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.
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.
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.
This week, the Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes New York- and Texas-based photographer Rahim Fortune as a Visiting Artist. Fortune's visit to the School of Art coincides with his inclusion in a major survey exhibition of Southern photography at the High Museum in Atlanta titled A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
Organizers of the 2023 edition of Atlanta Art Week invited nine MFA students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art to present the group exhibition Unlisted at The Works, a mixed-use development in Atlanta’s Upper Westside, from October 3 through October 7, 2023.
Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes two visiting artists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose practices overlap in a new installation. Katie Hudnall, associate professor in woodworking and furniture, and Christina A. West, associate professor in ceramics, will deliver back-to-back public lectures on their career trajectories in manipulating 3-dimensional forms and viewer expectations.
The following review was written by curator and writer Daniel Fuller. Kara Walker: Back of Hand is on view through March 25, 2023 at the Athenaeum in Athens, Georgia.
Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Kamen for the school's first Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture of 2023, “Curiosity and the Creative Process as Self Care”
Complementing Walker's solo exhibition Back of Hand the gallery presents a multifaceted discussion on this topic in a one-day symposium titled Troubling Performance this upcoming Saturday, February 25.
A new exhibition at the Athenaeum of recent works on paper by internationally acclaimed American artist Kara Walker, examining themes such as complicity, racism, misremembered histories, and the violence that undergirds the legacy of the South.
