Are you a high school student eager to elevate your arts practice? Study under acclaimed faculty and graduate students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA. You have the option to delve into four different media practices (painting, printmaking, photography, and jewelry and metalwork) in 9 different week-long camps from June 2 through July 18 (excluding the week of the July 4 Independence Day holiday).

 

Guests at the Dodd Galleries for a BFA exit show, 2023. Photo by Sidney Chansamone.

 

The UGA Summer Art Camp offers an exclusive opportunity to grow as an artist with access to state of the art facilities within a beautiful university campus in Athens, Georgia. Launched over the summer of 2024 with 70 participating campers from across the region, our campers enjoy instruction by UGA art faculty in fully-equipped studios, proximity to the Georgia Museum of Art and the UGA Art Library, lunches at the university's Village Summit Dining Commons, and building new connections with passionate art students in Georgia.

The 2025 UGA Summer Art Camp, hosted in partnership with the Summer Academy at the University of Georgia, promises to be an exciting expansion of our program, including a new overnight residential option. Take your pick of 9 week-long courses in four different media. Find details below.

All skill levels and arts backgrounds are welcome to participate in our camp! Campers must be age 14-17.

Questions? Send an email to camp director Jon Swindler (Professor of Printmaking) at SummerArtCamp@uga.edu to find out more and to keep up with UGA Summer Art Camp news.

 

Schedule

Courses run from 9 am - 3:30 pm

June 2 - 6 — Photography A, Jewelry Making: Natural Object Jewelry

June 9 - 13 — Photography B, Jewelry Making: Bold Bling

June 16 - 20 — Painting A, Jewelry Making: Pins, Badges, and Personal Decoration

June 23 - 27 — Painting B

July 7 - 11 — Printmaking A

July 14 - 18 — Printmaking B

 

Courses

Photography A, B

Instructor: CC Calloway

This fast-paced introduction to studio photography will enhance your understanding of the camera, studio lighting, and portraiture. Offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art, this camp includes hands-on demonstrations and activities that teach you how to use light and composition to create captivating photographs. You will have the opportunity to act as both the photographer and the subject. You are encouraged to bring your own camera, along with props, costumes, or makeup for the photo shoots.

Jewelry Making: Natural Object Jewelry

Instructor: Larissa McPherson

Explore natural object jewelry through this engaging camp, offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Learn to design and construct jewelry containing a found natural object and create a beautiful wearable keepsake inspired by the natural world around us.

Jewelry Making: Bold Bling

Instructor: Hannah Toussaint

Explore jewelry and adornment through this hands-on camp offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Learn about the history of art jewelry and adornment, as well as basic metalworking and jewelry-making techniques. Explore skills such as sawing, piercing, filing, and applying textures. You will also experiment with color on metal using methods like powder coating, colored pencils, and paint. Work with various materials to create a small collection of wearable pieces, including bracelets, pendants, and earrings.

Jewelry Making: Pins, Badges, and Personal Decoration

Instructor: Sarah Bouchard

Discover the basics of sawing, filing, riveting, surface treatments, simple soldering, and finishing techniques through this fascinating camp, offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art covering. Use these skills to create decorative wearable objects that symbolize anything you hold near and dear, whether it be a favorite team, school spirit, or pet rock. Depending on difficulty, you may focus on a single object or make multiples.

Painting A, B

Instructor: Chris Hocking

Let us guide you through an introduction to traditional and contemporary image-making techniques using acrylic paint and drawing media in this exciting camp offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Explore strategies for energetic decision-making and experimentation, painting in layers, and the dynamic investigation of color and design in creating unique, expressive figure-ground compositions.

Printmaking A, B

Instructor: Jon Swindler

Explore various printmaking techniques, including linocut, screen printing, mono printing and book arts in this hands-on camp offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Design and execute all the necessary work to create your very own hand-bound artist book.

 

Fees + Registration

Each week-long course is offered with a day camp rate and an overnight rate. Find and pay for individual courses here.

