News + Events

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

AIGA Louisiana Tech University and the School of Design welcomes graphic designer Tad Carpenter on Thursday (8 Dec). Carpenter Collective’s focus is to design brands and experiences that emotionally engage and connect with consumers. Everything is developed in design, strategy and innovation with a whimsical wink. Carpenter Collective’s overall approach to... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect André Jaque to the Louisiana Tech University campus this Monday (5 Dec). Andrés Jaque is founder of the Office for Political Innovation. He is Advanced Design Professor at GSAPP Columbia University and Visiting Professor at Princeton University SoA. Office for Political... Read More

Louisiana Tech senior forward Kathryn Sloan has received numerous awards during her stellar four-year career on the soccer field and in the classroom, but the honor she received on Tuesday trumps them all. In an announcement made by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), Sloan was selected as... Read More

The School of Design was happy to welcome back Architecture alum Christopher Coe, FAIA as the 2016 Louisiana Tech University’s College of Liberal Arts Alumnus of the Year! Mr. Coe was on campus as part of Homecoming Week festivities in November. During his visit, he led a panel discussion of fellow alumni/classmates in... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect and alum James Trewitt back to the Louisiana Tech University campus. James Trewitt is principal of Arch 11 in Boulder Colorado and a 1989 graduate of Louisiana Tech University in architecture. Mr. Trewitt and EJ Meade founded Arch 11 in 1993. Since then, the... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome artist Jennifer Scheuer to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Scheuer will present a lecture in conjunction with a current show of her work in the School of Design Moffett Gallery.  Seeing and Healing Artist Lecture by Jennifer Scheuer Tuesday, 18 October at 5:00pm... Read More

Field Operations: The Highline and Beyond Lecture by Tatiana V. Choulika Monday, 17 October at 5:30pm FJ Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103 The School of Design is happy to welcome landscape architect Tatiana V. Choulika to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Ms. Choulika serves as Principal of James Corner... Read More

Brad Deal and Robert Brooks, architecture faculty in Louisiana Tech University’s School of Design, have won the Grand Prize and the People’s Choice Award in the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) 2016 I Look Up Film Challenge for their inspirational short film titled, “Rebuilding MedCamps.” Deal’s production was selected as... Read More

Congratulations to Professor Robert Brooks, Professor Brad Deal  and the students of ARCH 335 (2014) for earning both a Merit Award and the Members Choice Award for the Larkin Gibbs Memorial Pavilion at the 2016 AIA Louisiana Design Awards. There are only a handful of awards given at this annual event... Read More

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Nicole Duet for being awarded the Dean’s Research Award and to Associate Professor Nicholas Bustamante for being awarded the Dean’s Teaching Award at the College of Liberal Arts 2016-17 Convocation.

The School of Design at Louisiana Tech University is pleased to announce the opening reception for new solo exhibitions in the Bethea and Moffett Galleries. Nearly West and Southern Kingdom, photographs by Walker Pickering, as well as Seeing and Healing, prints and installation by Jennifer Scheuer will be on view in the TVAC galleries from September... Read More

Louisiana Tech University School of Design Associate Professor Frank Hamrick traveled to Denton, Texas to teach a bookmaking workshop, critique work by photography students and attend a reception for his work included in the three person exhibition “Recalling” at the University of North Texas Art Galleries. Twenty of Hamrick’s tintype... Read More

Joey Slaughter, Associate Professor of Studio Art, exhibits a new series of works at Studio 301 (301 N. Trenton) in Ruston. The exhibit, titled Voices Carry, will be on display through 14 October. For more information, please call Studio 301 at 318-614-4057.