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Lamar Dodd photography students in Associate Professor Marni Shindelman’s “Constructed Image” class attend a creative studio lighting workshop hosted by the UGA Marketing & Communications photo staff.

Photography students practice studio lighting with UGA photographer Chamberlain Smith

October 3, 2024

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

Tommy Kha, May (Madonna Sans Child), in Four Acts, East Memphis, Tennessee, 2021. Pigmented inkjet print.

Photographers Tommy Kha and Jill Frank discuss their work in High Museum of Art exhibition “Truth Told Slant”

April 10, 2024

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.

Photograph by Rahim Fortune, published in the 2021 photo book I can't stand to see you cry.

Visiting Artist Rahim Fortune reframes narratives of family and community in the south

October 16, 2023

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

Artwork in Hard Fork, exhibition by CC Calloway.

Back to School Exhibition Opening at the Dodd

August 10, 2023

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.

The Light in Our Midst: Remembering Professor Emerita Mary Ruth Moore (1936-2023)

June 8, 2023

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.

‘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.

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.

BFA Students Present “Brief Intermission” at ATHICA

November 30, 2022

“Twin Realms” by MFA Students Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy Opens this Week in the Dodd Galleries

October 17, 2022

Twin Realms is a collaboration between Dodd MFA candidates Katie Ford and Lindsey Kennedy. The artists come together to create a new, shared body of work that investigates dimensional illegibility and impermanence as ways of prompting an experience of instability.

Michael Marshall, Geometry of Flight. Pigment print, wood. 43 x 43

Michael Marshall Exhibits Photographs in “Reimagining Earth” at Northlight Gallery

October 10, 2022

Photography professor Michael Marshall is exhibiting work at his alma mater, Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix, Arizona. The exhibition Reimagining Earth at the Northlight Gallery at ASU Herberger Institute's School of Art features the works of artists who explore the experience of the human animal and the non-human creatures that share this earth.

Lucas Eytchison, Untitled 4. Archival pigment print, 16 x 20.

Photo & Expanded Media Faculty and Graduate Students Selected for 2022 National Photography Invitational at the University of Iowa

October 5, 2022

Three faculty and four graduate students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art photography & expanded media area were selected to present work at the University of Iowa’s 2022 National Photography Invitational.

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.

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