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Art & Design Faculty Pilot STEM “Big Ideas”

LSU College of Art & Design faculty researchers lead and collaborate on 4 out of the 7 “Big Ideas in STEM and Social & Behavioral Sciences” projects of selected 2026 Provost’s Fund for Innovation…

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Yao Wang Awarded 2026 Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award

Yao Wang, assistant professor of landscape architecture, was awarded the Lillian Bridwell-Bowles Innovative C-I Teacher Award. LSU’s Faculty Awards honor faculty who exemplify excellence in teaching, research, and community engagement.  “Yao’s critical work with…

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LSU Giving Day is March 25

Giving Day 2026 This LSU Giving Day, your gift will strengthen the winning teams that drive the College of Art & Design to do what LSU does best: empower Tigers to lead, learn, and…

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LSU Interior Design Students Bring Research-Driven Design to Our Lady of the Lake Emergency Department

  Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Hospital partnered with LSU School of Interior Design, where students were given the opportunity to redesign the hospital’s emergency department, not as an exercise, but to…

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Designing Louisiana’s Future: LSU Landscape Architecture Students Tell Community Stories Through Public Spaces

Across Louisiana, cities are growing faster than they are being planned. New developments rise, traffic increases, and communities struggle to define public spaces that reflect who they are — and whom they want to…

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Nolonda Jones Publishes “Alternative Reality Creation as Liberatory Ideology” in Upkeep, Repair, and Maintenance in Adaptive Interiors

Nolonda Jones, assistant professor of interior design, published her research “Alternative Reality Creation as Liberatory Ideology” in the book Upkeep, Repair, and Maintenance in Adaptive Interiors (Routledge, 2025).  “This research looks at the influence of the Bantu-Kongo…

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Tanaka Jeter Awarded IIDA John J. Nelson Sr. Legacy Scholarship

Bachelor of Interior Design student Tanaka Jeter was awarded the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) John J. Nelson Sr. Legacy Scholarship 2025, one of two students selected nationally. “Interior Design has transformed my life, and…

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LSU Art Faculty Present Works: Spring 2026

Holding, U.N.O Gallery U.N.O. Gallery in New Orleans presents Holding, the works of LSU School of Art faculty Michaelene (Mikey) Walsh and Kelli Scott Kelley, on view February 21-March 8, 2026. “To hold is…

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Kristen Mauch Presented with Meeting Students’ Needs Award

Kristen K. Mauch, NCARB, Associate Dean of Student Services and Associate Professor of Practice of Architecture, has been presented with the LSU Online Innovation Series 2026 Meeting Students’ Needs award, recognized for her dedication to LSU students. “These…

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Huili Wang Explores How Built Environments Can Better Support Sensory Needs

Interior design assistant professor Dr. Huili Wang is leading research that rethinks how the built environment can better serve individuals with diverse sensory processing needs. Her work centers on a simple but powerful idea:…

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LSU School of Art Spring 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions at Glassell Gallery

Each year, LSU School of Art Master of Fine Arts candidates prepare a thesis exhibition to share the culmination of the three-years of study and practice at LSU School of Art. This year, Glassell Gallery will…

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Brendan Harmon Juror of AI: Artistic Interpretations

Brendan Harmon, associate professor of landscape architecture, was a juror for the LSU Museum of Art (MOA) exhibition AI: Artistic Interpretations. On view February 5–May 10, 2026 and organized by Studio Art Quilt Associates…

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Gulf Coast 2050 Workshop & Symposium

The LSU School of Architecture held the Gulf Coast 2050: Speculative Design for Possible Futures workshop at LSU January 28–31, 2026. The interdisciplinary All-School Workshop & Symposium (ASW) brought together students, faculty, and leading…

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Exhibition & Lecture by Nadine Carter Russell Chair, Interior & Architectural Designer Ria Bravo

LSU School of Interior Design will present Ria Bravo: Interiors Under Construction January 28 through February 28 in the Clark and Laura Boyce Gallery. Interiors Under Construction explores the interior as an active, evolving…

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Mardi Gras Project Selected for International Design Award

Masood Koochaki’s Mardi Gras-inspired studio project, “The Spine: A Celebration of Mardi Gras and Collective Presence,” received an International Design Awards (IDA) 2025 Silver Award in Commercial Architecture – Cultural/Educational Architecture, with Louisiana State University recognized…

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LSU School of Art presents “The Middle: Paintings by Will Maxen & Bradley Kerl”

LSU School of Art’s Glassell Gallery will feature the work of painters Will Maxen and Bradley Kerl, who recently joined LSU School of Art’s faculty. The Middle finds common ground in the praxes of these two…

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LSU School of Art will present Twofold, featuring collaborative work by Addoley Dzegede and Visiting Artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. January 21–February 28, 2026. 

LSU School of Art will present the exhibition Twofold by Addoley Dzegede and visiting artist Lyndon Barrois Jr. A joint exhibition as their collaborative entity LAB-D, Twofold explores the artists’ individual responses to the…

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Watch Commencement Livestream

The fall 2025 LSU College of Art & Design commencement ceremony will take place at 3 p.m. in the LSU Student Union Theater. Watch ceremony recording. About the Commencement Speaker Traci Birch is an…

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Meet Max Conrad: 60 Years at LSU

LSU’s second-longest-serving professor, Max Z. Conrad, is retiring, after 60 years of teaching landscape architecture to LSU students. He has left an incredible legacy at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. He shared…

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ProFab Education will present free pop-up workshops for families at Glassell Gallery January 6 & 10, 2026

LSU College of Art & Design will host ProFab Ed for two workshops at LSU School of Art’s School of Art’s Glassell Gallery Tuesday, January 6 and Saturday, January 10, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.   Come fab(ricate) Mardi Gras with us using cardboard and computers in the new year! ProFab Education’s…

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