New Master Plan for the College of Art & Design
In 2016, Louisiana State University embarked upon the Comprehensive and Strategic Campus Master Plan process, an ambitious strategic planning initiative that included developing a master plan for the university. The New Orleans architectural firm…
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Alumni Spotlight: Elise Grenier, Art Conservator
“There is a lot of mystery around art restoration,” Elise Grenier (MFA ’87) laughs when asked what she does, exactly. “My goal is to demystify the process of restoration.” Elise, founder of Grenier Conservation, has…
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Art History Professor William Ma Receives Site & Space in Southeast Asia Research Award
Art history assistant professor William Ma won the Site and Space in Southeast Asia research award, a two-year funded research opportunity exploring the art, architecture, and landscape of Southeast Asia. Site and Space in…
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Lake Douglas Authors Book Buildings of New Orleans
“New Orleans isn’t like other cities,” Stella tells her sister Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Cradled in the crescent of the Mississippi River and surrounded by water, the city has…
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Art History Professor Darius Spieth Publishes Book Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art
Darius Spieth, professor of art history at the LSU School of Art, has recently published the book Revolutionary Paris and the Market for Netherlandish Art, Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets Volume 3…
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LSU School of Art Welcomes Two New Faculty Members
The LSU School of Art welcomes two new faculty members for 2018: assistant professors of art history Ludovico Geymonat and William Ma, who joined the faculty this semester. Both Geymonat and Ma will add…
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Carrie Mae Weems Named 2017–18 Nadine Carter Russell Chair in Art
Influential contemporary American artist Carrie Mae Weems has been named the 2017-18 Nadine Carter Russell Chair for the LSU College of Art + Design. The four disciplines in the college share the rotating residency;…
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Darius Spieth Delivers Talk on Percier and Publishes Book Chapter on Vieille
Darius A. Spieth, professor of art history at the LSU School of Art, recently delivered a talk at Bard College on Napoleon’s interior architect Charles Percier and published a book chapter on French sociologist…
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Professor’s Research Visualizes the Lasting Demographic and Landscape Implications of Slavery
LSU’s Kevin Risk presented his paper, “Cotton River, Market Town: Preserving/Interpreting the Landscape(s) of Slavery at Forks-of-the-Road,” at the 2016 Association for Preservation Technology (APT) Conference in San Antonio, Texas. The theme of the…
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Alumni Spotlight: Karla Christensen, MLA 1994
Somalia. Colombia. Indonesia. Sri Lanka. Albania. Bosnia-Herzegovina. Karla Christensen’s 12 years of international experience managing programs in education, youth development, sports and recreation, community-based conflict prevention, reconstruction, and rehabilitation spreads across numerous post-disaster and…
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Edward Steinfeld Named 2016–17 Nadine Carter Russell Chair in Interior Design
Professor, architect, and gerontologist Edward Steinfeld has been named the 2016–17 Nadine Carter Russell Chair in the LSU College of Art & Design. The four disciplines in the college share the rotating residency; this…
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Alumni Spotlight: Gracia Maria Shiffrin, BArch 1984
In 2015, Gracia Maria Shiffrin, an architect and attorney, was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects for her work as a nonprofit developer, housing provider, and municipal funder. Currently an asset…
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LSU Professor Guest Curates Exhibition at New York Museum of Modern Art
LSU School of Architecture Professor Michael Desmond is a guest curator for an upcoming exhibition on Frank Lloyd Wright at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright at…
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Hye Yeon Nam’s Kinetic Sculpture Installation Exhibited in Yongsan, Korea
A Journey of Footsteps from Hye Yeon Nam on Vimeo. An outdoor kinetic sculpture, A Journey of Footsteps, designed by LSU’s Hye Yeon Nam, assistant professor of digital art, and Myung Ki Nam, her…
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Callahan’s Ways & Means Studio Emphasizes Digital Fabrication Tools
In spring 2016, Paul Callahan, instructor at the LSU College of Art & Design, taught a course focused on integrating digital fabrication tools, such as 3-D printers, CNC mills, and laser cutters—all found in…
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LSU’s Jeff Carney To Speak at White House Frontiers Conference
LSU’s Jeff Carney will speak at the White House Frontiers Conference on Thursday, October 13, 2017. He will discuss “Educating for Climate-Smart Design” as part of a panel in the “Frontiers Global” track of…
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LSU Team Places in International Design Competition
A team of LSU architecture students led by Professor Jori Erdman received honorable mention in the 2016 Designing Resilience in Asia international competition. Ten universities were invited to design architectural and urban planning solutions…
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Elena FitzPatrick Sifford Presents Research on the First Images of Africans in the Americas
This summer, Elena Fitzpatrick Sifford, assistant professor of art history at LSU, traveled to Florence, Venice, and Padua to conduct research for her Italian Renaissance courses, and she presented a paper at the Sixteenth Century Studies…
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Designing for Senior Living
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Community Living (aoa.acl.gov), America’s population of people 65 years or older numbered 44.7 million in 2013—about one in every seven Americans. The…
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