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 [...]
Art History at LSU
Love Triangles And Pythagorean Women, a Lecture by classicist and historian Dr. Sarah Pomeroy
Dr. Sarah Pomeroy, professor emerita at Hunter College and the author of numerous books including Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity, Women in Hellenistic Egypt from Alexander to Cleopatra, and Spartan Women, will deliver a lecture entitled Love Triangles And Pythagorean Women, on Monday, February 25 at 4:30 in the Design Auditorium (room 103). The lecture [...]
Susan Ryan records roundtable discussion for upcoming Whitney exhibition: “Robert Indiana: The American Dream”
Professor Susan Ryan recently recorded a roundtable discussion at the Whitney Museum which will become part of the catalog for the upcoming exhibition, Robert Indiana: The American Dream September 26, 2013-January 2014 (curated by Barbara Haskell). Professor Ryan was invited as one of the authorities on the artist’s work. She wrote the monograph, Robert Indiana: Figures [...]
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 [...]
Digital Art History: Older Than You Think
Some may think the Digital Age began in the 90s as America Online seeped into many American homes, but Dr. Susan Ryan’s Digital Art History course reaches as far back as the 19th century when Ada Lovelace, reportedly the world’s first computer programmer, was born. Ryan, PhD, an authority in the emerging field of digital [...]