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📣 UGA Alum Chad Alligood to curate Dodd Centennial Special Exhibitions

The Dodd Galleries at the Lamar Dodd School of Art will mark the school’s centennial anniversary with a major two-part exhibition curated by School of Art alum Chad Alligood MA ’09.

Alligood, a San Diego, CA–based curator, will helm the exhibitions on view during the Dodd Centennial in Fall 2027 and Spring 2028, at the invitation of Rachel Waldrop, Dodd Galleries Director. His focus: the national alumni footprint of a landmark institution in the Southeast that has quietly shaped the landscape of craft and contemporary art for 100 years.

Dodd Centennial Alumni Exhibitions

Rotation I: August 19 – November 5, 2027
Rotation II: January 17 – March 17, 2028

Nearly 100 years ago, the University of Georgia appointed the first faculty chair of a new Department of Art. Over the last century, the Lamar Dodd School of Art — ranked in the top art programs in the nation — has grown in reputation and impact, sending thousands of artists, scholars, designers, and educators out into the world.

Dodd alumni make work and shape communities beyond Athens on a regional and national scale. As of Summer 2026, Alligood has embarked on a national studio visit tour, connecting with Dodd alumni working in the field today.

If you are a Dodd alum and would like to be considered for a visit, fill out the brief form in our bio — we want to hear what you’re making!

Read full announcement in link in bio 🔗

“The Dodd made me who I am as a curator and art historian. I walked in as a student and came out thinking differently about art and why it matters — because from day one, I was surrounded by The Dodd’s community of working artists and thinkers. I have a hunch that my fellow alumni share that experience. Now I get to hit the road, knock on studio doors, and find out. One hundred years of that kind of transformation deserves a real celebration.”

Alligood will additionally receive the Lamar Dodd School of Art’s 2027 Margie E. West Alumni Prize, awarded each year to an accomplished alumnus artist or scholar.

Chad Alligood is an art historian and curator. He recently completed his second term as President of the Boa taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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Thank you to MFA alumna @victoria.dugger.studio and Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting Ben Britton for a rich dialogue on Victoria's art practice just before we unveiled her new show in the Margie E. West Gallery “Runner Up” last Thursday!

Enjoy Victoria's exhibition in the Dodd Galleries through November 20.

📸: @thrasherphoto Seated person with green gingham dress, braids, and glasses looks to the left of center taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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For nearly a decade, Dodd photo faculty Blake Jacobsen has been returning home to photograph his family’s truck repair business in Southwest Florida. “Through Service We Grow” is a new body of work by Jacobsen opening in the Mills Family Gallery next Thursday.

For his first solo exhibition since joining the faculty at the University of Georgia, Jacobsen's latest project turns the camera away from his own family and onto the mechanics who work at the shop.

Following the recent passing of his grandfather, who started the business with the slogan “Through Service We Grow,” the work reflects on labor and service as paths toward self-determination and belonging. As the only male in his family who did not become a diesel mechanic, Jacobsen uses the camera as his own mechanical apparatus to document the shop as a site where masculinity is built, performed, taken apart, and never fully repaired.

Jacobsen's exhibition is one of five new shows opening in the Dodd Galleries. See you at the Fall Exhibitions Art Party next Thursday from 5-7 pm! taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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We're on the back page of @flagpolemagazine ! See us next week for an artist lecture with Kelli Anderson, an art talk with Victoria Dugger, five new exhibitions opening @uga_doddgalleries and two openings @athenaeum_uga 🥵 by @uga_doddgalleries

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Art is going to be your thing this year. Trust us. See you at 30+ exhibition openings, talks, markets and more this season.

Curate your outings in our Franklin Fine & Performing Arts brochure hot off the presses. Digital link in our bio 🔗 or scope art.uga.edu for event and exhibition details.

Season kicks off the week of August 24 with two art lectures and six exhibition openings.

Artwork: Victoria Dugger, “Sugar Coat It,” 2024. Garden chair, tutu, nylon stockings, pearl, and fabric trim. Sugar Coat It, 2024, garden chair, tutu, nylon stockings, pearls and fabric trim, 34 x 22 x 14 inches. Courtesy the artist and Sargent’s Daughter, New York, copyright the artist. taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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We are pleased to announce Victoria Dugger MFA ’22 as the recipient of the 2026 Margie E. West Alumni Prize and featured artist in the accompanying solo exhibition “Runner Up” in the Margie E. West Gallery from August 27 through November 20, 2026.

The public is invited to a Visiting Artist Lecture with Dugger in conversation with Benjamin Britton, associate professor of art, on August 27 at 4 pm in room S151 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The lecture will be followed by an opening reception from 5 – 7 pm for “Runner Up,” alongside four additional exhibitions in the Dodd Galleries.

