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Winners of the Second Statewide Juried High School Exhibition

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First place winner Lucy Guo with Director Rod Parker (left) and Juror Scott Andresen (right)

The LSU School of Art hosted the second annual statewide juried exhibition for high school artists, at the LSU Foster Gallery March 4–31, 2016. Winners were announced at a reception held at the gallery on Saturday, March 19. All public, private, and home-schooled high school students residing in Louisiana qualified for submission.

“We had a fantastic turnout with approximately 200 people in attendance,” said Kitty Pheney, director of new initiatives at the LSU School of Art.

“LSU and the art program gain exposure throughout the state by hosting the competition and exhibition on campus each year, and the event is a great recruiting opportunity for the school,” said Rod Parker, director of the LSU School of Art. For example, several of the winners are accepted applicants and may choose to attend LSU this fall.

Awards were presented by juror Scott Andresen, assistant professor of foundations at the LSU School of Art.

 

First place, $500, was awarded to Lucy Guo, a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, for Trapped, colored pencil and watercolor. Lucy also received honorable mention, $100, for Crushed Addiciton, acrylic and watercolor. Lucy was accepted to LSU as a mechanical engineering major.

Second place, $300, went to Zoe Beaman, also a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, for Ethan, acrylic on canvas. Zoe was accepted to LSU as an art major.

Third place, $200, was awarded to Mollie Probst, a senior at Northlake Christian High School in Mandaville, Louisiana, for Thoughts, mixed media. Mollie was accepted to LSU as a psychology major.

Four other honorable mentions—$100 each—were awarded to:

  • Katie Judice, a senior at St. Thomas Moore Catholic High School in Lafayette, for Remains of the Day, an acrylic and ink collage;
  • Catherine Zhou, a senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, for Dreams and Machines, ballpoint pen on paper;
  • Adam Miller, a junior at Dunham High School in Baton Rouge, for Broken, oil on canvas; and
  • Nicholas Schutte, a junior at Episcopal School of Acadiana in Broussard, Louisiana, for his silver gelatin photograph Sinking.

Katie was accepted to LSU as a pre-architecture major, and Catherine was accepted to LSU as a computer science major.

Special recognition went to Baton Rouge Magnet High School for best overall showing, with a special thanks to Baton Rouge High teachers Heather Berrios and April Hammock.

“The exhibition, which started last year, is the School of Art’s first major outreach initiative to develop relationships with high schools throughout the state,” said Pheney. “It’s a win-win. We reach prospective students and students and teachers are thrilled by the professional nature of the exhibition.”

LSU School of Art Offices Move to Design Building

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We’ve moved!

The LSU School of Art offices have moved from the Art Building to room 220 of the Design Building in anticipation of impending renovations to the Studio Arts Building, where the art offices will eventually be located. The former office space in the Art Building is being converted to a 21st-Century Fabrication Factory, featuring large/full-scale digital fabrication technology—CNC laser cutters, CNC routers, vacuum former, new workstations, and software—for the use of College of Art & Design students and faculty for learning, research, and entrepreneurial activities.

Read more about the Studio Art Building Renovations.

Read more about the Fabrication Factory.

Contact the LSU School of Art

School of Art
220 Design Building
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Telephone: 225-578-5411
Fax: 225-578-5424
Email: art@lsu.edu

 

Bilingual Edition of Marc Fumaroli’s 2013 Paula G. Manship Lecture Published by LSU Press

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marc fumaroli In 2013 French essayist and historian Marc Fumaroli, member of the Académie française in Paris, delivered a Paula G. Manship lecture to students and faculty in the College of Art & Design and the LSU community. His lecture, “What Language to Say the Arts? French Rhetoric and German Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century,” has now been published in a bilingual English-French edition by LSU Press.

