Wikimedia’s gender trouble is well-documented. In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as female. While the reasons for the gender gap are up for debate, the practical effect of this disparity is not: content is skewed by the lack of female participation. This represents an alarming absence in an important repository of shared knowledge.

Associate Professor of Art History Nell Andrew was an invited speaker at the Blaffer Art Museum's Watch Out for Painting Conference last week in Houston. Dr. Andrew’s talk, Moving Modernism from Dance to Painting and Back, posed questions about a crisis in the medium of painting leading up to abstraction’s so-called “invention.”

Artist Rachel Hayes will be in residence at the School of Art the week of March 13th and will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday, March 14 at 5:30pm in the S151 auditorium. In addition to her lecture, Hayes will be working on a site-specific installation in the Atirum of Dodd. Hayes creates fabric structures that vibrantly explore painting processes, quilt making, architectural space, light, and shadow. Her large-scale pieces reflect her interests in both painting and the craft of sewing.

Melissa Harshman will have work on view at the following venues during the Southern Graphics Council International Conference in Atlanta, GA, March 15–18th, 2017: Departures: Off the Wall and Out of the Frame at Eyedrum Gallery, curated by Stephanie Smith, Dodd MFA 1997; Outliers at Callanwolde Art Center; Turn of the Millennium, curated by Cynthia Lollis, Dodd MFA 2000 and Danie Deeg, Dodd MFA 200 at the Loews Hotel; Designing Women at Murmur Gallery; Orpheus at Orpheus Brewery; and Hello. I Love You.

ArtsATL has published a review of Clues & Scientific Method, the group exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery in Atlanta featuring School of Art MFA candidates selected and organized by Victoria Camblin, editor and artistic director of Art Papers.

The Finishing School, a new exhibition space at the Thomas Street facility of the Lamar Dodd School of Art directed by Assistant Professor of Art, Mike Calway-Fagen, celebrates its opening with the inauguraul exhibition Parallel Play, on view March 1 - 29, 2017. The opening reception for Parallel Play is on Saturday, March 4 at 6 pm.

On February 1, the performance For You brought together music, sound, video, and installation art in an original composition in the atrium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. For You took participants on a symbolic journey involving a 16-foot boat, a wooden pavilion, and a room of dancing shadows and projections that dealt thematically with the idea of offering and receiving.

Off the Wall is a group exhibition by thirty first-year art students in Professor Imi Hwangbo's foundations Color and Composition classes. Working in small collaborative groups, students created large-scale drawings in black masking tape on the walls and floor of the Foundation​s Project Space in N105 of the main Dodd building. The show is on view March 2 through 14, 2017 and is open to the public.

In Conversation is a new program presented by the Dodd Galleries in which two people are paired and asked to an engage in a dialog on a proposed topic. For this spring's inaugural In Conversation event, Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair, Paul Pfeiffer, and Georgia State University Professor of Painting Craig Drennen will discuss their mutual admiration of the 1973  film The Exorcist.

Dodd Assistant Professor, Mike Calway-Fagen is a visiting artist at Auburn University in Auburn, AL this week where he will deliver a public lecture on Thursday, February 9th about his art practice. His visit is sponsored by the University's Department of Art and Art History. On Friday the 10th, Calway-Fagen will conduct studio visits with students at Auburn.