Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin Workshop

Natalie Chanin of Alabama Chanin will  be leading a sewing/stitching workshop at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Thursday, January 28th beginning at 2:00 in the first floor atrium. There will be a limited number of kits (fabric, needle, thread) so it will be first come, first served for kits but everyone is invited to participate. She will give a brief introduction and then students will have the opportunity to work on a section of what will later become a large scale piece.

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Dodd Atrium

3rd Thursday: Gallery talks with Post-MFA fellows

Join us for an evening at the Galleries! Our three post-MFA Fellows in photography and sculpture will discuss their exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries. 6-8pm. 

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Dodd Galleries

Cherokee Basketry Show at the Georgia Museum of Art

Janice Simon, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor of Art History in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, co-curatorates with Dale Couch, the museum's curator of decorative arts, and  Mary C. Scales English, a UGA student in the master's of historic preservation program, the exhibition of 45 objects, dating from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. Some belong to the museum's collection. Others are promised gifts, including the many contemporary examples Simon lent to the exhibition.

Jeannine Falino: "Performance Craft"

Jeannine Falino

Jeannine Falino is an independent curator, museum consultant and art critic. She specializes in decorative arts, modern craft, and design. Previously the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ms. Falino has worked independently since moving to New York in 2007, where she was co-curator for the major survey exhibition Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design (Museum of Arts and Design, 2011), and curator of What Would Mrs. Webb Do?

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Dodd Auditorium S151

Beth Cavener

Beth Cavener

The daughter of a molecular biologist and art teacher, Beth Cavener has pursued the connections between art and science throughout her career. She received her MFA in ceramics from Ohio State University, was a resident artist at the Archie Bray Foundation for two years, and had a recent solo exhibition the Huntington Museum of Art, in Huntington, WV.

Cavener’s figurative sculpture addresses controversial and potentially embarrassing subject matter head on in her work while emphasizing the primitive and raw characteristics of her chosen medium, clay. 

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Dodd Auditorium S151

Philip Juras: The Wild Treasury of Nature

University of Georgia Graduate, Philip Juras, awaits release of new book; "The Wild Treasury of Nature". Juras' new book is scheduled to be released in March of 2016. "The Wild Treasury of Nature" is the second of Juras' works exploring the presettlement wilderness of the American South as the early naturalists would have encountered it. Juras recieved his BFA from Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA and his master's degree in landscape architecture is also from The University of Georgia.

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