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Dodd graduation coin

Honestly, we have so many fantastic stories from around Franklin every single day, it's easy to get used to. But this is just cool: graduates of the Lamar Dodd School of Art will receive a commemorative graduation coin at commencement this afternoon, made at the Dodd, by faculty and students at the Dodd, for graduates of the Dodd: Graduates of the Lamar Dodd School of Art will receive a commemorative medallion at the May 6 commencement ceremony…

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Art in Embassies

The UGA campus is replete with people doing wonderful work - whether teaching, making art, conducting research, or some combination of all of these (and yes, that does exist), so much goes on that it can be easy to miss some of the sublime trees for the enchanted forest. One of those trees would be artwork by associate professor of painting Margaret Morrison, which been on prominent display in the U.S. embassy residence in Tel Aviv since 2012:…

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Jasper Johns by Isabelle Wallace

Associate professor of art history Isabelle Loring Wallace talks about her recent Phaidon Focus book on Jasper Johns in this interview,    

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Socrates Sculpture Park

Hatfield's lecture, "Art Works-sometimes," will be about Socrates Sculpture Park as an example of how art acts as an agent for transformative social change with a digression into public art controversies. Hatfield will consider what it means to present art in the public realm and the inherent challenges for artists, organizations and audiences. What goes in and what works in public spaces to facilitate social change is so far along the path of…

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Spring Dance Concert 2015

The 2015 Spring Dance Concert featuring faculty, guest choreographers and UGA students, runs April 9-11 at 8 p.m. and April 12 at 2:30 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre in the dance building on Sanford Drive. [The concert features] UGA undergraduate students, many of whom are completing their Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Arts or minors in dance, for a performance of pieces that choreographers have been rehearsing with dancers since the…

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New Zimdars recording

All proceeds from Sunday's CD sales go to the Hugh Hodgson School of Music Scholarship Fund. The album may also be purchased from Zimdars' Amazon page. Kudos on a fantastic career onstage and in the classroom, and congratulations to one of our best.

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Dodd MFA Exit 2015

We practice and teach professional ambition throughout the Franklin College, and nowhere more vigorously than in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Students work hard to develop their sense of expectation for themselves and set their professional goals accordingly. But no matter what our faculty (and staff) might say, it's what they do that remains paramount and sends the strongest signals to our students. That's one reason why the 2015 Dodd MFA…

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Slingshot Festival

The third annual Slingshot festival got off to a rousing start last night and the action continues through Saturday: Musical highlights of the festival will include DJ sets by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DJ Windows 98 (Win Butler of Arcade Fire) as well as performances by Jamie XX, Nosaj Thing and Reptar. Comedy Night headliners include Kyle Kinane, Ron Funches and Kurt Braunohler. The festival will screen "Salad Days," a documentary…

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Ambartsumian named Regents Professor

It is with great pleasure that we join in celebration of the naming of Franklin Professor of Violin Levon Ambartsumian as a Regents Professor: Regents Professorships are bestowed by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on faculty members whose scholarship or creative activity is recognized nationally and internationally as innovative and pace-setting. The professorship includes a $10,000 salary increase and is granted for an…

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Keith Wilson exhibition, lecture, tour

In addition to his lecture, Wilson will give interpretive tours of the School of Art building on River Road March 26 at 6 p.m. The tours—known as the Cave and Mountain Tours, in which he describes as performances where he adopts the persona of a tour guide—are meant to create new relationships to familiar sites. Cave and mountain tour, inside the Dodd. I like it. Bring your hard hat, learn more about your environment; understand the world…

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Learning social entrepreneurship through movement

          Thinc week is March 23-27 on campus, and one of the many highlights will be a dance workshop led by Stanford University dance instructor Aleta Hayes, who uses dance and free movement as a route to leadership and collaboration: What new ways can we relate to one another? Experiential inquiry into concepts of social accupressure, viewing the view, opening to other’s realities, appreciation of tacit knowledge and…

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CORE Dance Concert

UGA's CORE Concert Contemporary and Aerial Dance Company's dance, aerial dance and multimedia concert continues Friday and Saturday Feb. 27- 28 at 8 p.m. and Sunday March 1 at 6 p.m. in the New Dance Theater in the dance building on Sanford Drive. "The Human Soul Connection" will guide the audience through an exploration of the human soul. Atlanta-based dance companies Staibdance and Zoetic Dance Ensemble will join students on stage. "In this…

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Das furchtbarste Beispiel

University Theatre takes up the real struggle of the 20th century's most notorious failed artist: the bold farce "Mein Kampf," written by George Tabori, the son of a holocaust survivor, on Feb. 19-21 and 24-28 at 8 p.m. with a matinee performance March 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Building's Cellar Theatre. In conjunction with this production, the UGA departments of theatre and film studies and German and Slavic studies are hosting an…

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UGA Opera Theatre: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz

