The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents a round of four new exhibitions in the third-floor Dodd Galleries featuring recent works curated by the UGA Black Artists Alliance, MFA students, alumni and 2025 visiting artist Aaron Coleman. The opening reception for the exhibitions will be held on Friday February 7 from 6-8 pm and is free and open to the public.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes photographer Kelli Connell for a Visiting Artist Lecture on November 19, presented in partnership with the High Museum of Art on the occasion of her solo exhibition this fall, Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis, as well as a seminar on November 20 through the Interdisciplinary Modernisms Workshop.
University of Georgia staff photographer and alumna Chamberlain Smith conducted a creative studio lighting workshop with students in Associate Professor Marni Shindelman's "Constructed Image" class. This visit is part of an ongoing collaboration between Shindelman and the UGA Marketing & Communications photo staff to provide students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art with direction on
Truth Told Slant is an exhibition currently on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta that “examines a recent shift in how photographers have taken on the challenge of making meaningful images of the world around them.” The show spotlights stylistic, expressive documentary photography by five practicing artists in the Southeast.
This week, the Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes New York- and Texas-based photographer Rahim Fortune as a Visiting Artist. Fortune's visit to the School of Art coincides with his inclusion in a major survey exhibition of Southern photography at the High Museum in Atlanta titled A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845
To celebrate the start of the Fall 2023 semester, the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia welcomes friends and members of the community to the Back to School Exhibition Opening, an occasion to meet six new faculty members and an incoming cohort of graduate students in studio art, art education, and art history while enjoying four exhibitions on view in the Dodd Galleries.
Mary Ruth was, according to dear friend and former colleague Senior Lecturer Ben Reynolds, “unpretentiously and purely an artist.” She is remembered as a deeply enthusiastic beacon who centered encouragement in the studio and classroom to help students hone in on their strengths.
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.
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.
