Arts News from the Chronicles


CORE Dance Company presents "Awe-Wakening"

  The University of Georgia department of dance CORE Concert Dance Company will present its contemporary and aerial dance concert "AWE-WAKENING!" Feb. 29 to March 3 at 8 p.m. in the New Dance Theatre. The 60-minute performance consists of a range aerial dance-including bungee-assistance,…

Futurefarmer Franceschini to visit UGA

The Lamar Dodd School of Art, The Willson Center and ICE bring interdisciplinary artist Amy Franceschini to campus on March 6. Franceschini will deliver the lecture[ 4 p.m., 101 MLC] "Art is a Verb," which focuses on her recent work with sustainable energy, urban food production and dialogues…

Pirates Weekend

University Opera Theatre production of the Pirates of Penzance takes center stage this weekend: This is the third [fully-staged, ed.] opera the university has produced since 2007, said Frederick Burchinal, the Wyatt and Margaret Anderson Professor of the Arts at UGA’s Hugh Hodgson School of Music.…

Drawing Across Borders

  There is a fantastic, international show up at the Lamar Dodd School of Art, featuring great artwork and highlighting an important mechanism for faculty collaboration: the Fulbright Scholarship Program: The Lamar Dodd School of Art is hosting an exhibition of works by Diane Edison, a…
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Hidden Man

Howard Finster was a very fascinating Georgian - a minister, visual artist and visionary who died in 2001, but not before having an outsized impact on our culture as a result of his unique confluence of pursuits. These and more are explored in a new play that will have its world premiere at UGA…