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The School of Design is happy to welcome architect/engineer Greg Otto to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Greg Otto is a principal at Walter P. Moore in Los Angeles, California. The office of Walter P Moore focuses upon structural engineering, enclosure and façade design, and infrastructure planning. The office has... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect Natalye Appel to the Louisiana Tech Campus for a lecture on Monday, 9 October at 5:30pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103. Natalye Appel + Associates Architects is a small firm from Houston, with projects ranging from civic,... Read More

The School of Design is hosting PRINT THING #5, a state-wide symposium and workshop for undergraduate students and printmaking professors to meet, learn, collaborate and have some fun. Students and faculty from Nicholls State, McNeese State, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Baton Rouge Community College and Louisiana State University will... Read More

The Louisiana Tech School of Design is pleased to announce the 2017 Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition, juried by Ben Hickey, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA. The 2017 Louisiana International Printmaking Exhibition presents a survey of contemporary printmaking, with artists from the United... Read More

Professor Brad Deal’s film documenting the Arch335 design/build project “Pisces” will be featured the the 4th Annual Short Films Walk in NYC on October 11. SOD and Louisiana Tech University in the big city…check it out! http://www.grnewsletters.com/archive/adff/Short-Films-Walk-October-11-2107-430790601.html?u=f94

The School of Design is happy to welcome artist/musician PEELANDER YELLOW (aka Kengo Hioki) to the Louisiana Tech campus. While perhaps best known as the leader of the “Japanese Action Comic” punk band Peelander-Z, known for color-coordinated costumes as well as on-stage antics such as human bowling and other forms... Read More

Congratulations to Professor of Architecture Guy Carwile and his students for earning Honorable Mention for their submission to the Charles E. Peterson Prize! During the winter quarter of 2017, five students from the Architecture Program in the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University measured and produced HABS (Historic American... Read More

Raluca Iancu, Assistant Professor of Studio Art (Drawing and Printmaking), will exhibit “Vicarious Trauma” upstairs in CoolSpace @ artspace. Iancu’s art explores disaster, tragedy, memory and vulnerability. The focus of her artspace exhibition will be the installation piece, “It’s Not Easy to Stop a Train.” This is immersive art that... Read More

Congratulations to architecture students Daniel Campbell and Chase Emery Johnson for earning Third Place in the Open Category of the 2016-17 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Competition! Their project, Summit Climbing Retreat, was selected from 188 design submissions, a 2% award rate. The faculty sponsors were Professors Kevin Singh and Pasquale De... Read More

Join us as we celebrate the completion of the 2017 ARCH 335 design build studio and the dedication of their project: the Pisces Bridge that spans Lake Alabama at the MedCamps campground. The event is schedule for Friday, 19 May at 2:30pm at Camp Alabama, located at 2090 Highway 145... Read More

Congratulations to our Master of Architecture degree candidates! These students celebrate with an exhibition of work as a prelude to commencement exercises on 20 May. The closing reception is scheduled for Friday, 19 May from 6:30pm until 8:30pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center Galleries.

The School of Design and AIGA Louisiana Tech University are happy to welcome designer Justin Shiels to campus. In addition to reviewing the portfolios of the senior graphic design students, he will present a public lecture on Thursday, 11 May at 5pm in the FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103.... Read More

More or Less, an exhibition of artwork by Louisiana Tech School of Design BFA candidates, will be on view at the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center galleries on the Louisiana Tech University campus from May 8th-12th, 2017. The exhibition is a capstone project by ten senior Bachelor of Fine... Read More

The School of Design celebrates the excellent accomplishments of our students at the annual SOD Awards on Friday, 5 May at 3:30pm in Wyly Auditorium. A reception follows at the Co:Lab Building.

Congratulations to Alaycia Moore, a dual degree Studio Art/Graphic Design major, for taking top honors (and a wad of cash!) at The Great Makers Show last week! The Event was part of the University’s Makers Month and supported by the Innovation Enterprise at Louisiana Tech.

