Lamar Dodd School of Art

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.

BFA and MAEd Alum Dan Smith Named a Curriculum Coordinator for Clarke County Schools

Post • Published January 29, 2019

Another story of Alumni success, Dan Smith, Lamar Dodd School of Art BFA and MAEd Alum, was recently appointed as Curriculum Coordinator for Fine Arts, Health, and PE for Clarke County School District. Smith was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1974. He received both a BFA in Painting (1997) and a MAEd in Art Education (2002) from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Smith is currently a PhD student in Art Education at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. After working for 13 years in Clarke County Schools, he was appointed to the position of...

Becca Kauffman (aka Jennifer Vanilla) Exhibition on View in Photography Area

Post • Published January 28, 2019

In the summer of 2018, the artist began Part One of a ten-day self-appointed artist residency on the streets of Times Square. Playing spy and citizen journalist, she wandered into unlocked buildings, eavesdropped on tourists, opened the stage door to Waitress The Musical, sang with a street entertainer, drank at the last remaining neighborhood dive bar, received reiki on a public bench, performed a daily greeting ritual with a network of public surveillance cameras, and followed an investigative rabbit hole that led to seeing to the worst and longest running Off-Broadway play of all time. The ten videos in this...

Dodd student awarded Yarbrough-Grady Fellowship

Post • Published January 28, 2019

Art Education student Allison Miller was awarded the Yarbrough-Grady Fellowship for Spring 2019. Miller will serve as the sole graphics fellow, alongside a public relations fellow. Responsibilities of this fellowship include producing fliers, posters, website content and other graphics needs for Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Miller’s responsibilities also include writing press releases, providing website content, and contributing ideas and vision to the successful operation of the Grady College Communication Office. This is an opportunity for Miller to build a portfolio; interact with the college, alumni and professional leadership; and help develop Grady’s communication and outreach programs and...

Artist Amy Pleasant Visits the Dodd

Post • Published January 25, 2019

Artist Amy Pleasant recently visited the Lamar Dodd School of Art to work in conjunction with Printmaking and Book Arts to create an edition of prints that will be sold at this year’s ART PAPERS Art Auction. Graduate and Faculty Printmakers worked with Pleasant over the course of a week to pull screenprinted editions of an image that Pleasant created during her time at the Dodd. Although Pleasant doesn’t normally work as a printmaker, the visual language she has created translates readily to screenprinting. The group pulled over 100 prints in order to create an edition of 55. Amy Pleasant’s...

Fabric Design Student Receives Renowned YMA Fashion Scholarship

Post • Published January 24, 2019

A Lamar Dodd School of Art student is setting the bar as the first student from the university in history to be a finalist for the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund. Jeremy Kalteux, a junior fabric design major from Woodstock and one of the eight finalists for the fund, is the proud bearer of the prestigious title. The YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit organization founded in 1937, still stands true to its mission: to identify young, emerging talent in the fashion industry and help them succeed in the industry through providing scholarships, education and employment opportunities, according to the organization’s website....

Art History Graduate Student Receives Funding to Conduct Research in Italy

Post • Published January 21, 2019

Taylor Glennon, Art History graduate student, was awarded the Matheny Family Graduate Award and a 2018 Art History departmental travel grant for research related to her Master’s thesis. These funds allowed Glennon to travel to Florence and Bologna in November 2018. While in Italy she visited the anatomical models collection, more specifically the anatomical Venuses, at the Museo di Storia Naturale “La Specola” in Florence, and the Museo di Palazzo Poggi and the reconstructed anatomical theater at Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio in Bologna among other museums. The anatomical Venuses are nearly life-size eighteenth-century wax models displayed in various states of dissection to...

Graphic Design Students Design Exhibit for the Botanical Gardens

Post • Published January 18, 2019

Graphic Design students from the Lamar Dodd School of Art recently collaborated with the Botanical Gardens of Georgia to help design the new seasonal gardens in the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden. The students are part of an environmental graphic design course taught by Cameron Berglund, a landscape designer at Koons Environmental Design Inc., the design firm currently developing the children’s garden. The team at Koons is responsible for making the children’s garden a whimsical journey through misting mushrooms, ancient fossils, water features and a towering treehouse. The students’ designs include interactive elements, fun illustrations and colorful palettes. Visitors can...

Associate Professor Marni Shindelman Creates Work in Rochester, NY

Post • Published January 17, 2019

#LARSONSHINDELMAN #MOBILIZE The George Eastman Museum has invited Marni Shindelman (American, b. 1977) and Nate Larson (American, b. 1978) to create a body of work specific to Rochester, New York. The artists, who work collectively as Larson Shindelman, are known for their series Geolocation, which transforms ephemeral bits of data into photographs and immersive installations. In this series, they use publicly available GPS information embedded in social media to track the location of user posts and then travel to the location to create a photograph that both marks the physical place and reacts to the content of the original post....

Arts Careers and Entrepreneurship Day

Post • Published January 15, 2019

In an effort to provide students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music with comprehensive and specialized career support, the Arts Career and Entrepreneurship Space (ACES) was initiated in the Fall Semester of 2018. The shared office in the Lamar Dodd School of Art serves as a space where students can come to seek assistance in identifying professional objectives, building career skills, locating opportunities, preparing job application materials, and finding internships. Under the direction of Mark Mobley and Tif Sigfrids, ACES has also launched a series of visiting talks with graphic designers, artists...

MFA 2019 Thesis Exhibition

Post • Published January 15, 2019

The MFA 2019 Exhibition will be held at the Georgia Museum of Art and at the Deupree Gallery. The exhibition will be on view from April 12–May 19, 2019, with an opening reception on Friday, April 12th 6-8 PM at the Georgia Museum and 8-10 PM at the Deupree Gallery. The Georgia Museum of Art and the Lamar Dodd School of Art will be sharing hosting duties for the annual exhibition showcasing work by the Dodd’s graduating MFA candidates in Studio Art. Artists this year include Justin Barker, Amanda Britton, Dimelza Broche, Shawn Campbell, Catherine Chang, Catherine Clements, Sydney Daniel, Lindy Erkes, Yusheng Fang, Matthew Flores,...

MFA: The Next Generation Exhibition at OCAF

Post • Published January 14, 2019

The Oconee Cultural Arts Foundation is pleased to present MFA: The Next Generation, the first annual collaborative exhibition between OCAF and the University of Georgia. Curated by OCAF and Art History graduate students, Erin Riggins, Taylor Glennon, and Emily DuVall, the show will feature artwork by second-year Master of Fine Arts candidates at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Kim Truesdale is featured in the exhibition with Fed Up and Questions of the Household. Truesdale’s two series reflect the artist’s continuing interest in depictions of The Future Homemakers of America she found in old scrapbooks from 1956-7. Her work examines...

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