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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.

Pirates of Penzance Opera Poster
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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