Lamar Dodd School of Art

Assorted soft sculptures of bold and bright figurines on light blue background.

Quantum Castle

Exhibition • February 5, 2026 – March 20, 2026

The Dodd Galleries present Quantum Castle where fantastical slick ceramic characters serve as playful narrators in a layered, colorful world of texture, light, and sound. There exists a realm beyond the visible—always present, ever shifting. Deep within this imaginal space lies the Quantum Castle where visitors learn of the Time Guardian’s quest and begin a whimsical journey. Made interactive through games, riddles, and activities, artworks engage participants with cross-disciplinary ideas from quantum mechanics, philosophy, world spiritualities, and depth psychology. Inside Quantum Castle each artwork becomes an exploratory site where visitors become participants in the experience rather than observers. The experience is a sensorial place of play and rest that offers relief from institutions and world events. It cultivates presence and connection, empowering visitors to...

Derek Larson: Made in Mexico: The Anti Communist Cartoons of Dibujos Animados S.A.

Exhibition • February 5, 2026 – March 20, 2026

On view in the Dodd 3rd Floor landing are a selection of animated films produced in Mexico City between 1952-1956 by the studio Dibujos Animados S.A. Created with covert support from the United States Information Agency, these cartoons were distributed throughout Latin America as part of a Cold War propaganda effort promoting American capitalism and individualism while opposing collectivist ideology. Produced by Mexican animators using local labor, humor, and visual styles, these films reveal a transnational media operation in which American political messaging was localized and animated for regional audiences. Slapstick comedy, didactic narration, and modernist graphic design frame capitalism...

Beverly’s Athens

Exhibition • January 16, 2026 – March 21, 2026

Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) lived in Athens, GA, from 1987 to 2010. “Beverly’s Athens,” the first major solo exhibition of her work in the city, situates Buchanan’s expansive practice from this period within the local and lived conditions that shaped it. The exhibition emphasizes two intertwined threads from Buchanan’s Athens years: her modes of surviving chronic illness in the absence of an equitable healthcare system, and her multidisciplinary efforts to study and commemorate Black Southern geography, traditions, and forms. Bringing together lesser-known works—small sculptures, drawings, photographs, print multiples, autobiographical ephemera, research materials—alongside examples of her noted ‘shacks’ paired with new archival...

Effy Wang: The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir

Exhibition • October 9, 2025 – November 14, 2025

Effy Wang: The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir August 28 - September 26, 2025 Opening: Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5 - 7 pm along with MFA Open Studios in the Main Building and Ceramics Building The Dodd Galleries present a solo exhibition by MFA candidate Effy Wang titled The Sweetest Meat in This Abattoir in our Bridge Gallery. Wang’s exhibition investigates the entanglements between language, identity, and the body, featuring large-scale abstract paintings and hybrid sculptural forms. The vertical canvases resemble bodies hung, organs unraveled, or portals stretching through lived time. Suspended sculptures made of fishhooks, yarn, and handmade paper suggest fragile yet...

Not Here / Not Now

Exhibition • October 9, 2025 – November 14, 2025

The Dodd Galleries present Not Here / Not Now : a group exhibition that explores speculative fiction as a method of inquiry beyond prediction and escape. Whether through science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories, or wild conjectures, speculative fiction claims imagination as a critical practice, accessing an underrated possibility of art. The works gathered here—featuring emerging and mid-career artists, practices which span multiple media and expose exterior currents of creative discourse—destabilize inherited categories of truth, time and nature, offering instead ambiguous artifacts, impossible rituals, and visual systems that resist closure. The exhibition presents a chorus of speculative gestures: half-built systems, false memories, invented...

Steven Thompson: Ever Loyal, Ever True

Exhibition • September 13, 2025 – November 21, 2025

The Athenaeum presents Ever Loyal, Ever True, an exhibition of recent work by Steven Thompson (American, b. 1967) in our second gallery, concurrent with Krista Clark’s assembly. Both artists share an affinity to pushing the boundaries and definitions of traditional drawing through layering, erasure, and additive means, moving their work towards sculptural abstraction that commands a physical call-and-response.

Krista Clark: assembly

Exhibition • September 13, 2025 – November 21, 2025

The Athenaeum presents assembly, a site-specific installation of new work by Krista Clark (American, b. 1975) in our main gallery. Clark’s studio practice is informed by the politics and poetics of the urban built environment and pushes the formal artistic boundaries between drawing, sculpture and installation through the lens of abstraction. Clark’s gestures of erasing, overlapping, layering and stacking materialize in two- and three-dimensional forms, which as she says, reveal the “shiftiness between things: interior vs. exterior, place vs. space, and flatness vs. depth.”

slinko: NEOLOGISMS

Exhibition • August 28, 2025 – November 14, 2025

slinko: NEOLOGISMS August 28 - November 14, 2025 Opening: Thursday, Sept 4, 2025, 5 - 7 pm NEOLOGISMS is a site-responsive installation in the Dodd’s Plaza Gallery inspired by a New York Times investigation into the disappearance of certain words from federal language. Addressing our cultural and political moment, slinko transforms this act of censorship into an opportunity to invent an entirely new vocabulary. Through simple rearrangement of letters, she remakes these banned terms into “neologisms.” Drawing on her background in graphic design, slinko references Illustrator and InDesign interfaces, using text boxes, highlighting, and overflow indicators to foreground how language can be...

Kristine Potter: The Body Politic

Exhibition • August 28, 2025 – November 14, 2025

Kristine Potter: The Body Politic August 28 - November 14, 2025 2025 Margie E. West Prize Awardee & Exhibition Opening Thursday, Sept 4, 2025 Artist Lecture: Dodd S150, 4pm Public reception: 5 - 7 pm The Dodd Galleries at the University of Georgia are pleased to announce The Body Politic, our 2025 Margie E. West Prize recipient exhibition in which Dodd alumna, Kristine Potter (American, b. 1977)—BFA Photography and BA Art History (‘01)—presents a survey of selected work from three series: The Gray Line (2005-2010), Manifest (2012-2017), and Dark Waters (2015-2023). Potter will give an artist lecture on Thursday, September 4th in room S150 of the Lamar Dodd...

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