Dodd MFA candidate Zachary Harris, along with College of Environment and Design student Kiley Aguar, submitted one of two winning proposals to Watershed UGA’s Daylighting the Watershed design competition. Watershed UGA—an interdisciplinary initiative on campus that aims to create a culture of sustainability focused on campus waterways—awarded prizes of $1,000 each to two teams of UGA students—two different campus watershed locations— for their winning design ideas that helped raising awareness of water issues and motivate people to care about them.

The holidays are upon us. It is time to turn our thoughts to this season's shopping list. What better than a unique, handcrafted item from the students of Lamar Dodd School of Art?

The members of the Ceramic Student Organization offer up their wares for your holiday shopping this Wednesday and Thursday. The sale is open to the public and parking is available at the Performing Arts Center Deck at 230 River Road.

The sale will be found in the atrium of the Lamar Dodd School of Art at 270 River Road.

Four Dodd undergraduate student artist-scholars have been nominated to join the Phi Beta Kappa honor society this fall. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest and most widely known academic honorary society. Election to membership is a distinguished academic honor.

Congratulations to these senior studio art majors:

Katherine Boudreau: double major in Photography & Advertising/PR

Kendal King: Painting

Matthew Ruhlin: Painting and Computer Science minor

Art History major Caroline Harvey (B.A. anticipated December 2016) had her essay “Seduction in the Male Form as Pathway to the Divine: Evocation of Michelangelo in Caravaggio’s Amor Vincit Omnia and Saint John the Baptist” selected for publication in this fall's issue of The Classic, the UGA Writing Intensive Program’s journal of undergraduate writing and research. The essay, written in Dr.

Margaret Morrison’s paintings will be featured in the 13 Street level windows at Kimmel Vitrines, NYU from November 2016 through January 2017. Reliving her ‘playtime’ world of imagination, Morrison observes from a naive perspective yet tantalizes the grown-ups with an undertone both scary and delightful at once.

Morrison will give an artist talk on Thursday, Jan. 5th, 12pm–2pm in New York at Kimmel Vitrines, NYU at LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street.

Dodd MFA candidate in photography Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay was recently profiled on Ain't Bad, an independent publisher of new photographic art. The feature included a detailed intereview and display of Mukhopadhyay's series of images and video, Pre/Post/Eros.

Margaret Morrison's painting, "“Flying in Formation,” will be featured at the Georgia Museum of Art. In collaboration with the Georgia Review, the Georgia
Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the exhibition “Storytelling: The Georgia Review's 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective” from Nov. 5 to Jan. 29.

Margaret Morrison's paintings are currently on view  at the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Art Center in Solomons, Maryland. “Games: Marbles to Minecraft” is on display from October 28, 2016–January 16, 2017 in the Main Gallery. Annmarie is part of the Smithsonian affiliate program which was created in 1996 to offer non-profit cultural and educational organizations the opportunity to have greater access to the Smithsonian Institution's collections and resources.

Monday November, 14 5:30pm
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Artist Yoshua Okón will speak about his multidimensional, politically engaged practice, focusing on his most recent project, MIASMA (developed with curator Edgar Alejandro Hernandez). MIASMA explores covert operations of cultural infiltration by the United States government in Mexico. He will present some of his ongoing research, including his revisiting of the documents of art critic José Gomez Sicre, director of visual arts at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C. and his relationship with art historian Alfred Barr.

Andre Bradley's exhibit You Can't Blame Some Body is on display in the Dodd Photography Area's Hardigree Hall on the second floor south wing through November. Images from three bodies of work are brought together in the exhibition: Bad Selections 2015, Naïve Format 2015–2016, and Dark Archives 2015. The images together assert the autobiography of the artist in a photographic counter-narrative, attempting to represent the three precarious and vulnerable bodies of one black man, the emotional, physical, and psychological.