A lifetime of creation Oct 4, 2008
" Born in Ohio in 1934, Smith moved with his family to South Carolina as an infant. He enrolled at the University of Georgia and was trained in the fine arts by the late Lamar Dodd, graduating in 1956. Cain said her father's first professional foray after college was designing milk and juice cartons for Dairy Pak (now Champion International), and he soon developed a lucrative freelance business, which in 1983 he transitioned into the Adsmith. Through the years, he continued to paint in his spare... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Study abroad program linking UGA to Italy a success story Sep 7, 2008
In the fall of 1969, with the blessing of the late Lamar Dodd, then head of the university's art department, Kehoe began his quest to find the right community to host a summer program ... "Jack Kehoe is a treasure. He has inspired and mentored thousands of art students from UGA and elsewhere who had the good fortune to attend the study abroad program in Cortona," said Georgia Strange, Lamar Dodd School of Art director. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA unveils new art school building on East Campus Sep 5, 2008
com The University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art showed off Thursday afternoon in a dedication that marked not only the opening of a $40 million building, but the consolidation of most UGA fine arts programs on the university's East Campus ... Annie Laurie Dodd, second from right, widow of Lamar Dodd, and University of Georgia President Michael Adams, right, cut a ribbon for the Thursday dedication of the new Lamar Dodd School of Art ... University of Georgia junior Jessie Jordan works... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Official: Candle set fatal fire Aug 27, 2008
Colleagues of Marriott were saddened by his death, remembering him as a committed artist and dedicated instructor at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art. He retired last year, colleagues said. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Former UGA professor dies in fire Aug 26, 2008
Marriott, 66, retired last year as an associate professor at the University of Georgia;s Lamar Dodd School of Art ... Marriott, 66, retired last year as an associate professor with UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art, according to colleagues. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Plant-balloon business blossoms into vast collection of Lamar Dodd art Jul 31, 2008
Most of the paintings are by Lamar Dodd, the artist who started the University of Georgia's School of Art and UGA's highly regarded art museum in the 1930s. Morehead owns the last painting Dodd made before his death in 1996, and some of the first, executed when Dodd was a child. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Johnson Center for Arts to open June 17 Jun 6, 2008
On display for the opening will be "Bhutan: The Land of Shangri-la," photography by Alice Wright; "A Lamar Dodd Retrospective," works from the collection of C.L. Morehead; "Techniques ," a sampling of painting, drawings and prints from the Georgia Museum of Art; selections from the Collections of the Brantley Family;" "Selections from the Troy Arts Council Permanent Collection;" and recent works by Troy artist Sallie Fenn. "Alice Wright's passion is photographing the people and the places of the... (Troy Messenger, AL)
Artist seeks inspiration from her surroundings May 27, 2008
"I felt descent just as their mother, having to see them live in a new reality and a new world," says Morrison, a senior lecturer in the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art. Look more closely at the painting, and the industrial clouds of smoke take on new meaning. (Athens Banner-Herald)
UGA sends more students to study abroad Apr 20, 2008
International study is relatively new in some departments, but in others is entrenched, like UGA's big Lamar Dodd School of Art, whose Cortona program has brought thousands of students to study and live in a renovated church and convent that dates from the 1200s. Founded nearly 40 years ago, the Cortona program recently expanded its offerings beyond art when it began offering science courses in 2006. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Cultural arts center hosts volunteer luncheon Apr 2, 2008
Metzger told the gathering of potential volunteers a Lamar Dodd exhibition also has been arranged. Dodd was a Georgia artist who was invited by NASA to document humanity's conquest of space. (Troy Messenger, AL)
Cultural Arts Center a long-sought dream Feb 20, 2008
"In June, we have scheduled seven exciting exhibits, starting with the artwork of Lamar Dodd, a painter who worked in Alabama, Georgia and New York. Later, he became the official painter for NASA."The University of Georgia's department of fine art is named in his honor. Selections from the permanent collection of the Troy Arts Council will also be on display all summer, along with a photography exhibit from Alice Wright, titled Shangri-La - Bhutan. (Troy Messenger, AL)
A more cerebral 'Runway' Feb 8, 2008
When the students' models walked down the catwalk - set up in a gallery at the Lamar Dodd School of Art - it looked like any fashion show in Milan. Paris Hilton may have been missing from the front row, but a number of well-dressed patrons lined the runway along with the requisite eccentric, wearing big sunglasses. (Athens Banner-Herald)
We eat what we are Jan 17, 2008
"), savor a bag of salt and vinegar chips or relish a pint of Ben 's ice cream. But we know there are issues beyond bulging waistlines and too-tight jeans: food allergies and cholesterol counts; constantly changing/conflicting reports as to what's good for us and what's not; that wily food pyramid; factory farming, antibiotics and hormones; genetically modified vegetables; E. coli. "Ingest," the new exhibit at ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, takes a look at these and other issues... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Andrew Ladis, 58, art historian at UGA Dec 11, 2007
Dr. Ladis became the Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia's Lamar Dodd School of Art ... Dr. Ladis was the Franklin Professor of Art History at UGA's Lamar Dodd School of Art, a position he had held for more than 10 years. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Elliott earls finds a voice in many mediums Nov 3, 2007
" The comprehensive nature of Earls' work was part of what drove Mark Callahan, assistant director of ICE (Ideas for Creative Exploration) and Nora Wendl, gallery director at the Lamar Dodd, to bring Earls to UGA in the first place. Callahan and Wendl say they see Earls as an inspiration and role model, in part as a prolific artist making a career with his work, and as someone who works in a variety of disciplines. To boot, "the scale of this project is historic for the school," says Callahan.... (Athens Banner-Herald)
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Hotel Indigo to open in Athens Jul 13, 2007
A competition is planned for UGA graphic design students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art to design an Athens music-themed mural for an exterior wall of the hotel. And Hotel Indigo Athens will embrace rich music and arts scene for which the town is known. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
IHG Boutique Hotel Slated for Downtown Athens, GA Jul 12, 2007
A future competition is planned for UGA Graphic Design students in the Lamar Dodd School of Art to design an Athens' music-themed mural for an exterior wall of the hotel. "Hotel Indigo is a hotel experience like no other, as far as design, comfort and services," said Barry Rutherford of Rialto Property Partners. (PR Newswire)
Norcross medic dies in Iraq May 3, 2007
"It was a dream deferred because he was a single father supporting his (children)," said Richard Siegesmund a UGA, associate professor at Lamar Dodd School of Art ... Friends of the Hullenders at Norcross High School and at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA say they are waiting to help the family in any way the can. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Minuscule and massive Jan 25, 2007
Serving as the Lamar Dodd Chair for 2006-2007 (artist-in-residence) at the University of Georgia, Bovasso's latest show opened Tuesday in the Lamar Dodd School of Art's Main Gallery ... Where: University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art, Main Gallery, on Jackson Street. (Athens Banner-Herald)
