Lamar Dodd School of Art

The Athenaeum presents a newly commissioned exhibition by New York-based artist, Rose Salane

August 30, 2024

The Athenaeum is pleased to present a newly commissioned exhibition by New York-based artist, Rose Salane. The exhibition will be on display at the gallery from September 12th to November 23rd. The artist will give a lecture on September 11th at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at 5:30 pm in Auditorium S151. An exhibition opening will be held the following evening at the Athenaeum, September 12th from

Visiting Artist Mark Leibert experiments with generative AI imagery in painting, design, installation, and more

April 23, 2024

Georgia Tech Professor Mark Leibert visits the Lamar Dodd School of Art this week to discuss his collaborative process employing AI for generating concepts in painting, time-based works, installation, and more.

Tommy Kha, May (Madonna Sans Child), in Four Acts, East Memphis, Tennessee, 2021. Pigmented inkjet print.

Photographers Tommy Kha and Jill Frank discuss their work in High Museum of Art exhibition “Truth Told Slant”

April 10, 2024

Truth Told Slant is an exhibition currently on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta that “examines a recent shift in how photographers have taken on the challenge of making meaningful images of the world around them.” The show spotlights stylistic, expressive documentary photography by five practicing artists in the Southeast.

Lamar Dodd School of Art launches new UGA Summer Art Camp

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.

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

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.

UGA students showcase arts, humanities research

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.

Photograph by Rahim Fortune, published in the 2021 photo book I can't stand to see you cry.

Visiting Artist Rahim Fortune reframes narratives of family and community in the south

October 16, 2023

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

Collage of artworks by artists participating in Unlisted.

MFA students curate group exhibition for Atlanta Art Week

September 28, 2023

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.

Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue opens August 31 at the Athenaeum

August 25, 2023

Christina A. West (left) and Katie Hudnall (right).

Visiting Artists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discuss woodworking and ceramics

August 23, 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.

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