Do you enjoy film, sculpture, and jewelry & metalwork?

Join us at the Thomas Street Art Complex for open graduate studios and an outdoor screening of the Short Shorts Film Festival. You can also catch a sneak peak of an in-progress replica model of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral's wooden roof, known as “La Forêt”, constructed by sculpture and interior design students at the School of Art and students from the College of Environment and Design in partnership with the UGA Willson Center for Arts & Humanities. In addition, jewelry & metals student organization Phi Beata Heata will be hosting a sale benefitting their fall trip to New York Jewelry Week. Snacks and beverages will be provided while supplies last!

About Short Shorts

Short Shorts is an annual event hosted by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta. This year there will be two additional screenings of the program, one at Georgia State University and the other here at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This year’s guest juror is Joseph Peragine, director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Selected films vary widely in budget, genre, narrative, and experimentation, but all come in under five minutes in length. 

Participating artists: Matt Bollinger, Logan Lynn Burroughs, Felicia Ann Castro, Jacob Csinsi w/ Craig Dongoski, Didi Dunphy, McClean Fahenstock, Adam Forrester, Jill Frank, Erin Fussell, Joe Hadden, Xandra Ibarra, George Jenne, John Kelley, Derek Larson, Taylor Janay Manigoult​, Jackson Markovic, Eli Meyer, Lev Omelchenko, Neil Prewitt, Caroline Rumley, Adam Stone, Constance Thalken.

About Open Studios

Students, faculty, and the public are welcome to explore our sculpture and jewelry & metalwork graduate studio spaces before, during, or after the short film festival. This event is the second opportunity for visitors to view open graduate studios. The Art Party Extravaganza on September 16th in the main building of the School of Art included open studios in drawing & painting, printmaking & book arts, photography, and textiles.

About the Notre-Dame de Paris Truss Project

The Notre Dame de Paris Truss Project started as a big idea to bring the Handshouse Mission—“to create adventurous hands-on projects with communities, institutions, and partners around the world as a way to illuminate history, understand science, and perpetuate the arts”— to the enormous task of recovering the priceless heritage lost in the Notre-Dame de Paris 2019 fire. Handshouse Studio has organized a national project to invite colleges, universities and their faculty and students to join them in building a large-scale wooden model of the oldest trusses in the roof structure above the Notre Dame cathedral’s choir.

In summer of 2021, the Catholic University of America offered a course, taught by Tonya Ohnstad AIA, NCAR, centered on this effort to explore the architectural history of Notre Dame through hands-on construction of the model of “La Forêt.” La Forêt Model has and will continue to be built and exhibited around the country as part of The Notre Dame de Paris Truss Project, a hands-on collaboration led by Handshouse Studio that endeavors to explore how this medieval architectural icon was originally made.

The project, led by the Model Project Manager, Architect Nat Crosby, has expanded to include participants from additional colleges and universities: Florida State University, Ball State University, Virginia Tech (WAAC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gordon College, Washington University, University of Georgia, and the North Bennet Street School.