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Research mixer unites big ideas, disciplines

Big ideas and hands-on learning took the spotlight Tuesday at “Futures, Networks & Creative Technologies,” a Franklin research mixer held in Atlanta. The research mixer  built on the success of previous salon-style events in Athens, featuring six ten-minute talks from faculty representing different disciplines in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.   This year the research mixer traveled to Atlanta as a closing…
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Anthropology faculty leads $743,658 NEH project to preserve Georgia history

Amanda Roberts Thompson, Carey Garland, and Victor Thompson, faculty in the Department of Anthropology in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, are leading a three-year, $743,658 project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The project will preserve materials documenting Georgia from its colonial founding through the Revolutionary era and early statehood. The collaboration will include the Georgia Museum of Natural History…
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UGA 2026 commencement speaker uses studio art minor as communication tool

When senior Blake Witmer got the call that she would serve as UGA’s 2026 spring commencement student speaker, it marked a milestone in a college career shaped by leadership, communication, and community. Behind that work is something quieter that has shaped her just as much: art. Witmer will graduate in May with a degree in public relations from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and a minor in studio art from the Lamar Dodd…
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“Caught Up Inside”: Lamar Dodd senior Francie Carson’s innovative textile work wins emerging artist award

Francie Carson, a senior at Franklin’s Lamar Dodd School of Art, arrived in Athens as a student-athlete recruited for the swim team. Carson, who prefers the pronoun they, said they soon found their true calling: textiles and weaving. At this year’s Lyndon House Arts Center Juried Exhibition, Carson’s textile sculpture, “Caught Up Inside,” earned the Arts Center Choice Award given to an emerging artist. The award includes the opportunity to…
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The ampersand at work: How Caroline Moore found meaning in the spaces between disciplines

At the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, the ampersand symbolizes the generative nature of multidisciplinary education, where knowledge meets experiential learning, studio practice connects with research, theory, and application work side-by-side, and local inquiry and global engagement converge. Graduating senior Caroline Moore, majoring in art history with minors in studio art and English, is grateful for her Franklin experience…
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Celebrating the Franklin Spark: Honors Week celebrates top Franklin faculty

Franklin College of Arts and Sciences faculty and students are receiving top UGA awards during Honors Week. Since the 1930s, UGA has celebrated the accomplishments of its students and faculty with a dedicated week each spring semester. This year’s honorees exemplify the Franklin Spark, the characteristics that define faculty, students, and alumni at the intersection of the arts and sciences: ambitious, curious, creative, innovative, and tomorrow…
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Where art teaches science: inside UGA Lamar Dodd’s scientific illustration program

Consider the diagrams of the human body in a biology textbook, the infographic that untangles a complex geological process, or the lifelike rendering of an extinct species that seems ready to step off the page. These images don’t appear by accident, they’re crafted by scientific illustrators, artists who translate complex ideas into visuals that anyone can understand who are truly tapping into the intersection of the arts and sciences. …
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Biomedical physiology unpacks the intersections of medicine and humanities – in Cortona

UGA Cortona began in 1970 with a friendship between sculptor and art professor emeritus John D. "Jack" Kehoe, the late founder of the university’s Cortona study abroad program, and the former mayor of Cortona. Today, UGA students study year-round in Athens’ sister city to practice art across various mediums. This fall, the College of Veterinary Medicine’s biomedical physiology course joined the roster: “UGA Cortona has strategically broadened…
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Four Franklin faculty members named 2026 Advanced Leader Fellows

The University of Georgia has selected 10 faculty - four from the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences – to join the 2026 class of its Advanced Leader Program, an initiative designed to cultivate the next generation of higher education leaders. The program provides a select group of faculty and administrators an opportunity to build upon their existing strengths as they learn from senior administrators, experts in leadership development and…
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Design students learn from public service engagement

The creativity of University of Georgia students provides vitality to the Carl Vinson Institute of Government’s partnership with military installations – as well as a fresh take on existing infrastructure that will help guide future use. In spring 2025, 15 interior design students in the UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art were tasked with reimagining a historic gas station at Fort Benning into a workspace for architects and an archaeology lab.…
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2025 Cora Nunnally Miller Arts Scholars

The Franklin College has named four current first year undergraduates as 2025 Cora Nunnally Miller Scholars in the Fine Arts. Each student will receive a $2,500 scholarship, in addition to any scholarships they currently receive. The support is continuous to the student in each of the future three years as long as they continue as majors in the arts with good academic standing. The purpose of the scholarship, made possible as part of a…
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Franklin students sweep GenAI Competition for creative projects

Designed to spur innovative uses for the technology, the second UGA Generative AI Competition, sponsored by the Office of Instruction and Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of philosophy, recognized student AI projects that enrich the UGA community or experience. The three top prizes went to Franklin College students who submitted projects to used generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, DALL-E and Amper to bring their creations to…
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UGA student thrives in Layton Design Studio

