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Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah College of Art and Design

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The Savannah College of Art and Design, housed in locations around Savannah, was founded in 1978 by Paula S. Wallace, Richard Rowan, and May and Paul Poetter.

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Pepe Hall

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One of the many buildings restored by the Savannah College of Art and Design, Pepe Hall was originally constructed as a school in 1906. Today the facility boasts multiple classrooms and studios and is devoted to the study of fibers.

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Atlanta College of Art

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The Atlanta College of Art, founded in 1905, was located in the Woodruff Arts Center in Midtown Atlanta. In 2006 the school was absorbed by the Atlanta campus of the Savannah College of Art and Design.

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Poetter Hall

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Poetter Hall, the first classroom and administration building of the Savannah College of Art and Design, is named for two of the school's founders, May and Paul Poetter. Formerly known as Preston Hall, the building had been home to the Savannah Volunteer Guards Armory before its acquisiton and renovation by the college in 1979.

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A Breeze over Troubled Water

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Whang Inkie's installation, A Breeze over Troubled Water, was displayed at the Atlanta College of Art Gallery in 2004. The gallery, located in the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, offers shows by a wide variety of artists.

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Bronze Pouring

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Students at the Atlanta College of Art pour bronze at the school's sculpture building in 2004.

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Lamar Dodd

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The painter Lamar Dodd was influenced by the Ashcan School movement, which emphasized scenes of everyday life. As one reviewer said of Dodd's first solo show in New York in 1932, his paintings, so consciously anti-academic, evoke "Georgia, Georgia, Georgia."

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Lamar Dodd School of Art

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The Lamar Dodd School of Art was housed in this building on the University of Georgia's north campus from 1963 until 2008.

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Lamar Dodd

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The artist Lamar Dodd pictured with Charles D. Hudson of the Calllaway foundation and former LaGrange College president Waights G. Henry Jr. at groundbreaking for Lamar Dodd Arts Center in 1981.

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Exterior of the Lamar Dodd School of Art

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The Lamar Dodd School of Art facility, completed in 2008, consolidated thirteen departments in a three-story building. A 2008 issue of the University of Georgia Magazine named it "the house of stone and light."

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The Lamar Dodd School of Art Courtyard provides ample outdoor working and leisure space for students, faculty, and staff.

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