Lamar Dodd School of Art

BFA Exit Round Two: Be Still

Post • Published April 9, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents its second Spring BFA Exit exhibition, “Be Still”. Please join us in celebrating graduate BFA students’ captstone exhibition. The opening reception is April 19, 2019. The work is on view until April 26th. Artists: Fabric Design Freeman Thompson Madison Letts Lizzy Sutton Jasmine Weber Arianna Mantas Libby Baxter Dominique Charles Ann Mason Claire Rieder Andrea Valentina Murillo Printmaking Caroline Corder Nicole Borne Interdisciplinary Art and Design Ellen Ericson Alison Kocher Joan Daniel Cordova Rodriguez Mary Kathryn Hightower Art X Stephanie Clark Belva Joslin Painting Carolyn Propst- Ceramics Mia Hall

Why Art History? An interview with Shelley Zuraw

Post • Published April 3, 2019

“Art history is about you being the voice, talking about someone who no longer has a voice, the artist, the artist’s patron, the context of the work.” – Shelley Zuraw To accompany her recent accomplishment in being named as one of five Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors, Shelley Zuraw was interviewed by UGA’s Marketing and Communications Division. She speaks to her experiences as a Professor of Art History and about why she teaches. Interviewer: What is your favorite aspect of teaching students? Why do you do it? What do you love about teaching? Shelley Zuraw: I suppose it’s...

Art History Student Awarded Curatorial Internship at Crystal Bridges Museum

Post • Published April 1, 2019

Joshua Johnson, a senior Art History student and studio artist, has recently been awarded the Havner Curatorial Internship this summer at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Johnson is enthusiastic about the opportunity to engage with their collection of Gilded Age works and to aid the curatorial staff in the realization of Crystal Bridge’s mission to increase community access to American Art Johnson will graduate in May 2019 with a minor in drawing and an AB in Art History. His Art Historical emphasis is the American Gilded Age; his most extensive research being under Dr. Simon...

MFA Candidate Travels to England to Present Paper

Post • Published March 29, 2019

Alec Kaus, an MFA candidate in Photography recently traveled to Manchester, England to present a paper at the 2019 Historical Fictions Research Network Confrence at the Manchester Central Library. His paper titled, Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Reevaluating Fact, Fiction and the Archive in Christian Patterson’s Redheaded Peckerwood focused on the photobook project Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson and 1973 film Badlands by Terrence Malick that inspired Christian Patterson. Both Redheaded Peckerwood and Badlands were inspired by America’s first spree killers, Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, who started their crime spree in Lincoln, Nebraska where Kaus studied as an undergraduate. Kaus...

Aaron T Stephan Lecture: “Making Nonsense”

Post • Published March 29, 2019

Join the Lamar Dodd School of Art on February 26, 2019, at 5:30 PM in S150 for a lecture with Aaron T Stephan, “Making Nonsense”. Aaron T Stephan is an artist living and working in Portland, Maine. His work presents a wry look at the world around him – focusing on a complex web of information carried by everyday materials and objects. His work has taken form as a twenty-foot high table and chairs, a shelter made entirely of books, and a series of drawings reproducing iconic artworks ad infinitum Stephan’s work has been featured at venues across the U.S....

Associate Professor Shelley Zuraw named Meigs Professor

Post • Published March 26, 2019

Associate Professor of Art History Shelley Zuraw has been named as one of five Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professors, the highest university recognition for excellence in instruction. She will be honored at the upcoming annual Faculty Recognition Banquet on April 1. According to Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Libby V. Morris, whose office sponsors the award, “Our 2019 Meigs Professors represent a range of fields, but they share a commitment to engaging students and challenging them to apply their knowledge in creative and meaningful ways. They are exemplary educators at a university with a national reputation...

Figure Drawing and Anatomy Hangs Out at Canopy Studios

Post • Published March 23, 2019

Professor Gene Wright and his Figure Drawing and Anatomy class recently traveled to Canopy Studios, an aerial arts acrobatic studio, to hone their drawing skills in a new and exciting setting. Students in Figure Drawing and Anatomy drew a live model who hung from silks suspended from the ceiling. The group was an eclectic mix, ranging from scientific illustration, painting and drawing, to a Biology major and a Ph.D. Candidate. Wright’s class is an advanced course in drawing the human figure, with a strong emphasis on the anatomical and bio-mechanical aspects of life drawing. Students work through a sequence...

Assistant Professor Xin Xin Organized Worldwide Celebration of Art, Code, and Diversity

Post • Published March 22, 2019

Assistant Professor Xin Xin served as the Director and Lead Organizer for Processing Community Day (PCD), which took place in Los Angeles and 100+ participating cities in North America, South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Australia throughout the months of January and February 2019. PCD @ LA is an inclusive event that brought together nearly 300 people people of all ages to celebrate and explore art, code, and activism. The day-long event featured four themed-tracks — “Accessibility, Disability, and Care”, “Radical Pedagogy”, “Under the Silicon, the Beach!”, and “Epic Play!”. Each themed track contained lightning talks and sessions presented by...

Emerging Scholars Symposium “llustrating Love: From Myth to Manual”

Post • Published March 20, 2019

Please join the Lamar Dodd School of Art at this year’s Emerging Scholars Symposium, “Illustrating Love: From Myth to Manual,” March 22 – 23, 2019. Current graduate students and other emerging scholars will expand the scope of the exhibition by exploring the concept of love throughout the history of visual and material culture. The keynote lecture “Art, Love and Marriage in the Italian Renaissance” will be presented by Dr. Paul Barolsky on Friday at 4:30PM in the auditorium at the Georgia Museum of Art. The 2019 Emerging Scholars Symposium is held in conjunction with the exhibition “Life, Love and Marriage Chests...

PHD Candidate Awarded Willson Center Graduate Research Award

Post • Published March 19, 2019

PHD Candidate in Art History Megan Neely has been awarded the Willson Center Graduate Research Award for the Project Titian as Ovid: Afterlife of the Metamorphoses. The Willson Center Graduate Research Award provides support toward research‐related expenses for arts and humanities projects that are essential components of a graduate degree program. These expenses can include performances, installations, publications, contracts, conferences, lectures, or research visits. This award will be applied as a scholarship to support Neely’s research. The Willson Center is a showcase for faculty innovation and achievement. It facilitates intellectual exchange with the University and the public by the encouragement of...

Professor Melissa Harshman Highlighted on VoyageATL

Post • Published March 15, 2019

Professor of Art Melissa Harshman was recently interviewed for VoyageATL, a magazine who’s mission is to “build a platform that fosters collaboration and support for small businesses, independent artists and entrepreneurs, local institutions and those that make our city (Atlanta) interesting”. Read the full interview here. Harshman received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in 1992. She has taught in the Printmaking and Book Arts area at the Lamar Dodd School of Art since 1993. In early 2018 Harshman received a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Research Fellowship, during which she spent the month of January...

2019 Dodd Chair Lauren Fensterstock Lecture

Post • Published March 15, 2019

Join the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 for a lecture with the 2018-2019 Dodd Chair, Lauren Fensterstock. American artist, curator, and writer, Lauren Fensterstock is best known for creating elaborate sculptures and installations that explore the evolving history of our relationship to nature. By merging contradictory historic perspectives—from the Baroque to the Picturesque and Minimalism—she reveals the cultural roots of our concept of nature. Her intricate artworks are constructed in the material associated to women’s crafts, such as quilled paper and shell work, emphasizing the capacity of these media to reflect on the complexities of the world...

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