Lamar Dodd School of Art

4’33” contest shines a spotlight on student research in the arts and humanities

November 9, 2022

Troy Lamarr Chew II, Ask ya Mama, 2021, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.

Visiting Painter Troy Lamarr Chew II Wields a Coded Visual Language to Project Black Culture Anew

October 28, 2022

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."

Jewelry & Metals Students and Faculty Show Work at New York Jewelry Week in “Peaches in the Apple”

October 18, 2022

“Twin Realms” by MFA Students Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy Opens this Week in the Dodd Galleries

October 17, 2022

Twin Realms is a collaboration between Dodd MFA candidates Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy. The artists come together to create a new, shared body of work that investigates dimensional illegibility and impermanence as ways of prompting an experience of instability.

Current MFA Candidate J Taran Diamond Featured in Duo Exhibition “Braided Subtleties” During New York City Jewelry Week

October 17, 2022

Los Angeles Artist Ruby Neri is the Second Visiting Artist of the Year

October 13, 2022

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.

MFA student Rachel Seburn speaks with instructor Mac Balentine and guest at the Thomas Street Art Complex.

Short Shorts Film Festival, Graduate Open Studios, and Jewelry Sale at Thomas Street Art Complex

October 10, 2022

On the evening of Thursday September 29, the Lamar Dodd School of Art invited students, faculty, and the community at large to explore graduate studio spaces in sculpture and jewelry & metalwork at the Thomas Street Art Complex.

Lucas Eytchison, Untitled 4. Archival pigment print, 16 x 20.

Photo & Expanded Media Faculty and Graduate Students Selected for 2022 National Photography Invitational at the University of Iowa

October 5, 2022

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.

First-year MFA student Jasmine Best speaks to guests in her studio space in the Lamar Dodd School of Art during the Art Party Extravaganza on September 16, 2022.

Art Party Extravaganza Welcomes Community to Explore Studios and Exhibitions

September 21, 2022

The Lamar Dodd School of Art launched the 2022-2023 season of exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries with the return of the Art Party Extravaganza on Friday September 16.

Visiting and exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivers a lecture at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on September 16, 2022.

Exhibiting Artist Pete Schulte Delivers Lecture “Notes on Drawing”

September 21, 2022

On September 16th, in a quiet lecture hall at the School of Art, hours before the bustling energy of the Art Party Extravaganza, exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivered the lecture “Notes on Drawing.” Schulte's work, on display in the Margie E. West Gallery through November 10th, is composed of monochromatic drawings of looping lines and graphite glowing shapes.

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