The following review was written by curator and writer Daniel Fuller. Kara Walker: Back of Hand is on view through March 25, 2023 at the Athenaeum in Athens, Georgia.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art made waves at the 48th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Art Center, with two students and one alumna scoring the show's top prizes and half a dozen students and alumni securing merit awards.
The 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Instruction, has been awarded to graduate students J Taran Diamond (MFA candidate), Chad Hayward (MFA candidate), Devin Jo (PhD candidate in Art Education), and Tara Kraft-Ainsworth (PhD candidate in Art History) for their exceptional care and effectiveness in the classroom and studio.
Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna, 2021 Margie E West Prize winner, and Spring 2023 graduation keynote speaker Pam Longobardi ('81, BFA) has spent the last 15 years sourcing, documenting, and compositing these plastics in her arts practice.
Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes Kamen for the school's first Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture of 2023, “Curiosity and the Creative Process as Self Care”
Complementing Walker's solo exhibition Back of Hand the gallery presents a multifaceted discussion on this topic in a one-day symposium titled Troubling Performance this upcoming Saturday, February 25.
With a desire to have a positive impact on and relationship with the local community, Benjamin Britton, an associate professor of painting at UGA, met with the Executive Director of Bigger Vision of Athens Ryan Hersh to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration.
