In a recent UGAToday article titled "Community Threads," writer Erica Techo celebrates the work of local boutique store Community in mending the University of Georgia's football team jerseys. Among the group of sewers contributing to this ongoing support is recent BFA alumna Julia Urrea, who graduated in spring 2022 with her BFA in Fabric Design.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art has opened applications to graduate programs in studio art, art history, and art education for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested applicants are encouraged to learn more about our application process and prepare materials by the January 1, 2023 deadline.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Paul Mellon Professor of Art History Tim Barringer of Yale University next week for the annual Shouky Shaheen lecture.
Celebrate Halloween with the “spooky, scary, and supernatural” virtual exhibition Trick or Treat, curated by Lamar Dodd School of Art students and Georgia Museum of Art fall 2022 art education interns Andrew East and Catie Cook.
Another West Coast artist joins us next week as the third creative participating in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. Troy Lamarr Chew II is a Los Angeles-born and based painter who skillfully and subversively uses traditional European painting techniques "to reframe their exclusion of Blackness."
Art librarian Lindsey Reynolds returned from Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair last week conflicted about limiting her selection of art book purchases in a fair that boasts several floors of vendors. Nevertheless, she is happy to report an exciting variety of acquisitions for the UGA Art Library and the Athenaeum Lupin Reading Room!
This past weekend, Ridley Howard's latest solo exhibition Forever opened at the New York City gallery Marinaro. Joseph Peragine was among various colleagues from the school and from the Athens area to attend the celebration.