A lifelong resident of Georgia and living in Athens since the completion of her MFA at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2022, Dugger consistently examines her experiences of Black girlhood and disability through the lens of the Southern Gothic. Dugger’s visual language—with imagery often exaggerated and fantastical—remains largely autobiographical and grounded in her embodied experience.

Read more in the link in our bio 🔗 taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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It’s that (end) time of year....😭😊
Dodd Galleries is excitedly preparing for our annual BFA exhibitions!

First up is 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘰𝘸, featuring 54 artists graduating from our BFA Studio Art departments! Join us for their 2 receptions on April 3 and April 17 in the Dodd!

BFA STUDIO 1
Everything Now
On view: April 3 - April 10, 2026
Opening, Friday April 3, 5-7pm
All galleries

BFA STUDIO 2
Everything Now
On view: April 17 - April 24, 2026
Opening, Friday April 17, 5-7pm
All galleries

More information:
https://art.uga.edu/exhibition/everything-now-2026-bfa-studio-art-exhibition/

Everything Now is supported by UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and The Lamar Dodd School of Art. We thank the BFA capstone professors and faculty Imi Hwangbo and Meredith Lachin for curating and organizing this year’s exhibition.

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@ugadodd.bfa.exit taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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We kicked off the opening of @uga_dodd_art’s Spring 2026 Exhibitions in the best way possible by asking a few of the artists and curators about their work! On view through March 20 in the Dodd Galleries (@uga_doddgalleries)

Artist 1: Phoebe Agnès Sinclair Mills, MFA student (@phoebeagnes.art)
Exhibition Title: Ekstasis, Plaza Gallery

Artist 2: Katie Wang, BFA student (@katiee.wang_)
Exhibition Title: 35th Annual Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition, Lupin Gallery (@uga_dodd_sciart)

Artist 3 & Curator: Jeanne Marie Martineau, MFA student (@v.lectrique)
Exhibition Title: Quantum Castle, Suite Gallery

@franklin_uga @ugagraduateschool by @uga_doddgalleries

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Tomorrow, experience the opening of our Spring 2026 Exhibitions at the Dodd Galleries from 5 to 7 PM.

Join the community at the Lamar Dodd School of Art for an evening celebrating work across various media, including animation, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, scientific illustration, and more.

Exhibitions include:
Derek Larson: Très Mall, Episodes 1-8
Derek Larson: Made in Mexico: The Anti-Communist Cartoons of Dibujos Animados S.A.
Phoebe-Agnès Mills: Ekstasis
35th Annual Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition
the green glass door
Quantum Castle

On view through March 20. We look forward to seeing you there! taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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The Dodd Galleries presents a series of new paintings by MFA candidate Phoebe-Agnès Mills, titled “Ekstasis.” Influenced by accounts of mystical visions and modernist theories of profane illumination, these works consider how the spiritual might be sensed within the material world. Rather than seeking revelation through apparition or fantasy, they invite a slowed, temporal encounter in which the viewer becomes aware of their own position in the membrane between presence and absence, vitality and decay.

Join the community at the Lamar Dodd School of Art Thursday February 5 from 5-7 pm to enjoy artworks spanning animation, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, scientific illustration, and more in the following shows:

Derek Larson: Très Mall, Episodes 1-8
Derek Larson: Made in Mexico: The Anti Communist Cartoons of Dibujos Animados S.A.
Phoebe-Agnès Mills: Ekstasis
35th Annual Student Scientific and Medical Illustration Juried Exhibition
the green glass door
Quantum Castle

All shows are on view through March 20! taken in Lamar Dodd School of Art by @uga_doddgalleries

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Please join us to celebrate the art of science at our 35th annual exhibition featuring work from Scientific Illustration undergraduate students and Augusta University’s Medical Illustration graduate students! Reception: February 5 at 5pm #ugasciart #scientificillustration #medicalillustration by @uga_doddgalleries

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Thanks to the hardworking volunteers who helped with installation, the 2025 "La Mostra" Exhibition is now open! Stop by the third-floor galleries of the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art to see the artworks made by our talented 2025 students.

And mark your calendars, because the official closing ceremony will take place on Saturday, January 24, 2026, at 3:00 PM in the School of Art’s first-floor auditorium (Room S151), followed by a reception in the galleries. Alumni, friends, family, and prospective program participants are all welcome!

2025 UGA CORTONA ‘MOSTRA’ - on view from Jan 12-24, 2026
Dodd Galleries open hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Closing Ceremony & Reception - Saturday, Jan 24, 2026, 3:00–5:00 pm.
S151 Auditorium, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia
270 River Road Athens, Georgia 30602

#ugacortonamostra #ugacortonareunion #studyabroad #artschool #uga #dawgsabroad #artatuga #ugaart #ugaartist #lamardoddschoolofart #cortona by @uga_doddgalleries

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