Lamar Dodd School of Art

02/10/2026

Now on display in the Performing Arts Center Lobby Gallery: Paintings by Christopher Hocking, Associate Professor of painting and drawing at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. His work explores figural abstraction, blending form, space, and movement. Drawing from sources such as popular media, art history, science, and literature, his paintings move between abstraction and representation, inviting multiple interpretations and narratives.

Join us for a complimentary opening reception on Feb. 12 from 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Learn more about the exhibit here: https://pac.uga.edu/lobby-gallery/.

02/10/2026

💌🏺 Ceramics and Valentine's Day? Say no more.

You are invited to join a three-part class with ceramics artist Maria Dondero for our UGA Community Art School workshop Tile Decoration, running three Saturday mornings in February.

Pick up skills in underglazes, sgrafitto, stamping, and more with up to a dozen pieces you can take home.

3-part workshop is $200. A $75 discount is available for UGA staff, faculty, and students! Reach out for promo code.

Sign up by 5 pm Friday February 13 here: https://art.uga.edu/uga-community-art-school

02/04/2026

Tomorrow, experience the opening of our Spring 2026 Exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries from 5 to 7 PM.

Join the community at the Lamar Dodd School of Art for an evening celebrating work across various media, including animation, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, scientific illustration, and more.

Exhibitions include:
Derek Larson: Très Mall, Episodes 1-8
Derek Larson: Made in Mexico: The Anti-Communist Cartoons of Dibujos Animados S.A.
Phoebe-Agnès Mills: Ekstasis
35th Annual Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition
the green glass door
Quantum Castle

On view through March 20. We look forward to seeing you there!

01/30/2026

The calm before the storm ❄️ stay safe everyone! Make art if you can 👾

01/29/2026

Join us for an inspiring artist talk featuring Atlanta-based printmaker Jamaal Barber, presented by the UGA Black Artists Alliance and the UGA Printmaking Students Association on Tuesday February 3rd in N100 at 5:30. This event will take place at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and is part of the captivating group exhibition, *Home & Family: A Printmaking Exhibit* at the historic Taylor-Grady House.

Jamaal Barber, a visionary creative from Virginia and raised in the vibrant culture of North Carolina, embarked on his artistic journey in 2013 after experiencing a screen-printing demonstration that ignited his passion for printmaking. His exceptional woodcuts and mixed-media prints have gained recognition, including a feature in the Folio Society’s special edition of Colson Whitehead’s groundbreaking novel, *The Underground Railroad*.

Beyond the canvas, Jamaal’s talents have been showcased on the MTV/Smithsonian Channel’s art competition show *The Exhibit*, and he has collaborated with Twitter, the New York Times, Penguin Random House, Black Art in America, and Emory University.

01/27/2026

Tomorrow! Join us in welcoming design and technology scholar Sangwon Lee of for a fascinating lecture on model-based color design.

See you in S150 at 5:30 pm. Lecture details below —

“The Journey Toward Model-Based Color Design: Harmony, Search Engines, and Illusions”
From the perspective of design degrees of freedom, color constitutes a relatively simple, one-dimensional design space. Nevertheless, when considered in relation to color harmony, affective associations, and aesthetics, it becomes subtle and complex, demanding both the experiential knowledge and cognitive labor of the designer. Drawing upon two recently published studies, I first examine the quantification of color harmony through AI models and evaluate the outcomes when such quantifications are applied to generative models. Next, I investigate methods for extracting feature colors from the images collected from search engines in order to generate palettes corresponding to arbitrary keywords. Finally, I review the typologies and representative cases of visual illusions identified in existing research, while presenting my own findings on the role of color within these phenomena. Collectively, this analysis aims to elucidate how design processes—traditionally grounded in human emotion and tacit knowledge—may evolve under the influence of computational and model-based methodologies.

01/26/2026

Unfortunately, due to scheduling issues related to the extended winter storm, this visiting artist panel with Jamie Isenstein has been canceled.

Please stay tuned for further programming at the Athenaeum and additional lectures curated by the Lamar Dodd School of Art this spring.

Visit art.uga.edu and athenaeum.uga.edu for event calendars

01/21/2026

Next Tuesday, join us for a visiting artist lecture and panel discussion at the Athenaeum with artist , Associate Professor of Art History Isabelle Wallace, Athenaeum director Rachel Waldrop, MFA alumna and MFA candidate .h.horgan

Speaker Bio

Multi-media artist Jamie Isenstein’s work considers perception, subjectivity and the slippery nature of animate and inanimate existence. In her often humorous work differences between fact and fiction, subject and object and life and death are often blurred. Whether using sculpture, video, performance, painting or photography to convey her intentions, at the heart of Isenstein’s work is a desire to probe the formation of knowledge, how we come to understand our world and what it means to be human today. Isenstein has shown her work nationally and internationally including at The Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Tate Liverpool, UK, PS1, New York, Palais de Tokyo, Paris and ICA Chattanooga. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

See you January 27 at 5:30 pm!

01/14/2026

01/10/2026

Athens-area adults: make twisted metal at the Dodd this spring at our UGA Community Art School!

Hear about what you'll be up to in our Metalwork Fabrication class from faculty member Mickey Boyd.

Sign up at art.uga.edu by January 16. Classes start January 28. 🗜️🕶️

01/09/2026

Rocksprings Street shotgun houses then and now. Counting down the days to the opening reception of “Beverly's Athens”! Join us next Saturday from 4-6 pm at the Athenaeum.

Beverly Buchanan’s extensive photographic documentation of vernacular architectures throughout Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida often feature recognizable landmarks in the city of Athens, GA such as this row of shotgun houses on Rocksprings Street. While Buchanan is best known for her ‘shack’ sculptures and drawings, this exhibition will provide contextual materials detailing the role of research and lived experience in the works she made in the studio.

Buchanan arrived in Athens in 1987 after formative years living and working in Macon and Atlanta. In Athens she established a pattern of transforming her domestic environments into live/work studios. Over the following twenty-three years, she produced an expansive body of work from within the three houses she inhabited over this period. These works ranged from the nationally celebrated sculptures, drawings, and documentary photographs Buchanan created as tributes to the Black vernacular architectures she studied in Athens and its surrounding counties, to an abundant array of personal musings, print reproductions, and material studies created in the daily rhythms of life. Although Buchanan spent more years working in Athens than anywhere else, this period has never been the subject of a dedicated solo exhibition in the city she considered home.

Beverly’s Athens is supported by a 2024 Single Project Grant from Teiger Foundation—a private foundation devoted exclusively to supporting contemporary art curators. “Shacks, Stories and Spirit: Beverly Buchanan’s Art of Home,” a concurrent exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, explores how artist Beverly Buchanan uses vernacular Southern architecture—especially the humble “shack”—to evoke memory, community, and resilience, re-imagining structures of home as vibrant embodiments of both personal and collective histories.