As you begin to dive into your projects for the year, keep in mind the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition this October! For the past two years, Lamar Dodd School of Art students have been encouraged to submit their own original works to be looked over and possibly selected by a visiting juror. This year, Mark Karelson, director of Mason Murer Fine Arts Gallery in Atlanta, will be selecting work for the November 26th show. A little bit about our juror from the LDSOA website: Mark Mason Karelson is an artist and owner and Director of Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta. He also Chairs the Board of VSA arts of Georgia, a thirty year old non-profit organization which provides access to the arts for people with disabilities. Mark also serves on the Advisory Board of The Atlanta Community Food Bank. He is married to artist Kim Karelson, a University of Georgia graduate with a BA in Art. They have a beautiful daughter, Katie. All types of art are accepted. There ARE prizes for the juror’s favorites. If you have any questions or need more information, check out: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=5&id=338 or keep your eyes peeled for the latest LDSOA newsletters. This drawing is from last year’s juried show. To look at more pictures, check out the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150289822110720.558831.131123090719
This Thursday, September 8th at 5pm, Dr. Asen Kirin will be presenting “Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great.” This talk kicks of the VCC Lecture series for the 2011-2012 academic year, so make sure to put this on your schedule! Kirin will be discussing a current exhibition which, according to the Lamar Dodd School of Art website, “intends to make a contribution to the current knowledge of patronage in eighteenth-century Russia and to our understanding of the perception of Byzantine culture in the era of neo-Classicism.” Interestingly, the curator of this exhibit plans to “accomplish this goal with a relatively limited number of objects—loans from a small number of museums in the U.S.A.” “The exhibition will illustrate the complex dynamic between the collection of historical art and the commissioning of new works of art during the reign of Catherine the Great (1762-96). The focus of the exhibition is on the particular manner in which Catherine applied not only her knowledge of ancient and medieval glyptic art but also her collection of carved gems to new works of art that she commissioned. This was a deliberate continuation of the centuries-old tradition of placing pagan, Greek, and Roman carved stones onto sacred Christian liturgical and devotional objects. The empress not only shared the Enlightenment sentiment that carved gems were essential material vestiges from the past, but she was also fully cognizant of the cultural meanings associated with the practice of collecting cameos. Accordingly, she addressed these cultural meanings in her art patronage.” For more information, visit: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=179#
Up now at the Georgia Museum of Art: American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print From the GMOA website: This exhibition illustrates the fascinating fusion of art with popular culture and music history. Featuring the work of one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops—Nashville, Tennessee’s Hatch Show Print—it highlights the uniquely American posters produced to advertise everything from vaudeville shows, state fairs and stock car races to the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis Presley and Herbie Hancock.  The exhibition, created by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, is supported by America’s Jazz Heritage, A Partnership of the Wallace Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. For more information about this exhibition and others, visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/art/exhibitions/on-view/american-letterpress-the-art-of-hatch-show-print
To writers, poets, artists, and anyone else feeling inspired- a new literary zine in Athens is looking for submissions of your original work.  The Stray Dog Almanac, started “one warm July evening, damp with rain, after a tasty dinner of eggplant and a jug of beer,” when some art students recognized the need for a more prominent literary and artistic presence in the form of publications. Their name is derived from and inspired by the Russian Stray Dog Cabaret, part of the Silver Age that boasted the beginnings of many Russian writers, poets, and artists. Now’s your chance to become part of the movement. From the website: Stray Dog will be an almanac, which means we are interested in variety - from different voices as well as different subject matter and genres. Our call is open to all writing styles and writers, so that if you’ve had something for a while and have been waiting for the right opportunity, this is it! No theme, no constraints. Perhaps you’ve been too timid to show people your work or you may have never considered submitting work for publication before. We at the Stray Dog Almanac encourage