Art Party Extravaganza!!

After a two year hiatus, join us for our for our favorite event of the year—The Art Party Extravaganza!!!

Help us celebrate the opening of four exhibitions, a new Wall-Works, and open graduate studios in drawing & painting, printmaking & book arts, photography & expanded media, ceramics, and fabric design. Guests are invited to enjoy improvised music by local electronic musician Libba Loops, an art book petting zoo hosted by the University of Georgia Art Library, a zine exchange, a special photo booth, and snacks and drinks. Beverages will be provided courtesy of Creature Comforts Brewing.

Exhibitions and Artwork Commission

In the Margie E. West Gallery, artists Yevgeniya Baras and Pete Schulte create a broader dialogue on abstraction, line, and color as it coincides in contemporary painting and drawing. This exhibition was organized by The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College and will be on view through November 10, 2022.
 
The Bridge Gallery will feature Intangible Memories, works by MFA candidate in ceramics Huey Lee, who investigates the condition of clay and how it exists as a relic of his emotional record expressed as a visual language. The exhibition will be on view through October 13, 2022.
 
Interdisciplinary artist and MFA candidate Meredith Emery will present the exhibition standing by the fall in the Suite Gallery, wherein Emery considers the entanglement of the individual, ecological communities, and institutions in the climate crisis. The exhibition will be on view through October 13, 2022.
 
Absurd Construction is an exhibition disguised as an experimental construction site. The installation, created by MFA candidates Rachel Seburn and Ethan Snow, foregrounds alternative building practices that investigate experimental applications for various materials. The exhibition will be on view through October 13, 2022.
 
Atlanta-based artist Madora Frey presents a site-specific installation in the Plaza Gallery at the entryway of the School of Art in the latest commission for the series “Wall Works.” The commission will be on view through November 14, 2022.

About Open Studios

The Lamar Dodd School of Art offers opportunities for prospective students to explore our graduate studios. This year, we invite the public at large to see our working graduate spaces in our main building during the Art Party Extravaganza on September 16th and to return on September 29th for open studios in sculpture and jewelry & metalwork during the Short Shorts film festival at our Thomas Street Art Complex.