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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 will present “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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Annual Report 2024-2025

The College of Art & Design Annual Report 2024-2025 is live! Check out the digital publication with videos & links to stories from the year. Read report.

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Grad Walk 2025

LSU School of Art will host its Fall 2025 Grad Walk on Thursday, November 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. This open-studio event features a scheduled walk between School of Art MFA graduate studios,…

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Designing Her Dreams: How LSU Alumna Olivia Westbrooks Is Helping Others Find Home and Joy

  Olivia Westbrooks, interior designer and LSU alumna is the co-host of “Home is Where the Heart Is,” the new home design show streaming now on Hallmark+. She stars alongside Hallmark actor and woodworker…

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XR Studio: Horror Production Course

LSU Horror Film Production Course Takes Filmmaking to a New Level with Louisiana’s First LED Volume Wall Read more.

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Alumni Spotlight: TIEK BYDAY Led by LSU Design Grads

LSU alumni-led team TIEK BYDAY are transforming spaces in South Louisiana and beyond. Their approach is decidedly interdisciplinary: as a collaborative team of architects and interior designers, they work together to create designs that…

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LSU Interior Designers Enhance Louisiana Schools, Welcome Students to Campus

Designing for Donaldsonville LSU interior design faculty and students recently enhanced common spaces in several Ascension Parish public schools, gaining work experience in real-life settings and bringing design strategies to educational environments. The initiative…

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Melinda Jacob: Breathing Life into the Digital Canvas

Originally from Mandeville, Melinda Jacob has been guided by one constant—her lifelong passion for visual art. A recent Bachelor of Arts grad, Jacob has found a way to merge her love for traditional artistry…

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8 Fluid Ounces Ceramic Cups Show 2025

LSU School of Art’s biennial cup show, 8 Fluid Ounces, featuring ceramic cups by twenty-five artists, opens November 7, 2025, at Glassell Gallery.  LSU School of Art’s biennial “cup show,” 8 Fluid Ounces, will…

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Jeffrey Carbo Awarded ASLA Design Medal

Jeffrey Carbo, FASLA, PLA, BLA alum, was awarded the 2025 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Design Medal at the national ASLA conference in October 2025. Selected by ASLA’s Board of Trustees, the ASLA…

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Professors Max Conrad and Charles Fryling Awarded Lifetime Achievement Awards

Professors of landscape architecture Max Conrad and Charles Fryling were awarded lifetime achievement awards for their many years of service to the LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture (RRSLA). The awards were presented…

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LSU Researchers Envision the Future of Coastal Resilience With and For Louisiana Communities

James Spencer, a professor of architecture from LSU’s College of Art & Design is collaborating with experts in flood modeling, community adaptation, environmental laws and policies, civic advocacy, and community fundraising, many of whom…

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Fabio Capra-Ribeiro Selected for NASEM Early Career Research Fellowship

Dr. Fabio Capra-Ribeiro, assistant professor of architecture, has been selected for the new Early Career Research Fellowship of the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is…

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Katharina Wang: Innovating with Glass

Katharina Wang’s creative scholarship and research explores the intersection of art, design and technology. “I’m exploring the question: how can digital fabrication support traditional glass forming techniques?” she said. With support from the Stouffer…

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