Lamar Dodd School of Art

Lamar Dodd School of Art launches new UGA Summer Art Camp

Post • Published February 26, 2024

This summer, the Lamar Dodd School of Art launches the UGA Summer Art Camp, an immersive four-day journey into drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography. Tailored to high school students with a passion for the arts, this camp offers the opportunity to engage with UGA professors, graduate students, and fellow Georgia high school students.

Scholarships open for the 2024-2025 academic year

Post • Published February 12, 2024

View of courtyard at the Lamar Dodd School of Art with student vendors at the 2023 Dodd Market. Image courtesy of Sidney Chansamone. The Lamar Dodd School of Art is thrilled to announce that scholarship applications are now open for the 2024-2025 academic year. In 2023, the School of Art awarded approximately $60,000 in merit, departmental, study abroad, and graduate scholarships, with an average range of $500 – $2,000 per award! All undergraduate or graduate students who will be full-time in 2024-2025 are encouraged to apply. Whether you need help with tuition fees, want to dive deep into research, enhance...

WORK IN PROGRESS. Model of the Notre-Dame de Paris roof framework, 1:10 scale, white oak, pictured here with Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project workshop participants at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art in Athens, GA, Fall 2022.

Students invited to participate in second iteration of immersive Notre Dame sculpture workshop with Handshouse Studio

Post • Published January 31, 2024

The Notre-Dame Project is an initiative that began in 2021, when Handshouse Studio led a team of experts and students in Washington, DC to begin reconstructing one of the trusses that once supported the great cathedral's roof, which was destroyed by fire in 2019.

Visiting Artist Masako Onodera sculpts wearable objects conveying embodied memory

Post • Published January 16, 2024

Onodera & Pearse: Contrasts and Correlations features the work of two artists who share backgrounds in craft while embracing sculptural applications of metal, paper, gravity, and motion.

Bernini, Gianlorenzo. Portrait of Costanza Bonarelli, 1636, marble, 72 cm, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence, Italy.

Art History student essay on female sitters for Italian Baroque sculptures published in “The Classic”

Post • Published January 10, 2024

Art history student Gabriela Diaz-Jones penned an essay that was recently published in The Classic, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research, titled “Baroque Women in Marble as Intimate or Intricate.”

MFA alum to deliver capstone lecture at East Carolina University’s 2024 Material Topics Symposium

Post • Published January 10, 2024

J Taran Diamond (MFA ’23) will present the capstone lecture and a breakout session workshop at East Carolina University's 2024 Material Topics Symposium.

Instructor Jaime Bull curates solo exhibition “Amelia Briggs” at her gallery space Foyer

Post • Published January 10, 2024

A new exhibition of paintings by Amelia Briggs will open on Friday January 12 from in Foyer, an artist run gallery space curated by Lamar Dodd School of Art Instructor Jaime Bull.

Alysse Capitanelli, Dr. Katie Geha, Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Dean Anna Stenport, and Susan Sherman at the Diane von Furstenberg (DVF) Studio Headquarters in New York City, May 2023.

UGA alumna Susan Sherman opens doors to the arts

Post • Published December 19, 2023

Susan Sherman (ABJ ’82) is the chair and co-founder of the Saint Louis Fashion Fund, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit which seeks to bring back St. Louis’s fashion industry, once second only to New York’s Garment District. The group, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, uplifts young designers and emerging brands and promotes fashion education and outreach in the city.

Graduating BFA students present the 2023 Capstone Exhibition “Interwoven”

Post • Published November 27, 2023

Opening Reception Friday, December 1 // 6 – 8 pm On view December 1 – 8, 2023 The University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art presents Interwoven, a capstone exhibition organized by and showcasing the work of 13 students graduating with their Bachelor of Fine Arts in the fall 2023 semester. An opening reception will be held on Friday, December 1 from 6 to 8 pm in the school’s Main Art Building on 270 River Road. The show will be on view through December 8. Interwoven is free to attend and features an array of work, including ceramics,...

UGA students showcase arts, humanities research

Post • Published November 14, 2023

On Nov. 14, students representing programs ranging from dance to art history to language and literacy education will gather for the annual 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest to highlight their work during a live competitive showcase. The event, from 4-6 p.m. at the Athenaeum on Broad Street, is part of the University of Georgia’s monthlong Spotlight on the Arts festival.

Jewelry and Metalwork faculty and students stage exhibition during NYC Jewelry Week 2023

Post • Published November 14, 2023

Students and faculty in the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s Jewelry and Metalwork program present Ring on a String during NYC Jewelry Week 2023. In recognition of the first National Ring Show that started in Athens, Georgia and traveled the country by Greyhound bus, a new group of rings take the streets again. In the same spirit as the National Ring show that traveled for 3 years starting in 1977, this traveling pop-up exhibition features work by students, faculty, and staff at the University of Georgia, in which the only parameter is the ring. The open call invites any medium and any contemporary...

MFA 2023 thesis exhibition catalogue cover, Lamar Dodd School of Art.

2023 MFA thesis exhibition catalogue showcases artworks and essays by graduate students

Post • Published November 7, 2023

The catalogue for the 2023 thesis exhibition re:(de)construction — shown in May 2023 at the school's downtown contemporary art gallery the Athenaeum — spotlights eleven MFA students, ten art history graduate students, and includes a guest essay by Director and Curator of the ICA Chattanooga Rachel Waldrop.

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