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Jerry Berg, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, has been selected as the Louisiana Tech University representative to participate in the International Week in Paris at the Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci.  This week-long conference includes gathering of international faculty.  Jerry will be giving a presentation on Game Design during the conference. Felicitations!

A new Digital Painting course (ART 320/420), led by Associate Professor of Studio Art Nick Bustamante, investigates the value of digital art as a visual means of communication and its role in scientific research.  In ART 320/420, students also develop emerging skill sets that can be applied to a variety... Read More

Congratulations School of Design students Whitney Trisler Causey, Sarah Prescott, Jamie Baker and Best in Show Winner Mariel Ali Davenport for sweeping the awards ceremony at the Art From The G.U.T.S. Exhibition, a show highlighting art students from universities along the I-20 corridor in Louisiana.   Thanks to Caleb Daniel at the Tech Talk... Read More

A new exhibition opened Wednesday, January 27, at Parish Press Coffee House. It celebrates Valentine’s Day through romance-oriented movie posters from around the world. These examples range in date from 1939 to 2005 and geographically from Russia and Jugoslavia to the United States. Many of the movies that this paper... Read More

Studio 301 is proud to present Raluca Iancu’s “Things That Go Pop”, an exhibition centered around just that: things that do in fact go pop. Iancu examines tragedy through a humorous lens: this exhibition centers around the contrast between automobile airbags and other, more innocuous, things which pop such as... Read More

Nicole Duet, Assistant Professor of Studio Art will be among the panelists discussing the exhibition Well Worn Truths, currently on display that the Masur Museum of Art. The panel will also include the co-curators, Adjunct Professor Benjamin M. Hickey and Vitus Shell. Additional information about Well Worn Truths and other events... Read More

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas has added to its collection two pieces of artwork by Louisiana Tech University School of Design Associate Professor Frank Hamrick. The museum selected Hamrick’s tintype photograph “The Marshall”, which is a shadowy portrait of recently retired marshall Mike Hilton.... Read More

For the second year in a row, William Hartman, Assistant Professor of Architecture, has won an Honorable Mention in the HALS Challenge, an annual competition sponsored by the National Park Service. The Historic American Landscape Survey (HALS) was created in 2000 as a federal program to document historic landscapes in... Read More

Jerry Berg, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, has been awarded the 2015 Art in Science Faculty Fellowship at Louisiana Tech University.  He will work with the faculty and staff of the Institute of Micromanufacturing (IfM) and Nanotechnology to develop an interactive experience and public awareness campaign about the value of nanotechnology and how it impacts our... Read More

Joey Slaughter, Graduate Coordinator of the MFA program, will exhibit work at the Arender Gallery in Monroe in a solo show titled “Hills and Valleys.” The opening is scheduled for Thursday, 3 December from 5-9pm as part of the Monroe’s Downtown Art Crawl. The Arender Gallery is located at 131... Read More

You are invited to join us for the artist talk and opening reception of two exhibitions at Louisiana Tech University, on Tuesday, December 8 in the F. Jay Taylor Visual Art Center – The Theories, featuring work by Armando Ramos, and Tech Mex: Work from the Permanent Collection, curated by Assistant Professor of Art and Architecture... Read More

Professors Joey Slaughter, Nicole Duet and Jerry Berg will be featured in the annual Holiday Arts Reception. The event will take place at 7pm on Tuesday, 1 December at the Bank of Ruston, located at 505 North Vienna Street in Ruston. The event is open to the public. The exhibition will... Read More

Assistant Professor Adam Forrester will present two films on Thursday, 12 November at 6:30pm at the Dixie Center for the Arts in historic downtown Ruston. Eat White Dirt is a short documentary film, which Forrester describes as, “A look at the bizarre and beautiful relationship we have with a particular mineral found... Read More

Louisiana Tech University’s School of Design recently held a bookmaking workshop for a local Girl Scouts troop hoping to earn their bookmaking badges. The workshop came about when Associate Professor of Art Frank Hamrick, who specializes in photography and book arts, was contacted by a fellow campus employee who has... Read More

