Lamar Dodd School of Art

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton Solo Exhibition at Marcia Wood

Post • Published February 12, 2019

Associate Professor Benjamin Britton has a solo exhibition opening at Marcia Wood Gallery. Desire, broadly opens on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, in Atlanta. The exhibition is on view until March 2. For those in the area, the opening reception is from 7 PM – 9 PM. The paintings in Desire, broadly are representations of what it feels like to think about things. Specifically, what it feels like to think about following desire while wrapped up in the landscape. They are reflections of consciousness as a perpetual attending-to the sensed, cognitive, residual, and formative. In practice, because they are paintings the...

Photography Fellow Forest Kelley Scored Oscar Nominated Documentary

Post • Published February 11, 2019

Dodd Photography Fellow Forest Kelley composed music for the film Hale County This Morning, This Evening which won Best Music Score from the International Documentary Association. Additional composers were Scott Alario and Alex Somers. The film was directed and produced by RaMell Ross. The documentary also featured at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won the US Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and has been nominated for an Oscar for Best Documentary (Featured). “Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, Hale County This Morning, This Evening allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic...

Work of Associate Professor Stefanie Jackson Featured in Georgia Museum of Art

Post • Published February 11, 2019

Associate Professor Stefanie Jackson’s painting Bluest Eye (1999) is featured in the exhibition Stony the Road We Trod at the Georgia Museum of Art honoring Black History Month. This exhibition is on view until April 28, 2019. Stony the Road We Trod reimagines southern identity through the lens of the African American experience. With roots or careers in Georgia, these artists comment on themes of personal and collective struggle as well as beauty and cultural heritage unique to the South. This year’s national theme for Black History Month is “Black Migrations,” and many of these works relate to how African American...

MFA Candidate Featured in UGA Grad Magazine

Post • Published February 10, 2019

MFA Candidate Cristina Echezarreta was featured in the Winter 2019 issue of UGA Graduate Magazine for her work, which is causing a “buzz” around campus. “In the process of working with the Georgia Prison Beekeeping program, the graduate student has brought her twin interests, art and entomology, together. And this year, she adopted similar ideas in order to curate an art exhibition with fellow artists at the Lamar Dodd School of Art.” Miami raised artist Cristina Echezarreta observes and responds to her ecological surroundings and her relationship with it. Influenced by the delicate and intrinsic natural functions that occur in...

The Dodd at CAA

Post • Published February 8, 2019

A number of Dodd faculty and alumni will be participating in the College Art Association’s 2019 Annual Conference. The conference will feature over 300 sessions reflecting the unprecedented range of subject areas proposed and selected by CAA members from a record-breaking 900 plus submissions. Over four days in the spectacular setting of New York City, CAA will host 500 events on site and off, including distinguished speakers, business meetings, art making and professional development workshops, gallery tours, a book and trade fair, receptions, and more. DODD FACULTY PRESENTATION SCHEDULE: Mark Abbe The Complex Cultural Biography of the Raleigh “Bacchus”...

Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series: DIS

Post • Published February 5, 2019

Join the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Wednesday, February 6, 2019, at 12:20 PM for the Visiting Artist Series: DIS Lecture in Auditorium S151. DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. Most notably these include DIS Magazine, co-founded with Nick Scholl, Patrik Sandberg, and S. Adrian Massey III in 2010 as a virtual platform that examines art, fashion, music and culture, constructing and supporting new creative practices. Since...

Professor Diane Edison named Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence

Post • Published February 4, 2019

Professor Diane Edison currently has a solo exhibiton at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. Diane Edison: 2019 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence will be on view at the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum from Thursday, January 17, 2019, through Sunday, April 28, 2019 with a lecture with the artist on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 6 pm. In 1986, Edison began to focus on self-portraits and images of family members, co-workers, and friends. She has become well known for these intense, honest, larger-than-life, close-range portraits. Edison creates her work using color pencil on black paper. The intricately detailed works draw the viewer in for scrutiny, and offer an...

2019 Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition

Post • Published February 4, 2019

The 2019 Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition will be on display from March 6 through March 29 in Margie E. West Gallery in The Lamar Dodd School of Art. This is the 27th annual exhibition. The exhibition includes work from the undergraduate students in Science Illustration at the University of Georgia along with work from the graduate students in Medical Illustration at Augusta University. Please join us in welcoming the Augusta University Graduate Program in Medical Illustration Faculty and graduate students to the School of Art. The Awards Reception for the Science and Medical Illustration Exhibition is on March 20th...

Professor Melissa Harshman Featured in Printmaking Exhibition at Berry College

Post • Published February 2, 2019

Professor Melissa Harshman is part of a printmaking exhibition at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. Harshman is among 7 artists invited to participate in Impress(i)on: A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking at the Moon Gallery at Berry College. The show also includes Dodd alum Stephanie Smith, MFA Printmaking (1996). The exhibition is on view from February 4 – 28, 2019. The exhibition surveys a range of traditional printmaking methods—relief, etching, lithography, silkscreen—while also expanding into photographic and digital technologies or hybrid combinations. Impress(i)on also highlights different uses of print media including animation, artist’s books, installation, and sculpture. Melissa Harshman received her...

MFA Student awarded Grant from Office of Sustainability

Post • Published February 1, 2019

MFA Candidate Christina Foard was recently awarded a $5,000 grant from the Office of Sustainability at UGA for her work with Imagination Squared, a social experiment that asks diverse members of the Athens community to modify a five-inch wooden square to represent resilience. Foard’s proposal builds upon the existing project by incorporating a sound element. The new phase of the project will include the sound of resilience. Participants may record audio that will be playable by pressing a button on the square. The grant offered by the Office of Sustainability encourages students to address grand challenges through local solutions. Drawn...

Professor Jon Swindler Selected for SEC Faculty Travel Program

Post • Published February 1, 2019

Associate Professor of Art and Associate Director for Technology, Space and Community Jon Swindler will be hosted by the Printmaking Program within the University of Tennessee’s School of Art February 2019 as part of the 2018-19 SEC Faculty Travel Program. The program, now in its seventh year, provides support for selected individuals to collaborate with colleagues at other SEC member institutions. More than 100 faculty members from all 14 Southeastern Conference universities will take part in the SEC Faculty Travel Program this year. While on campus Swindler will be performing a visiting artist lecture and producing a body of collaborative...

Lunchtime Gallery Talk with Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall

Post • Published January 30, 2019

On Friday, February 1, 2019, at 12:00 PM New York based artists Priyanka Dasgupta and Chad Marshall will discuss their collaborative exhibition Pigeonhole at the Dodd Galleries’ Lupin Foundation Gallery.

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