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LSU School of Art will present Twofold, featuring collaborative work by Addoley Dzegede and Visiting Artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. January 21–February 28, 2026. 

Art & Design, Visiting Artists, Galleries, Art

LSU School of Art will present the exhibition Twofold by Addoley Dzegede and visiting artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. A joint exhibition as their collaborative entity LAB-D, Twofold explores the artists’ individual responses to the same subjects, continuing their respective interests in material value, color, and cultural signification. Through a mixture of textiles, print, painting, and collage, the artists have generated work that represents their mutual tendencies to mine collections, archives, and systems of display. Drawing from images captured during numerous museum visits, each artist selected visual prompts for the other to respond to, introducing an element of unpredictability. Working on an agreed-upon scale for each prompt, the resulting works are an asymmetrical representation of the source material. Both artists employ mimicry and reproduction to generate new perspectives on existing artifacts.  

This exhibition will be on view January 21 through February 28, 2026, in the Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery. Visiting artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. will deliver a lecture Monday, February 23, 2026, in Barnes Ogden Room 1200 at 5 p.m. to be followed by a reception in the Gallery until 7:30 p.m. 

Lyndon Barrois Jr. (b. New Orleans, LA) is an artist based in Pittsburgh, PA and an Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. He is half of LAB-D, with artist Addoley Dzegede, with whom he has collaboratively staged four exhibitions, and co-authored a book of essays (Elleboog, at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2019).  

Barrois Jr. uses cinema as a means to travel both temporally and geographically, bringing to mind ideas of anachronism, simultaneity, and reanimation. Looking at branding strategies of old cinema—along with the phased-out profession of shooting film stills—he considers these methods ways to represent a film that has yet to be seen. He is currently undergoing a project that uses the heist film and museum context to contend with legacies of colonial extraction. Another ongoing body of work investigates how fashion images function as constructed figments of the imagination onto which we project our desires and lived realities. In various ways, Barrois navigates questions around color, control, taste, waste, and the layering of information. 

Barrois Jr. received his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2013), and his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (2006). He has completed residencies at LATITUDE Chicago, Loghaven, the Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands), Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland. 

Addoley Dzegede is a Ghanaian-American artist who grew up in South Florida and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a 2022-2023 Fulbright awardee in Craft to the Netherlands, based in Rotterdam for the duration of the award as the Artist-Researcher-in-Residence at Piet Zwart Institute.  

Dzegede’s work investigates notions of belonging, migration and location, and hybrid identities. Through a variety of media and techniques, she explores the metaphoric potential of materials, textile traditions, notions of “authenticity” and the ways color and pattern are used to as a means to assign belonging 

She received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and fellowships include the Chancellor’s Graduate Fellowship at Washington University in St Louis, where she completed an MFA degree in Visual Art, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. 

LAB-D is the collaborative art practice of Lyndon Barrois Jr. and Addoley Dzegede. Exhibitions and projects together include The Truth is Rude, at The Millitzer Gallery (St. Louis, 2015), Wayfarer, at Monaco (St. Louis, 2018), Mercantile, at Sharp Projects (Copenhagen, 2022), and To Die For, at Specialist (Seattle, 2022). Together they authored “Elleboog,” a book of essays published by the Jan Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2019). 

As LAB-D, they have been artists-in-residence at The University of Kansas, Arteles Creative Center (Finland), Nes (Iceland), and Loghaven Artist Residency (Knoxville). They were founding members of Monaco, an artist-run gallery in St. Louis. Barrois Jr. and Dzegede were both winners of the Great Rivers Biennial at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2016 and 2018), and grantees of Advancing Black Arts from the Pittsburgh Foundation in 2022. 

 

Lecture: Lyndon Barrois Jr. 

Monday, February 23, 2026, 5 p.m. 

Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex, Room 1200 

 

Reception: Twofold 

Monday, February 23, 2026, 6–7:30 p.m. 

Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery, Room 1010 

 

Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery 

31 South Campus Drive 

Baton Rouge, LA 70803 

Monday–Friday, 9:00–4:30 p.m. 

Saturday, 12–4, except between exhibitions. 

Closed Sundays 

Watch Commencement Livestream

Students, Landscape Architecture, Art, Architecture, Doctor of Design

The fall 2025 LSU College of Art & Design commencement ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. in the LSU Student Union Theater.

Watch ceremony recording.

