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Visiting Artists Program: diverse practitioners of contemporary fine arts and design.

The LSU School of Art Visiting Artist Program is an integral part of our mission to provide our students a vital, comprehensive experience in the practice of contemporary fine arts and design. Each year, a diverse group nationally and internationally recognized artists are invited to LSU for a few days, weeks, or months to present [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Visual Artist, April Greiman Speaks September 06 at 5:00 p.m.

April Greiman is an artist and thinker whose transmedia projects, innovative ideas and hybrid-based approach have been influential worldwide over the last 30 years. Her explorations of image, word and color as objects in time and space are grounded in her singular fusion of art and technology. Greiman has been instrumental in the acceptance and use of [...]

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Art by John F. Simon

New Media Artist, John F. Simon, Jr. speaks at LASM, August 23

New media artist, John F. Simon, Jr., will speak Thursday, August 23 at 5:30  p.m. at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, located downtown on  100 River Road S, Baton Rouge, LA 70802. John F. Simon, Jr. is a new media artist who works with LCD screens and computer programming. In the 1990s, Simon began [...]

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Painting & Drawing hosts studio visits and lecture by renowned artist Walton Ford

Painter Walton Ford, a recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, visited LSU in February 2012 to meet with students in the School of Art and to speak about his career and his paintings as part of the Paula G. Manship Distinguished Lecture Series. Ford [...]

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