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The QTBIPOC Art Gallery will be a space where we will show artwork from QTBIPOC students at UGA and center the conversation on what influences their artwork. The LGBTRC will accept submissions for this art gallery from students starting in December 2019 and continuing through February 10, 2021.  

In 1969, professor Jack Kehoe journeyed to Italy to create a unique opportunity for University of Georgia students. He found the ideal site for an experiential learning environment amidst the history, culture and beauty of Cortona. "Experiencing Cortona: Celebrating 50 Years of UGA Study Abroad" reflects on the program’s history with a display of original artifacts, photographs, documents and more drawn from the Cortona Program Records, a part…

Public closing reception for Collages & Paintings by Don Chambers, Athens artist and musician. Exhibition includes the new collage series "Cryptomnesia," as well as other works in photoprint, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and rust. All works for sale by the artist. Light refreshments will be provided.

Celebrate the fall exhibitions with a DJ, photobooth adn snacks and beverages.

The Trial Gardens at the University of Georgia holds a public open house every year to let plant enthusiasts come together to see some of the newest ornamental plant varieties. One may also learn more through guided tours and volunteers and garden workers present to answer questions. There also will be the annual Chasing the Flags preview. $5 recommended donation per family or individual is appreciated but not necessary for entry.

Artist and Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding Rebecca Rutstein has worked in painting, sculpture, installation and public art and has an ongoing interest in abstraction inspired by science, data and maps. She has exhibited widely in museums, institutions and galleries and has received numerous awards including the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Samantha Joye is Athletic Association Professor in Arts and Sciences in the…

This exhibition, organized by Nicolas Morrissey, associate professor of art history, Lamar Dodd School of Art, highlights the Buddhist artistic heritage of ancient Gandhara, a region once heralded as the Crossroads of Asia and now located in present-day northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Following the conquest of Alexander the Great during the 4th century BCE, the region of Gandhara became a nexus point of diverse and evolving cultural…

The annual exit show for the graduating master of fine arts students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This year's candidates are Katelyn Chapman, Whitney Cleveland, Annemarie Dicamillo and Kelsey Scharf (painting and drawing); Ally Christmas and Deepanjan Mukhopadhyay (photo and video); Erin Geagon and Johanna Norry (fabric design); Yeonsoo Kim and Karine Lepage (ceramics); Katherine Miller, Ali Norman and Kaleena…

Wrestling Temptation: The Quest to Control Alcohol in Georgiatraces the struggle that state leaders have faced in regulating the production, transportation and use of alcohol from 1733 to the present. The exhibit explores issues of morality, economy and personal liberty entwined with the use and abuse of alcohol. It considers what made Georgia different by paying close attention to the adoption of statewide prohibition in 1907 and the reluctance…

In the history of 20th-century design, Giò Ponti (1891–1979) is widely recognized as the father of modern Italian design. Over the span of a remarkably prolific career of nearly 60 years, Ponti created important works of architecture (including the first skyscraper in Italy), furniture, decorative art and industrial products, using both traditional and modern materials and techniques. He participated in Italian and other international design…

Gold-digging in Georgia: America's First Gold Rush shares the history of north Georgia from the late 1820s until the Civil War as America’s first major gold rush. This antebellum Appalachian gold rush served as one of the many southern paths to industrialism. Featuring the Reed Creek Collection of Dahlonega Mint Coins—a complete set of Dahlonega—this exhibit uses maps, rare books, letters, photographs, and artifacts to illustrate Georgia's…

"The Past Is Never Dead: Kristin Casaletto" shows prints by the contemporary Georgia-based artist. Casaletto’s work addresses issues of history and how it is interpreted as well as questions related to identity and race. A relative newcomer to the South, she approaches its complex history from the perspective of an outsider without marginalizing its culture. The title of the exhibition comes from William Faulkner’s famous statement “The past is…

The annual exit show for the graduating master of fine arts students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. This year's candidates are: Thomas Bosse , Reid Brechner, Julia Megan Burchett, Ellie Dent , Jamie Diaz, Arron Foster , Meirav Goldhour, Zachary Harris, Ariel Lockshaw , Shuk Han Lui, Jonathan Nowell, Amanda Scheutzow, Stephanie Sutton and Dan Vu.

