The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Paul Mellon Professor of Art History Tim Barringer of Yale University next week for the annual Shouky Shaheen lecture.
Another West Coast artist joins us next week as the third creative participating in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. Troy Lamarr Chew II is a Los Angeles-born and based painter who skillfully and subversively uses traditional European painting techniques "to reframe their exclusion of Blackness."
This past weekend, Ridley Howard's latest solo exhibition Forever opened at the New York City gallery Marinaro. Joseph Peragine was among various colleagues from the school and from the Athens area to attend the celebration.
Art librarian Lindsey Reynolds returned from Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair last week conflicted about limiting her selection of art book purchases in a fair that boasts several floors of vendors. Nevertheless, she is happy to report an exciting variety of acquisitions for the UGA Art Library and the Athenaeum Lupin Reading Room!
The school’s New York Maymester course introduces a cohort of emerging artists, art historians, and art educators to celebrated contemporary artworks through a critical curatorial lens.
Los Angeles artist Ruby Neri carries West Coast street art into her ceramic practice through the interplay of bright glazes and bold, hand-crafted shapes. At the invitation of retiring professor and long-time ceramics area chair Ted Saupe, Neri will be visiting the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
Photography professor Michael Marshall is exhibiting work at his alma mater, Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition Reimagining Earth at the Northlight Gallery at ASU Herberger Institute's School of Art features the works of artists who explore the experience of the human animal and the non-human creatures that share this earth.
Ceramics Professor Sunkoo Yuh presents the solo exhibition Old and New at the Lucy Lacoste Gallery in Concord, Massachusetts, featuring handcrafted pieces reconstructed from Yuh’s past work. Yuh titled the exhibit Old and New to represent the reuse of his existing creations.
Three faculty and four graduate students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art photography & expanded media area were selected to present work at the University of Iowa’s 2022 National Photography Invitational.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is looking forward to the 2022 Historic Athens Porchfest this Sunday October 2nd from 1-8 PM, which presents over 150 performers on porches across 6 historic districts in Athens.
