While at LSU, she taught a wide range of courses including Introduction to Fine Arts, Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Romanesque Art, Gothic Art as well as working with students on various independent studies. She has been a lecturer for LSU Honors College seminars, a recipient of the 2007 TAF Teaching Award, and she curated LSU Treasures, published by LSU Press [...]
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Artist, Peter Shire Speaks January 30 at 5:00 p.m. College of Art + Design Distinguished lecture
The LSU College of Art + Design Distinguished Lecture Series presents Peter Shire, Wednesday January 30, at 5:00 p.m. in the first floor lecture hall (RM.103) of the Art + Design Building. Peter Shire graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. His work crosses over the boundaries between sculpture, ceramics, furniture and interior [...]
Retrospective of Works by Visiting Artist, Designer Peter Shire
For the first time ever, a trio of LSU’s art galleries will join forces to present a three-part retrospective featuring the works of internationally renowned artist and designer Peter Shire. The LSU Museum of Art, the LSU School of Art’s Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Exhibition Gallery and the LSU Student Union Art Gallery – working [...]
Art Historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan Receives $50,000 Atlas Award
Art Historian and Art History Professor Susan Elizabeth Ryan, PhD, recently won an Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (also known as an ATLAS Award) in the amount of $50,000, for her proposal, “Critical Dressing: The Development of Wearable Technologies as Art and Design.” Dr. Ryan’s project, which will complete the first historical analysis of [...]
Associate Professor Darius Spieth Selected as Mellon Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology
Darius Spieth, associate professor of art history in the LSU School of Art and an expert in the field of international art markets and 18th- and 19th-century European art, has been named Mellon Visiting Professor for 2011 at the California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, in Pasadena. During his six months at Caltech, Spieth will [...]
LSU Professor Defining New Field of Wearable Technology
(Baton Rouge) – Imagine a plumed hat with feathers that react to the radio waves emitted by cell phone activity. Or an arm band that administers a pin prick to its wearer each time a soldier dies in Iraq. Those are just two examples of what‟s being called “wearable technology art,” an exciting new field [...]
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Art History Professor Emeritus Mauck Receives Conover Award
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LSU School of Architecture Professor J. Michael Desmond’s Book Details Origins of LSU Campus
- Landscape Architecture Director Bradley Cantrell is Awarded the 2013-2014 Rome Prize
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College of Art + Design CxC Coordinator Reads Poetry, Gathers Poets on the National Scene
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Faculty Wins Minneapolis Creative City Challenge
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LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Names Associate Professor Bradley E. Cantrell as New Director
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Architect, Jenny Sabin Speaks October 10 at 4:30
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Student and Faculty Work Published in Print Magazine Annual
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Metropolis Features Project by Spackman Mossop + Michaels
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New Media Artist, John F. Simon, Jr. speaks at LASM, August 23