Art Education student Allison Miller was awarded the Yarbrough-Grady Fellowship for Spring 2019. Miller will serve as the sole graphics fellow, alongside a public relations fellow. Responsibilities of this fellowship include producing fliers, posters, website content and other graphics needs for Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. Miller’s responsibilities also include writing press releases, providing website content, and contributing ideas and vision to the successful operation of the Grady College Communication Office.

In the summer of 2018, the artist began Part One of a ten-day self-appointed artist residency on the streets of Times Square. Playing spy and citizen journalist, she wandered into unlocked buildings, eavesdropped on tourists, opened the stage door to Waitress The Musical, sang with a street entertainer, drank at the last remaining neighborhood dive bar, received reiki on a public bench, performed a daily greeting ritual with a network of public surveillance cameras, and followed an investigative rabbit hole that led to seeing to the worst and longest running Off-Broadway play of all time.

Artist Amy Pleasant recently visited the Lamar Dodd School of Art to work in conjunction with Printmaking and Book Arts to create an edition of prints that will be sold at this year’s ART PAPERS Art Auction. Graduate and Faculty Printmakers worked with Pleasant over the course of a week to pull screenprinted editions of an image that Pleasant created during her time at the Dodd.

A Lamar Dodd School of Art student is setting the bar as the first student from the university in history to be a finalist for the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund.

Jeremy Kalteux, a junior fabric design major from Woodstock and one of the eight finalists for the fund, is the proud bearer of the prestigious title.