Since  its inception in 1937 the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia (UGA) has been committed to providing the opportunity and the environment for excellent education in studio art, art education, and art history. It offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in each of these areas. Undergraduate majors in studio art include ceramics, drawing and painting, fabric design, graphic design, interior design, jewelry and metalwork design, photography, printmaking, sculpture, studio foundations, IDS scientific illustration, and digital media.

Liz's Hall by James Morgan Meaders is part of Georgia's State Art Collection. Oil, 26 x 40 inches The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print. Requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource should be submitted to the Georgia Council for the Arts. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomqiknJqwtbXOp6pon5Wkv6i1wKxkrKyRqbJurdGtZJynnKGypMDIqKVopJmvwG60wKWjmKWVlrGmvtKYZ2lpXWd8

Louisville, the county seat of Jefferson County, also served as Georgia’s third capital from 1796 until 1807. The town grew as the result of both large-scale immigration to the Georgia upcountry after the American Revolution (1775-83) and the desire of many Georgians to enhance the state’s commercial prosperity. By the mid-1780s the new upcountry settlers outnumbered those in the older coastal counties, and upcountry legislators demanded a state capital in a more western location than Savannah.

Stanton's professional career as an artist began in Atlanta in 1896, with a commission for three miniature portraits of soprano Adelina Patti. She went on to paint many of the distinguished citizens of Georgia, including Atlanta mayor Charles Collier (ca. 1899), Joel Chandler Harris (1906, 1914), and Howell Cobb, whom she portrayed as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7qLHOq56imZWjsLqvy6innpyZlnuwvsZomKusmZi5pr%2BOmqmtq12Ywq3A1KucaKSlmMZuucCyZKyskaPBsLqMam9wbV1mhnR9jqZka2loa3w%3D

Located sixty miles east of Atlanta, in Georgia’s Piedmont, Madison is the seat of Morgan County. With a population of just 4,447 according to the 2020 U.S. census, Madison was named the number-one small town in America by Travel Holiday magazine in 2001. Although it was a center for education and agriculture in the nineteenth century, it is best known today as a popular tourist destination. Madison was incorporated in 1809 and named in honor of U.