Dodd Galleries

FINAL WEEK! Our Fall 2025 exhibition season (7 exhibitions this fall!) at the Dodd Galleries closes this Friday, November 14th. Please visit the Dodd Galleries Mon-Fri, 9:30-4:30pm to view these shows before they leave UGA.

Enjoy these images from , as this was a busy exhibition season with beautiful shows by thoughtful artists and curators.

Closing Friday, Nov 14:
NEOLOGISMS: slinko | Plaza Gallery (images 3-4)
Mountain Tongue: Aidan Koch | Lupin Gallery (images 5-6)
The Sweetest Meat in this Abbatoir: Effy Wany | Bridge Gallery (images 7-8)
Not Here / Not Now: Curated by Hail Holtzclaw and Sam Horgan | Suite Gallery (images 1-2)
The Body Politic: Kristine Potter | West Gallery (image 9)

Closed September 26:
The Grid Made Human: Gabrielle Gagne | Bridge Gallery (images 10-11)
Slowing Down: Alexandra Stover & Jordan Winiski (image 12)

Our Dodd Galleries call for proposals is still live, and the deadline is this Friday!

Are you thinking about submitting an exhibition proposal for Fall 2026 or Spring 2027?

Reach out to Rachel Waldrop, Director, Dodd Galleries: [email protected] with any questions.

Fall 2026 exhibition dates are Aug 27-Nov 6, 2026
Spring 2027 exhibition dates are Feb 4-Mar 19, 2027

Notifications will go out by December 5th!
Happy proposing!

The Dodd Galleries are looking for our 2025-2026 Gallery Assistant! Could it be you?

Apply on Handshake for “Job # 10030221”
UGA Students must be Federal Work Study eligible and must commit to both semesters for 2025-2026 school year. This role is a hybrid of gallery/exhibition prep, and Dodd Galleries event support.

Learn more about us at art.uga.edu/dodd-galleries, or DM us!
There is 1 Gallery Assistant position available.

Coming up! "Endoscope", an exhibition of works by MFA student Samuel Horgan curated by art history MA student Kelsey Siegert, is one of three new exhibitions opening this Thursday from 6-8 pm. See you there!

About "Endoscope"

There is a world of mineshafts, bore-holes, sub-level corridors, basements, sewers, sinkholes, conduit lines, coal seams, rumpus rooms, and shallow graves. This is an architecture of concrete and asphalt, cables, bricks, bones, mineral deposits, f***s, petrified remains, and metamorphic ooze. Here shifting tectonics mirror the veiled unstable topography of the unconscious mind. The myth of katabasis, a journey to the underworld in search of revelation, is perpetually recycled. A construction sign reads “Caution: Buried Utility,” forewarning a kind of enlightenment in descent.

The act of endoscopy materializes commonalities between corporeal and built infrastructures. The endoscope simultaneously snakes down pipes and the body of a patient in examination. "Endoscope" stages a series of encounters with subterranean space through scale models, drawings, and video. Each work illustrates an anecdotal history of buried structures coming into view, of vision penetrating beneath the surface of the everyday into the underground of death and desire. Assignations are viewed through a glass block window, erosion and subsidence reveal root structures, coal seams burn in perpetuity, and passageways open up to a hollow earth.

Samuel Horgan is an Interdisciplinary Artist and Writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a second year MFA candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art and a graduate assistant of the UGA Arts Collaborative.

Kelsey Siegert is a second year MA candidate in Art History from Las Vegas, Nevada. She is a curatorial fellow at the Athenaeum and Dodd Galleries, and the treasurer of the Association of Graduate Art Students.

Join us Thursday, 4-6pm in the Bridge Gallery as we celebrate Anne McInnis: Full Circle ReSet. The exhibition maps the cycles of foundation, change, returning, and becoming. The work channels the social identities and lived experiences of a shared population: creative New Yorkers who have worked in the textile and fashion industry over the last four+ decades, from the late 1970s to 2022 and beyond. As a visual narrative to complement her Ph.D. dissertation, Full Circle ReSet draws from her qualitative research. She engages with material culture to holistically tell her participants’ stories and the cycles of change.

McInnis uses felt, wool, silk, and other fibers as materials and metaphors to explore mis/perception, connection, and alterity. As a qualitative researcher, she uses arts-based research to offer perspectives that communicate her social research in other ways through artmaking and materials. As an Interdisciplinary Fellow at the Lamar Dodd School of Art from 2021-23 McInnis experimented with diverse fibers and textiles in order to learn about their specific attributes and Western societal mis/perceptions of them. She found that mis/perceptions of wool and other fibers can be very similar to those of age, appearance, and abilities. Anne argues that using visual mediums to communicate with viewers in an all-senses manner could open perception and social transformation for other researchers and the general public.

Join us February 11, 5-7pm as we celebrate our Spring 2023 Margie E. West Prize winner, Zipporah Camille Thompson!

The Dodd Galleries at the Lamar Dodd School of Art is thrilled to announce the Margie E. West Prize, an annual prize given to an esteemed alumni from the Lamar Dodd School of Art, inviting the artist to create a new exhibition for the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery. The 3rd recipient of the prize, Zipporah Camille Thompson, will present a new installation “HIGH TIDE” that will be on display from February 11 to March 24th.

Thompson graduated with an MFA from the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2014, working in the Textile Design department. The exhibition reception will be on Saturday, February 11, 5-7pm and is free and open to the public.

Zipporah Camille Thompson (she.her.hers) is a ceramist, weaver, sculptor, and activist based in Atlanta, Georgia-land of the Muskogee. A native Carolinian, Thompson explores alchemical transformations through clay + textiles, examining marginalized bodies and eliciting social change through her work. Sculpted shapeshifters and hybrid landscapes investigate otherness.

She received her MFA from the University of Georgia and her BFA from the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her work has been featured in numerous publications and shown in spaces, nationally and internationally. Zipporah Camille Thompson is a 2021 MOCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow, a 2020 Artadia Atlanta Awardee, a Watershed Zenobia Scholarship Award grantee, an NCECA Multicultural Fellow, and an Idea Capital Travel Grant recipient. Thompson is represented by Whitespace Gallery in Atlanta, GA. She is a history addict, roller-skater, and lover of unicorns, zombies, the moon, tarot and all things fantasy.

The Lamar Dodd School of Art is grateful for the support for our programming and exhibitions in the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery, which is supported by the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery Endowment Fund. Margie’s contributions to the arts will be part of her lasting legacy. She will always be remembered as a voracious collector with a keen eye and unbridled passion for the arts.