CASA—Ceramic Artist Student Association
DADA—Digital Art & Design Association
GDSA—Graphic Design Student Association
Painters’ League
Print Club—One of One Printmakers
SNAP—Society of Notoriously Artistic Photographers
SAHA—Student Art History Association
CASA—Ceramic Artist Student Association
The Ceramic Artist Student Association exists to support, educate, and promote the ceramic arts on the LSU campus and within the larger Baton Rouge community. In its efforts to uphold its mission, CASA holds a biannual ceramics sale outside of the LSU Student Union, the proceeds of which fund student attendance at the yearly National Conference for Education in the Ceramic Arts and an on-campus visiting artists program. CASA is student run, and elected CASA student officers gain valuable experience in organizing, managing, planning, executing, and understanding all aspects of a busy, popular organization and its dynamic operations.
DADA—Digital Art & Design Association
The Digital Art & Design Association aims to develop talent in a variety of fields including animation, visual effects, video games, motion graphics, video production, visualization, and interactive art. DADA members explore innovative approaches to making work at the intersection of art and technology. The group serves as a creative laboratory for making original content, hosting events, and working with clients on various digital media projects.
Contact the group at digitaldada@lsu.edu.
GDSA—Graphic Design Student Association
The Graphic Design Student Association at LSU is a student group that offers its members many design-related activities throughout the year, such as field trips to local design firms, fundraising activities, student competitions, and participation in professional design club activities with the American Advertising Federation of Baton Rouge and AIGA New Orleans. Students may become elected officers in the GDSA, where they learn valuable leadership skills. The GDSA has an active Facebook group page and a blog where competitions, job and internship opportunities are regularly posted.
Follow GDSA on Instagram.
Painters’ League
The Painters’ League is an independent student-run organization that provides an opportunity for students to conduct group critiques among their peers. Members attend gallery and museum exhibitions and sponsor artist presentations. The league holds an annual exhibition and painting sale. Follow the Painters’ League on Instagram.
Printmaking Guild
The Printmaking Guild, formerly called the Print Clu,b exists to build better communication between printmaking students, artists, and alumni through the exchange of ideas, knowledge, art, and constructive criticism. The organization provides networking opportunities for LSU printmaking artists and promotes the art of printmaking to the LSU campus and Baton Rouge community. The Print Club holds biannual print sales outside of the LSU Student Union, the proceeds of which help fund student attendance at conferences and printmaking events and symposiums, such as the Southern Graphics Council International Conference and the Nashville Print Revival. The organization also invites visiting artists to the LSU campus for lectures, demonstrations, and workshops.
Follow the Printmaking Guild on Instagram.
SNAP—Society of Notoriously Artistic Photographers
The Society of Notoriously Artistic Photographers (SNAP) is a student-run organization dedicated to supporting and promoting artistic development and a sense of community within the College of Art & Design and the Baton Rouge area. The group conducts monthly meetings, open to all students majoring or minoring in studio art as well as graduates and alumni. The club hosts various extracurricular events including artists’ talks, trips to art exhibitions, technical demonstrations, and excursions to regional and national photographic conferences and portfolio reviews. SNAP also participates in a school-wide print sale every semester to fund off-campus exhibitions of members’ work and other special events.
SAHA—Student Art History Association
The Student Art History Association aims to provide all types of information regarding the art world to students. SAHA supplements the art history program at LSU with fun, educational, and enriching events such as roundtable discussions on graduate school and guest lecturers from museums, galleries, and auction houses. SAHA is an informal, student-run organization open to LSU students interested in learning more about art.
StudioCulture
StudioCulture is a collaborative environment not restricted to one place – the traditional idea of studio culture becomes expanded to encompass studios across all disciplines. StudioCulture offers students an opportunity to work with students from other disciplines and gain valuable insight. StudioCulture offers design-build projects which can be object based, architecturally based, landscape-based, and everything in between. Dues are $25 per semester or $40 per year. StudioCulture’s goal is to facilitate cross-collaboration throughout the College of Art & Design to help architects, designers, and artists approach projects through various scopes.
The National Society of Black Students in Art (NSBSA)
The National Society of Black Students in Art was founded on LSU’s campus to create a platform for African American students to showcase their talent through the love of art. Manifesting their masterpieces can be uplifting, inspiring, and motivating to others by expressing their affection throughout the community. We strive to empower, embrace, and enrich minority artists within our community to secure and identify their craft. NSBSA conducts monthly general body meetings detailing the organization’s upcoming events and plans for the new month. This organization is open to all minority students in the LSU School of Art, aiming to bring students with similar aspects and visions together to be one.