2025 Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium

The 2025 Art & Education for Social Justice Symposium, hosted by the Lamar Dodd School of Art and UGA School of Social work, will occur from February 7 - 9, 2025.

Art History MA Research Talks

As part of the Dodd's commitment to arts-oriented research, please join our graduating second-year MA Students as they present on the subject of their master's research in the field of Art History. Tea and cookies will be provided! 

Spotlight x Spotlight Ecologies

This interdisciplinary symposium showcases creative work with ecological themes from graduate students in UGA’s Creative Writing Program and Lamar Dodd School of Art. A brief Q&A session and light refreshments will follow the panel presentations.

International Disability Studies and Art Forum

The International Disability Studies, Art & Education (iDSAE) Network will be holding its 2023 Virtual Forum this coming September 30, Saturday, from 12 noon to 2 pm (Eastern Time)!

A Symposium in Honor of Retiring Associate Professor of Art History Shelley Zuraw

Banner artwork: Yoon Hwang, MFA Candidate, Lamar Dodd School of Art. After Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross, ca. 1610, drawing—pencil and crayon on paper, 2023. Artwork courtesy of Yoon Hwang.

Journal of IP Law Symposium 2023 | Art with a Capital A(i)

Join intellectual property law professors and practitioners, museum curators, and art historians for a conversation on the ramifications of AI art on intellectual property law in the United States, providing a perspective that may be similar to that of plaintiffs in pending AI art cases. 

Dawn Lundy Martin | Poetry Reading for Troubling Performance Symposium

To kick off our Troubling Performance symposium, join us at the Athenaeum for a poetry reading by Dawn Lundy Martin, the Toi Der

Troubling Performance Symposium

Cover image: Artwork by Kara Walker in Porgy & Bess libretto by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker.

Emerging Scholars Symposium | “Rethinking America: Contemporary Contemplations on American Art”

The 2023 Emerging Scholars Symposium will showcase research by current graduate students and other emerging scholars related to themes of rethinking and reimagining the history of Euro-American, Native American and African American art and material culture through new perspectives.

Emerging Scholars Symposium | Keynote: Nika Elder

“Early American Portraiture and the Value of Flesh”

A Symposium on American Art in Honor of Retiring Professor of Art History Janice Simon

Banner Artwork: John Frederick Kensett (American, 1818 - 1872), “Italian Scene,” ca. 1851 – 53. Oil on canvas, 13 5/8 × 19 5/8 inches. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art, gift of Alfred H. Holbrook.

Art Education Research Institute Symposium

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is pleased to host the 2022 Art Education Research Institute (AERI) Symposium, chaired by Winnie Chandler Distinguished Professor of Art Mira Kallo-Tavin.