Arts News

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.

The UGA Performing Arts Center welcomes the best in classical, jazz and roots music to its stages. Now visitors to the PAC’s Lobby Gallery can spend more than four months with some of Georgia’s biggest pop stars.

New Miller Learning Center space gives students access to tech tools like VR, 3-D printing and podcasting — all in one place.

“Looking Through a Sewn Sky: Rachel Hayes” is a commissioned craft-based art installation at the Georgia Museum of Art for its Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden.

University of Georgia faculty and graduate students have more than double the opportunities for open access publishing, thanks to new UGA Libraries read and publish agreements with two of the largest academic journal publishers.

In the posthumously published “House-Keeping in the Sunny South”, Ella Ruth Tennent offers tips on managing various rooms of the house. This 1885 publication illuminates home life in Marietta and greater Georgia.

The Franklin College has named four current first year undergraduates as 2025 Cora Nunnally Miller Scholars in the Fine Arts. Each student will receive a $2,500 scholarship.

UGA Presents, the UGA Performing Arts Center’s series of international professional touring artists, announces its 30th anniversary season.

Where’s the line between homage and copyright infringement? It may depend on whether the artist is human or an artificial intelligence system.