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College of Art + Design CxC Coordinator Reads Poetry, Gathers Poets on the National Scene

Photo Credit: Michael Hoerman CxC Studio Coordinator Vincent A. Cellucci spends the majority of his time teaching students in the College of Art + Design valuable writing skills for class assignments, professional portfolios, and future careers.  Recently, the College granted him the opportunity to collaborate with writing professionals on a national scale.  Cellucci attended the [...]

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Faculty Wins Minneapolis Creative City Challenge

Director and Associate Professor Bradley Cantrell working with Invivia + urbainDRC won the Minneapolis Creative City Challenge with their proposal: The Minneapolis Interavtive Macro Mood Installation (MIMMI). The Creative City Challenge is an annual two-stage competition for Minnesota architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds to create and [...]

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RRSLA @ the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Annual Meeting

Associate Professor Kevin Risk will be presenting a paper that was co-written with Associate Professor Cat Marshall at the Alliance for Historic Preservation Annual Meeting. The paper is entitled Ordering the Louisiana Landscape, the research is “envisioned to broaden awareness of the range and dynamism of the State’s cultural landscapes, this study documents ways in which [...]

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Hilltop Arboretum Breaks Ground on New Leed Certified Building Addition

There’s something mystical and magical about the University in the local community, and that is evident today, said Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins at the groundbreaking ceremony for the LSU Hilltop Arboretum on Highland Road on Tuesday. The LSU Hilltop Arboretum is a University property under the management of the Robert Reich [...]

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RRSLA Faculty Contributes Book Chapter to The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

Associate professor Lake Douglas of LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture contributed a chapter to The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island published in 2013 by the Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture series of the University of Pennsylvania Press.  Edited by Jonathan Conlin, senior lecturer at the University of Southampton, the book provides [...]

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Lake Douglas Essay in Art & Architecture

Associate professor Lake Douglas of LSU’s College of Art & Design contributed an essay to the recently published Art & Architecture, Vol., 21 of the “New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture” series from the University of North Carolina Press and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi (2013). The one-volume [...]

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