Please join us for the opening reception of the School of Design Biennial Faculty Exhibition at Louisiana Tech University, on Tuesday, 27 October from 5pm until 7pm in the Visual Art Center Galleries. The Exhibition, featuring recent work from the current faculty of the Studio art, Graphic Design, Interior Design and... Read More

The School of Design at Louisiana Tech University is hosting an OPEN HOUSE on Thursday, October 29th from 6 pm – 8 pm. The event will be held throughout buildings and spaces of the School of Design on the University’s main campus: Hale Hall, the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center and... Read More

The School of Design is happy to welcome architect Kim Yao to the Louisiana Tech campus. Kim Yao, AIA, holds the position of principal at Architecture Research Office (ARO), located in New York City. ARO is an award-winning firm that runs as a laboratory for architectural design. With projects ranging from... Read More

Lines of Sight: Painting, Drawing and Film Making Lecture by Brian Lotti Monday, 12 October at 5:30pm Fj Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103 The School of Design is happy to welcome painter, filmmaker and skateboarder to the Louisiana Tech University campus. Brian Lotti was born in Okinawa, Japan in 1972... Read More

Congratulations to School of Design Alum Bridget Benditz (BID 2015). Bridget has been selected to attend the American Society of Interior Designers/ASID GO PRO 2015 conference in Brooklyn, New York. Specifically developed for emerging designers within their first few years of practice and graduating design students, GO PRO 2015 invites... Read More

The Enterprise Center Gallery presents Silver Thaw, an exhibition of collaborative work between Kansas City, Missouri based artist Rain Harris and Louisiana Tech Assistant Professor of Studio Art Kyle Triplett. Triplett and Harris’s artwork, an ongoing series of large format backlit digital prints, began this past summer as a result... Read More

You are invited to join us this Thursday, October 8 at 3:30 PM in the F. Jay Taylor Visual Arts Center, Room 103 for an artist talk with Diana Synatzske. Sculptor Diana Synatzske (MFA ’13) will discuss her work included in the current exhibition Riding in Cars Without Seat Belts.  ... Read More

Kevin Singh, Associate Professor of Architecture, was featured in a recent podcast of Entrepreneur Architect, discussing architectural practice, his successful post “21 Rules for a Successful Life in Architecture” and a new ebook, Beginning Your Career in Architecture. Congratulations, Kevin!

The School of Design is pleased to announce the first opening reception of the 2015-2016 season. These events are free and open to the public. Reception generously sponsored by Ponchatoulas Restaurant. / Printmaker Kristin Knowlin “Carving Out Roots” (Bethea Gallery) Sculptor Diana Synatzske “Riding In Cars Without Seatbelts” (Moffett Gallery)... Read More

Makers’ Marks is an exhibition featuring work by Todd Cloe, Frank Hamrick, and Cliff Tresner. These artists’ studio practices revolve around making objects constructed largely by hand, as well as using visual forms to express parables. Their broad storytelling capacity touches on many themes ranging from formal or art historical... Read More

Dean Dablow, Professor Emeritus of the School of Design, will present an exhibition of his new work at Studio 301 September 11 through October 30 with an opening reception scheduled for September 11 from 6-8pm. Everyone is invited to attend.   Although known for his photographs, Dablow began his career... Read More

Alex Shows, an M.Arch candidate in the School of Design, was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the Open Category of the 15th Annual Steel Competition for his project entitled Sentā. Administered by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the... Read More

Congrats to Casey Amelia Parkinson (MFA Ceramics ’14)! Her work for the current exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans has been publicized far and wide, from the inflight magazine of United Airlines to, now, the feature image in the New York Times article! Well done, Casey!

Associate Professor Frank Hamrick made a quick trip back to Nashville this summer to complete photographic work for the upcoming album of Dave Rawlings Machine. The award-winning duo of Dave Rawlings and Gillian Welch met Hamrick in Nashville in the summer of 2014 when he produced a tintype of the band... Read More

Hannah Cooper McCauley, an MFA Photography candidate in the School of Design, was recently selected as one of the fifty most promising emerging photographers in the world today by LensCulture Magazine. The international jury selected from a pool of photographers representing over 110 countries. Hannah’s feature for LensCulture, entitled “A... Read More