Taking its cue from Horace’s saying, “As is painting, so is poetry” (“Ut pictura poesis”), What Language to Say the Arts? revisits the genesis of the “conceptual turn” in art. Fumaroli argues that the roots of this transition run deeper than the 20th-century conceptualism of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Rather, the origins of conceptual art can be found in the emergence of aesthetics as a distinct branch of philosophy in 18th-century Germany, a time when writers, such as Lessing, Baumgarten, Winckelmann, and Kant, tried to analyze art from a purely intellectual perspective. These thinkers positioned themselves in opposition to another, older school of thought based on a poetic approach to the appreciation of art that harkens back to classical antiquity. Fumaroli contends that this classical tradition’s emphasis on pleasure and the sensual enjoyment of art is better suited than high-minded intellectualism to close the perceived distinction between artistic practice and language.

On the occasion of the launch of the publication, Professors Suzanne Marchand (history), Rick Ortner (painting and drawing), and Darius A. Spieth (art history) participated in a round table discussion in the event room of the LSU Book Store on March 9, 2016. The event was hosted by the Program in Comparative Literature at LSU. Under the motto “Bridging the Gap between Word and Image,” the three participants reviewed and discussed Fumaroli’s ideas and reminisced about his campus visit. Spieth, who also translated the text into English, was especially pleased by the large turnout of freshmen students from his introduction to art course (ART 1001) to this event.

Copies of What Language to Say the Arts? are available for purchase at LSU Press at lsupress.org/books/detail/what-language-to-say-the-arts. Click here for more information about Fumaroli and his original lecture presented on November 4, 2013.

Internationally Renowned Watercolor Artist Leads Workshops at LSU School of Interior Design

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Judi Betts has conducted more than 425 watercolor workshops in the U.S. and abroad.

LSU interior design students enrolled in the second-year color theory course had the opportunity to learn from highly respected, internationally recognized painter Judi Betts in a special four-session workshop focused on watercolor rendering with an emphasis on tables and chairs.

Betts teaches a workshop at the LSU School of Interior Design annually. “It’s a highlight of my year to come here and work in interior design,” said Betts. “I enjoy working with the young people and seeing their success.”

Teaching at LSU is just one part of Betts’ busy schedule as an artist and instructor. “I like to think of myself as a painter who teaches, not a teacher who paints,” Betts specified.

A native of LaGrange, Illinois, Betts has been teaching for 57 years, conducting more than 425 watercolor workshops in the U.S., abroad, and aboard cruise ships, including the Queen Elizabeth II. She has taught in every state in the U.S. (except South Dakota and Delaware) and in several countries including Canada, Japan, Norway, England, Scotland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Sweden, and Mexico. Her work has been shown in dozens of invitational exhibitions at locations such as the Taiwan Art Education Institute, Federation of Canadian Artists, Walt Disney’s Epcot Center, Allied Artists of America at the Butler Institute, and the National Arts Club. Throughout her career she has been juror/judge for over 150 national, international, and regional competitions.

 

Betts received the Louisiana Governor’s Award for Professional Artists, the state’s most prestigious award, and her paintings have won over 100 awards in major competitions from organizations such as the National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, and Watercolor USA, who awarded Betts with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, their highest honor. Senator and Mrs. Long commissioned Betts to paint the Russell B. Long Federal Building and Court House for their private collection, and her painting of the Louisiana Old State Capital hung in the rotunda of the Governor’s Mansion during the Foster administration. Her paintings are also in the permanent collections of the states of Arkansas and Louisiana, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Springfield (Missouri) Art Museum. Her work has appeared on national television, on wine labels and DVDs, and in more than 35 books, including two she authored, Watercolor: Let’s Think about It! and Painting: A Quest Toward Xtraord!nary.

Betts received an AB in metal and jewelry design from Indiana University and a Master of Education from LSU. She continued her studies at Southern Oregon State University and Brigham Young. Her works and techniques are influenced by the California School of painters from the early 20th century. She spent many summers studying at length with renowned artists including Barse Miller, Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt and Joan Irving, and Milford Zornes.

Betts, now in her late 70s, couldn’t be more thrilled with her career—and her busy schedule. “It’s sort of incredible what has happened. I didn’t put my crayons away, have never been off track,” said Betts. “I’ve been art the whole time.”

 

She recently had the LSU interior design students drawing and painting donuts (for practice in painting volume and form), pianos, and stairs using a range of watercolor techniques. “I can show the students that you can make a living and be extremely successful by following your passion, your talents,” she said.

