Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Congratulations Anna Robinson who received a Pillar Award for Diversity and Inclusion! This award is given to one undergraduate student each year who embodies the many qualities of diversity and inclusion: celebrates differences, encourages education, promotes social justice, and/or serves as an inclusive leader.

Austin Wieland received the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry Exemplary Teacher Award! Congratulations!

LC Art and Design Faculty are at West Forsyth High School today for the Forsyth County Art Honors Day! Professor Wieland is teaching a Raku firing workshop. Professor Reneke is showing students how to make stamps and sprig molds. Check out some of the workshop photos! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #raku #fcsarthonorsday

Students in Professor Marcia Brown’s 2D Design course are working with complementary color schemes this week! #lcartanddesign #lagrangecollege #2d #colorschemes @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Dr. Mark Yates from the Biology Department visiting plant life outside the Dodd Center today. For science! :)

Sculpture students have been working on a portrait project recently in class. Here is Art and Design major Jordan Cain (@jergandraws) working on a bust of one of his friends! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #clay #ceramics #sculpture @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Professor Al Waller is working with his Stop Motion Animation students on their final projects! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #animation #stopmotion

Ceramics and Sculpture students recently set up a show of their work in the Student Gallery! The title of the show is Ceramics and Sculpture Survey. Pieces on display are from introductory to advanced level courses. Students exhibiting are: Alexis Williams, Tuesday Gardner, Wesley Mattox, Audrey Harkness, Casper Thomas, Aly Lord, and Jasmine Ruiz. #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #clay #ceramics #sculpture @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Students in Professor Marcia Brown’s 2D Design class are getting started on their Color Wheel Project today! #lcartanddesign #lagrangecollege #2ddesign #maskup @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

We have some incredible seniors in Art and Design this year! The 2021 Senior Exhibition is now installed in the galleries and officially opens next week. Here is the show invitation with a list of participating students! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign

Students in Professor Al Waller’s Stop Motion Animation class are working hard constructing characters they have designed! Students pictured: Anna Robinson, Malik Hurston, and Jordan Cain #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #animation #stopmotion @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Each year Professor Wieland and ceramics students make bowls for the Empty Bowls Dinner. This is a fundraiser for @circlesoftroup to help with their programs and to fight poverty in Troup County! This year, due to Covid, the event has been changed to a Dinner at Your Door event! We were able to make over 180 bowls. Here are a few finished pieces from the last firing!#lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #clay #ceramics #emptybowls @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Alumni Spotlight: Meghan Lacey (Class of 2017) recently had one of her paintings featured in British Vogue! The painting, Wood Between the Worlds, is part of the permanent collection here @lagrangecollege. Congratulations @meghanlaceyartist!! To see more of her work, go to: www.meghanlacey.com #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #britishvogue #painting @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Professor Reneke’s class spent some time outside this morning working on figure drawings in front of the Lamar Dodd Art Center! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #drawing #figuredrawing @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

It has been a while since we made a Throwback Thursday post. We came across this gem the other day. Clearly it’s a failed attempt at a group photo in front of the Lamar Dodd Art Center! Also, if you take a closer look, you will see Marcia Brown yelling! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #tbt #throwbackthursday

Students in Professor Wieland’s Ceramics Methods and Materials class recently finished their coil pots. Here are a few images of some completed pots! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

LC Seniors drove by the Lamar Dodd Art Center yesterday to pick up their cap and tassel in a pre-graduation celebration! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #maskup @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

Alumni Spotlight! Celeste Crowe is a recent Art and Design Alum from the class of 2019. While at LaGrange College she concentrated in Ceramics and Sculpture. She also completed minors in Art History and Servant Leadership. Currently, she is the Director of Communications at the First Presbyterian Church of Gastonia in Gastonia, NC! Images are from her 2019 installation The Renaissance Woman. #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

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Thanks for the write up about our exhibitions LaGrange College!

Here are a couple of final prints made by Tuesday Gardner (senior) in Professor Marcia Brown’s Printmaking class! #printmaking #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign

It’s Throwback Thursday and Finals Week here at LaGrange College! Here are some photos from a final critique in one of former Professor Tim Taunton’s Ceramics classes! #lagrangecollege #lcartanddesign #finalsweek @ Lamar Dodd Art Center and Visual Arts Museum of LaGrange College

This exhibition of 44 artists from the permanent collection was inspired by recent and ongoing conversations about inclusivity and the inherent value of diversity.