Discover Lamar Dodd School of Art and Art Gallery - With over 1000 art majors, the faculty and staff are dedicated to providing the highest level of instruction in studio art, design, art education and history.
Mission and General Info
The mission of the School of Art is to develop the creative and scholarly potential of its students, to support the faculty in its pursuit of excellence in teaching and research, and to serve the public and appropriate professional constituencies.
The Lamar Dodd School of Art is one of the largest university art programs in the nation. With over 1000 art majors, the faculty and staff are dedicated to providing the highest level of instruction in studio art, design, art education, and art history. The School attracts highly qualified and talented students who are seeking to study art at a major comprehensive university.
The faculty is made up of nationally recognized artists and scholars who promote a rigorous and lively creative atmosphere conducive to experimentation, innovation, scholarship and creative inquiry. In addition to its on-campus facilities, the School also has a year-round Studies Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy, that has served over 4,000 students from 400 American institutions since its inception in 1969. More recently the School has expanded the international opportunities for study in art to include programs in Japan, Cuba and Ghana.
Founded in 1937, the School of Art is named for Lamar Dodd who as a young man in the 1920's traveled from his home in Georgia to New York to be part of the Art Student's League. There he learned from and worked with many of the luminaries of American art. He returned to Georgia to head the Art Department at the University of Georgia from 1939 until his retirement in 1972. Under his leadership, the department grew significantly. The department was renamed the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 1996.
Today the School has more than 1000 art majors and the program is housed in 7 different buildings on campus. The school continues to thrive and expand. Plans are now underway for a new multi- million dollar art complex that will include state-of-the-art modern studios, lecture halls, galleries and a media center. It will be located next to the Georgia Museum of Art, the School of Music, and the Performing Arts Center and will house academic and studio programs.
The mission of the School of Art is to develop the creative and scholarly potential of its students, to support the faculty in its pursuit of excellence in teaching and research, and to serve the public and appropriate professional constituencies.