Betts and her husband, who passed away five years ago, have been lifelong friends of LSU and the College of Art & Design. Betts began leading watercolor workshops when Carroll Mathews and Nikki Spencer were teaching interior design at LSU. Wayne Womack, professor emeritus of landscape architecture, took students to their home in Baton Rouge to tour the couple’s gardens. The Betts were also good friends of the late John Desmond, architect and professor at LSU.

Judi Betts recently established a planned gift to the LSU College of Art & Design for a distinguished lecture series to help bring in prominent artists and designers at the top of their respective fields. “My husband and I both wanted to leave a legacy at LSU,” Betts explained. “I have enjoyed going to the lectures and have found them to be very beneficial. I’d love to build on that experience for future generations.”

BLA Student Profile: Ry’yan Clark, BLA 2017

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ry'yan clarkLSU Bachelor of Landscape Architecture candidate Ry’yan Clark, a native of New Orleans, chose to study landscape architecture because of his interest in art, design, and math.

“I have always had an interest in the design process, mathematics, and art, which are perfectly blended in the profession of landscape architecture,” said Ry’yan.

He also appreciates how the people in the field are so open and excited about what they do. “I love how landscape architects are so open to communication with other disciplines and cultures.”

As the 2016–17 president of the LSU Student Chapter of ASLA, Ry’yan plans to build on that culture of openness and collaboration. Officially recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the LSU chapter creates a platform for students to get involved and active in the professional organization early in their education and careers. As an elected officer of the LSU student chapter, Ry’yan sits on the executive committee of the Louisiana chapter, where he has the opportunity to meet and network with landscape architects living and working in Louisiana.

Ry’yan said he also enjoys how the organization helps students engage throughout the school. “I learned a lot from upperclassmen when I was new to the program, and membership in the organization makes everyone that much more involved and prepared to take on leadership roles in the profession.”

LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA) alumni have a history of being active ASLA members. The 2016–17 president of ASLA, Chad Danos, director of landscape architecture for Duplantis Design Group, is an RRSLA alumnus, and at the 2016 ASLA Meeting & EXPO in New Orleans, two alumni—Kurt Culbertson, chairman and CEO of Design Workshop, and Jim Burnett, president and principal of the Office of James Burnett—will receive ASLA Medals, the highest honor the organization bestows on individuals in the profession. In the past seven years, four firms led by LSU landscape architecture alumni received the national Firm Award, and LSU alumni have garnered no less than 66 ASLA professional awards since 1981. More than half of the current RRSLA faculty have been named fellows of the ASLA, and to date, 43 RRSLA students have won national ASLA student honor awards for their capstone projects.

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Through this vast network of faculty, alumni, and ASLA members, students find valuable internships, which lead to lucrative jobs in the profession—Director Mark Boyer said that 100 percent of the landscape architecture students who graduated in spring 2016 were employed or accepted to graduate programs prior to graduation. The Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture has a longstanding tradition of facilitating internships for undergraduate students and is one of the few landscape architecture programs in the country that requires a full-semester internship experience.

During the spring semester of his fourth-year, Ry’yan interned at Design Workshop in Chicago, where he worked on sections, illustrative plans, made calls to sales representatives, listened in on phone calls with clients, and attended public meetings.

“Design Workshop really put a lot of variety into how and what they taught me. It was exciting to say the least,” shared Ry’yan. “The office culture at the Chicago location and across the firm is excellent. I had the chance to sit down with alumnus Kurt Culbertson, one of the founders of the firm, which was a nice moment.”

As president of the LSU Student Chapter of ASLA, Ry’yan also wants to help raise awareness of the profession, especially to young people who may not have heard of landscape architecture—or who may not understand what the profession entails. In summer 2015, Ry’yan volunteered at the LSU Hilltop Arboretum, where he worked with children in the arboretum’s summer programs and high school students in the school’s Landscape Architecture Explorations Summer Camp.

“That was a great opportunity to work with two distinct age groups. The five to seven year olds were excited about everything they saw and surprisingly intuitive about the subject matter,” said Ry’yan. “The high school students were more reserved, but it was interesting to watch them come out of their shells. They produced some really good work for a week’s worth of time.”