UGA Opera Theatre brings the rarely-performed opera in three acts L'amico Fritz to the Fine Arts Theatre Feb. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. with a matinee performance Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. "I have wanted to bring this particular opera to UGA ever since I arrived here," said Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor in the Arts and Opera Theatre director. "I had the opportunity to perform it with the San Francisco Opera in 1976 and…

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Hood/Powers Q & A at the Chapel

Thursday the 12th at 4 pm, we're all going to the Chapel for a conversation between great friends of the blog Patterson Hood and Ann Powers: Ann Powers of NPR and musician Patterson Hood will hold a public conversation on "Our Back Pages: The Music, Books and Movies That Fed Two Creative Lives" Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. in the University of Georgia Chapel. The event is part of the Global Georgia Initiative, the signature speaker series of the UGA Jane…

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University Theatre: "A Lesson Before Dying"

Beginning tonight in the Seney Stovall Chapel on Milledge, University Theatre presents "A Lesson Before Dying," adapted to the stage by Romulus Linney from the acclaimed novel by Ernest J. Gaines and directed by George Contini. Performances will be held Feb. 3-8 at 8 p.m. with a matinee Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m.: "A Lesson Before Dying" is set in 1948 Louisiana. Jefferson, a young African-American, is the innocent bystander of a liquor store…

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Gregg Allman Scholarship

Maybe he's No Angel, but Gregg Allman is now a benefactor to the Franklin College and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music: A sold-out house at the Georgia Theatre greeted University of Georgia senior Katie Black in early January as she walked onstage with Gregg Allman. Her job was simple—introduce the legendary rock and blues musician prior to his first performance in Athens and thank him for establishing a scholarship that will help fund the…

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Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert

The UGA Symphony Orchestra is one of, if not the, premier large ensembles in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Our student-comprised symphony orchestra, conducted by professor Mark Cedel, can stand with any university-level orchestra in the nation. And many beyond it. This week, the UGA SO will feature five soloists from the school of music, winners of the concerto competition in the Hodgson School: Five of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music’s…

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Dodd, Georgia Review collaborate for Jan. 30 Art Party

Spoken word paired visual art holds great possibiltiy for fun, exploration and reflection. By mixing media and art forms, we can access new creative space in the minds of viewers and artists. And what better place to access new creative space than the Dodd:  The Lamar Dodd School of Art will hold an Art Party Jan. 30 from 6-8 p.m. to celebrate the opening of four concurrent exhibitions. The event will also celebrate The Georgia Review's…


Treating worms, teaching screenwriting

To prove we're not [always] Franklin College centric, here is some other cool news from around UGA: Treating animals for worms can be good, but also help spread infectious disease: Parasitic worms, which infect millions of people and animals around the world, have been shown to influence how the immune system responds to diseases like HIV and tuberculosis. In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa found…


M.F.A. alum Jason Yi wins Mitchell Foundation grant

Congratulations to LDSOA alum Jason Yi (M.F.A. 1995) who selected as one of 25 reciptients of the Joan Mitchell Foundation 2014 Painters & Sculptors Grant Program in the amount of $25,000 each. Yi: works across artistic disciplines: photography, video, sculpture, drawing, multimedia and interactive installations.  The expanded notions of culture, time and history play a critical role in the creation of his work. He has exhibited…


Poet Claudia Rankine reading tonight

National Book Award finalist and former University of Georgia faculty member Claudia Rankine will read from her work Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. at Ciné, 234 W. Hancock Ave. The event, sponsored by the UGA Creative Writing Program in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is free and open to the public. The reading is part of VOX, a series organized and hosted by graduate students in creative writing with additional organizational support from Avid…


Dance: Emerging Choreographers Dec. 5 & 6

The department of dance presents the Emerging Choreographers Informal Showing on Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. and Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre in the dance building on Sanford Drive: The showing marks the second performance of the annual fall semester Young Choreographers Series, which premieres choreographic works by UGA dance majors. The works reflect each choreographer's creative process, movement vocabulary and artistic perspective. "After…


UGA Holiday Concert Dec. 4 and 5

The great tradition afforded by a campus symphony orchestra and dynamic choral program returns with the UGA Holiday Concert preformances Dec. 4 & 5 in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall: The concert brings together hundreds of student musicians from the Hugh Hodgson School of Music for an evening of seasonal selections by the UGA Symphony Orchestra, British Brass Band, Jazz Band and choirs. "These concerts are one of the events that usher in the…


Open House at the Dodd Nov. 13

Demonstrations, activities, exhibitions, lectures & more, including the Visual Resource Library, Art Education, Art History, Graphic Design, Scientific Illustration, Art-X, Photography, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking and Bookarts, Fabric Design, Ceramics, Jewelry/Metals and Sculpture.  The Dodd is a perpetual motion machine of people, learning, making, showing, sharing and yes, art. Come out this evening and look around the place,…
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