Skip to main content
Home
  • Connect
  • Events
    • View Calendar
    • Lecture Series
    • Submit Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Events Archive
  • News
    • Submit News
    • Recent News
  • Give
  • Mobile Menu Extras
    • News
    • Events
    • Connect
    • Give
  • The School
    • About the School
      • Mission
      • History
      • Accreditation
      • Visit the School
      • Research
      • Board of Visitors
      • Lamar Dodd Professional Chair
      • Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures
    • Work at the Dodd
    • Facilities
      • Studio & Classroom Spaces
      • Art Library
      • Open Access Fabrication Labs
      • Checkout for Audio/Visual Equipment
      • Maps & Floor Plans

    Facilities

    Thomas Street Art Complex
    Thomas Street Art Complex
  • Faculty & Staff
    • Faculty & Staff Resources
      • Faculty/Staff Resources Login
      • Forms & Links
      • Dodd Studio Support
      • Faculty/Staff Calendar
    • Faculty and Staff Directory
    • Curriculum Policies
    • Faculty Teaching & Research Awards
    • Submit
      • Submit News
      • Submit Events
      • Submit a Studio Support Request
      • Submit a Ticket to Franklin IT
      • Submit Website Edits

    Faculty News Spotlight

    Research image of Mark Abbe
    Associate Professor of Art History Mark Abbe Awarded Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship
  • Alumni
    • Alumni
    • Alumni News
    • Create an Alumni Profile
    • Submit your News

    Alumni News

    Clary Bosbyshell
    Dodd Alum Receives Design Award
  • Students
    • Dodd Resources
      • Checkout for Audio/Visual Equipment
      • Open Access Fabrication Labs
      • Art Library
      • Dodd Studio Support
    • Student Organizations
      • Dodd Ambassadors
    • Student Resources
      • Scholarships
      • Arts Career Space
      • Dodd Class Registration
      • Graduate Student Profiles
      • Graduate Profile Submission
    • Undergraduate Academic Resources
      • Academic Advising
      • Degree Requirements
      • Minor Requirements
      • Area Portfolio Review
      • Internship Policy & Course

    Student Opportunities

    Students at Lamar Dodd

    View Student Opportunities

    Submit a Student Opportunity

  • Galleries
    • Dodd Galleries
      • Current Exhibitions
      • Upcoming Exhibitions
      • Past Exhibitions
      • Performances & Talks
      • Propose an Exhibition

    Exhibition Spotlight

    .

    Pigeonhole

    Lupin Foundation Gallery
    January 2019
  • Academics
    • Graduate Programs
      • Admissions
      • Funding & Research Support
      • MA
      • MFA
      • MAEd
      • PhD Art Education
      • PhD Art History
      • Graduate Student Handbook
    • Undergraduate Programs
      • Degree Options
      • Minors in Art & Art History
      • Studio Art Core
      • Admissions
    • Study Abroad & Field Study
      • Cortona
      • NYC Maymester Program
      • Costa Rica
      • Ghana
    • Research
      • Visiting Artist & Scholar Lectures
      • Lamar Dodd Professional Chair
      • Dodd Interdisciplinary Fellows
      • Research Days
      • Ideas for Creative Exploration
      • Social Ecology Lab
      • The Willson Center for Humanities & Arts
      • a2ru
      • Art & Educaiton for Social Justice Symposium 2020

    Areas of Study

    •  

      Art Education

    •  

      Art History

    •  

      ArtX

    •  

      Ceramics

    •  

      Drawing and Painting

    •  

      Fabric Design

    •  

      Graphic Design

    •  

      Interdisciplinary Art & Design

    •  

      Interior Design

    •  

      Jewelry and Metalwork

    •  

      Photography

    •  

      Printmaking and Book Arts

    •  

      Scientific Illustration

    •  

      Sculpture

    •  

      Studio Art Core

Susan Roberts

Susan Roberts
Position
Professor of Art
Academic Area
Graphic Design
Office Hours
By Appointment Only
Location
Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Art Building | Room N216
Email
susanrob@uga.edu
Research Focus

Art Color Design, Environmental Graphic Design, Colorist, Art Director, Studio Painting

Susan Roberts’ paintings and patterns can be seen in the built environment as murals, mosaics, exhibits and signage. Her work with architects on multi-faceted commercial projects has been distinguished by over thirty distinguished awards in design and architecture, including the American Institute of Architects AIA Honor Award for Interior Architecture.

