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RRSLA Alumni Reunion 2019

The 2019 LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Alumni Reception was Saturday, November 16, 2019 in San Diego, CA.

Students Gain Real World Experience Through Design Externships

Off-campus internships (“externships”) are a significant component to the interior design curriculum, in which undergraduate students can experience the pace of working at design firms in their chosen fields. In the fall 2019 semester…

First Queeramics Symposium Held at LSU

The Queeramics Symposium, held October 9-11, 2019 drew together members of both the queer and ceramics communities to examine issues of identity, culture and theory within each. The event created by MFA candidate Ian…

Tayler Harrison Interns at National Museum of African American History & Culture

Fifth year architecture student Tayler Harrison had the internship of a lifetime: working at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture (NMAAHC). The monumental museum in Washington, D.C., which opened in…

LSU Students Design for Giant Pandas in China

This fall LSU design students in assistant professor Brendan Harmon’s interdisciplinary “Giant Panda Studio” are designing a new national park for giant panda conservation and tourism in the wilds of Sichuan Province, China. The…

New to LSU: Q&A with Allison Young

Allison Young is assistant professor of contemporary art history at LSU. A specialist in postcolonial and contemporary art of the Global South, she received her B.A. (2009) in Art History and Anthropology from Brandeis…

New to LSU: Q&A with Robyn Reed

Assistant professor of landscape architecture Robyn Reed is a designer, educator, and advocate for the practice of landscape architecture. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Robyn is a licensed landscape architect…

LSU Architecture Team Awarded First Place in ACSA National Design Competition

For the second year in a row, students from LSU School of Architecture’s fifth-year comprehensive design course have been awarded first place in an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) National Design Competition. The…

Art & Design Tailgate 2019

The annual College of art & Design tailgate party was Saturday, October 26, 2019.

Julie Chen, “Every Moment of a Book”

Julie Chen, book artist, presented a Alfred C. Glassell, Jr. Endowed Lecture titled “Every Moment of a Book” at the LSU College of Art & Design at 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 24, 2019, in the…

Queeramics Symposium

The first Queeramics Symposium was held at LSU October 9-11, 2019. Keynote speaker Dr. Elena Castro presented a lecture titled “The Cultural Politics of Queer Art. How to make a technogender body and why it matters.” Thursday,…

Architecture Students Visit Rural Life Museum

Architecture students took a field trip to the LSU Rural Life Museum in fall 2019, to study historic local structures. The trip, organized by the Students for Historic Preservation (SHiP), was an opportunity to…

First President’s Millennial Scholar in College of Art & Design

Kayla Hall, BFA candidate, is the first President’s Millennial Scholar of the College of Art & Design. The President’s Millennial Scholars Program (PMSP) is a newly created four-year retention and preparation program targeted to…

Emmanuel Schwartz, “Rebellion and Disobedience at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts”

Emmanuel Schwartz, curator and scholar, presented a Paula G. Manship Endowed Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 in the Student Union Theater. Emmanuel Schwartz, who holds the prestigious rank of a conservateur du…

Career Networking Day 2019

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. Art & Design Career Networking…

Kelli Scott Kelley: “I Am Creative”

Andy Shaw Creates Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange in Iceland

Andy Shaw, associate professor of ceramics, envisioned and launched the Mid-Atlantic Keramik Exchange in Iceland, which held its inaugural meeting in June 2019 at the studios of Myndlistaskólinn í Reykjavík (MIR), The Reykjavik School…

Justin Tyler Bryant Awarded 2019 Interchange Fellow

  Justin Tyler Bryant, MFA 2018, has been awarded $20,000 as a 2019 Interchange Fellow, for his work exploring the role of art in social engagement. He is one of the sixteen inaugural grantees…

Doron Langberg Lecture

Artist Doron Langberg presented a School of Art lecture in partnership with the LSU Museum of Art at the LSU College of Art & Design at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11, 2019.