you to challenge yourself and SUBMIT your work! We accept your poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction or black and white illustrations/comic strips. We have an arbitrary word limit of 5,000 words, but we will consider excerpting longer works. You may submit up to 5 poems and 2 prose pieces. E-mail your submission to straydogalmanac (at) gmail (dot) com with your name, the title(s) of your work(s) and, if you like, your affiliation with our Classic City (i.e. student, recovering student, downtown barkeep, professor, local band guru) by SEPTEMBER 28, 2011 to be considered for our winter 2011 publication! Please include the word “Submission” in the title of your email. All submissions will undergo a fair, blind review. Entrants will be notified of their acceptance by November 1, 2011. If your work is selected you will receive 2 free copies of our hand-bound almanac, not to mention ensuing fame and fortune. Our goal is to include as many different artists and writers as possible, but we must sadly admit that our space is limited. Please keep this in mind when submitting your work.  Visit the Stray Dog Almanac’s website at: http://www.straydogalmanac.com/
Tomorrow- Kristen Morgin, the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s 2011-2012 Dodd Chair, is giving a lecture at 5:30 in room S151. Her bio from the LDSOA website reads: Kristen L. Morgin was born in 1968 in Brunswick, GA.  Kristen is the eldest daughter of Lowell and Lucille Morgin.  She has three younger sisters. Kristen earned a BA degree from California State University, Hayward.  Kristen earned a MFA degree with an emphasis in ceramics from Alfred University in 1997.  Kristen currently resides in Gardena, CA. Kristen has held job positions as a gallery docent, a children’s playhouse set painter, a secretary in an auto glass shop, and a professor of art.  She currently earns her living as an artist.Morgin has had solo shows at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles (2006) and Viento y Agua Gallery, Long Beach (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Trans-Ceramic Art 3rd World Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, Korea, 2005; Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2005); and Because the Earth Is 1/3 Dirt Art Museum of the University of Colorado, Boulder (2004). For more information, visit: http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=4&id=173#
UGA 2011 MFA graduate An Pham is featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution! Pham’s work is featured in Spruill Gallery’s “Emerging Artists 2011” show.  From the article: “The artist works with a wide palette of materials, from handmade paper and old books to plastic strips, scotch tape and – most wondrously in this exhibit — rubber bands. Pham crochets, plaits, knots, coils and otherwise manipulates this mundane item into mysterious sculptures, which she presents like the gifts they are in hand-made boxes. It’s a good thing that Pham wants you to touch them because they are irresistibly tactile. They also give off that rubber-band smell and, more profoundly, the feeling of intensity that comes from the hours of repetition and minute manipulations that making these works require. She manipulates books and their pages with similar inventiveness. I’m watching her.” Read the entire article here: http://www.accessatlanta.com/atlanta-events/lucha-rodriguez-at-swan-1143048.html Visit Pham’s website here: http://www.an-pham.com/
A reception for emeritus, curated by Nancy Lukasiewicz, will be held this Sunday from 2-4pm in the Lyndon House Arts Center.  emeritus is a show of emeritus and former professors such as JERRY CHAPPELLE, ROBERT CLEMENTS. TOM HAMMOND, JAMES L. HANNA, RICK JOHNSON, GLEN KAUFMAN, JACK KEHOE, JUDITH McWILLIE, RON MEYERS, ANDY NASISSE, W. ROBERT NIX, GARY NOFFKE, RICHARD J. OLSEN, BILL PAUL, ART ROSENBAUM, LANNY WEBB … The Lyndon House is located at 293 Hoyt Street in Athens. North Jackson Street dead ends at Hoyt Street. For more information, visit: http://ga-athensclarkecounty.civicplus.com/index.aspx?nid=4192
UGA’s student newspaper, the Red & Black, reviews the upcoming exhibition of Lamar Dodd School of Art faculty work. MMXI will be opening TONIGHT- August 19 from 7-9pm.  From the article: “There will be traditional approaches in terms of everything from the portrait to working with a microscopic camera,” said Jeffrey Whittle, gallery director at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. “Something that you couldn’t see with the naked eye, someone will be able to see in the show, as well as things that are from the artists’ imaginations; something completely invented.” http://redandblack.com/2011/08/19/university-exhibition-mixes-faculty-avant-garde-art/
This weekend is the first back in Athens. Start it off right this Saturday night! From 7-10pm, Trace Gallery will host an opening for “Surprise the Sky,” a group exhibition for Lauren Gallaspy, Erin McIntosh, and Zuzka Vaclavik. All three women are showcasing amazing works. For more information, visit the Trace Gallery website: http://www.tracegalleryathens.com/ See you there!
