This fall, The School of Art welcomes 21 new graduate students pursuing degrees in studio art, art history, and art education.

They are arriving in Athens from as far as South Korea and Canada and bring to the department a diversity of experience and perspectives. Among their ranks is a painter born in Sweden to a family of Nigerian origin; a truck-driving conceptual artist from Alberta whose preferred medium is public space; an art historian from Alabama researching architectural aspects of Italian Renaissance art; a ceramicist from San Diego whose work explores the increasingly subtle line between man and machine; a metalsmith from Texas whose work addresses identity in relation to class and material culture; a multi-media performance artist from Pittsburgh who uses wearable soft sculpture to address themes of isolation and inclusivity; an art educator from New York who is returning to UGA to pursue her ambition to teach high school art; a second generation Mexican American from a border town in New Mexico whose jewelry encourages reflection on the embodied nature of existence; and a historian from South Carolina researching ideas of precarity and conflict in contemporary German art. As Dr. Isabelle Loring Wallace, Associate Director of Research and Graduate Studies observed: “We are very keen to welcome this year’s cohort, which is among the most diverse and ambitious in the School of Art’s history.”  

For more information about new and returning graduate students in all our programs, please see our directory of graduate students. For information about graduate admission, please visit our website or contact: gradarts@uga.edu.