After graduation, Ry’yan would like to travel, work in the profession for a number of years, then pursue a master’s degree in a related field, such as urban planning, to help make cities more efficient. At the end of the day, he wants to give back to his city.

“I have a strong affection for New Orleans,” concluded Ry’yan.

Alumni Spotlight: Elizabeth “Boo” Thomas

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The Aptitude of an Advocate

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Elizabeth “Boo” Thomas, president and CEO of the Center for Planning Excellence in Baton Rouge

Elizabeth “Boo” Thomas has led community planning activities and redevelopment efforts in Louisiana since obtaining her Master of Landscape Architecture from LSU in 1989. As the former head of Plan Baton Rouge and the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance and the current president and CEO of the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX), Thomas has been an advocate for smart growth in Louisiana throughout her career.

Thomas, who received her first degree from the LSU College of Education in 1966, didn’t initially plan to be a planner, though.

When Thomas’s daughter took three days of career aptitude tests in high school, the results pointed her toward a creative career path, such as architecture and design. Thomas wondered about her daughter’s innate penchant for creativity and decided to take the aptitude tests herself; she received the same results. “So my daughter must have gotten it from me,” she laughed.

Interested in pursuing her own talents, Thomas enrolled in a graduate-level course in landscape architecture at the LSU Robert Reich School. She never intended to finish a master’s degree, but she fell in love with the field—especially the public-planning potential of the profession. Her thesis project, “Green Links,” was focused on connecting Baton Rouge’s public schools and parks with walking and bike trails.

After graduation she was hired by an architecture firm to work on the first comprehensive land-use and transportation plans for East Baton Rouge Parish. “It was the perfect job right out of graduate school, working for the public sector from the perspective of a private firm,” Thomas shared.

She later helped found the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance and Plan Baton Rouge, the master plan for the redevelopment of downtown Baton Rouge.

 

“I had found my calling in life,” she recalled, “inspiring, rewarding work that could make a difference in the lives of people by encouraging public officials and business leaders to look at communities in a different way.”

Eighty-five percent of Plan Baton Rouge, completed 18 years ago, has been implemented today, “leading to incredibly fruitful projects, led by fellow landscape architect Davis Rhorer, that have totally changed the face of downtown,” added Thomas.

Plan Baton Rouge was recognized as a success by local and state organizations and identified as a national model for redevelopment. By 2006, Plan Baton Rouge had transitioned into the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX), an extraordinary team of planners, strategists, designers, policy experts, environmental scientists, outreach specialists, and advocates—with Thomas as the lead. While Plan Baton Rouge focused on the revitalization of the downtown area, in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Thomas led CPEX in facilitating the Louisiana Speaks recovery process, the largest planning effort ever undertaken in the state. The Louisiana Speaks Regional Plan, created through the participation of more than 27,000 South Louisiana residents, set national records for public participation. Thomas has continued to build on that plan, overseeing CPEX’s planning efforts in parishes across the state.

“My degree in landscape architecture has provided me with the tools I need to be successful on any scale,” Thomas said. “Landscape architects have remarkable talents, including the ability to look at the best use of the land and to leverage assets toward the benefit of all citizens.”

Thomas helps make lives better for Louisiana citizens on a range of scales, whether she and her team are developing non-structural solutions that inhabitants of Louisiana’s coastal parishes can implement themselves to make their communities safer, consulting with Gonzales city officials on the zoning ordinances needed to complete a comprehensive plan, or staffing a regional mobility project demonstration for an Amtrak train between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jacksonville, Florida.

Thomas remains focused on issues close to her heart in her adopted city, as well. Through the Complete Streets initiative, CPEX helped Baton Rouge pass resolutions to improve access and safety for cyclists and pedestrians. In 2013, Mayor-President Kip Holden, with CPEX’s help, put together Better Block Baton Rouge to demonstrate how Government Street would work if it was converted to three driving lanes and two bike lanes. The organization is currently working on a new initiative to make the Perkins Road overpass area more pedestrian safe.