Traci Birch in front of New Orleans mapAbout the Commencement Speaker

Traci Birch is an Associate Professor of urbanism in the LSU School of Architecture, and Associate Director of the LSU Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio, a multi-disciplinary research institute focused on the long-term stability of communities and landscapes in dynamic coastal environments. Her research focuses on developing frameworks for community adaptation, preservation and well-being in the face of accelerated climate change. She takes an applied approach, working directly with Gulf Coast communities and community members to build capacity for, withstand, and recover from acute and chronic adversity. Dr. Birch’s work seeks to examine “what counts [to people], not just what can be counted,” exploring the nuanced ways of valuing and dealing with change by different groups and individuals. To accomplish this, she engages researchers from across this and other universities, as well as hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students.  Her goal in this is to play a small part in creating the next generation of professionals who love and care for Louisiana as much as she does.

Traci completed her Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning and her Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Environmental Management, both from the University of New Orleans. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with concentrations in graphic design and printmaking from Baldwin-Wallace University in Berea, Ohio. Before joining Coastal Ecosystem Design Studio in 2015, Traci spent 10-years+ in the private sector as a practicing planner in Louisiana and the Gulf South. This work focused primarily on community disaster recovery and community development policy writing. Her teaching experience includes graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars in coastal, sustainability, and environmental planning, as well as urban planning and urban design courses for COAD students. She previously taught at East Carolina University and the University of New Orleans. Traci is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association.

ProFab Education will present free pop-up workshops for families at Glassell Gallery January 6 & 10, 2026

Galleries, Art

children making artLSU College of Art & Design will host ProFab Ed for two workshops at LSU School of Art’s School of Art’s Glassell Gallery Tuesday, January 6 and Saturday, January 10, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  

Come fab(ricate) Mardi Gras with us using cardboard and computers in the new year! ProFab Education’s fabrication workshops help kids bring their ideas to life using computers and machines to introduce digital fabrication to kids. ProFab Education’s projects allow kids to explore materials and technology, build skills, pursue passions, and grow confidence in experimental making. We especially invite East Baton Rouge Parish School families on Tuesday, January 6 while schools are closed. Learn more about ProFab Education.

These collaborative workshops are an extension of LSU College of Art & Design’s Open Experimental Studio Program which seeks not only to activate the gallery but to activate creative expression and ignite a passion for making. These programs offer families the opportunity to make together and in community. The Open Experimental Studio values process over product, experience over outcome, and communing over consuming. It seeks to create a supportive, open space for playful material exploration through making that is open and welcoming to all. LSU’s month-long artist-in-residence Open Experimental Studio will return in June 2026. 

All programs and events are free and open to all. These collaborative programs are supported in part by The Charles Lamar Family Foundation and LSU College of Art & Design.

LSU School of Art Glassell Gallery
Shaw Center for the Arts
100 Lafayette Street 
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
design.lsu.edu

Grad Walk 2025

Events, Art

LSU School of Art will host its Fall 2025 Grad Walk on Thursday, November 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This open-studio event features a scheduled walk between School of Art MFA graduate studios, a live band, a glowing lantern installation, and refreshments.

Meet the artists and get a peek inside their process as you visit their individual studio spaces to see in-progress works as well as the School of Art’s gallery spaces. The walk, from 6–7 p.m., will include visits with students from the photography, painting and drawing, ceramics, digital art, graphic design, printmaking, and sculpture areas. The walk will conclude in the School of Art’s sculpture garden where food and drinks will be available to enjoy amid live music and the glow of sculptural lanterns made by the first-year undergraduate students.

There is plenty of parking and LSU’s campus is fully accessible to visitors after 4:30 p.m. This event is free and open to all.

Alumni Spotlight: TIEK BYDAY Led by LSU Design Grads

Art & Design, Interior Design, Alumni, Architecture, Alumni Profiles,
Tiek ByDay Founders. Photo by Kim Meadowlark.

TIEK BYDAY Founders. Photo by Kim Meadowlark.

LSU alumni-led team TIEK BYDAY are transforming spaces in South Louisiana and beyond. Their approach is decidedly interdisciplinary: as a collaborative team of architects and interior designers, they work together to create designs that seamlessly integrate the many aspects of the design process.

Interior design studio Tiek and Co., led by mother-daughter duo Cindy and Bridget Tiek (BID 2014s), and Byday, an architecture firm founded by Hance Hughes (BArch 2014), merged into TIEK BYDAY in 2023. This November, the design firm unveils its new office in midcity Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

TIEK BYDAY is responsible for many recent renovations of popular restaurants, businesses, and private residences around the capitol region, and has been featured in Architectural Digest, Southern Home, inRegister and more, recognized for its creative vision that pushes the boundaries of traditional Southern aesthetics.

