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University of Georgia Black Artists Alliance members (L-R) Zahria Cook, Jasmine Best, AJ Aremu and Jordan Campbell pose for a photo behind their joint table at the Dodd Market on November 18, 2022.

Black Artists Alliance Featured in The Red & Black

December 1, 2022

Formed in 2020, the Black Artists Alliance has served as a critical space for University of Georgia Black student artists within and outside the Lamar Dodd School of Art to find a supportive, safe, and familiar community.

Paul Pfeiffer: Red Green Blue, still. Single-channel video with surround sound, 31 minutes 23 seconds. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery.

Former Dodd Chair Paul Pfeiffer presents “Red Green Blue” at the Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC

December 1, 2022

Internationally renowned artist, Paul Pfeiffer, who served as the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s distinguished Dodd Chair between 2016 and 2018, debuted Red Green Blue at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City on November 12, 2022.

BFA Students Present “Brief Intermission” at ATHICA

November 30, 2022

Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna and Community seamstress Julia Urrea (BFA in Fabric Design, '22) mends a football jersey at the Community Athens Boutique.

2022 BFA Fabric Design Alumna Julia Urrea Featured for Mending UGA Football Jerseys

November 30, 2022

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.

Banner artwork courtesy of MFA student Katherine Rutter. The Valley of Lost Things, 2022.

Applications Open for Graduate Studies at the Lamar Dodd School of Art

November 30, 2022

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.

4’33” contest shines a spotlight on student research in the arts and humanities

November 9, 2022

Joseph Norman and Color the World Bright support grant-funded murals in Seminole County

November 7, 2022

Fall 2022 Shouky Shaheen Lecturer Tim Barringer Asks us to Revisit Victorian-era Art Critic John Ruskin

November 3, 2022

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.

Julius Pommer (American, 1895 – 1945), “Ghost Trees,” 1938. Lithograph on paper. Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; Transferred from the University of Georgia Library. GMOA 1969.2490.

Students Andrew East and Catie Cook curate “Trick or Treat” pop-up and virtual exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art

October 31, 2022

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.

Troy Lamarr Chew II, Ask ya Mama, 2021, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.

Visiting Painter Troy Lamarr Chew II Wields a Coded Visual Language to Project Black Culture Anew

October 28, 2022

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."

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Black Artists Alliance Featured in The Red & Black

Former Dodd Chair Paul Pfeiffer presents “Red Green Blue” at the Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC

BFA Students Present “Brief Intermission” at ATHICA

2022 BFA Fabric Design Alumna Julia Urrea Featured for Mending UGA Football Jerseys

Applications Open for Graduate Studies at the Lamar Dodd School of Art

4’33” contest shines a spotlight on student research in the arts and humanities

Joseph Norman and Color the World Bright support grant-funded murals in Seminole County

Fall 2022 Shouky Shaheen Lecturer Tim Barringer Asks us to Revisit Victorian-era Art Critic John Ruskin

Students Andrew East and Catie Cook curate “Trick or Treat” pop-up and virtual exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art

Visiting Painter Troy Lamarr Chew II Wields a Coded Visual Language to Project Black Culture Anew