Juried Student Art Show February 3-17, 2012 The Art Unbound juried student art show is a university-wide competition produced in partnership by the LSU Press and the LSU School of Art that seeks the highest quality of students’ artistic expression in visual art. Using books as the subject (and as the medium if you choose), [...]
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 [...]
Photographer and Assistant Professor Jeremiah Ariaz Exhibits Work at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Photographer and Assistant Professor Jeremiah Ariaz’s work is currently on display in the group show, “No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida. The exhibition investigates the visual, societal, and ecological consequences of postwar development, as the participating photographers reveal the ordinary in a manner [...]
Painter and Associate Professor Ed Smith Exhibits Work in Upcoming New Orleans Solo Show
Painter and Associate Professor Ed Smith will have a solo show, “Sportsman’s Paradise,” at Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans September 1-30. An opening reception will be held September 3, 6- 8 p.m. Smith was the featured cover artist in the winter 2011 issue of The Southern Review. The gallery is located at 400 Julia [...]
Global Vision: An Exchange of Contemporary Prints from the Kyoto Seika University
LSU School of Art presents: Global Vision: An Exchange Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from the Kyoto Seika University and Louisiana State University October 1 – November 19, 2010. A reception will be held on Friday, October 8 from 7‐9 pm. All events are free and open to the public. Foster Gallery is open Monday – Friday [...]
Art History 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 [...]