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LSU College of Art & Design Integrates Experience, Engagement, and Culture with Quality Education

The LSU College of Art & Design, Louisiana’s foremost school for the fine arts, art history and the design professions, has had yet another award-winning year in 2011. One of the university’s 10 senior…

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Graphic Design Student Derrick Lathan Named McNair Scholar

Graphic Design Sophomore Derrick Lathan was recently named a Ronald E. McNair Scholar. Named for the deceased astronaut, Ronald McNair, LSU’s Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program prepares first generation college students for doctoral…

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LSU’s Office of Community Design and Development Receives $25,000 Foundation for Louisiana Grant

The Foundation for Louisiana recently awarded $25,000 to the LSU School of Architecture’s Office of Community Design and Development, or OCDD, to conduct a 10-month public service project and pilot study, “Advancing Louisiana Small…

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Art Unbound: Urbanature

Juried Student Art Show February 3-17, 2012 The Art Unbound juried student art show is a university-wide competition produced in partnership by the LSU Press and the LSU School of Art that seeks the…

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LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Remains at the Top of DesignIntelligence Rankings in 2011

LSU’s football team isn’t the only top-ranked group on campus, as LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture once again ranks atop lists of the best programs in the U.S., according to national rankings…

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Art 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…

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Photographer 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…

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LSU Landscape Architecture Students Earn Five American Society of Landscape Architects Student Awards

Students in LSU’s Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture recently garnered five national awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects, or ASLA, Student Award program—the most of any other university with students who submitted work….

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Interior 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…

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Marie M. Bickham and Nadine Carter Russell Chairs Named for 2011-12 Academic Year

LSU’s College of Art + Design has selected Architect Lori Ryker, executive director at the Artemis Institute in Livingston, Montana, as its Marie M. Bickham Chair, and Landscape Architect Gary Smith, of Toronto, CA,…

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Architecture 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…

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Architecture Students Design and Build Solar Pavilion in Old South Baton Rouge

The LSU School of Architecture has partnered with the Center for Planning Excellence, the Baranco Clark YMCA and Baton Rouge Community College to design and build and outdoor solar –powered pavilion. The student project,…

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Painter 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…

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LSU School of Architecture Professor Julian T. White passes away

Julian T. White, a retired professor of architecture at LSU who was the university’s first black faculty member, died on Tuesday, July 19, after battling cancer. He was 73. Born and raised in Alexandria,…

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Global Vision: An Exchange of Contemporary Prints from the Kyoto Seika University

LSU School of Art presents: Global Vision: An Exchange Exhibition of Contemporary Prints from the Kyoto Seika University and Louisiana State University October 1 – November 19, 2010. A reception will be held on Friday,…

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LSU Interior Design Students Take First Place in 2010 Interior Design Education Video Competition

LSU Interior Design Students Leigh Hardy, Ryan Weilenman, Sarah Tull, Alyse Lambert, Colette DeJean won first place in the 2010 Interior Design Education Video Competition. The winners were announced on Saturday, March 19, 2011…

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Associate 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…

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LSU Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Announces Max Z. Conrad Lecture Series

The nationally renowned Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture and the LSU College of Art and Design are pleased to announce the creation of the Max Z. Conrad Lecture Series, an endowed lecture series…

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Service Learning Takes LSU Art & Design Students to South Africa

While many of their fellow students were soaking up the last rays of summer before the start of the fall semester, a group of students from the LSU College of Art and Design were…

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LSU CAN Launches Premiere Event

The newly formed LSU CAN (Creative Arts Network), a collaborative, multidisciplinary arts initiative, launches its premiere event next month with a “song salon” moderated by best‐selling fiction writer and neuroscientist Dr. David Eagleman, who…

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