Lamar Dodd School of Art

Member of Lamar Dodd Board of Advisors Pamela James featured in Forbes for sustainable fashion enterprise

February 3, 2025

Associate Dean of Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Dr. Marshall Shepherd interviewed Franklin College alumna, Lamar Dodd School of Art board member, CEO, and author of the book The Guide to Luxury Modular Fashion, Pamela James. James's fashion company Paloma St. James champions modular clothing design as a sustainable alternative to the prevailing market trend of fast fashion.

Associate Curator Iris Moon from the Metropolitan Museum of Art delivers 2025 Shouky Shaheen Lecture

January 16, 2025

Next Thursday, the Lamar Dodd School of Art presents the 2025 Shouky Shaheen Lecture in Art History with Dr. Iris Moon, Associate Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Moon, invited by Assistant Professor Elizabeth Saari Browne, will present a talk exploring an upcoming exhibition titled Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, which will be on vi

MFA student Hail Holtzclaw featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

January 6, 2025

MFA student Hail Holtzclaw was recently featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for her debut solo exhibition GLOSS, on view at The End Project Space through January 10, 2025. Hail Holtzclaw is an Atlanta-based artist who is currently an MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of Georgia. She received her BA and BFA from Georgia State University. She primarily works in oil paint and ch

Athenaeum presents solo exhibition by New York artist Matt Keegan

January 3, 2025

The Athenaeum is pleased to present Realia, an exhibition by New York-based artist Matt Keegan. The exhibition will be on display at the gallery from January 10 to March 22, 2025. An exhibition opening will be held at the Athenaeum on January 10 from 6pm to 8pm. Due to inclement weather and UGA campus closure, the exhibition opening has been rescheduled to January 11 from 2 - 4pm.

UGA Community Art School launches spring 2025

December 16, 2024

This upcoming spring, the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia swings its studio doors open to welcome members of the Athens and surrounding community to take classes at the new UGA Community Art School.

Feeling GROVI: Research at the intersection of design, art and mathematics

December 5, 2024

Mathematicians and visual artists seem like ready partners — both playfully think about space and symmetry. But how do they bring this shared vision into focus? Two University of Georgia faculty members found a way through a free yet elegant exploration of design, transforming multi-dimensional twists and knots into compelling objects and works of art.

Professor Imi Hwangbo opens solo show in Boston

November 22, 2024

The Diviner Series, a solo exhibition of new constructed drawings and prints by Dodd Professor Imi Hwangbo, will be shown at the Ellen Miller Gallery in Boston from November 28 – December 21, 2024. Hwangbo’s delicate reliefs carve two dimensional patterns, creating lines with edges, and shapes with negative space. Trained as a sculptor, Hwangbo’s practice combines image, object, and material.

Art in the Field: UGA students explore mining and ecology in Georgia

November 18, 2024

Mines in Southeast Georgia can conjure many images — swamps, pits, pines, machinery. A band of artists may not be at the top of this list. Nevertheless, University of Georgia Professor of Art Michael Marshall and 14 students were invited to don hardhats and visit the Chemours Mission Mine in the Altamaha River Basin this past September to contemplate the setting through different eyes and tell a g

High Museum of Art exhibiting photographer Kelli Connell visits the Dodd

November 13, 2024

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes photographer Kelli Connell for a Visiting Artist Lecture on November 19, presented in partnership with the High Museum of Art on the occasion of her solo exhibition this fall, Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis, as well as a seminar on November 20 through the Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop.

Animation alum Mack Williams delivers 2024 Jack Davis Lecture for Centennial Celebration at Special Collections

November 1, 2024

The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the UGA Special Collections Libraries welcome animator and director Mack Williams, UGA alum and 2024 Bulldog 100 recipient, to deliver the 2024 Jack Davis Lecture on the occasion of the centennial of Jack Davis’ birth.

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