Lamar Dodd School of Art

Image: 2023 4'33" Contest Winners at the Athenaeum — Vale Prosper, Isabella Tallman-Jones, Adah Bennion, and Keren Sahar.

Compete in the 4’33” Contest, a research competition in the arts during the UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival

October 3, 2024

An homage to John Cage's landmark composition of the same name, the 4 Minutes, 33 Seconds Contest highlights University of Georgia student research in the arts. The event offers an opportunity for students to win prizes and to share their creative inquiry with peers, faculty, administrators and alumni throughout the university community.

Artwork: Mary Hallam Pearse and Joseph Peragine, Steered by Falling Stars, 2024.

Director Joseph Peragine and Professor Mary Hallam Pearse collaborate on sculpture for …an Atlanta Biennial…

October 2, 2024

Lamar Dodd School of Art Director Joseph Peragine and Professor of Art Mary Hallam Pearse are presenting a collaborative artwork titled Steered by Falling Stars for …an Atlanta Biennial..., organized by The Temporary Art Center from October 3 - November 3, 2024.

Artwork: Izzy Losskarn (UGA), Prick (Red), 2023. 20 x 20 in. Pastel on paper, mounted to shaped wood panel.

UGA partners with Georgia State University for Atlanta Art Week

September 23, 2024

For the second year in a row, MFA students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art are participating in Atlanta Art Week. This year’s exhibition HOMEWORK is a collaboration with Georgia State University's Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design that features 19 graduate students enrolled in two of Georgia's anchor art university programs.

MFA alumna Rachel Debuque named Director of the University of Arkansas School of Art

September 16, 2024

Dodd Alum Phillip McClure opens Blue Boy gallery in Savannah

September 9, 2024

Graduating BFA students present the 2023 Capstone Exhibition “Interwoven”

November 27, 2023

MFA 2023 thesis exhibition catalogue cover, Lamar Dodd School of Art.

2023 MFA thesis exhibition catalogue showcases artworks and essays by graduate students

November 7, 2023

The catalogue for the 2023 thesis exhibition re:(de)construction — shown in May 2023 at the school's downtown contemporary art gallery the Athenaeum — spotlights eleven MFA students, ten art history graduate students, and includes a guest essay by Director and Curator of the ICA Chattanooga Rachel Waldrop.

Welcoming incoming cohort of graduate students

August 15, 2023

‘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.

Visiting Artist vanessa german transmits redemption through assemblage, performance, and community work

March 17, 2023

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes german next week through the school's Visiting Artist and Scholar program.

Four students receive 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award

March 15, 2023

The 2023 Outstanding Teaching Award, sponsored by the Office of the Vice President of Instruction, has been awarded to graduate students J Taran Diamond (MFA candidate), Chad Hayward (MFA candidate), Devin Jo (PhD candidate in Art Education), and Tara Kraft-Ainsworth (PhD candidate in Art History) for their exceptional care and effectiveness in the classroom and studio.

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