As a colorist specializing in the design of architectural color palettes and environmental graphic design for upscale restaurants and food markets, Roberts’ recent work in the Philippines won thirteen international juried design awards.

As Creative Director of the Design Center at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, Roberts helps her students develop a grammar of color and design. In the studio Roberts applies multiple layers of paint on paper and canvas to build an  urban geometry where structural grids bring depth and perspective. A crowded grid-work city of vertical rectangles suggests a convergence between painting and architecture. The painter carries on a search for color’s ability to call up the metaphysical. The painter recognizes white as the most important stage for color, framed in a white grid or submerged in white wash, all on a white primer. Saturated color and abstract form can demonstrate color’s capacity to evoke structural design and more elusive effects.

Studio Painting

The application of oil, acrylic and gouache paint on paper and canvas for exhibition and art collection.

Colorist, Art Director

A Colorist specializing in the design of architectural color palettes and graphic design for buildings, upscale restaurants and food markets. Interior and exterior color integrated in the built environment: murals, signage, exhibits and a range of building materials.

Environmental Graphic Design

Architectural graphics for 3D and 2D multi-faceted commercial projects. Typography and Image in the built environment as murals, mosaics, exhibits, signage, etc.

Gallery

Gallery

  • Susan Roberts portfoliio
  • Susan Roberts portfoliio
  • Susan Roberts portfoliio

Footer Menu 1

  • Academics
  • UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS
  • Degree Options
  • Studio Art Core
  • GRADUATE PROGRAMS
    • MA
    • MFA
    • MAEd
    • PhD Art Education
    • PhD Art History
    • Funding & Research Support
  • Admissions
  • Studies Abroad & Field Study

Footer Menu 2

  • Galleries
    • Current Exhibitons
    • Past Exhibitions
    • Performances & Talks
    • Propose an Exhibitions
    • BFA Exhibition Guidelines

Footer Meun 4

  • Faculty & Staff
    • Faculty & Staff Resources
    • Curriculum Policies
    • Forms & Links
    • Dodd Studio Support
  • Graduate Students
  • Alumni
    • Create an Alumni Profile

Footer 3

  • Dodd Resources
  • Equipment Checkout
    • Open Access Fabrication Labs
    • Art Library
    • Dodd Studio Support
  • Student Resources
    • Scholarships
    • Arts Career Space
  • Academic Advising
    • Degree Requirements
    • Minor Requirements
    • Area Portfolio Review
    • Internship Policy & Course
  • Student Opportunities
    • Submit an Opportunity for Students

Footer Menu 5

  • Facilities
  • Studio & Classroom Spaces
    • Thomas Street Art Complex
    • Art Library
    • Open Access Fabrication Labs
    • Maps & Floor Plans
  • Research
    • Visit the School
    • Board of Visitors
    • Visiting Artists & Scholars
    • Work at the Dodd

Footer Submit Menu

  • ALL FORMS AND LINKS
  • Event/Calendar Submission
  • Instructor Override Request Form
  • POD Request Form

Franklin_A&S-FS-CW-(1)-websize.png

Lamar Dodd School of Art
University of Georgia
270 River Road
Athens, GA 30602

706.542.1511
706.542.0226 Fax

CONTACT US

Privacy Policy | © 2018 Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. All rights reserved.

Login  |  UGA Master Calendar  |  www.uga.edu                          website feedback