In recognition of her outstanding contributions to Louisiana, Thomas has been honored by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Baton Rouge Area Chamber, the YMCA, the Baton Rouge Business Report, LSU, and the Louisiana Architecture Foundation. In 2009, Thomas and CPEX were awarded the Olmsted Medal by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). One year later, in 2010, Thomas became the second woman in Louisiana named to the ASLA National Council of Fellows, one of the highest honors the organization bestows on individuals in the profession.

CPEX employs two other LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture alumni, Haley Blakeman (BLA 1994) and Ryan Benton (BLA 2014). Everyone who works at CPEX is mission driven, said Thomas. “Everyone really feels they are improving the quality of citizens’ lives.”

Visit cpex.org for more information about Thomas and the Center for Planning Excellence.

Art + Design Networking Day a Success!

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More than 50 employers participated in Art + Design Career Networking Day on February 26, 2016.

Presented by the LSU College of Art & Design and the LSU Olinde Career Center, Art + Design Networking Day is an open networking session for students and employers. The event location was moved from the LSU Design Building to the LSU Student Union’s Royal Cotillion Ballroom this year due to increasing registration from employers. The new venue was a success. Feedback from employers stressed the importance of having more room to spread out and maximize their display space.

2016 art and design networking day

A special thanks to Humprheys & Partners Architects for establishing a program in which they donate $1,000 scholarship to every school where they recruit!

After the networking portion of the event, employers attended a luncheon sponsored by the College of Art & Design with Dean Alkis Tsolakis and faculty. Employers could elect to stay throughout the afternoon ton conduct interviews with candidates. Twenty-seven employers conducted over 200 one-on-one interviews with LSU College of Art & Design students.

Also new in 2016, the College of Art & Design hosted the first official Pre-Networking Day Employer Presentations the evening before Networking Day, February 25. Twenty-four employers gave 10-minute presentations about their firms and businesses and what they are looking for when hiring new employees.

Art + Design Career Networking Day is a key opportunity for students to meet with employers and gain networking experience while gathering tips on job searching and learning more about career possibilities and potential employers.

The date for the spring 2017 LSU Art + Design Career Networking Day will be announced later this year.

Leah Hamel and Veronica Hallock Win Top Awards in National Paper Art Triennial

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LSU MFA candidate Leah Hamel and LSU MFA alumna Veronica Hallock won top awards in the National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. Both awards were granted in the form of one-day residencies at prestigious art and design schools, the Southwest School of Art & Craft and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, respectively. Renowned paper artist Joan Hall was the juror of the 2016 triennial.

“The selection process is very competitive,” said Leslie Koptcho, professor of printmaking at LSU. “Being recognized in this way advances both artists’ emerging careers, as well as establishes the LSU School of Art as nurturing some of the most exciting work created in hand paper-making today.”

Hamel has two works included in the exhibition, Begin Again and Seed. Begin Again is constructed of hand-pulled paper made from recycled black jeans collected from thrift stores in Baton Rouge.

Hamel created the paper pulp from the jeans and re-formed the fibers into highly textured pieces of paper resembling roofing shingles. The paper is sewn together with embroidery thread and knotted in a way to resemble copper nails. The shingles that lay flat on the ground appear to be breaking down, decomposing.

“Through a recent experience of the failure of a structure intended to protect, I was inspired to create a piece to represent the cyclical nature of things,” Hamel said. “Through making this piece I was able to explore ideas of regeneration and corrosion in objects, landscape, and the body.”

She used hand-pulled paper made from cotton, hand-beaten kozo, and harvested banana plants to create Seed, a biomorphic form intended to express how the human body is connected to the surrounding environment. The taut, skin-like paper stretching over the organically inspired skeleton allows the viewer to make the connection between body and nature.

“When I built this piece I was thinking specifically about wombs and how the word womb can encompass more than the suggestion of a woman’s body,” Hamel said. “I think of places where something is nurtured, like home, in a broader sense, or a tiny seed pod, on a more intimate scale.”

