When Andre Charitat makes art, sparks fly. Literally. Charitat’s art isn’t portraits of Italian women in pastoral settings, star-filled night skies over rural French towns or statues of men squatting down deep in thought. His art is rods and sheets of metal and cloth welded and stitched together, representing the forms and functions found in nature. [...]
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Digital Art Senior Screening – May 15 @ 6pm in Design 103
Come out and support LSU Digital Art seniors as they showcase their final projects that they have been working on through the Spring semester! Invite your family and friends! Food and drinks will be provided! Seniors include: Gabriel Aguilar Brock Barlow Jared Dunn Margaret “Maggie” Fink Paris Frederick Sabrina Kassab Angela Major Charles “Finn” Nunmaker [...]
Artist collective with 13 Art MFA alumni members crowdsources funding for exhibition in Galway, Ireland
In less than a month the group Expanded Draught, which includes 13 MFA alumni of the School of Art at LSU, raised 2,052 Euros through the crowdsource site :fund:it. Sixty one funders from around the world agreed to assist with the cost of materials, installation, an exhibition opening, and promotion costs. Starting March 9th 2013 they will [...]
Megan Singleton, MFA Sculpture ’12 awarded residency for wilderness science & art collaboration
Colorado Art Ranch and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute are hosting one-month residencies in six different wilderness biomes throughout the United States. Three artists were chosen for each of six locations. Artists will be collecting data with researchers and creating their own work in response. The one-month residency for which Megan Singleton has been selected [...]
Andrew Gilliatt, MFA Ceramics ’11, releases DVD
This month Ceramics Arts Daily Presents will release the DVD, Layers of Color: Exploring Form and Surface Pattern in Slip-cast Pottery by LSU alum Andrew Gilliatt. Since graduating in 2011, Gilliatt’s signature methods for forming slip-cast pottery and for applying whimsical decals have created a buzz in the ceramics world, resulting in invitations to present his work [...]
School of Art profiled in Art Business Magazine, Fall 2012
Excerpt from story in the Fall 2012 issue of Art Business Magazine which features work by recent LSU alumni: Painting and Drawing student Leonardo Madriz with Reflection, part of a senior project installation, and Tide Proof Garden, located in a Mississippi River flood plain, created by Sculpture student Josh Berkley for a senior-level class “What [...]
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A look at the work of sculpture undergrad Andre Charitat in LSU’s “Eye on a Tiger” video series
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Art History Professor Emeritus Mauck Receives Conover Award
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Lauren Hegge (MFA, Photography, 2013) has work on view at the New Orleans Photo Alliance as part of invitational exhibition, Generation LA 2.
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Digital Art Senior Screening – May 15 @ 6pm in Design 103
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Artist, Ant Hampton Speaks April 24 at 5:00 p.m. College of Art + Design Distinguished Lecture
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Digital Artist Hye Yeon Nam to Talk at School of Art
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Artist, Ant Hampton Speaks April 24 at 5:00 p.m. College of Art + Design Distinguished Lecture
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Digital Art Senior Screening – May 15 @ 6pm in Design 103
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Lauren Hegge (MFA, Photography, 2013) has work on view at the New Orleans Photo Alliance as part of invitational exhibition, Generation LA 2.
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Art History Professor Emeritus Mauck Receives Conover Award