WELCOME TO THE LSU SCHOOL OF ART

The School of Art combines the best of both worlds: the resources and faculty of a large liberal arts institution and a close-knit community of students and faculty within the school. As the largest art department in Louisiana, and the fourth largest major offered at LSU, the School of Art brings together more than 35 full-time faculty members and 500 students to explore and embrace stylistic freedom. But concentrations in specific areas of interest and small studio courses make the school feel like a much more intimate environment.

The School of Art is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.

The school's faculty is composed of accomplished working professionals—artists, designers and scholars—who represent a diverse range of approaches and areas of expertise. What they all share is a commitment to the development in their students of the vision and understanding they will need for their professional practice to remain vital and relevant in the face of a lifetime of accelerating cultural change and technological innovation.




What to Expect from the LSU School of Art

As a student in the School of Art, you develop specialized skills while experimenting with various mediums and exploring your own creative intuition. Intensive critiques, working studio classes, involved professors and involvement with the larger art community provide unique perspectives. The school’s curriculum combines academic teaching and hands-on experiences. Students learn from faculty and peers, exhibits and lectures, and from visiting faculty and artists both on and off campus.

The School of Art promotes students' work with multiple disciplines through events like Paper Poetica, featuring work on and off paper. Student artists connect with faculty and the community through frequent exhibits on and off campus, including the School of Art’s Glassell Gallery at the Shaw Center for the Arts and through the permanent and visiting collections at the LSU Museum of Art, also housed at the Shaw Center, and the Unusual Art Show, where students and faculty anonymously displayed work available for the community to purchase. After Hurricane Katrina, the LSU School of Art supported displaced artists by organizing an exhibition and through a national appeal for art supplies for children, students, and artists in need.

The people of Baton Rouge have historically supported the artistic community, contributing to an environment where students can thrive and are provided with the time, education, support, facilities, materials and inspiration to succeed as artists.