ART
+ART: FEATURES +New faculty and new website +Fine Arts Graduate Program leaps
in U.S. News rankings
+Painter Kelli Scott Kelley receives $32,000 Atlas Award
+FEATURED:
School of Art gets new faculty and new website.
// This year the School welcomed two new professors and has begun the search for an art history classicist and a new faculty member in digital art. // Richard Doubleday was appointed as assistant
+FEATURED:
Fine Arts Graduate Program leaps in U.S. News national rankings
// LSU saw a 14-position improvement in the ranking of Best Fine Arts graduate programs since its last ranking in the 2013 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Graduate Schools.”
professor in graphic design. Richard earned his BFA at
The program ranked 62 in the 2013 report, tied
Massachusetts College of Art and Design and his MFA
with nine other universities. The ranking shows
at Boston University.
improvement from a rank of 76 in the 2009 report. As
He is a former Senior
part of this category, the LSU School of Art’s master’s
Lecturer in the Master
program in ceramics was again among the top 10
of Arts in Graphic
programs in the country, ranking at nine in the 2013
Design program at
report.
Suffolk University and Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Graphic Design at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.
// Kristine Thompson was appointed as assistant
“We’re highly gratified to note that the work of our faculty over the past four years to develop the profile of our graduate programs has been recognized by our peers,” said Rod Parker, Director of the LSU School of Art. “With support in place from
professor of photography. Kristine earned her BS
the state and the university to
from Northwestern University and her MFA from
renovate the Studio Art Buildings
the University of
over the next three years, the
California, Irvine. Her
School of Art is on track for a Top
work often addresses
50 ranking in 2016.”
social and emotional responses to death and memorial practices.
pharmacy, physical therapy, social work, audiology, speech-language pathology and clinical psychology, as well as for public affairs and fine arts.
“We’re highly gratified to note that the work of our faculty over the past four years to develop the profile of our graduate programs has been recognized by our peers,”
+ Rod Parker, School of Art, Director
In addition to the five main professional disciplines ranked annually (business, education,
Faculty research,
engineering, law and medicine),
publication and
U.S.News & World Report also
creative activity is at
periodically ranks programs in
an all-time high and
the sciences, social sciences and
you can find out more
humanities, the health arena, and
on our new website at http://art.lsu.edu. The site is
many other areas based solely on
now database driven, which will make searching for
the ratings of academic experts.
information much easier, and linked to our facebook
This year, new peer assessment
page so be sure to “like” us. We’re working on an
surveys were conducted and new
expanded “alumni and friends” section because we
rankings were published online
hope to hear from you.
for the health specialties of occupational therapy,
+Map graphic represents faculty activity 2011-2013
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