Ally Smith, 2025 Dodd commencement speaker and recipient of Art Director’s Award for Outstanding undergraduate student, is a fourth-year graphic design student with a minor in studio art, design and media at UGA’s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Smith has worked closely with alumna Kelly Layton (BFA graphic design, '90) and credits her own interests in participating in the newly introduced Layton Design Studio to Layton herself. Layton Design Studio…
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Kudos, January 2025

Start the year off with excellent news from the UGA campus: English faculty member Chigozie Obioma honored by New Africa Magazine in its list of the most influential Africans of 2024 The Lamar Dodd School of Art Dodd expands its public art instruction with the UGA Community Art School, featuring ten-week courses for adults seeking to learn new skills, hone techniques, and expand their artistic expression UGA student wins Radiolab naming…
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Art + Math make a GROVI connection

Creative ingenuity at the faculty level and across Franklin units provides the spark for an innovative new partnership – and the NSF support to expand the collaboration: Designer and artist Moon Jung Jang met mathematician David Gay through the UGA Arts Collaborative, a research incubator that encourages collaboration across the arts and sciences, and between the university and the Athens community. Since 2017, the two professors have engaged in…
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Art in the Field: UGA students explore mining and ecology in Georgia

Mines in Southeast Georgia can conjure many images — swamps, pits, pines, machinery. A band of artists may not be at the top of this list. Nevertheless, University of Georgia Professor of Art Michael Marshall and 14 students were invited to don hardhats and visit the Chemours Mission Mine in the Altamaha River Basin this past September to contemplate the setting through different eyes and tell a greater story of this region.  …

Intern Appreciation: Pearl Lin

The Franklin College office of communications was very fortunate to have two terrific interns during the 2023-24 academic year. We had the chance to speak with each of them about their UGA experience – and their experience working with us. Our graphic design intern Pearl Lin (BFA '24) shares some thoughts in this video. Thanks, Pearl! We enjoyed working with you.    
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Quinn named director of Dean Rusk Center

Congratulations to our UGA colleague and Franklin alumna Sarah Quinn who has been appointed the director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, a nucleus for global research, education and service for the University of Georgia School of Law since 1977. Quinn, who has directed the center on an interim basis since June 2023, previously served as associate director for global practice preparation and managed the school's Global Governance…
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Divisional Spotlight: Fine & Performing Arts

Like the five food groups necessary for good health and wellbeing, the Franklin College is organized in five divisions that together power the robust, intellectual learning environment of the University of Georgia. We welcome 2024 by highlighting the divisional nature of our organizational structure and the academic units contained in each division. Today we highlight the FINE & PERFORMING ARTS Connecting our campus community with a wide…
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Visiting artist exhibition & lecture: Masako Onodera

The Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Ann Orr Morris Memorial Fund, in partnership with ATHICA, present a public lecture by visiting artist in jewelry and metalwork Masako Onodera. Onodera's visit coincides with an exhibition of her work in tandem with associate professor of Jewelry and Metalwork Mary Hallam Pearse titled Onodera & Pearse: Contrasts and Correlations, on view from January 13 - February 11, 2024 at ATHICA. An artist talk will…
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Alumni Profile – Rachael McCampbell

Rachael McCampbell has found true freedom following her dreams.   The Franklin, Tennessee-based artist has always loved to paint, but never expected to make a career out of it.   “My parents' thinking was Depression-era oriented, very practical. They wanted me to have a job that was marketable and encouraged me to study graphic design, which I did,” said McCampbell. “The only part that really excited me was the illustration side…
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Interdisciplinary artist seeks inspiration through education after years in industry

Shana Jackson is a fourth-year textile design major in the Lamar Dodd School of Art from Philadelphia by way of Brooklyn. She’s seeking to supplement her history of first-hand work experience in the design world with the artistic refinement and development of a college education. She specifically wants to grow herself as an artist through her degree. “I’m doing this for my nineteen-year-old self,” the forty-seven-year old said. “Being in school…
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2023 Dodd Market

The Lamar Dodd School of Art Dodd Ambassadors present the third annual Dodd Market Friday Nov. 17, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Courtyard and First Floor atrium of the school of art. The Dodd Market’s mission – to provide valuable selling experience to art students and to engage the UGA and Athens community with student artists – creates a wonderful opportunity to showcase the talent at the Dodd. And just in time for the holidays. Shop from over…
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Kudos, October 2023

In the campus community, across the state and around the nation, we applaud the outstanding work by Franklin College faculty and students announced during October. A sample of the awards, grants, performances, and milestones: Organizers of this year’s Atlanta Art Week invited nine M.F.A. students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art to present the group exhibition “Unlisted” at The Works in Atlanta’s Upper Westside. The discipline of dance:…
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MFA students curate group exhibition for Atlanta Art Week

Organizers of the 2023 edition of Atlanta Art Week invited nine MFA students at the Lamar Dodd School of Art to present the group exhibition Unlisted at The Works, a mixed-use development in Atlanta’s Upper Westside, from October 3 through October 7, 2023. Atlanta Art Week partners with over 20 galleries, museums, and arts institutions in the metropolitan region to spotlight a rich variety of cultural…
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