The College of Art and Design recently celebrated the grand opening of the renovated Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex.
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Students line up for jambalaya Thursday, April 27, 2023, during the Grand Opening of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Students and faculty gather Thursday, April 27, 2023, for the Grand Opening of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Musicians entertain the crowd Thursday, April 27, 2023, during the Grand Opening of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Renovations
The building formerly known as the Studio Arts Building was designed by historic architect Theodore C. Link, and built around 1924. Much to LSU’s dismay, it became the center of a controversy in 2014 as students and faculty spoke up about its conditions. Most classes within the building were relocated due asbestos, mold, lead paint and crumbling infrastructure among other things. Read more about “The School of Decay” here and here.
For several years after that, the School of Art was split among multiple buildings across campus which led to an absence of a sense of community in the college.
Now after undergoing its only major renovation since it was built nearly 100 years ago, the Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex includes modern facilities for ceramics, sculpture, painting and drawing. Its ventilation, air condition systems and interior finish were also upgraded while preserving its history in compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for the Rehabilitation of Historic Structures.
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The Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex stands tall Thursday, April 27, 2023, on its grand opening in Baton Rouge, La.
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Student work hangs Thursday, April 27, 2023, as part of the “All of Us” student group exhibition in the hallway of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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The south entrance of The Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex sits Thursday, April 27, 2023, on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, La.
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Students look over a ledge Thursday, April 27, 2023, during the Grand Opening of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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The Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex recedes toward Tiger Stadium Thursday, April 27, 2023, during its grand opening in Baton Rouge, La.
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A gate features the quote “Art represents the best of the human spirit – R.O.” Thursday, April 27, 2023, at the south entrance of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Lockers line the hall Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Matthew Connors’ “The Axe Will Survive The Master” exhibit sits Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the gallery within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Photographs by Matthew Connors hang on the wall Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex’s gallery in Baton Rouge, La.
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Foundations
All first-year art students are required to take Foundation courses in order to develop and practice core skills. These three courses include Two-Dimensional Design, Three-Dimensional Design and Drawing Composition.
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Sculptures sit and hang Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the sculpture studio within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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A cardboard sculpture rests on a shelf Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Student work rests on a table Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the Foundations studio within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Supplies sit Thursday, April 27, 2023, inside the Foundations studio within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Ceramics
The ceramics curriculum includes wheel-throwing, hand-building, slip-casting, tile-making, raw material study, studio practice, methodology development and special topics classes. Additionally, students have access to numerous kilns (electric, gas and soda), a glaze studio, slab rollers, potters’ wheels and more.
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A makeshift office resides in the ceramics area Thursday, April 27, 2023, within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Pottery kilns rest open Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the ceramics department within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Ceramic art sits on display Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the hallway of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Sculpture
The sculpture curriculum provides students with a broad range of equipment and material approaches. Facilities include a woodworking shop, welding and fabrication areas complete with forging stations and an outstanding foundry facility.
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The fire arts yard remains empty Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the sculpture department within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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The sculpture/metal shop resides Thursday, April 27, 2023, within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Painting and Drawing
The painting and drawing program offers a wide array of artistic experiences from figure and landscape painting to abstract painting, water media and performance and installation art. Its studios are well equipped with storage racks, props and easels.
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Empty easels stand Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the painting studio inside the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Paintings stack upon one another Thursday, April 27, 2023, within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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A still life painting sits in-progress Thursday, April 27, 2023, in the painting studio within the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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A senior painting project peeks through a window of the Barnes Ogden Art and Design Complex Thursday, April 27, 2023, on LSU’s campus in Baton Rouge, La.
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The College of Art and Design and all its disciplines are back and better than ever. With its renovated facilities, additions of state of the art technology and a new BA degree in Art & Design program, LSU has a colorful, creative future ahead of it. Students and faculty are eager to continue creating again under the same, nearly hundred-year-old roof for another century.
