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University Theatre presents CHICAGO

The department of theatre and films studies will present the popular musical Chicago, directed by guest artist and Tony Award-winning choreographer and Bob Fosse protégé Chet Walker: The University of Georgia University Theatre will present Chicago, the world-famous musical about fame, fortune and "all that jazz" on April 12-14 and 18-21 at 8 p.m. and on April 22 at 2:30 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre. Originally crafted by John Kander…


Postmodern design, transformations of craft

The impact of high style on the hand-made elements of craft is an ongoing, if contentious, phenomenon. The Lamar Dodd School of Art hosts a lecture by a curator from the Victoria and Albert Museum, who will talk about the recent V & A exhibition exploring this topic. Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, will present a lecture at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at 5:30…


Collegium Musicum presents Handel's Messiah

The University of Georgia Collegium Musicum and Players, UGA's premier Early Music ensemble directed by associate professor in the Hodgson School of Music Mitos Andaya, will perform Handel's Messiah on Sunday, April 1 at 6 pm at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Athens. While a great occassion to bring together town-and-gown during the Easter season, the free concert will also be an opportunity for Franklin College alumni to return to…


Faces of Divas

This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, March 22, 8 pm, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. FREE Image: The quintessential diva, Australian soprano Joan Sutherland, flanked by Luciano Pavarotti, left, and Spiro Malas performing Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, 1966. Getty Images.

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2012 MFA Exit Show

This will just serve as a 'Save the Date' but the 2012 MFA Exit Show is coming up in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and it should be a good one. A great group of graduate students from a broad range of media come together for a show that goes on view March 23 in galleries all over the school. The opening reception will be that evening, (3/23) from 6-9 pm. More details to follow. Image: Takeoff by Justin Plakas. Archival Pigment on Aluminum, 37 x…

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History of the American Novel

Henry James, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Agee, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, William Gaddis, Cormac McCarthy, Joseph Heller, Jack Kerouac. To many people, myself included, this list of Americans merits consideration as the founders of our country…


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Hollywood in the New Millenium

By many accounts, Hollywood has been in the midst of a transformation since at least 2000, the result of changing consumer habits, the dot.com bubble burst of 2001, the decline of DVD sales and rentals beginning in 2007, and the collapse of financial markets in 2008. And then there's Netflix. A pioneering specialist in the history of the American film industry, Tino Balio will be at UGA this week to lecture on the relationship of the major…


Dodd Professorial Chair exhibit

There are currently several great exhibitions on display in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, yet another of which is the ongoing show by the 2012 Dodd Professorial Chair, Kristen Morgin. The Dodd Chair allows the faculty to invite a guest to join their ranks for a semester (or two), teach classes, create new work and generally be a part of the goings-on in the school. They have been on great run of late and Morgin is no exception. This work is…


Scientific Illustration exhibition

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is home to a number of popular majors and programs within the Franklin College, where cross-disciplinary collaboration is not only encouraged but is a fundamental component to student achievement and faculty effectiveness. One of the those is the science and medical illustration area. Chaired by art professor Gene Wright, the program has its 20th annual exhibition this week. The exhibition features work from the…


CORE Dance Company presents "Awe-Wakening"

  The University of Georgia department of dance CORE Concert Dance Company will present its contemporary and aerial dance concert "AWE-WAKENING!" Feb. 29 to March 3 at 8 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre. The 60-minute performance consists of a range aerial dance-including bungee-assistance, trapeze, lyra and silks-blended with digitally rendered film projection and lighting effects. The evening's concert explores a connection to current…


Futurefarmer Franceschini to visit UGA

The Lamar Dodd School of Art, The Willson Center and ICE bring interdisciplinary artist Amy Franceschini to campus on March 6. Franceschini will deliver the lecture[ 4 p.m., 101 MLC] "Art is a Verb," which focuses on her recent work with sustainable energy, urban food production and dialogues between artists and scientists. She is the founder of Futurefarmers, a critically acclaimed group of artists and designers who have worked together since…


Pirates Weekend

University Opera Theatre production of the Pirates of Penzance takes center stage this weekend: This is the third [fully-staged, ed.] opera the university has produced since 2007, said Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor of the Arts at UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music. He also is the director of the school’s opera program. “We’re trying to build the opera program at UGA, not only for the students, but for the…