The Louisiana Tech University School of Design is pleased to announce the following exhibitions and thesis presentations in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts Degree.    Please join us for the opening reception, lecture, and Q and A with these MFA candidates: The Human Animal... Read More

The world of books has a monumental influence on popular art, and movies are some of the most complex homages to the written word. Explore the dazzling world of science fiction and fantasy books brought to life through the medium of movie art as we welcome a collection of movie... Read More

The College of Liberal Arts hosted its 2017 Academic Excellence Luncheon for outstanding students within the College. The School of Design is proud to have these six great students (and excellent humans!) representing us so very well for the event. STUDIO ART – Graduate: Adrianna Speer STUDIO ART – Undergraduate: Sarah Prescott GRAPHIC... Read More

Please join the Louisiana Tech University School of Design for the Opening Reception of the 2017 Annual Student Exhibition. This year’s juror for the exhibition is Graphic Designer, Jude Landry. In a blind jurying process Landry reviewed over 500 works submitted. 53 works including Ceramics, Drawing, Graphic Design, Interior Design,... Read More

Congratulations to these students in the School of Design for being selected as First and Second Place winners at the 2017 Research Symposium at Louisiana Tech University. Sarah Prescott (left) is a senior Studio Art major and earned 2nd Place for her oral presentation “Body, Memory, and Paint (Advisor: Nicole... Read More

  Phillip Anzalone is principal of Atelier Architecture 64 in New York City. His firm emphasizes design in relation to environmental performance, architectural detailing and methods of manufacturing including residential and commercial projects, installations and pavilions. At New York City College of Technology, he teaches courses in advanced materials, building science and... Read More

4th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition Opening Reception and Juror Lecture by Rachel Cook, Curator DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Lecture: Thursday, January 26th  5pm TVAC 103 Opening Reception and Awards Presentation: 6pm The Louisiana Biennial is the School of Design’s fourth national juried exhibition. This is a multi-media show for two and three-dimensional works, as... Read More

In a collaboration with AIA-Louisiana, the School of Design hosts a Q+A panel with recent architecture graduates and firm owners to discuss the transition from the university to the office with our architecture students. Topics include: licensure, being a competitive applicant, expectations of employers; finding a good firm match, etc.... Read More

Congratulations to Robert Brooks and Brad Deal for receiving a 2016-17 Architectural Education Award, winning a Collaborative Practice award by the ACSA for the design/build work at MedCamps of Louisiana! They will be presented the award at the 2017 ACSA Annual Meeting in Detroit later this year. Well done!

Joey Slaughter, Associate Professor of Studio Art, is one of thirteen artists selected for a co-curated show in Philadephia’s Paradigm Gallery, opening on 27 January. Paradigm Gallery + Studio and Ekaterina Popova are pleased to announce From the Pages, a co-curated group exhibition, which brings together a diverse group of 13 national... Read More

Dean Dablow, Professor Emeritus of the School of Design, is having a Gallery Talk (with Reception) to celebrate his exhibition at the Masur Museum of Art this Thursday, 19 January from 6-8pm. On Saturday, 4 February, he will also host a Studio Practice Lecture from 3-4pm. He hopes to see... Read More

Frank Hamrick, Associate Professor of Studio Art (Photography) and MFA Graduate Coordinator, was recently awarded the 2017 Houston Center for Photography Fellowship. The Fellowship was juried by Andy Adams of FlakFoto. Mr. Hamrick will receive an honorarium, a solo exhibition at HCP galleries and a feature in spot Magazine. His solo exhibition, “Harder... Read More

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in Studio Art | SCHOOL OF DESIGN | LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   Tenure Track Position: Assistant Professor of Studio Art in Foundation/Core Studio. The successful candidate will be committed to teaching drawing, life drawing and 2D Foundations. Applicants who have experience with video and new media are highly... Read More

Joey Slaughter, Associate Professor of Studio Art, was awarded a 2017 Residency through the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. He was selected from over 270 artists from throughout the world. This year, the Foundation identified 18 artists to participate in 4 weeks residencies throughout the year. For a list of the awardees, click... Read More

Dr. Joseph Strother passed away on 25 November 2016 at the age of 82. He served as Director of the School of Art and Architecture (now the School of Design) from 1976 until 1996. He retired as Professor Emeritus at Louisiana Tech University. We send our condolences to his wife,... Read More