BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:icalendar-ruby
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-WR-CALNAME:2025 Margie E. West Alumni Prize Lecture with Kristine Potter
X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada)
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20260814T035934Z
UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_50526440922893
DTSTART:20250904T200000Z
DTEND:20250904T210000Z
DESCRIPTION:The Lamar Dodd School of Art is thrilled to announce the winner
  of the 2025 Margie E. West Prize\, Kristine Potter (BFA Photography and B
 A Art History ‘01). The Margie E. West Prize is an annual award given to
  an esteemed alum of the Lamar Dodd School of Art who is invited to showca
 se their latest work in the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery.\n\nThe sixth
  recipient of the prize\, Kristine Potter will present a selected career s
 urvey titled The Body Politic that will be on display from Aug. 28 to Nov.
  14. Potter will deliver an artist lecture on Sept. 4 in room S150 of the 
 Lamar Dodd School of Art (adjacent to the Margie E. West Gallery)\, in adv
 ance of the public reception that evening. \n\nAbout the Exhibition: The B
 ody Politic brings together Potter’s series The Gray Line\, Manifest\, a
 nd Dark Waters to examine how systems of power shape both the human body a
 nd the American landscape. Reframing the traditional metaphor of the state
  as a unified organism\, the title is used here to explore how cultural an
 d national myths take hold at the level of the individual\, through gestur
 e\, posture\, ritual\, and the land itself. These photographs track the sl
 ow internalization of inherited roles and the quiet tension between perfor
 mance and lived experience.\n\nIn The Gray Line\, cadets at West Point are
  photographed as they begin to adopt the codes of military life: rather th
 an symbols of discipline or dominance\, they appear caught in the vulnerab
 le process of formation. Manifest turns to the American West\, where men m
 ove through a disoriented\, indifferent terrain. The project interrogates 
 the persistent myth of the frontiersman\, capturing its unraveling in the 
 absence of conquest. Dark Waters enters the American South through a diffe
 rent lens\, focusing on how narratives of gendered violence are passed dow
 n\, embodied\, and normalized. Here\, portraits\, landscapes\, and perform
 ances fold together to show how story becomes structure\, shaping how wome
 n navigate memory\, danger\, and desire. Taken together\, the works trace 
 the subtle choreography of power as it plays out on bodies and land.\n\nAd
 ditionally\, the Lamar Dodd School of Art will participate in the 2025 Atl
 anta Art Fair from Sept. 25-28\, with a special exhibition booth highlight
 ing Potter’s work as well as the history of the Margie E. West Prize. Do
 dd alumni are encouraged to register online with the creative directory as
  the Margie E. West Prize recognizes an accomplished artist that graduated
  from the Lamar Dodd School of Art.\n\nAbout the Artist: Kristine Potter (
 American\, b. 1977) is an artist whose work explores masculine archetypes\
 , the American landscape\, and the cultural tendency to mythologize the pa
 st. Her first monograph\, Manifest\, was published by TBW Books in 2018. S
 he has received numerous national and international awards\, including a G
 uggenheim Fellowship (2018)\, the Grand Prix Image Vevey (2019–2020)\, a
 nd the Hariban Prize (2023). Her second monograph\, Dark Waters\, was publ
 ished by Aperture in 2023. Potter's work is included in numerous public an
 d private collections\, such as the High Museum of Art\, the Virginia Muse
 um of Fine Arts\, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art\, the Georgia Museum of 
 Art\, Light Work\, the Swiss Camera Museum\, and the Victoria and Albert M
 useum in London. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Middle Te
 nnessee State University and is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects in New 
 York and MiCamera in Milan. She holds a BFA in Photography and BA in Art H
 istory from the University of Georgia (2001) and an MFA in Photography fro
 m Yale University (2005).\n\nAbout the Margie E. West Prize: Established i
 n 2020\, the Margie E. West Prize recognizes an accomplished artist or sch
 olar who graduated from the Lamar Dodd School of Art with a solo exhibitio
 n in the Margie E. West Gallery. Past recipients of the Margie E West Priz
 e include John Douglas Powers (’08\, MFA with distinction)\, Pam Longoba
 rdi (’81\, BFA)\, Zipporah Camille Thompson (’15\, MFA)\, Erin Dunn (
 ’14 MA)\, and Hong Hong (’14 MFA). The Lamar Dodd School of Art is gra
 teful for the support of the West family for our programming and exhibitio
 ns in the Marjorie Eichenlaub West Gallery\, which is supported by the Mar
 jorie Eichenlaub West Gallery Endowment Fund. \n\nMargie West served on th
 e boards of the High Museum\, the Georgia Museum of Art\, and was a long-t
 ime member of the Forward Arts Foundation and a founding member of the Cer
 amic Circle of Atlanta. Her love of the arts was shared and passed down to
  her family\, as her granddaughters attended Lamar Dodd School of Art. Mar
 gie’s contributions to the arts will be part of her lasting legacy. She 
 will always be remembered as a voracious collector with a keen eye and unb
 ridled passion for the arts. \n\nFor more information\, contact Rachel Wal
 drop\, director and curator\, Dodd Galleries and Atheneum\, at rachel.wald
 rop@uga.edu. The Dodd Galleries are open Monday through Friday in the main
  Lamar Dodd School of Art building\, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Lamar Do
 dd School of Art is closed on weekends\, university holidays\, and home ga
 me days.\n\nKristine Potter’s The Body Politic and the annual Margie E. 
 West Prize is supported by the Marjorie E. West Gallery Endowment Fund. Ad
 ditional support is provided by UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Scien
 ces and The Lamar Dodd School of Art. For support opportunities\, contact 
 Grace Mercer\, development associate\, at grace.mercer@uga.edu
GEO:33.94028;-83.369515
LOCATION:Lamar Dodd School of Art\, S150
SUMMARY:2025 Margie E. West Alumni Prize Lecture with Kristine Potter
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.uga.edu/event/2025-margie-e-west-alumni-priz
 e-lecture-with-kristine-potter
CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR