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Engaging Students and Communities in Music Research

The Willson Center for Humanities and Arts and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music present a lecture by a noted expert on bringing research into communities and vice-versa. Carol Muller, a South African-born Ethnomusicologist at the University of Pennsylvannia, will speak at the Hodgson Schoo, at 4 p.m. Thursday Sept. 5 in room 408.  Muller has published widely on South African music at home and abroad. Her books include Rituals of Fertility…


Music Scholarship: Power in the Progress

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music is renowned for training some of the best conductors, vocalists, cellists, violinists and other instrumental performers in the country. Many of these UGA graduates go on to outstanding international careers and we take great pride in their accomplishments. The Hodgson School also trains some of the best music teachers in America and its impact on the future of the arts in the classroom is at least as important as…


Fantastic faculty recitals

Two great concerts, both free, are offered this week and represent the faculty musicians in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at their finest: Wednesday the 28th. The HHSOM welcomes students and audiences back with a Faculty Showcase! At 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28, Connie Frigo (saxophone), D. Ray McClellan (clarinet), Reid Messich (oboe), Amy Pollard (bassoon), and David Zerkel (tuba) will take the Ramsey Concert Hall stage for a…


School of Art welcomes new Gallery Director

New gallery director in the Lamar Dodd School of Art Katie Geha is featured in the Athens Banner-Herald: As the incoming gallery director at Lamar Dodd, Geha’s relationship with curatorial work won’t lessen. Geha sees the position as quasi-academic, wherein she’ll act as teacher or mentor to young artists, but without the workload of production or publishing demands. Geha will teach a class called “Artist’s Writing.” Geha joins UGA and the…


English PhD Matthew Nye wins Emerging Writer's Residency and Book Prize

Congratulations to Matthew Nye, a PhD student in English who was selected as the sixth winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer’s Residency and Book Prize: [Nye] will be in residence on the campus of Lake Forest College from February 1 to March 31, 2014, where he will work to complete his winning manuscript, Pike and Bloom. He will receive $10,000 and, upon editorial approval, the finished book will be published by the &NOW…


UGA Symphony Orchestra to open 2nd Thursday season Sept.12

The Second Thursday Scholarship Series is one of the great traditions at the university and the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and the series is set to begin anew on Thursday Sept. 12: The series' opening concert will feature the UGA Symphony Orchestra Sept. 12 in a performance with bass-baritone Brandon Cedel, a winner of the 2013 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. The September symphony concert is one of the signal events of the…

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Alumna selected for Sundance composers fellowship

Josh Cutchin in the School of Music reports on the exploits of Athens music scene favorite and Hodgson School alumna Heather McIntosh: Hugh Hodgson School of Music alumna Heather McIntosh was recently selected for a Sundance Institute Film Composers fellowship, an honor that secures her a place at the 2013 Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs.  The event, a joint effort between Sundance and Skywalker Sound, will pair…


School of Art alum wins prestigious award

UGA alumnus John Powers, (MFA in sculpture, 2008) was awarded the Virginia A Groot Foundation Award, which includes $35,000 in support for a sculpture artist. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation was established in 1988 so that artists working in three dimensions could have the opportunity to devote additional time and resources to the development of their work.  ... Powers lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama where he is Assistant Professor…

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Spotlight on the Arts 2013

The UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival returns this fall for another week of events and performances to highlight the arts on campus: The University of Georgia will spotlight its arts programs and venues during a nine-day festival in November that includes concerts, theater and dance performances, art exhibitions, poetry readings, film festivals, discussions on the arts and creativity ... The festival will kick off on Nov. 7 with several evening…


Broadcast awards for WUGA TV and radio

The Georgia Association of Broadcasters recognized two programs from WUGA television and radio at their annual GABBY Awards honors night: WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV, the radio and television stations at the University of Georgia, won statewide awards for excellence in broadcasting at the Georgia Association of Broadcasters Honors Night held June 7 in Atlanta. "High Shoals Drifter," an audio essay that airs weekly on WUGA-FM, received the award for Best…

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Praxis Art Exhibition

Tonight at 5 pm is the opening for the reception for the exhibition 'Praxis,' at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Gallery director Jeffrey Whittle's last curatorial project at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the show has special significance and features works by a group of outstanding artists including Kate Windley, Leslie Snipes, Art Rosenbaum, Paul Murphy, Hatidza Mulic, Mary Ruth Moore, Erin McIntosh, Peter James McCarron, Eric Marty, Meredith…


