The Lamar Dodd School of Art has secured resources toward the establishment of a new Art Library, scheduled to open this coming spring. This outpost of the UGA Libraries will be housed in the School of Art and will be an invaluable asset for students working in the fields of art, art history and art education. In conjunction with the new Dodd Library, the School of Art is pleased to announce that Lindsey Reynolds joins the faculty in the new position of Dodd Librarian.

Professor Ted Saupe and Professor Emeritus Ron Meyers both have exhibitions of their work opening at AKAR Gallery in Iowa City, Iowa on September 30th. Saupe has 30 pieces in the exhibit of new work that are all hand built porcelain loosely based on traditional pottery forms which have been covered in graffiti like brush drawings, depicting images and words that appeal to Saupe.

A recent article in the New York Times links a ground-breaking conceptual artwork of the 1990s with the University of Georgia, noting that one of Mel Chin's most celebrated projects was conceived and executed while the artist was in residence at UGA as the Lamar Dodd Professorial Chair.  As the article observes: "In late 1995, Mr.

The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center & Signature will welcome an outstanding group of the nation's top ceramic artists to Atlanta this fall. It's an excellent opportunity to view over 1500 pieces of new ceramic work and to touch and to talk with the artists while making your purchases. See familiar faces from 2015 and many new ones.

Maria Dondero MFA '05 will have an artist talk at 5:30 pm this Saturday, October 1, showing slides and talking about her work.

Director of the Lamar Dodd School of Art Chris Garvin has been selected as one the university’s 2016–2017 SEC Academic Leadership Development Program Fellow, along with three other University of Georgia faculty members.

The University of Georgia has joined the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru), a consortium of almost three dozen research universities committed to advancing interdisciplinary, arts-oriented research. Simultaneously, the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts has initiated a new faculty research cluster that will serve as UGA's point of connection to a2ru.

Eighth annual Making Masters exhibition, featuring the work of Lamar Dodd School of Art second-year MFA students: 
Reid Brechner
Ally Christmas
Katelyn Chapman
Whitney Cleveland
Annemarie DiCamillo
Erin Geagon
Yeonsoo Kim
Katherine Miller
Deepanjan Mukhopakhyay
Ali Norman
Johanna Norry
Kaitlin Rothacher
Kelsey Scharf
Alexis Spina
Kaleena Stasiak

Opening Reception
Saturday September 24, 2016
4 - 6 p.m.
Madison Museum of Fine Art
300 Hancock St. 
Madison, GA 30650

Associate Professor of Art and Area Chair for Jewelry and Metals, Mary Pearse is participating in “Shadow Themes: Finding the Present in the Past”, featuring 33 American women jewelers. Opening September 8 through October 16, 2016.  A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, September 8th, from 6-8pm.

CrossPass is a project featuring collaborative and solo works by artists Demitra Thomloudis, and Motoko Furuhashi that examines place through expanded media and the intimate lens of jewelry and small objects. The project targets a distinctive stretch of the Interstate 10 corridor connecting the unique borderplex region of El Paso, Texas to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Read more about this exhibition and the artist HERE

Dodd Associate Professor of Art, Jon Swindler exhibiting at North Seattle College Art Gallery. “material culture” which is a group exhibition focusing on collage and assemblage. The selected artists stretch the classical definition of collage through their explorations of scale, scope, and their unique manipulation of materials. All of the work operates in a society that has primed each of us, individually, to absorb an abundance of information.