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DESCRIPTION:The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes artist and graphic noveli
 st Aidan Koch (b. 1988\, Seattle) for the first Visiting Artist Lecture of 
 the 2025-2026 season. Associate Director of Research and Graduate Studies a
 nd UGA Art Librarian Lindsey Reynolds has curated Mountain Tongue\, a solo 
 exhibition of Koch's work\, which will be on view in the Lupin Gallery of t
 he Dodd Galleries from Aug. 28 - Nov. 14. Koch will be in Athens and at the
  Dodd for several days hand drawing the opening sequence from her short sto
 ry Man Made Lake as a wall work that will activate the exhibition in the Lu
 pin Gallery.\n\nAbout the artist: Aidan Koch (b. 1988\, Seattle) is an arti
 st and graphic novelist who lives and works in the Mojave Desert on unceded
  Serrano land. Koch's solo exhibition Mountain Tongue will open at the Dodd
  Galleries on August 28. Koch’s work uses modes of ecological story-telling
  to explore loving and fraught relationships between humans\, non-human ani
 mals\, and landscapes. She is the author of several graphic novels includin
 g Xeric Award winning\, The Blonde Woman (2012)\, After Nothing Comes (2016
 ) and Spiral and Other Stories (2024)\; with short works featured in The Pa
 ris Review\, The New York Times\, Frieze Magazine\, Best American Comics 20
 14\, and MoMA PS1 GNY Series. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Mu
 seum\, South Bend Museum of Art and Queens University\, Belfast\, among oth
 ers. Koch’s ongoing projects— Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations 
 and Environmental Comics—act as pedagogical and collaborative extensions of
  her ecological inquiries.\n\nVisiting Artists and Scholars Series: At the 
 Dodd\, teaching and research are supplemented by the Visiting Artists and S
 cholars Program\, which brings a wide range of extraordinary practitioners 
 to campus. While in Athens\, they give lectures\, lead workshops\, and part
 icipate in community activities. Always free and open to the public\, these
  Tuesday evening lectures are an integral part of the culture at the School
  of Art and are an essential facet of education in the fields of art\, desi
 gn\, art history\, and art education. Lectures by visiting artists and scho
 lars are supplemented by faculty research lectures from both within the Dod
 d and faculty across UGA whose interdisciplinary research is arts related. 
 Thanks to generous support from donors\, the School of Art offers additiona
 l named lectures like the Jack Davis Lecture in Illustration and Design\, a
 ttracting experts in the field to campus for student enrichment and free pu
 blic programs.\n\nAidan Koch: Mountain Tongue is supported by UGA’s Frankli
 n College of Arts and Sciences\, the Lamar Dodd School of Art and the Lupin
  Gallery Endowment. For support opportunities\, contact Grace Mercer\, Deve
 lopment Associate at grace.mercer@uga.edu
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SUMMARY:Visiting Artist Lecture | Aidan Koch
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