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Relapse is a collection of Louisiana Tech’s Senior artists attempting to assert their identity within contemporary society while navigating difficult ideologies and beliefs. The show opens in the [TVAC GALLERIES] on May 3rd, 2021, and features works that question social norms to prompt introspection within the viewer. Each artist presents... Read More

How to Have Fun: A Little About Design Lecture by Bryce Wong Monday, 26 April at 4:00pm Via ZOOM – ID: 924 1101 0350   Passcode: sod2021 The School of Design is happy to host a Zoom conversation with designer, Bryce Wong. Bryce Wong is a footwear designer in the SB (skateboarding) Department... Read More

Please join the Louisiana Tech University School of Design Gallery for the Spring 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Subterene: Operating Beneath the Surface. Featuring paintings, digital paintings and digital illustration from Hannah Fulton, Kaitlin Maloy, & Kayla O’Neal. Exhibition: April 12 – 20 Virtual Artist Talks: April 13, 5:00 PM via ZOOM... Read More

Congratulations to our award recipients! Student Show Awards: Best in Show MFA : Sublime, Jennifer Robison Best in Show BFA: Structure 420, Ben Wreyford Best in Studio 2D: Cyprus, Hannah Buillon Best in Studio 3D: Painting Wheel, Thomas Faulkner Best in Studio Photography: Ghost in the Road, Jacob Moffett Best... Read More

Unexpected Modernism   Film Viewing and Q/A Wednesday/March 24 4:00pm Wyly Auditorium The School of Design is proud to present the film Unexpected Modernism on the Louisiana Tech Campus. A story of innovation, education, exploration, modern architecture and love of Shreveport, the film documents the careers of Shreveport architects Samuel G. and William B. Wiener. Following... Read More

Exhibition Dates: March 23 – 30, 2021 Juror: Nick Peña, Visual Artist and Educator F Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center: Bethea and Moffett Galleries Virtual Juror’s Lecture and Award Ceremony: March 23, 5pm CST via Zoom Meeting ID: 975 0860 3958 Passcode: 532683   Please join the Louisiana Tech University School of Design... Read More

Lisa Klakulak works the medium of wool into figurative sculpture and body adornment through intensifying processes of wet felting, natural dyeing and free-motion machine embroidery. Her STRONGFELT work has been featured widely in print publications, fine craft exhibitions and acknowledged through American Craft Council Awards of Excellence. With a reputation... Read More

Charlotte Lee’s work in the Atlanta film and television industry as a set decoration buyer includes Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Homecoming, The Suicide Squad and many others. Before establishing herself in Atlanta, Charlotte earned a BFA in Drawing & Painting from the University of Georgia and worked as... Read More

Kent State University College of Architecture and Environmental Design presents: Faculty + Friends Conversation with Pasquale De Paola, Program Chair and Associate Professor, Louisiana Tech University, and Bill Willoughby, Associate Professor, Kent State University (and former Professor and Associate Dean at Louisiana Tech) on the topic of “Skeletons in the... Read More

To our Architecture majors: if you are planning to become a licensed architect, it is highly recommended that you attend this presentation…. Representatives from NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) will present Designing Your Future: Creating Value in Your Career to all architecture majors at Louisiana Tech University. This... Read More

Kade Brandon, an M.Arch candidate in the School of Design, was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the Open Category of 2020 Steel Competition for his project entitled CDC 2.0. Administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the competition... Read More

Dr. Pasquale De Paola, Howard Endowed Professor of Architecture at Louisiana Tech University, was recently invited by AIA Shreveport to discuss recent environmental research and design work completed in senior-level architectural studios. The projects presented discussed issues of hydrology and resiliency as it relates to the Ouachita and Red River watersheds... Read More

Congrats to all our 2020 School of Design Student Show Winners! This year we saw some amazing work! Thanks to Chris King for being our juror!

Congratulations to the award- and scholarship-winners from the Studio Art Program!

