Mixed-Media Artist and Poet Jacqueline Dee Parker Exhibits Work in Solo Show in Old Lyme, CT
Baton Rouge, LA: Mixed-Media Artist and Poet Jacqueline Dee Parker, an instructor in the College of Art & Design, will have a solo show, “Dream Houses,” at the Diane Birdsall Gallery, 16 Lyme Street,…
Read Full StoryArtist and LSU School of Art Associate Professor of Painting Kelli Scott Kelley Receives $32,000 Atlas Award
Artist and LSU School of Art Associate Professor of Painting Kelli Scott Kelley recently won an Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (also known as an ATLAS Award) in the amount of $32,000 for…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architect Lake Douglas’s Book Wins the F. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize
“Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans” by LSU professor Lake Douglas won this year’s F. Kemper and Leila Williams Prize, offered by The Historic New Orleans Collection and…
Read Full StoryNew Book by LSU Landscape Architecture Professor Max Z. Conrad Recounts Birth of Landscape Architecture in Louisiana
LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently announced the publication of a new book by one of its faculty members that recounts the birth of the profession of landscape architecture in Louisiana. “Landscape…
Read Full StoryArt Historian Susan Elizabeth Ryan Receives $50,000 Atlas Award
Art Historian and Art History Professor Susan Elizabeth Ryan, PhD, recently won an Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars (also known as an ATLAS Award) in the amount of $50,000, for her proposal, “Critical…
Read Full StoryPhotographer and Assistant Professor Jeremiah Ariaz Exhibits Work at Jacksonville’s Museum of Contemporary Art
Photographer and Assistant Professor Jeremiah Ariaz’s work is currently on display in the group show, “No Place in Particular: Images of the American Landscape” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Florida. The…
Read Full StoryInterior Design students and faculty win International Interior Design Association awards
Two LSU Interior Design students and two Interior Design faculty won awards at the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) Delta Regional Chapter Awards, RE:Awards 2011, in New Orleans last month. The Delta Regional Chapter…
Read Full StoryArchitecture Professor Receives more than $75,000 in grants to investigate ruins of 19th century Louisiana Fort
Associate Professor Ursula Emery McClure recently received two grants for the upcoming academic year to investigate the ruins of Fort Proctor, a 19th century fort in St. Bernard Parish that has been engulfed by…
Read Full StoryPainter and Associate Professor Ed Smith Exhibits Work in Upcoming New Orleans Solo Show
Painter and Associate Professor Ed Smith will have a solo show, “Sportsman’s Paradise,” at Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans September 1-30. An opening reception will be held September 3, 6- 8 p.m. Smith…
Read Full StoryAssociate Professor Darius Spieth Selected as Mellon Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology
Darius Spieth, associate professor of art history in the LSU School of Art and an expert in the field of international art markets and 18th- and 19th-century European art, has been named Mellon Visiting…
Read Full StoryWork of LSU Photography Professor Featured in New Katrina Book
The critically acclaimed, post-Katrina photographs of LSU Photography Professor Emeritus Thomas Neff are featured prominently in a new book that is published this month on the fifth anniversary of the storm. Before During After,…
Read Full StoryNCIDQ Appoints T.L. Ritchie to National Committee
T. L. Ritchie, director of the School of Interior Design, has been appointed to serve on the National Council for Interior Design Qualification’s (NCIDQ) Nominating Committee for 2010. The Nominating Committee is charged with…
Read Full StoryLSU Professors Launch Digital Media Book for Architects, Landscape Architects and Urban Designers
Brad Cantrell and Wes Michaels, both assistant professors at the LSU top-ranked Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture, have published a new book about the use of digital media for landscape renderings. Entitled Digital…
Read Full StoryLSU Faculty Awarded at National Conference
Faculty members from the LSU School of Architecture received two prestigious awards at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) conference earlier this month, exemplifying the kind of leadership for which the School…
Read Full StorySouthern Review Kicks off 75th Anniversary with Issue Featuring Works by Ed Pramuk
LSU School of Art Professor Emeritus Ed Pramuk is the featured artist in The Southern Review’s first issue of 2010, its 75th anniversary year. Pramuk’s glacial artwork graces the cover of the latest issue,…
Read Full StoryLSU School of Art Students and Faculty Win Awards at New Orleans Design Competition
Students and faculty from the LSU School of Art picked up several awards, including a Best in Show, at the AIGA New Orleans Design Awards & Exhibition, which was held recently in New Orleans….
Read Full StoryLSU Architecture Professor Wins National Award
Chris Theis, a professor in the LSU School of Architecture, has been recognized as a Distinguished Professor for 2009‐2010 by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Theis was one of four educators…
Read Full StoryRussell Chair Professor Honored in National Competition
The School of Architecture’s Russell Chair, Seth McDowell, was recently named a runner up in the prestigious Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition, which sought proposals aimed at inventive, new infrastructure for the United States. McDowell…
Read Full StoryMetropolitan Home Features Home Remodeled by LSU Architecture Professor
A mid-20th-century Southdowns home remodeled by Associate Architecture Professor Jim Sullivan is featured in the November issue of Metropolitan Home magazine. In an article entitled “Updating a Midcentury Ranch House,” the magazine praises the…
Read Full StoryLandscape Architecture Projects Hone in on Coastal Sustainability in Two Louisiana Communities
A professor at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture is involved in two projects that are aimed at helping coastal communities of south Louisiana rebuild wetlands and develop recreational uses for waterways that…
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