Arts News

Each year, the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ department of theatre and film studies takes part in Experience UGA, a longstanding partnership between UGA’s Office of Service-Learning and the Clarke County School District that provides annual field trips to campus.

Kimberly Lyle, assistant professor of sculpture and technology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences’ Lamar Dodd School of Art, makes interactive artwork both by hand and digitally that welcomes audience participation.

Spanning the first three weeks of December, this year’s series brings together acclaimed singers, Celtic folk masters, genre-defying instrumental innovators and one of the nation’s leading orchestras for a sequence of concerts designed to inspire, uplift and evoke the magic of the season.

The Lamar Dodd School of Art proudly presents “INCANDESCENCE”: BFA Fall 2025 Capstone Exhibition. The opening reception will be held Friday, November 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Dodd Galleries of the school’s Main Art Building on East Campus. The exhibition will be on view through December 4.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, in partnership with The Georgia Review, presents a reading by award-winning novelist Hanna Pylväinen on Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. in Ramsey Concert Hall. Admission is free, and no tickets are required.

UGA Presents welcomes the Branford Marsalis Quartet in its return to Hodgson Concert Hall on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. The concert is centered around “Belonging,” the group’s new release on Blue Note Records.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann, brings one of the most powerful musical statements ever written to the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center’s Hodgson Concert Hall on Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m.

This year, the University of Georgia’s monthlong Spotlight on the Arts celebration will begin with an ambitious new event: the first UGA Poetry Festival, a two-day series of public readings by five major American poets.

UGA Theatre will summon chainsaws, demons and laughter on the Fine Arts Stage this fall with “Evil Dead: The Musical” — a high-octane, blood-soaked and side-splitting adaptation of Sam Raimi’s cult-classic horror films.

Nicholas Enrico Williams oversees five ensembles for the School of Music.