Our 2022 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition features work selected by Claire Dempster, interim Director of Burnaway, an online magazine and platform that celebrates art in the South. 

Dempster has been a Burnaway contributor since 2018 and has served as its development manager since September 2020. Prior to her role at Burnaway, she worked at the Woodruff Arts Center after receiving her master of arts in art history from the University of Georgia.

In Lisa Tan's video My Pictures of You (2017–19), the artist thinks of images of Mars as a death mask of Earth, captured millions of years in the future, yet witnessed in the present. Compelled by photographs from NASA’s expeditions depicting Mars’ topography, Tan senses how the planet’s dry lake beds, undulating sand dunes, and horizon could be our own. Their striking familiarity transports her to the desert terrain of the American Southwest where she was raised.

New Terrain is an installation that features the work of Dodd MFA candidate Ethan Snow. Through works painstakingly drawn in pen and ink and translated to print through photolithography, Snow explores the ways in which the natural world has dramatically changed since the advent of mass production and digitalization.

Play Along is an exhibit of recent works by Dodd MFA ca

For over a year, the UGA Cortona International Center programs were put on hold due to the pandemic. After an extended hiatus, Cortona resumed programming hosting approximately 40 students and faculty for the 2021 Fall Semester program. This year’s Cortona exhibition, known as “La Mostra” (The Show), presents the experience and work of Fall 2021 students and faculty creating art in the studios of the Kehoe Center and engaging with the city of Cortona once again. La Mostra will run from Monday, January 10th, through Friday, January 21st, 2022, with no closing ceremony.