For all of you new, returning, retired, teaching, or even non art students, the Loft Art Supply is the place for back to school supplies. Especially for you Lamar Dodd students, the Loft has all of the supplies sheets for your classes. School supply shopping doesn’t get any easier. Follow them on tumblr at loftartsupply and keep up to date on what’s in stock. loftartsupply: WELCOME BAAAAAAAACK!!!!! We’re all stocked up for your fall classes. Save money on your back-to-school art supplies with our course materials packets as well as specials store-wide! See our ad in this week’s Flagpole. Beat the rush and get your packet this Saturday! We have packets for: Arnholm  ARGD 2010 Graphics Survey Berman ARST 1060 Color & Composition Bull ARST 1050 Drawing 1 Burkitt ARST 2310 Intro Intaglio Cunningham ARST 1060 Color & Composition Edison ARST 2100 Intermediate Painting Gordon ARST 1050 Drawing 1 Harshman ARST 2330 Beginning Screenprinting Hatmaker ARST 1050 Drawing 1 Jang ARST 1060 Color & Composition Jang ARGD 2010 Graphics Survey McIntosh ARST 1060 Color & Composition McVey ARST 2100 Painting 1 Morrison ARST 1050 Drawing 1 Savino ARST 2050 Drawing 1 Windley ARST 1060 Color & Composition Zuniga ARST 2300 Intro Relief
The Georgia Museum of Art is hosting another amazing Family Day tomorrow! Come to the first floor classroom between 10-12am and partake in Abstract Adventures. Children get to make their own abstract art (parents can, too!) and tour the galleries with worksheets that make viewing abstract art an interactive experience. For more information, or if you’re interested in volunteering with future Family Days (they happen every month!), visit: http://www.georgiamuseum.org/index.php/calendar/event-all/family-day-abstract-adventures/2011/08/13
MFA Drawing & Painting candidate Christine Bush Roman will be exhibiting recent work at ARTini’s from August 15 through September 28. There will be an opening reception on the 15th from 6-9pm and all are welcome!  ARTini’s Studio, Gallery and Lounge is located at 296 West Broad St, right across from the Painting & Drawing Exit studios. Check out more of Roman’s work at her website: http://www.christinebushroman.com
In the wake of Borders stores closing, independent bookstores are finally getting a chance to flourish once again. For all of you in Athens, make sure to check out Avid Bookshop, which will be getting a “brick and mortar” location at 493 Prince Ave come fall 2011. For details on how to help out with move-in and set-up, visit: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3bc866e3d40298c386e279ffc&id=4d06a3e1ee&e=fb3f4bdb6b To visit Avid Bookshop’s website (for new AND used books): http://www.avidbookshop.com/
From the Lamar Dodd School of Art website:  Emeritus Professor Wiley Sanderson passed away on Saturday, July 30th. According to one colleague, Sanderson was a graduate of Cranbrook who also studied with Maholy Nagy. He started teaching at UGA in the late 40s and taught the first photography offerings in the early 50s and continued to do so until the late 80s when he retired from UGA.  (The photograph of Sanderson in 19th century attire was taken in the 70s by Dr. Nix in conjunction with a workshop and exhibition.) Professor Sanderson was known as a challenging professor with high standards who was known internationally for contributing to the revival of pinhole photography.  He reportedly posted this aphorism near the dark rooms:  Most people would prefer to be ruined by praise, rather than saved by criticism. http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=5&id=335#
“Here is Immokalee. Here is a hopeful child, an athlete, a trailer park. Here is a brand new home. Here is a Haitian reverend, a skilled machinist, a woman who saw a hurricane destroy her home — and then watched her neighbors help her rebuild it. Here is a town with great poverty and even greater spirit. Here is a place that is changing, and will continue to change. Here, at 26°N and 81°W, is a spot on the map that is like no other. Here is Immokalee.” Lamar Dodd School of Art alumnus, Joshua Greer, contributes 40 full-color images in the newly published book about Immokalee, 26º 81º. Read more about the book here: http://www.26-81.com/
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