They each came to design from different backgrounds. Cindy, who first studied chemical engineering at LSU (Class of 1983), returned to the university in 2009 to study interior design. At 49, she “made a total life change” and decided to fully embrace her creative side by enrolling in the LSU School of Interior Design alongside her daughter, Bridget. Despite its “sensible appeal, the engineering field had left her feeling disconnected, prompting her to explore more creative pursuits,” she shared with House Beautiful. Hance, once on a pre-med track, returned to college to study at the LSU School of Architecture. (Hance and Bridget had known each other since middle school, before crossing paths again as designers.)

We sat down with them to discuss their memories of LSU, and love of design.

Q&A

Q: Any notable memories from your time at LSU?

Bridget: Many long nights working in studio on campus. I had a pillow there for a reason. 

Cindy: 24 hours of no sleep, working on design projects on deadline.

Hance: All my memories go back to studio. It’s where [design students] spent so much time, where you meet all the people.

Bridget: You were with your classmates for so long. It’s unlike any other degree that I’m aware of. No one else on campus spends that much time together. We still keep in touch with our former studio mates, designers we went to school with who are now all in different places in the field, all over the country. It created a tight-knit family for us all.

workspace with stool

Studio space. Image courtesy of Bridget Tiek.

Q: What do you love about design?

Cindy: The most satisfying aspect for me is seeing the design process come to fruition. How people respond to a transformed space – they are transported. I love the moment when people see their home for the first time, walk in and say, “oh my god!” It’s the culmination of all the work that went into the project.

Bridget: It’s amazing how much your environment affects you, how much better your life is when your surroundings are more peaceful, more beautiful, more functional.

Hance: That’s very real. As an artist and creative, there are rewards in creative things: executing a painting, the pleasure at the heart of design. It’s making an idea, a thought, a reality. 

 

“It’s a mutual passion for all three of us: we are here to help clients realize dreams they didn’t know that they had. They never thought it could be as great as it is for them to have their spaces reimagined. There’s nothing else like it.”

 

Q: How do you all work at the intersection of the design disciplines?

Cindy: We are collaborating on projects together from the beginning – it should all happen in tandem for the best result. Oftentimes people assume that interiors are the aftermath, but it should be woven in together. We also work in tandem with landscape architects. Ultimately, it’s the team approach: architects, interior designers, graphic designers, landscape architects, everyone working together.

Hance: Today’s design process is not the traditional idea of architecture. In conceptual hospitality, the line is not really clear. I’m also a licensed interior designer, though Bridget and Cindy are the experts in the industry. The line isn’t clear in the workplace and is reinforced in the studio environment how we work collaboratively doing “non-traditional” work.

Bridget: We’re working in one big studio environment right now, not spread out and so we’re always consulting each other, weighing in on the architectural decisions. The architects weigh in sometimes on the interior and vice versa. The comprehensive team approach leads to the best outcomes. Communication leads to beautiful outcomes, so we don’t just silo in a bubble away from each other. 

 

Q: What advice do you have for current design students?

Cindy: The internship experience is so important. To be able to try so many different paths for creatives, see different types of firms – do many directions, and get out an experience it. In smaller firms like ours, you get to see everything. I recommend researching firms and trying new things. It’s different than it used to be: nowadays, you can change course easier when you find what you love the most.

Bridget: Yes, there is so much opportunity in the design world. Go and intern for big and small firms, try something new like product design – you can go really niche into furniture or fabric, whatever interests you. Find what you love.

Hance: As a student, it’s about getting experience in the real world. It’s so important to reach out to people who do what you want to do. This career is so tactile, so it’s important to get in front of the real people doing the work in the field. You have to push to get where you want to go.

 

Q: Anything else you would like to add?

Cindy: It’s never too late. I went back for a second degree when I was 49. If you want to do something different with your life, you can still do it.

Bridget: With our firm’s growth over the last few years, we are excited to welcome new opportunities and projects in the door. We’re ready to travel, to expand our reach and creative influence not only in Baton Rouge, but across the gulf south. We’re willing and ready.

 

Learn more about TIEK BYDAY.

Learn more about the LSU College of Art & Design: LSU Schools of Architecture, Art, Interior Design, and Landscape Architecture.