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 [...]
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 [...]
Glassell Gallery launches revamped website
The School of Art’s Alfred C. Glassell Gallery at the Shaw Center for the Arts launched a revamped social media linked website this week http://glassellgallery.org If you’d like to hear directly from the Gallery about exhibits and activities as well as other carefully selected arts events, please sign up here. We won’t share your information with anyone [...]
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 [...]