Congratulations to the degree candidates of our Master of Architecture Program and the completion of their Comprehensive Design Projects. Each graduate student developed, over the course of the school year, their design proposal for a new School of Music building on the University’s campus; to house band, choir, and sound... Read More

Congratulations to the award- and scholarship-winners from the Architecture Program!

Congratulations to the award- and scholarship-winners from the Graphic Design Program!

Congratulations to the award- and scholarship-winners from the Interior Design Program!  

The Director’s List recognizes students who have earned a Grade Point Average of 3.5+ in all studio-based courses taken over the past year (Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Winter 2019-20). Our students’ academic advisors compile this information, and it’s our pleasure to share the Director’s List to you!

Over the next few days, we will recognize the outstanding achievements of our School of Design students with awards and scholarships. Typically, the SOD AWARDS event has been an on-campus ceremony at the end of the Spring Quarter. As we all know, these are different times. We have decided to share the... Read More

Titus Smith Lecture Wednesday, 12 February at 5:00pm in TVAC103 Titus Smith is a self-taught graphic designer with no formal art education. He grew up on a farm in Kansas before moving to west Tennessee for college. After (barely) graduating with a history degree, he started working as a booking... Read More

Vivian Beer “Making In and Out of the Studio” Monday, 10 February at 4:30pm in TVAC103 Vivian Beer is a furniture designer and maker based in New England. Her sleek, abstracted metal and concrete furniture combine the aesthetic sensibilities of contemporary design, craft, and sculpture to create objects that alter viewers’... Read More

The work of the current MFA students will be featured for a Pop-Up show as part of Monroe’s Art Crawl 5-9pm, Thursday, February 6th #latechMFA2020 Pop-up Exhibit Upstairs Gallery 135 Art Alley Monroe, Louisiana

On February 6th, 2020, a new exhibition named Fresh Produce will be available to view at the Big Room Gallery on Art Alley in Monroe, Louisiana. After the start of the exhibition at 5 PM, five of the artists in Fresh Produce will give short talks on their respective work... Read More

Ten Louisiana Tech VISTA students will have their work displayed next to work by 26 professional artists from around the world beginning Thursday, Dec. 12, at a special exhibit at Masur Museum in Monroe. Illustration of cells“Synthesis: Art and Nature in the Post-Digital Age” is an art- and science-themed exhibit.... Read More

Another Day Tripping Over Cypress Artist Lecture, 15 October 2019, 5-6pm TVAC 103 Reception to follow, 6-7pm Bethea Gallery, TVAC The School of Design invites everyone to join us for the Opening Reception of Clifford Tresner’s exhibition of painting and sculptural works: Another Day Tripping Over Cypress. Mr. Tresner is... Read More

‘Neon Art’ exhibit opens in Visual Arts Center Memory & Desire: A Personal Exploration of Neon Art, Past & Present by Missouri-based artist David Hutson opens Oct. 1 with an artist talk at 5 p.m. and opening reception at 6 in the Bethea Gallery of the F. Jay Taylor Visual... Read More

The School of Design celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of our students at the annual SOD Awards on Friday, 17 May at 3:30pm in the George T Madison Auditorium (room 105). A reception follows at the Ruston Artisans (203 W Alabama Ave) at the opening of the Senior Exhibition of the Graphic Design Program... Read More

The School of Design is excited to invite everyone to the opening reception of the 2019 BFA Studio Art Senior Exhibition: MERAKI. This group exhibition represents the culmination of a body of work that each student has developed over the course of the Studio Art Program and includes paintings, sculpture,... Read More

EXPORT 2019   The SOD proudly invites you to a reception to celebrate the Louisiana Tech University Graphic Design class of 2019.   Join us at:  Ruston Artisans 203 W Alabama Avenue, Ruston, LA 71270 May 17, 2019 5-7:00pm   *Food and drinks will be served*