Drawing Across Borders

There is a fantastic, international show up at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, featuring great artwork and highlighting an important mechanism for faculty collaboration: the Fulbright Scholarship Program: The Lamar Dodd School of Art is hosting an exhibition of works by Diane Edison, a Fulbright scholar and UGA professor, and Ekaterina Russiniova of the New Bulgarian University fine arts department. The exhibition, titled "Drawing Across Borders…

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Hidden Man

Howard Finster was a very fascinating Georgian - a minister, visual artist and visionary who died in 2001, but not before having an outsized impact on our culture as a result of his unique confluence of pursuits. These and more are explored in a new play that will have its world premiere at UGA beginning Feb. 23. University of Georgia Theatre, in collaboration with Atlanta's 7 Stages Theatre, will present the world premiere of "Hidden Man" by…


Music Notes

Sorry - that title was too easy. But there is so much in terms of news and events coming out of the Hugh Hodgson School of Music that I hope to make this a regular feature on the blog.  For example, coming up on Monday, February 20, the Music Therapy program will offer their Music Therapy Musicale, featuring students and faculty from the program in performances of the many styles of music used in therapy, including pop and rock, blues and…

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Thomas Dozol, Works on Paper

The Lamar Dodd School of Art presents an exhibition by visual artist Thomas Dozol, in the Plaza Gallery through Feb. 22. Here's an interview with Dozol I did before the show, talking about the inspiration and influences behind the work.     An opening reception will be held Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. at the art school. The reception is free and the public is invited to attend.

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Pirates of Penzance

“This is a tremendous opportunity for families and music lovers of all ages to discover the joy of Gilbert and Sullivan,” said Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor of the Arts in the Hugh Hodgson School of Music and director of the opera program. “The Pirates of Penzance is light and fun, written and presented in English, and these performances feature many of the university’s most talented singers.”  The Opera…


Armitage features Gothic ghosts

University Theatre will present "Armitage", a tale of murder, mystery and love, at the Seney Stovall Chapel Feb. 7-12 at 8 p.m., with an additional performance at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday Feb. 12. Set in the Midwestern town of Armitage in the 19th century, the play relates the story of the Pendragon family. "The audiences gradually piece together the family's shocking secret from the bitterly divided perspectives of its various members, including the…


Rosenbaum mural at the Russell Library, part 2

This video is from my second of three planned visits with Art Rosenbaum as he works to complete his mural at the new special collections library.


UGA Jazz Band in Concert

The Hugh Hodgson School of Music puts great emphasis on its large ensembles - the Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, the UGA Hodgson Singers - and for good reason. Our students are highly accomplished musicians who gain valuable pre-professional performance experience in these large ensembles, and you should catch them whenever you can. But highly accomplished musicians in the school of music perform as soloists and in many other small and…


Cortona Studies Abroad Program exhibition

"The exhibition is a chance for all of the participants from 2011 to be together again, see friends and catch up," said Chris Robinson, director of the Studies Abroad Program in Cortona. "The focus is the artwork but it's also important for our students to have a sense of closure, a kind of processing of their experience in Italy."  The closing reception is at 3 p.m. on Jan. 21 at the art school. Image: Putto, by Margaret Morrison. oil…


Rosenbaum mural at the Russell Library

Lamar Dodd School of Art professor emeritus Art Rosenbaum was commissioned to create a mural depicting the political history of Georgia for the Russell Library at the New Special; Collections Librairies Building, set to open in 2012. I visited Art on site last week.    


Small Clear Refractions

From the book description on Amazon.com: What if, Pavlic asks without asking, the War on Terror is also a war for America, between America, of America. What if this is the scream of a nation in psychic crisis, a scream that bounces back at itself, increasingly louder. We travel, with Ed on a boat, to Siu, on an island a few miles away from Somalia; an island where Fazul Mohammed, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, once spent a few…


Article charts art professor's course

The Red & Black published a nice feature on Lamar Dodd School of Art professor of sculpture Larry Millard online today: Now a professor at the University and coordinator of its sculpture program, Millard anomalously began with aspirations to be a painter — that is, until James Agard’s painting course at Virginia Intermont College. “I started to realize that I had such a strange conception of what sculpture is up until that time,” Millard…
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