Art Alumna wins ICA Prize

We always love it when our people move on and do well - prizes, awards, appointments and new positions. Now Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna Katarina Burin (BFA '99) has hit two of these at once: Katarina Burin, who took her conceptual creation of a fictitious Czechoslovakian architect from Berlin to Boston, has won the Institute of Contemporary Art’s 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize. The $25,000 award comes as Burin, a native of Slovakia, has…


African American Choral Ensemble concert Sunday

From its rich beginnings in the early 70's as the Pamoja Singers, the University of Georgia African American Choral Ensemble (AACE) has endeavored to keep concert halls and churches filled with the powerful sounds and wealth of indigenous musical treasures birthed from the African American experience. Since its earliest days at UGA, AACE has been a beacon tower of fellowship for the university community. Herein, people of many cultures come to…

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BFA Exit Shows

It's a busy time of year but don't forget to get out and see some art! It's the season for BFA Exit Shows in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The Photography, Printimaking and Sculpture show is up for a couple of more days. Next up: Painting and Drawing, Jewelry and Metals, Art X. Image: poster of and by the sculpture students. See? Good work.

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By the prickling of my thumbs, digital 'MacBeth' this way comes

Beginning Thursday April 11, University Theatre offers a new and innovative take on one of the Bard's best: University of Georgia Theatre will conclude its 2012-2013 season with a media-rich production of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" directed by David Saltz. The play will be performed April 11-12 and 17-20 at 8 p.m. and April 14 and 21 at 2:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre. Saltz, head of the UGA department of theatre and film studies, describes…

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An Evening of Art and Writing

This is more a Save the Date item but next month the Georgia Museum of Art will host an event that connects the humanities with visual art in a very, well, creative, way: Professor Judith Ortiz Cofer’s advanced creative writing class presents an evening of readings inspired by works of art in the museum’s permanent collection. The evening features the work of students in ENGL 4800 advanced creative writing workshop, taught by Regents’ and…


Swindler: This ≠ That

artist residency in Venice, Italy. A printmaker, Swindler is one of our great young art faculty members. And who among us doesn't love Venice? This should be good.  


Poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish to read at Ciné

Poet, artist, and art critic Marjorie Welish will read from her work on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Ciné Lab located at 234 W. Hancock Avenue. Sponsored by the English department’s Lanier Speaker Series, the event is free and open to the public. Welish is the author of several books of poetry including: In the Futurity Lounge (2012), Word Group (2004), and The Annotated 'Here' and Selected Poems (2000), finalist for the Lenore Marshall…


Bela Fleck with UGA Symphony Orchestra

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones are legendary performers with a serious worldwide following. Next week he will perform with our own UGA Symphony Orchestra in what I can only term as an extraordinary concert: Béla Fleck, the world's premier banjo player, for his second Hodgson Hall appearance this season when he returns to perform his new Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra with the UGA Symphony Orchestra on March 26 at 8 p.m. with Mark Cedel…


Steinway Spectacular

Keyboard studies are an integral part of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, and our faculty boasts American and International award-winning performers and teachers that draw some of the best student-musicians to study at UGA. And each year one date in the 2nd Thursday Scholarship Concert Series is dedicated to the piano - and to the piano maker that supplies the Hodgson School with instruments: More than 25 pianists will join forces for "Steinway…

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What makes patriotism? Theatre explores issues in 'Under Construction'

 

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The allure of machines

Bernie Lubell is an installation artist based in San Francisco who has long championed the power of human-machine interaction to unlock creative energy. If that sounds hokey, just consider one of his pieces: It's that kind of human interaction that he has keyed into with his work, which he will discuss during a lecture at the Lamar Dodd School of Art on Tuesday March 19 at 5:30 p.m. in room S151. His UGA lecture on "The Etiology of Innocence,"…


Students and community service

Next week is spring break and while there's nothing at all wrong with saddling up with friends and heading to a beach to relax, it should be acknowledged that many students will choose to use the week off in a different way: A group of 360 University of Georgia students will forego typical spring break trips like the beach and amusement parks to spend the week of March 9 participating in nearly 14,000 hours of community service work at 19 sites…


MFA Exit Show returns to the GMOA

• Nicole Lea Williams, interior design, Flowery Branch. Congratulations to these students and bravo for the return of this event to the museum. Yet another reason to visit this important public institution, whose staff works tirelessly to make its collections and experience accessible to all. Image: Courtesy of the Georgia Museum of Art  


Printmaker Karen Kunc at Lamar Dodd

The school of art welcomes printmaker Karen Kunc to campus this week, where she'll be printing with graduate students all week. She will present a public lecture on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 5:30 p.m. in room S151 in the school of art. A reception will follow at 7 p.m. Learn more about Karen Kunc and her work here.
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