Arts News from the Chronicles


School of Art alum wins prestigious award

UGA alumnus John Powers, (MFA in sculpture, 2008) was awarded the Virginia A Groot Foundation Award, which includes $35,000 in support for a sculpture artist. The Virginia A. Groot Foundation was established in 1988 so that artists working in three dimensions could have the opportunity to devote…
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Spotlight on the Arts 2013

The UGA Spotlight on the Arts festival returns this fall for another week of events and performances to highlight the arts on campus: The University of Georgia will spotlight its arts programs and venues during a nine-day festival in November that includes concerts, theater and dance performances,…

Broadcast awards for WUGA TV and radio

The Georgia Association of Broadcasters recognized two programs from WUGA television and radio at their annual GABBY Awards honors night: WUGA-FM and WUGA-TV, the radio and television stations at the University of Georgia, won statewide awards for excellence in broadcasting at the Georgia…
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Praxis Art Exhibition

Tonight at 5 pm is the opening for the reception for the exhibition 'Praxis,' at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Gallery director Jeffrey Whittle's last curatorial project at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the show has special significance and features works by a group of outstanding artists including…

Art Alumna wins ICA Prize

We always love it when our people move on and do well - prizes, awards, appointments and new positions. Now Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna Katarina Burin (BFA '99) has hit two of these at once: Katarina Burin, who took her conceptual creation of a fictitious Czechoslovakian architect from Berlin…

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