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Art Education travels to Boston for NAEA Convention

Post • Published March 10, 2019

Faculty and graduate students of Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are traveling to Boston for the National Art Education Association (NAEA) Convention from March 14 – March 17. Founded in 1947, the National Art Education Association is the leading professional membership organization exclusively for visual arts educators. The NAEA National Convention is an annual event providing substantive professional development services that include the advancement of knowledge in all sessions, events, and activities for the purpose of improving visual arts instruction in American schools. As such, it is the world’s largest art education convention. The Lamar Dodd...

The Dodd is Hiring Faculty Positions in Sculpture, Design, and More

Post • Published March 1, 2019

The Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia is currently accepting applications for a number of positions. The nationally ranked School of Art has over 50 full-time faculty members in studio art, design, art education, and art history, administering undergraduate and graduate programs to over 1,000 students. Its vibrant community fosters a creative atmosphere for innovation. Faculty are provided numerous resources for advancing research including a private studio, computer, access to a wide array of tools and technology, and opportunities for travel and research funding. Design and Core Lecturer The Dodd is seeking to fill a non-tenure track...

Assistant Professor Christina Hanawalt Elected a Division Director of NAEA

Post • Published March 1, 2019

Assistant Professor of Art Education Christina Hanawalt has been elected as a Division Director-Elect of Higher Education of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). A 15-member Board of Directors serves as the governing authority to advance the Association’s mission, determine its goals and priorities, provide strategic direction and fiduciary oversight. All positions are elected by members with the exception of the Executive Director. The Division Directors-Elect will begin their terms as Elects at the conclusion of the NAEA Board of Directors meeting in Boston. During their terms, they will work closely with their respective Division Director in leading work related...

Associate Professor Margaret Morrison Named a Regional Juror for AXA Art Prize

Post • Published February 28, 2019

The AXA Art Prize is the premier figurative art prize in North America. Associate Professor Margaret Morrison has been selected as a Regional Juror for 2019. Formerly known as the XL Catlin Art Prize, this competition is open to undergraduate and graduate students in U.S. art programs. Some of last year’s participating institutions include Columbia University, Laguna College of Art & Design, Parsons School of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Yale. The fact that the Lamar Dodd School of Art is included in this collection of prestigious institutions speaks highly of the exception quality...

Associate Professor Jon Swindler Exhibiting at Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences

Post • Published February 27, 2019

Associate Professor Jon Swindler is exhibiting in “Emerging National VII” at Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia. Jon Swindler is exhibiting a new collaborative installation with Michael McFalls, Professor of Sculpture at Columbus State University, for the 7th annual Emerging Artists exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Sciences. This exhibition showcases rising stars from across the United States. Eight contemporary professional artists, representing some of the nation’s finest undergraduate and graduate art programs, will display works ranging from large-scale abstract paintings and mixed media installations to ceramic sculpture. Four years ago, Jon Swindler and Mike McFalls...

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon

Post • Published February 26, 2019

Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon Details The edit-a-thon will take place in the Art Library and the N200 Computer Lab at the Dodd on Friday, March 1 from 12-5 pm. There will be refreshments, computers, wikipedia experts, and research assistants on hand 12:30 and 2:30 pm Brief presentations on wikipedia editing for beginners 3 pm Callan Steinmann, Curator of Education at the Georgia Museum of Art, will lead a tour focusing on women in the GMOA’s collection, starting at the banner by Rebecca Rutstein in the atrium Wikipedia’s gender trouble is well documented, with less than 10% of its contributors identifying...

Undergraduate Student Published in The Classic Journal

Post • Published February 22, 2019

Please join us in celebrating the achievement of Lamar Dodd School of Art undergraduate student Penske McCormack for the following publication in The Classic Journal: “The Body as the Universe: Hijikata Tatsumi’s Ankoku Butoh and Georges Bataille’s Informe.” The essay investigates the transgressive dance form Ankoku Butoh. Sometimes referred to as just “Butoh”, this avant-garde postwar Japanese dance is often translated to “Dance of Utter Darkness.” In the essay, McCormack argues that Butoh uses Georges Bataille’s theory of informe, or formlessness, to undermine the purity of form Modernism promoted at the time. Penske McCormack is a fourth-year art history major and studio art minor at the Lamar Dodd School...

Art X Instructor Chris Cogan included in “Art in Motion: 100 Masterpieces

Post • Published February 20, 2019

Art X Instructor Chris Cogan’s work will be included in the new book, “Art in Motion: 100 Masterpieces with and through Media” by ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. It will be edited by curators Peter Weibel and Siegfried Zielinski and released by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Cologne. The book is based on ZKM’s exhibition of the same name, which presents time-based media arts as the foremost innovation in the arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is a moving history of the art of motion utilizing technical devices: from cinema to kinetics, from light to...

Professor Luxenberg Creates New Course for SCL Fellows Program Cohort

Post • Published February 20, 2019

Professor of Art History Alisa Luxenberg has been selected by UGA Special Collections Libraries and the Center for Teaching and Learning as one of eight faculty participants in the 2018-2019 Special Collections Libraries (SCL) Fellows Program. The SCL Fellowship Program allows full-time faculty at UGA to explore archives-based learning as an intensive learning practice. The Fellows will participate in a series of workshops and seminars in the spring semester to develop archives-centered courses. They will work with archivists in the University’s special collections libraries: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, and the Walter...

Dodd Scientific Illustrators Give Whale Mandible New Life

Post • Published February 14, 2019

Professor of Art and Area Chair for Scientific Illustration Gene Wright, along with Scientific Illustration Students Amy Sands (2011) and Amanda Camp (2012), constructed models and graphics of an extinct Atlantic Gray whale mandible that now have far reaching impact. During the fall of 2006, Scott Noakes and other scientific divers from UGA and Gray’s Reef discovered what would soon be identified by scientists at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (SNMNH) as an approximately 36,000 years old fossilized whale mandible. This fragment belonged to an Atlantic Gray whale, a species that has been extinct since around 1740. Circumstantial evidence indicates...

Dodd Alum Nate Carlson has Solo Exhibition

Post • Published February 14, 2019

Dodd alum Nate Carlson (2013) will have a solo exhibition, Southern Pastoral, in the Leo Castelli gallery of Brenau University on view from February 14 – April 25, 2019. In this exhibition, Carlson investigates the relationship between the old, traditionally rural south, and new, booming metropolitan growth. The works explore themes of rural gentrification and economic displacement while finding beauty in the colors and forms that create the southern landscape. Abandoned spaces and abstracted, ethereal figures serve as observers to these transitions, quietly weathering that which they have little or no control over.

MFA Candidate Awarded Grant from Athens Area Arts Council

Post • Published February 13, 2019

MFA Candidate AC Carter—who also performs as Lambda Celsius—was recently awarded an Athens Area Arts Council grant. AC is an artist, musician and festival organizer and will apply the grant towards supporting Ad•Verse Fest, a two-day festival showcasing solo and duo performers who blur the lines between the musical, visual and performative arts. The Athens Area Arts Council is a non-profit arts organization whose goal is to integrate the vast cultural resources of Athens into the fabric of the educational system and economy, as well as the culture of the Athens community. The AAAC quarterly grant is designed to help...

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