07/17/2026
We are pleased to announce Victoria Dugger MFA ’22 as the recipient of the 2026 Margie E. West Alumni Prize and featured artist in the accompanying solo exhibition “Runner Up” in the Margie E. West Gallery from August 27 through November 20, 2026.
The public is invited to a Visiting Artist Lecture with Dugger in conversation with Benjamin Britton, associate professor of art, on August 27 at 4 pm in room S151 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. The lecture will be followed by an opening reception from 5 – 7 pm for “Runner Up,” alongside four additional exhibitions in the Dodd Galleries.
A lifelong resident of Georgia and living in Athens since the completion of her MFA at the Lamar Dodd School of Art in 2022, Dugger consistently examines her experiences of Black girlhood and disability through the lens of the Southern Gothic. Dugger’s visual language—with imagery often exaggerated and fantastical—remains largely autobiographical and grounded in her embodied experience.
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