Arts News

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center presents the return of Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile on Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center will present the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble in the annual Jack Payne Memorial Concert on Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. in Hodgson Concert Hall. Admission is free, but tickets are required.

Launched in spring of 2025, the donor-funded Layton Design Studio bridges academic learning and professional practice. Students work as a team of art directors with non-profit and business clients alike from concept to execution, cycling through the many facets of project development, pricing and deliverables.

Georgia playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” is a darkly comedic play set during the French Revolution, bringing together four unlikely heroines — playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen Marie Antoinette and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle — who wrestle with art, violence, legacy and the meaning of change in uncertain times.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center welcomes Symbio, the acclaimed Swedish electro-folk duo, for both an evening performance and afternoon insights on Sept. 25. These events are part of the Nordic Dream: Voices from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden series, which highlights exceptional Scandinavian artists.

UGA Presents welcomes internationally acclaimed violinist Augustin Hadelich to Hodgson Concert Hall on Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. Hadelich, celebrated for his phenomenal technique, ravishing tone and insightful interpretations, will appear in an unaccompanied recital featuring music by Telemann, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Ysaÿe, Paganini and J.S. Bach.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center presents the Paul Taylor Dance Company, one of the world’s most renowned contemporary dance ensembles, Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Classic Center Theatre.

A Pulitzer Prize winner, a Tony Award winner and prominent voices in science, business and other disciplines are among the speakers scheduled to visit the University of Georgia this semester for the university’s Signature Lecture Series.

The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center announces the grand opening of the 2025-26 UGA Presents season, featuring an extraordinary evening with international star Lea Salonga in “Stage, Screen & Everything In Between” on Sept. 11 at 7:30 p.m. at Hodgson Concert Hall.

At the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, art is being conserved in the galleries in full view of the public. Atlanta-based art conservator Larry Shutts is stabilizing and cleaning “Close” by Joan Mitchell, an abstract expressionist painting that’s been in the museum’s collection since 1974.