Lamar Dodd School of Art

James Enos and Annie Simpson Launch Second International Summit: Port Futures + Social Logistics (PFSL02)

November 13, 2025

James Enos, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Art and Design, and Annie Simpson, Doctor of Design (DDes) from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, have been collaborating since 2020 on a dialogical practice that examines polycrisis and planetary urban critique. Their shared projects have ranged from passenger-traveler accounts through watersheds of energy transition to fieldwork

Kristine Potter wins 2025 Margie E. West Alumni Prize

August 20, 2025

The Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia are pleased to announce The Body Politic, our 2025 Margie E. West Prize recipient exhibition in which Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna, Kristine Potter (American, b. 1977)—BFA Photography and BA Art History (‘01)—presents a survey of selected work from three series: The Gray Line (2005-2010), Manifest (2012-2017), and Dark Waters (2015-2023).

Spring exhibitions opening in the Dodd Galleries

February 3, 2025

The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents a round of four new exhibitions in the third-floor Dodd Galleries featuring recent works curated by the UGA Black Artists Alliance, MFA students, alumni and 2025 visiting artist Aaron Coleman. The opening reception for the exhibitions will be held on Friday February 7 from 6-8 pm and is free and open to the public.

Feeling GROVI: Research at the intersection of design, art and mathematics

December 5, 2024

Mathematicians and visual artists seem like ready partners — both playfully think about space and symmetry. But how do they bring this shared vision into focus? Two University of Georgia faculty members found a way through a free yet elegant exploration of design, transforming multi-dimensional twists and knots into compelling objects and works of art.

Animation alum Mack Williams delivers 2024 Jack Davis Lecture for Centennial Celebration at Special Collections

November 1, 2024

The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the UGA Special Collections Libraries welcome animator and director Mack Williams, UGA alum and 2024 Bulldog 100 recipient, to deliver the 2024 Jack Davis Lecture on the occasion of the centennial of Jack Davis’ birth.

MFA alumna Rachel Debuque named Director of the University of Arkansas School of Art

September 16, 2024

Dodd Alum Phillip McClure opens Blue Boy gallery in Savannah

September 9, 2024

Image of Hong Hong standing in her studio. Beverly, MA. 2024.

Dodd Galleries Presents 2024 Margie E. West Prize Winner Exhibition

August 20, 2024

The Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia is pleased to announce Hong Hong: Inland, our 2024 Margie E. West Prize recipient exhibition in which Dodd alumna, Hong Hong MFA '14, examines the body as a closed ecological system, where various materials continually interact to sustain and regenerate itself.

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

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.