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Happy New Year, Welcome back, La Mostra

Welcome back to all staff and faculty, as well as to the many students trickling back into town today and tomorrow. Happy New Year and best wishes for a great 2017. Study abroad is always top of mind as Spring semester begins - students, if you haven't discovered a program of interest for later this year, now is the time. There are many opportunities in the Franklin College and beyond.  One of UGA's flagship programs is the Cortona Study…

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John Daniel "Jack" Kehoe, 1927 – 2016

Faculty member, leader and great friend of the University of Georgia, the Franklin College, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art Jack Kehoe passed away on December 16. From the Cortona Italy Alumni Association: “Jack” Kehoe, a native of Michigan, was recognized internationally as an extraordinarily talented artist, respected educator, and a true Renaissance man in every sense.  He was a wonderful father and devoted husband.  His dauntless…


Cortona Student and Faculty Reunion

The Lamar Dodd School of Art will host to a reunion of the UGA-Cortonese as students and faculty gather to celebrate the 44th anniversary of UGA's premier Studies Abroad Program. The program has grown and changed a great deal over the course of its four-decade existence, though so much about the immersive small town experience remains the same. The medieval hilltown of 1,200 tucked in the foothills of the Apennine Mountains, so close to the art…


Locandine: Cortona Program Poster Designs

The University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy is the great patriarch of study abroad programs at the university, going strong after its fortieth anniversary in 2010 and probably never as vibrant as it is today. In that time, thousands of UGA students and many hundreds more from other institutions have visited the small city on the hill, left a little of themselves there and taken a bit with them for wherever else life's…


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…
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