Lamar Dodd School of Art

‘Where the Sidewalk Ends, Spring 2023 BFA Exit Show’ celebrates graduating students

April 5, 2023

Ushering in graduation season, the Lamar Dodd School of Art proudly presents Where the Sidewalk Ends, BFA Spring 2023 Exit Show in the Dodd Galleries, an exhibition organized by and featuring the work of 42 graduating BFA students.

AJ Aremu ('23, MFA), You Touch the Immortals, 2023

Athenaeum presents ‘re:(de)construction,’ artworks by the 2023 MFA class of the Lamar Dodd School of Art

April 5, 2023

The Athenaeum, the University of Georgia’s contemporary art space in downtown Athens, presents artworks by the Spring 2023 MFA class of the Lamar Dodd School of Art in the upcoming thesis exhibition re:(de)construction.

Jasmine Best, Woman is Smarter than the Devil Himself, 2022. Digital painting on cotton, found fabrics, yarn, 67 in x 45 in. Artwork earned the Lyndon House Arts Foundation Award for Excellence at the 48th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Art Center.

Students and alumni win top awards at 48th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center

March 16, 2023

The Lamar Dodd School of Art made waves at the 48th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Art Center, with two students and one alumna scoring the show's top prizes and half a dozen students and alumni securing merit awards.

Caitlin La Dolce and student volunteers discussing the exterior mural design at Bigger Vision Athens.

MFA students brighten local Athens shelter

February 17, 2023

With a desire to have a positive impact on and relationship with the local community, Benjamin Britton, an associate professor of painting at UGA, met with the Executive Director of Bigger Vision of Athens Ryan Hersh to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration.

BFA Students Present “Brief Intermission” at ATHICA

November 30, 2022

Joseph Norman and Color the World Bright support grant-funded murals in Seminole County

November 7, 2022

Troy Lamarr Chew II, Ask ya Mama, 2021, Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in.

Visiting Painter Troy Lamarr Chew II Wields a Coded Visual Language to Project Black Culture Anew

October 28, 2022

Another West Coast artist joins us next week as the third creative participating in the 2022-2023 Visiting Artist and Scholar Lecture Series. Troy Lamarr Chew II is a Los Angeles-born and based painter who skillfully and subversively uses traditional European painting techniques "to reframe their exclusion of Blackness."

Ridley Howard, Sea and Sky, 2022 Oil on linen, 24 x 34 inches. On view at Marinaro Gallery in New York City.

Director Joseph Peragine Attends Alum Ridley Howard’s Solo Exhibition Reception in New York City

October 27, 2022

This past weekend, Ridley Howard's latest solo exhibition Forever opened at the New York City gallery Marinaro. Joseph Peragine was among various colleagues from the school and from the Athens area to attend the celebration.

Joseph Norman Retrospective at the Newport Art Museum

September 29, 2022

First-year MFA student Jasmine Best speaks to guests in her studio space in the Lamar Dodd School of Art during the Art Party Extravaganza on September 16, 2022.

Art Party Extravaganza Welcomes Community to Explore Studios and Exhibitions

September 21, 2022

The Lamar Dodd School of Art launched the 2022-2023 season of exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries with the return of the Art Party Extravaganza on Friday September 16.

Visiting and exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivers a lecture at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on September 16, 2022.

Exhibiting Artist Pete Schulte Delivers Lecture “Notes on Drawing”

September 21, 2022

On September 16th, in a quiet lecture hall at the School of Art, hours before the bustling energy of the Art Party Extravaganza, exhibiting artist Pete Schulte delivered the lecture “Notes on Drawing.” Schulte's work, on display in the Margie E. West Gallery through November 10th, is composed of monochromatic drawings of looping lines and graphite glowing shapes.

In Memoriam: The Distinctive Artistry and Music of Professor Emeritus Art Rosenbaum (1938-2022)

September 5, 2022

For thirty years, the late professor emeritus Art Rosenbaum instructed a generation of painters at the Lamar Dodd School of Art with an eye toward bold, layered compositions that highlighted the interiority of his subjects and the dynamic landscape of folk traditions and personhood in the South.

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