The Red & Black explores a program whereby Army ROTC students are paid to learn a foreign language and study abroad: The program outlines 10 different languages that are considered to be “critical languages” contracted cadets can take and receive a stipend for upon completion. “The army wants these students to have some sort of exposure [to the language] just for the potential of having that knowledge in the future where it could be…

The Alexander Campbell King Law Library hosts Women in the Profession: 100 Years of Georgia Women Lawyers, a display created by the Women in the Profession Committee, State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division. On display through March in the Law Library entrance.

Following the ceremony, a reception with refreshments will be held in the third floor galleries. La Mostra presents the work of Cortona faculty and students from 2016 in the third floor galleries in the Lamar Dodd School of Art building. The Cortona, Italy, residential center has offered study abroad programs in the arts, sciences and other areas of study since 1970. UGA's residential (live/study) campus is located in the medieval Tuscan hill…

The "Advanced and Irascible" exhibition showcases Jeanne and Carroll Berry’s efforts to gather one work by each of the so-called “Irascible” painters of abstract expressionism. The Irascibles earned their nickname after sending a signed, open letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to protest the lack of what they called “advanced” art in its exhibition of contemporary artists in 1950. A photograph of them that appeared in Life Magazine in 1951…

This exhibition features works from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art and several private collections. Containing paintings, sculptures and works on paper, the show highlights artistic trends of the “New York School,” or artists who were active in New York City in the 1950s and 1960s and primarily worked in abstraction. Works by female artists such as Louise Nevelson, Michael (Corrine) West, Helen Frankenthaler and Anne Ryan are…

  Celebrate the work of BFA students graduating in Photography, Painting and Drawing, Graphic Design, Textile Design, Ceramics, and Art Education.

Storytelling: The Georgia Review’s 70th Anniversary Art Retrospective NOVEMBER 05, 2016 - JANUARY 29, 2017 BOONE AND GEORGE-ANN KNOX GALLERY II The Georgia Review—the University of Georgia’s highly regarded journal of arts and letters—celebrates the wide-ranging roster of visual artists whose work it has reproduced with a selected retrospective of paintings, works on paper, photographs and 3-D compositions by contributors from across the United…

For the closing reception of Spectra: Lamar Dodd School of Art Faculty Exhibition, artist and experimental composer Ben Vida will perform a new piece for electronics that utilizes immersive sonic materials and explores intense auditory phenomena.  For more information, visit: http://flagpole.com/arts-culture/art-notes/2016/09/28/profs-who-paint or http://art.uga.edu/events/music-galleries-ben-vida-0

Join William U. Eiland, museum director, for a special look at the newly reinstalled permanent collection galleries. Contact: Hillary Brown 706-542-4662

Through Aug. 13. While Tom Polk’s professional life was fulfilled as an associate professor and area chairman of art history at UGA, he was also a life-long artist. He earned a combined undergraduate degree from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design in both art history and studio art. At peace in nature, landscapes were his most frequent subject, and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia was one of his favorite haunts. This show will…

Highlights from the Permanent Collection. Led by docents.  Sponsored by: Georgia Museum of Art Contact: Hillary Brown 706-542-4662 For more information, visit georgiamuseum.org.

"Paper in Profile: Mixografia and Taller de Gráfica Mexicana." Through Aug. 21. This exhibition offers an engaging survey of international contemporary art and some of its modernist precedents framed within the compelling history of an important printmaking and multiples workshop. Featuring the work of more than 90 artists, it includes powerful, representative work by some of the biggest names in the contemporary art world. Founded in Mexico…