Day Camp – $530
Residential Camp – $1255

If you have any questions, please contact camp program administrators at SummerArtCamp@uga.edu

 

Professor Jon Swindler with students at the Athens Art Book Fair, 2023. Photo by Sidney Chansamone.

 

Instructors

Sarah Bouchard, Jewelry Making: Pins, Badges, and Personal Decoration

Sarah Bouchard is a current MFA Candidate and instructor at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA. She received her BA in Philosophy and Studio Art from Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. She is a workshop instructor at the Lyndon House Arts Center and shown work in multiple states across the country. This is Sarah’s second year as a Summer Academy instructor.

CC Calloway, Photography A, B

CC Calloway is an artist, poet, and educator from Augusta, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia. She received her MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2020 and her BFA in Printmaking + Book Arts from the University of Georgia in 2017. CC has exhibited widely across the US and internationally, most notably at South by Southwest in Austin, TX, Material Art Fair in Mexico City, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Peckham Park in London, UK, Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX, and Jonathan Hopson Gallery in Houston, TX. CC has written and self-published four books of poetry, including one book of photography entitled My Favorite Word is Nothing. CC is also an arts writer, formerly editor of Number Inc. Magazine and published in BURNAWAY Magazine. She has participated in residencies, including Stoveworks, the Ox-Bow School of Art Fellowship, Atlanta Printmakers Studio (EAR), and the Ossabaw Island Residency for Arts and Science. CC’s practice is interdisciplinary, ranging from traditional printmaking processes, textiles, sculpture and installation to new media, sound, video, and web-based work.

Christopher Hocking, Painting A, B

Christopher Hocking is an Associate Professor in the drawing and painting area at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Hocking has received the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching award, served as a Senior Faculty Teaching Fellow, and is a member of the University of Georgia Teaching Academy. He received a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo, competitive and invitational exhibitions regionally and nationally. Christopher Hocking is an Associate Professor in the drawing and painting area at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Hocking has received the Sandy Beaver Excellence in Teaching award, served as a Senior Faculty Teaching Fellow, and is a member of the University of Georgia Teaching Academy. He received a BFA from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. He has exhibited his work in numerous solo, competitive and invitational exhibitions regionally and nationally.

Larissa McPherson, Jewelry Making: Natural Object Jewelry

Larissa McPherson is a metalsmith and jewelry artist from Adairsville, GA, and is currently working on her MFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing at the University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art. Larissa graduated from the University of West Georgia with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in studio art. Her work explores ideas and issues related to natural history collections and the accumulation of microplastics and waste in the environment, specifically in animal bodies. This is Larissa’s second year as a Summer Academy instructor.

Jon Swindler, Printmaking A, B

Jon Swindler is a Professor of Art who teaches in the Printmaking and Book Arts Area within the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. He holds a BFA in studio art and art education from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas and an MFA from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Hannah Toussaint, Jewelry Making: Bold Bling

Hannah Toussaint is a metalsmith located in Athens, Georgia completing her M.F.A. in Metalsmithing and Jewelry at the University of Georgia. She earned her B.A. from the University of New Orleans and completed a post-baccalaureate program at the University of North Texas in 2022 for jewelry and metalsmithing. Hannah identifies as a queer latine maker with a special interest in the materiality of glass. Her work has been exhibited nationally including the Metal Museum in Memphis, TN and at New York City Jewelry Week 2023. She most recently co-curated an exhibition that will be opening early 2025 at the Fuller Craft Museum including 30 jewelry artists exploring the potentiality of the bolo tie. This is Hannah’s second year as a Summer Academy instructor.

 

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The UGA Summer Art Camp aspires to be accessible for any passionate art student who wants to attend! Your generosity can help us provide the greatest experience to a broad range of students. If you are interested in supporting the UGA Summer Art Camp, please contact us at SummerArtCamp@uga.edu