Currently in her final year of the LSU MFA program, Hamel earned a BFA with concentrations in ceramics and sculpture and a minor in art history from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2012. Formerly, her artistic practice was focused primarily on sculpting with clay and found objects as a means to bring her ideas into three dimensions. Through experimentation at LSU, she discovered an interest in papermaking and has added this medium to her lexicon of making. Throughout her tenure at LSU she has remained an officer and active member in the Ceramic Arts Student Association, and she received the Michael Dougherty scholarship in recognition of her academic achievement and leadership in the arts program. Hamel is expected to graduate from LSU with an MFA in sculpture in August 2016. Her thesis exhibition, Momentary Eddies, will be on display in the Foster Gallery on LSU’s campus April 11–15, closing reception 6–8 p.m. on Friday, April 14.

Hallock’s piece, Veil, also won high marks in the Paper Art Triennial. A work from her thesis show at LSU, Veil was a response to Hallock’s “identity of home changing in a very physical way, but also in a very emotional way.” She said her thesis work was a response to the loss of many important family members, deaths that occurred at the same time during a significant geographical and cultural move. In Veil, Hallock emphasized that the paper sculpture represents the liminal border between life and death, “or the very real border of the ground in which we are buried.”

Hallock received an MFA in printmaking from LSU in 2015. She is currently teaching foundation courses at Southeastern University.

“It’s rewarding to have sponsored back-to-back successes in the National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial,” added Koptcho. “LSU students were not only recognized with awards this year, but also in 2013, when Jane Milosch of the Smithsonian Institution served as juror.”

The National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial will be on view February–June 2016 in Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. Visit corcoran.gwu.edu for more information about the National Collegiate Handmade Paper Art Triennial at the Corcoran.

For more information about the LSU School of Art MFA program, visit art.lsu.edu.

LSU Graphic Design Students Receive Twenty-Two 2016 AAF Baton Rouge Student Awards

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LSU graphic design students received 22 2016 American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge Student Awards, including three Best in Show, nine Gold, and 10 Silver. The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising at local, regional, and national levels.

Six of the winning projects were designed by the LSU Graphic Design Student Office (GDSO), including the summer 2015 issue of Quad: The College of Art & Design Magazine, which won Student Best in Show Overall and a Gold award for publication design. Three more publications designed by GDSO won Gold awards in the collateral material/book design category—30 Years of LSU Printmaking, Mexico in New Orleans: A Tale of Two Americas, and Nari Ward Residency—and the brochure for the 2015–16 LSU School of Art season, Fine Lines Thin Places, won a Silver in the collateral material/annual report or brochure category. GDSO provides professional design services for local community organizations and LSU departments, giving students the opportunity to gain valuable, real-world experience while building their portfolios.

Several undergraduate graphic design students were honored for individually submitted projects, as well. Baton Rouge native Brandon Coffee, who graduated in December 2015, won Student Best of Show Overall and a Gold award in the film, video & sound category for Kevin & Burt: A Short Film (his senior project), and Baton Rouge native William Melancon won a Student Best of Show Overall and Gold award in the illustration category for Solar Power, a project completed in Instructor Luisa Restrepo’s digital imaging techniques course (ART 4553). The 2016 type calendar designed by third-year graphic design students won a Silver award, as well. A complete list of LSU graphic design student winners is available below. View the complete 2016 AAF Baton Rouge Award Booklet here.

The AAF Student American Advertising Awards Competition is a unique national awards program designed especially for college students. The winning works entered at the local level can move up to the regional and national judging, just like the work entered by professionals across the country. The 9 Gold award winners from the LSU School of Art will move to the second tier to be judged at one of the 15 regional levels across the country. Visit americanadvertisingawards.com for more information.

Visit art.lsu.edu to learn more about the graphic design program at LSU.

