Ally Smith, 2025 Dodd commencement speaker and recipient of Art Director’s Award for Outstanding undergraduate student, is a fourth-year graphic design student with a minor in studio art, design and media at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Smith has worked closely with alumna Kelly Layton (BFA graphic design, '90) and credits her own interests in participating in the newly introduced Layton Design
Back by popular demand, the 2025 UGA Summer Art Camp has grown from a four-day intensive camp to 9 art classes in partnership with the Summer Academy at the University of Georgia spread across 6 weeks in June and July. Lamar Dodd School of Art faculty and graduate students will teach jewelry and metals, printmaking, painting, and photography. Take your pick! We are delighted to offer day camp and
Art History major Catherine Huff presented her research on “Desires for Difference: Tastes and Collecting of Later Nineteenth-Century American Paintings” during the 2017 CURO Symposium, held at the Classic Center on Monday, April 3 and Tuesday, April 4. Her project focused on the evolution of taste in 19th c. American painting through formal analysis and original research into provenance, market h
In response to a growing demand for advanced art education degrees offered remotely, the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia has transitioned the Master of Art Education program online beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year in partnership with the UGA Office of Online Learning.
Inter–Print, the latest exhibition at the C-U-B-E gallery for design at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, explores the evolving relationship between the web and print, highlighting experimental form-making, process-driven design, and the often-overlooked behind-the-scenes aspects of graphic design practice. Rather than showcasing finalized works, Inter–Print frames graphic design as an active, evolvin
The University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art is proud to announce Surface Tension, the Spring 2025 BFA exhibition showcasing the creative achievements of 67 graduating BFA students.
MA student Grace Burns won the 2025 Günther Stamm Prize for her paper "Masking the Bacchic Floor: Materiality and Theatrically in the Cummer Mask Mosaic" at Florida State University. This award, honoring a founding professor of Art History at FSU, goes to one student every year selected by the faculty based on originality and presentation.
All are invited to a series of visiting artist lectures this week and next at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, kicking off with multi-disciplinary artist Aaron S. Coleman on Wednesday March 19, whose exhibition Aaron S. Coleman: Prints and Collages 2013-2025 is on view through Friday in the Dodd Galleries. Coleman is on site this week working with Professor Jon Swindler, students, and invited classes
Last summer, the Lyndon House Arts Center played host to an exhibition led by Martijn van Wagtendonk, an associate professor in the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Titled “Cupola: a Collaboration,” the sculpture began as a class project and grew into an oddly satisfying collection of objects, motion, and music.
Lamar Dodd School of Art scholarships annually provide undergraduate and graduate students financial support for tuition, research, art practice, and experiential learning experiences. The application window for the 2025 - 2026 academic year opened on February 17 and runs through March 14, 2025. Interested applicants are encouraged to review the key information below before applying.
