Join us Thursday, March 23 from 6–8pm as we celebrate the closing of four exhibitions at the Galleries and a new installation in the Atrium by Rachel Hayes. 

NEWSPAPER (1969–2017), an exhibition curated by Dodd Photography Fellow Mo Costello and New York photographer and historian Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez, opens on March 23, 2017 in the C-U-B-E Gallery on the second floor north hallway and in the Project Space on the second floor south hallway of the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

​Nicole Pietrantoni's artwork explores the complex relationship between human beings and nature through installations, prints, and artists’ books.

Assistant Professor Benjamin Britton exhibits work in the group show Opening Scene at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta, GA. The opening reception will be Wednesday, March 22 from 7–10pm at the Castleberry location. The exhibition runs through April 22. Works by Cosmo Whyte, Mie Yim, Deb Lawrence, and Robert Sagerman are also to be exhibited.  

The David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, along with Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas, have both recently acquired lithographs by Lamar Dodd School of Art Professor Joseph Norman. The acquired works were inspired by Norman's early trips to the jungles of Latin America in the 1990s, and two of the lithographs were printed at the famed Tamarind Institute, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The works include portraits, florals, and landscapes.

Assistant Professor Demi Thomloudis had work included in Duality of Presence,an exhibition that took place at the Super + Centercourt gallery from March 8–14, 2017 in Munich, Germany during the annual International Exposition of Trades and Crafts (Handwerksmesse) and the internationally renowned exhibition, Munich Jewelry Week / Schmuck 2017.

Senior Art History majors, Erin Wiser and Catherine Huff, were invited to present their research at the 16th Annual Georgia Undergraduate Art History Forum, held this year on March 3rd at the University of West Georgia. Wiser and Huff were part of a day-long program of 15 papers representing 8 colleges and universities from around Georgia. Each student worked with their faculty advisor to develop research papers into professional conference presentations.

Artist and jeweler Kat Cole will be in residence in the School of Art next week, March 21 and 22, including a public lecture on Tuesday, March 21 in S150 in the main art building. On Monday afternoon, Cole will demonstrate techniques for enameling on steel at 5pm in the Jewelry & Metals studio at the Thomas Street Art Complex. This event is open to all students, faculty and staff. There will be a reception afterwards at 7pm sponsored by the Athens Metals Arts Guild.

School of Art alumna Bryna Bobick co-edited, along with Leigh Hersey,  the recently published book Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art. The book is published by IGI Global and explores the numerous ways that the arts can encourage civic engagement. At 671 pages, it is a comprehensive reference source for emerging perspectives on the incorporation of artistic works to facilitate improved civic engagement.

Congratulations to Dodd Lecturer Eileen Wallace, who joins a group of 11 other University of Georgia faculty committed to developing new courses using the University’s archival material during 2017–18. Wallace is participating in the second annual class of a new program designed to increase the University’s engagement with the archives, called the Special Collections Libraries Faculty Fellows Program.