STUDENT BEST OF SHOW OVERALL  

Kevin & Burt: A Short Film
Brandon Coffee of Baton Rouge, LA

Quad: LSU College of Art & Design Magazine, Summer 2015 Issue
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Marci Hargroder of Opelousas, LA: designer
Amy Blacketter of Baton Rouge, LA: infographic designer
Rod Parker & Lynne Baggett: faculty advisors
Tyronecia Moore of Baton Rouge, LA: photographer

Solar Power
William Melancon of Baton Rouge, LA

STUDENT GOLD

Kevin & Burt: A Short Film
Brandon Coffee of Baton Rouge, LA

Quad: LSU College of Art & Design Magazine, Summer 2015 Issue
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Marci Hargroder of Opelousas, LA: designer
Amy Blacketter of Baton Rouge, LA: infographic designer
Rod Parker & Lynne Baggett: faculty advisors
Tyronecia Moore of Baton Rouge, LA: photographer

Solar Power
William Melancon of Baton Rouge, LA 

Disarm the Government Corruption!
Don Mark Roxas of Violet, LA

How Did We Get Here?
Amika Khuran of Kenner, LA

CD Cover Illustrations
William Melancon of Baton Rouge, LA

30 Years of LSU Printmaking
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Tory Cunningham of Saint Amant, LA: designer
Sam Varela of New Orleans, LA: cover designer
Luisa Restrepo: creative designer
Kitty Pheney: project director
Rod Parker & Lynne Baggett: faculty advisors

Mexico in New Orleans: A Tale of Two Americas
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Juan Baldera of Austin, TX: designer
Kitty Pheney: project director
Luisa Restrepo: creative director/designer
Rod Parker & Lynne Baggett: faculty advisors

Nari Ward Residency
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Kitty Pheney: project director
Luisa Restrepo: creative director/designer
Rod Parker & Lynne Baggett: faculty advisors

STUDENT SILVER

Object Iteration: Shell Studies
Amy Blacketter of Baton Rouge, LA

Jumpin’ Jack Packaging
Austin Arceneaux of Baton Rouge, LA

Fine Lines Thin Places
LSU School of Art | GDSO
Credits:
Tory Cunningham of Saint Amant, LA
Luisa Restrepo: creative director
Kitty Pheney: project director
Rod Parker: faculty advisor

Water Bottle Recycling Campaign
Victoria Roberts of River Ridge, LA

Personal Identity Stationary
Amy Blacketter of Baton Rouge, LA

Sweet Stix
Bo Kim of Bossier City, LA

Wartime Guide to Great Britain
Gabe Hilliard of Denham Springs, LA

Uni-Cycling Branding Guide
Camille Claire Kingston of Lafayette, LA

Type Calendar
LSU School of Art
Credits:
Abigayle Brewer of Lafayette, LA: cover design
Graphic Design Junior Class: design/illustration
Lynne Baggett, Courtney Barr, and Richard Doubleday: faculty art direction

Pocket Pal
Abigayle Brewer of Lafayette, LA

New Online Graphic Design Course Available for Majors, Minors, and Non-Majors—Anytime!

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A new online course taught by LSU School of Art Assistant Professor Richard Doubleday teaches professional procedures for solving design problems from first ideas through finished presentations with an emphasis on the integration of letterforms and graphics. Enroll anytime and complete the course entirely online and at your own pace.

Graphic Design I (ART 2554) will help you master:

  • Basic typography and design concepts
  • Principles of gestalt
  • The interpretive power of typography
  • How graphic design modulates printed language
  • Technical basics of time-based software to narrate a story
  • Historical significance and contemporary application of design principles
  • Digital imaging aesthetics and techniques
  • Emerging technologies for design and image making
  • Techniques in digital illustration and basic animation
  • Proper preparation of images for printed and multimedia applications
  • Developing an iterative design process in the context of realistic projects

Learn about the basic principles of design, composition, and form-making in a convenient, flexible online format. The course includes projects, online critiques, and feedback from peers and the instructor to help you develop a design process and build your critique skills. This course provides a rigorous understanding of these foundational principles and skills, which can serve as a strong base for future visual arts course work.

Graphic Design I (ART 2554) meets the criteria for a required course for Visual Communications and other minors. Non-majors are welcome to enroll. No design or art prerequisites are required. Everything you need to know is included in the online course or in supplementary online tutorials in Adobe Creative Suite design applications (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and After Effects). Some prior knowledge of these tools is helpful for you to get started quickly.

Check with your advisor to be sure Distance Learning Programs are right for your degree. This online course does not currently meet the requirements of a studio credit for students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts graphic design concentration.

Enroll now at outreach.lsu.edu!