni to give back and help change the lives of thousands of students, inspire tomorrow’s leaders, and fund critical research. The Lamar Dodd School of Art joins in this appeal. Any academic gift is welcome. Any designation. Any amount. Any donor. A gift can...

Alum and Dodd Board Member Sarah Hobbs at Hathaway Gallery

Post • Published April 21, 2019

Alum and new Board of Visitors member Sarah Hobbs currently has a solo exhibition titled Twilight Living in Atlanta at Hathaway Contemporary Gallery. The exhibition is on view until May 11, 2019. This solo exhibition will be Hobb’s first with HATHAWAY, and her first in an Atlanta gallery since 2009, after completing a number of significant site-specific installations in museums and project spaces over the past decade Read Everything and Nothing You Need: Sarah Hobbs at Hathaway Gallery by Claire E Dempster (also a Lamar Dodd School of Art alum) for a review of the eight large interior photographs and...

Alum Richard Scott featured in American Collector Magazine

Post • Published April 19, 2019

Alumn Richard Scott has recently earned a two page feature in American Collector Magazine. Scott graduated with a BFA in painting in 2005. His feature in American Collector Magazine titled “Full Circle” focuses on his exhibition at Spalding Nix Fine Art and tells the story of his progression as an artist and human being. Working between New York and Paris, Richard T Scott is known for his post-contemporary figurative paintings and his writing on aesthetic theory. Richard’s work borders between realism, romanticism, and often concern philosophical questions and alternative parallel narratives to biblical stories, myths, and literature. His work has...

Alumn Clary Bosbyshell included in Traditional Home Magazine

Post • Published April 15, 2019

2007 Dodd Alum and Interior Designer Clary Bosbyshell was recently featured in the May / June 2019 issue of Traditional Home Magazine with her take on her favorite Benjamin Moore paints. In 2018 Bosbyshell was also named one of the Rising Stars of Design by Traditional Home. Traditional Home chooses national designers to be a part of this prestigious design class each year. Read more about Bosbyshell’s award, her design esthetic, and what design eras inspire her here. Atlanta-based designer Clary Bosbyshell grew up in the world of design and  developed her eye for aesthetics at a young age, spending...

New Members Join the Board of Visitors

Post • Published April 10, 2019

New board members add valuable resources to the Lamar Dodd School of Art community. The Lamar Dodd School of Art recently added six distinguished new members to its Board of Visitors. The newest board members include Lillian Kirbo Ansley, Sue Nunally, Isobel Mills, Ridley Howard, Mary Carlson, Maria Pollard, and Sarah Hobbs. The Board of Visitors are champions of the School who support the short and long-term goals of the School of Art. The board recognizes that the Dodd has a never-ending objective to strive for excellence as an academic institution of higher learning in the visual arts, and...

Recent Achievements in Art History

Post • Published April 9, 2019

Art History students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art have recently accomplished several notable achievements. On March 29, two undergraduate students presented at the Georgia Undergraduate Art History Forum at the University of West Georgia. Rudy Trujilo, an undergraduate student in Art History, presented a paper called Divine Frenzy: Michelangelo’s ‘Bacchus’ and Neoplatonic Thought. Rudy Trujillo’s paper was completed for Dr. Zuraw’s ARHI4290 in the fall. Julianne Miao, an Art History and Marketing double major presented research on Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.). Her paper, Félix González-Torres’s Portrait of Ross in L.A.: Unmaking Binary Law, was a research...

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