Get Out of Town! Externships Provide Eye-Opening Experiences for LSU Architecture Students
Over the 2014 winter break, the School of Architecture had 10 students participate in externships at prestigious design firms all over the country. The School of Architecture facilitates a one week, unpaid externship program…
Read Full Story
(Wet)Land Building with Kiel Moe, Spring 2015 Nadine Carter Russell Chair
Kiel Moe, a registered practicing architect and associate professor of architecture and energy at Harvard Graduate School of Design, was named one of two 2014–15 Nadine Carter Russell Chairs, a rotating residency shared among…
Read Full Story
Consul General of France in Louisiana Grégor Trumel to Give LSU Art & Design Spring Commencement Address
The College of Art & Design is excited to announce that Grégor Trumel of the Consul General of France in Louisiana will give the commencement address at the LSU College of Art & Design…
Read Full Story
LSU Graphic Design Students Receive Nine 2015 AAF Baton Rouge Student Awards, including Best in Show!
LSU School of Art students received nine 2015 American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge Student Awards—three gold and six silver, including Best in Show. The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, recognize and…
Read Full Story
Design Week with Lewis T. May, Associate Principal and Urban Design Director of Page
LSU’s nationally renowned Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture held its annual Design Week January 26–30, 2015, with a program that included a lecture and weeklong design workshop led by alumnus Lewis T….
Read Full Story
Architecture Student Charlston Britton Jr. Named 2015 McNair Scholar
Charlston Britton Jr., a third-year undergraduate student in the LSU School of Architecture, is the second LSU architecture student to be selected as a Ronald E. McNair Research Scholar. The LSU Ronald E. McNair…
Read Full Story
Calling All Artists! LSU Student Art Show Competition
If you are an LSU student artist, there is still time to submit your artwork to the LSU Student Union Art Gallery to be displayed in the Student Art Show, February 2–25, 2015. The…
Read Full Story
Students in Cheetham’s Plants & Ecology Class Spend an Afternoon in the Archives
LSU landscape architecture students in Louise Cheetham Bordelon’s plants and ecology class (LA 7024) visited Hill Memorial Library to view a selection of rare books and to participate in a drawing exercise in…
Read Full Story
Students Practice Fashion Photography at the CxC Art + Design Studio
LSU students in photography, mass communication, and humanities pool networks and skillsets to build professional portfolios using LSU College of Art & Design resources and facilities. Meet Ashley Monaghan and Malarie Zaunbrecher. Ashley is…
Read Full Story
LSU Graphic Design Student Amy Blacketter Wins HAART’s 4th Annual HIV Awareness Poster Contest
LSU School of Art graphic design student Amy Blacketter was awarded a $500 scholarship for winning the college category of the HIV/AIDS Alliance Region Two (HAART) 4th Annual HIV Awareness Poster Contest. The poster…
Read Full Story
On the Wall: Drawing the “Site”
The LSU College of Art & Design Dean’s Office sponsors rotating displays of student and faculty work on the LSU Design Building’s Atrium wall. On the wall now through January 9, 2015, is work by Master of Landscape…
Read Full Story
LSU Student Artwork Exhibition at the LSU System Administration Building
LSU School of Art student work is on display—and for sale–in the LSU System Administration Building, right outside President F. King Alexander’s office! The first of its kind, this exhibit was curated by…
Read Full Story
EQUIPPED: An Inside Look at Daniel Willson’s Studio
Enjoy this excerpt from the winter 2015 issue of Quad: The LSU College of Art & Design Magazine, coming to your doorstep in January 2015. Read Quad online at ISUUU. EQUIPPED Daniel Willson, BFA 2012/BID 2016…
Read Full Story
Digital Art MFA Student Jamie Kutner Leads Workshop at ATypI in Barcelona
Type designers, type publishers, educators, calligraphers, and software writers—anyone and everyone who matters in the type world—gathered in Barcelona in September to discuss and explore typography at ATypI Barcelona 2014. And LSU School of…
Read Full Story
Graduates Find Rewarding and Fulfilling Positions at Outstanding Design Firms
As the Thanksgiving holiday approaches, we often take time to recognize what we are thankful for in our lives. Two former LSU interior design students—Elena Proskurina and Kristen Fisher—are thankful to have found rewarding…
Read Full Story
MFA Photography Candidate Ian Minich’s Solo Exhibition in Edinburgh
MFA photography student Ian Minich was recently invited to exhibit his photography in Edinburgh, Scotland, after applying to a competition at FOTOspace gallery last spring. Thirty of Minich’s photographs were displayed at the…
Read Full Story
Architecture Students Design a 20-Year Vision Plan for the Vietnamese Tam Bao Community
In Assistant Professor Catherine Bonier’s service learning studio, ARCH 4001, fourth-year architecture students are working with the Vietnamese Buddhist community of Tam Bao Temple in Baton Rouge to create a 20-year vision plan…
Read Full Story
Transformation through Animation
Architectural Techniques (Arch 2003), taught by A. Hays Town Professor Ursula Emery McClure and Adjunct Professor Kristen Kelsch, is an introductory course for second-year undergraduate students and first-year graduate students. For their first project,…
Read Full Story
Dasjon Jordan: Walls of Vision
Dasjon Jordan, a fourth-year architecture student, discusses his involvement with the Mid City Studio project, #iammidcity. His goal for the project is to incorporate technology and architecture by weaving it into the fabric of…
Read Full Story
Master of Fine Arts Candidates Present Lecture Series, Exhibition at University of South Alabama
LSU Master of Fine Arts candidates Eric Euler, Mitch Hobbs, Taryn Möller Nicoll, and M. Robyn Wall were selected to deliver artist lectures at the University of South Alabama on November 6, 2014. Per…
Read Full Story