Lamar Dodd School of Art

Associate Professor Wins National Design Award

Post • Published December 26, 2018

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Moon Jang won a national design competition, the Print Regional Design Award (RDA), with her editorial design for the American Craft Inquiry Volume 1, Issue 2. The RDA is the industry’s most prestigious and well-respected American design competition. Jang’s winning work will be featured in the all-new HOW + Print book The Best of Design scheduled to be released in Summer of 2019 and in an online gallery at printmag.com.Thousands of art directors, studios, and creative professionals not only enter the RDA every year, but also look to it to find the country’s top talent....

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton Solo Exhibition at Albany Museum of Art

Post • Published December 24, 2018

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton has a Solo Exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. Britton’s This Unfolding Idyll is now on view in the West Gallery of the Albany Museum of Art through February 23rd. “My work often appears at first to function like a dense and colorful abstract painting, but contains representations of nameable things and places,” Britton said. “I work with color and space to reflect the mechanisms of sensation in the body, to inspire a feeling of motion, and to continually reward the investigation of pictorial space.” “The paintings in This Unfolding Idyll propose a loss...

Art History Graduate Student Conducts Research at Chinati Foundation

Post • Published December 21, 2018

Erin Riggins, an Art History graduate student, was awarded a 2018 travel grant to conduct research for her Master’s thesis. The funds allowed Riggins to travel to Marfa, TX in summer 2018 to study Ilya Kabakov’s School No. 6 installation at the Chinati Foundation. For the School installation, Kabakov transformed an army barracks on the Chinati property into an abandoned Soviet-era schoolhouse. In Marfa, Riggins examined the School installation and the Chinati Foundation’s archives to establish formal and conceptual trends in Kabakov’s work. Riggins’ Master’s research links Kabakov’s use of fragmentation and voids in the School installation to his later 2000s paintings. Riggins is a second-year MA...

“The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II” Curated by Professor Asen Kirin

Post • Published December 21, 2018

Professor of Art History, Asen Kirin, was recently featured on artdaily.org for curating the exhibition, The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II at the Georgia Museum of Art. This exhibition focuses on the reigns of the last two Romanov rulers: Alexander III (1881–1894) and his son and successor Nicholas II (1894–1917). It draws attention to the incongruity of divinely inspired autocracy and modern life while highlighting human fragility against the mighty flow of history. The Reluctant Autocrat: Tsar Nicholas II is on view at the Georgia Museum of Art from December 22, 2018 – March 17, 2019. Find the full article here or learn more about...

Tif Sigfrids Featured in New York Magazine’s Vulture

Post • Published December 19, 2018

UGA Arts Career and Entrepreneurship Space (ACES) and Athens Gallerist co-director Tif Sigfrids was recently featured in the Vulture’s article, “Ten Galleries Whose Founders Quit The Big City To Become Cultural Trailblazers in the Heartland”. Tif Sigfrids is the owner and director of Tif Sigfrids Gallery in Athens, Georgia which moved to Athens in June 2018 from Los Angeles, California. Sigfrids represents nine contemporary artists based in the US and abroad as well as work with the estate of the late Danish artist, Albert Mertz. The gallery’s move marks a trend occurring throughout the country. Galleries are leaving large cities like New York,...

Assistant Professor Xin Xin featured in Group Exhibition, INHUMAN ART

Post • Published December 18, 2018

Xin Xin‘s Falling Rehearsals is part of the ScreenSaverGallery group show INHUMAN ART, exhibiting at multiple locations including PAF Olomouc 2018, Gallery U Mloka, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Konvikt Press Centre, as well as on multiple personal computer screens around the world. ScreenSaverGallery is the world’s only online gallery of contemporary digital art which utilizes the potential of the screensaver medium. INHUMAN ART is described by the curators, Barbora Trnková and Tomáš Javůrek, and graduate student Marie Meixnerová’s as focusing on the presentation of artwork primarily addressed to a non-human audience. The subjects of interest are the processes of the creation...

MFA Candidate Featured in Oxford American, a Magazine of the South

Post • Published December 17, 2018

The Oxford American , a Magazine of the South, publishes a weekly series titled “Eyes on the South” which features selections of current work from Southern artists and artists whose photography concerns the South. On December 4th, Lamar Dodd School of Art MFA Candidate Matthew J. Brown was featured in the weekly series for his project New Developments. Brown’s “Eyes on the South” feature titled the “Culture of Convenience” is described as having images that are “ artless [and] tender”. The article states that he “investigates the fluctuating story of land use in his home state of Tennessee, where agricultural...

BFA Exhibition a Success!

Post • Published December 14, 2018

The Lamar Dodd School of Art held it’s BFA Exhibition Reception EXTRA! EXTRA! on Friday, December 7, from 6-8 pm, to celebrate the work of the students graduating this December. The sudents in this exhibion chose to vary from the traditional format of dividng the show by area of emphasis, and instead showed all disciplines as one integrated group. The Exhibiton Reception drew a large crowd, with an estimated 300 people in attendance. The students’ work ranged in media from traditional oil painting, to video and assemblages of found materials, and work was shown throughout the building’s three floors. Graduates...

Art History Graduate Student Receives Willson Center’s Graduate Research Award

Post • Published December 11, 2018

Emily DuVall, current Art History graduate student, has received the Janelle Padgett Knight Graduate Award from the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. This award designation goes to the top-ranked recipient of the Willson Center’s Graduate Research Award. Using these funds, DuVall will travel to Paris over winter break to study the chateaus and works of art that will be discussed in her Master’s thesis. In her consideration of the myth of the goddess Diana in the French Renaissance court, DuVall focuses on the imagery and symbolism of the royal hunt as used by both King Francis I and his...

Associate Professor Stefanie Jackson Named a Top Ten Finalist in The Bennett Prize

Post • Published December 10, 2018

Associate Professor Stefanie Jackson has been named one of 10 women from across the country who paint in the figurative realist style were named finalists for the Bennett Prize. The $50,000 Prize is the largest art award ever offered solely to women painters. The 10 were selected from among 647 entrants. The Bennett Prize, created in 2018, awards $50,000 to a woman artist to create her own solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings, which will travel the country. The Prize will propel the careers of women painters who have not yet realized full professional recognition, empowering new artists and those who have...

Deadline for Grad Applications is Jan 1st

Post • Published December 1, 2018

Grad Applications for Fall 2019 are due January 1st. MA / MAEd / MFA / AE PhD / AH PhD The Lamar Dodd School of Art is a nationally ranked art school offering degrees in the fields of Art, Art Education, Art History, and Design. Our graduate students are generously accommodated within a variety of dedicated studio and research spaces in state-of-the-art facilities, and form a tight knit, vibrant community enhanced by exhibitions and a robust visiting artist and scholar lecture series. We offer generous, merit-based assistantships and scholarships and are committed to a diverse student body. Studio programs are structured to foster...

New Work by Eileen Wallace on Exhibition at Ciné

Post • Published November 28, 2018

Eileen Wallace, Senior Lecturer in Printmaking and Book Arts, curretly has a solo exhibition on view at Ciné. Glitch is a new series of letterpress prints made by the repetitive printing of traditional hairline lead rule. Typically used to print borders or lined paper, it is used in these prints to create pattern and moiré effects. Glitch is on view through December 28. The exhibition was was corrdinated by Mary Hallam Pearse, Associate Professor and Area Chair for Jewelry and Metals. Pearse will be supporting Ciné and local artists by coordinating exhibitions for the next year. The artists chosen represent a range of themes,...

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