LSU President F. King Alexander and Mrs. Alexander with Mr. Hank Danos of the LSU Board of Supervisors view MFA painting & drawing candidate Kelsey Livingston's Paired Egrets at the reception held on Thursday, December 11, honoring the students whose artwork is displayed in the LSU System Administration Building.

"The opportunity afforded us by the President's Office to showcase LSU School of Art student work is a wonderful experience for our students and a partnership that we hope continues for many generations of LSU artists," said Julie Aguilar LeFebvre, director of development at the LSU College of Art & Design. Read more at design.lsu.edu, and view more photos of the event on Facebook.

Kiss Me You Fool: New Paintings by Alyssa Matthews is on view November 25-December 20, 2014, at Soho20 Gallery (soho20gallery.com) in New York. This body of work is a focused reference to nostalgic media coverage of Lady Diana and other public women and the inevitable desire their tragedies evoke. In this exhibition, Alyssa explores the surreal agency already present in a coy message on a TV screen. The heroines of the 1990s and early 2000s remain both convincingly sincere and yet never without rehearsal. Kiss Me You Fool marks Alyssa's first solo exhibition in New York and her third exhibition at Soho20 Gallery since her MFA thesis in 2012. Alyssa received her BFA with a focus in painting & drawing from the LSU School of Art in 2010. Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, she is now living and working in Brooklyn, New York. View Alyssa's work at alyssamatthews.com.

Recent work by James Turner (BLA 1969) and Mary Louise Porter are on display at Gallery One Elleven in downtown Leesville in an exhibit titled Random Acts of Art. Turner is a retired landscape architect, artist, illustrator, author, and teacher. He lives in Leesville, Louisiana, with his wife, Meriget. His work in Random Acts of Kindness primarily utilizes watercolor. Turner devotes much time to local downtown projects and has contributed his expertise to the design of the Polk Theatre, the downtown neckdown project, and many other Main Street projects. He also volunteers his time and efforts to Hodges Gardens State Park. Currently, he is renovating the oldest home in Leesville, the Smart house. For more information about the exhibition, visit galleryoneellleven.org.

Vincent Cellucci, studio coordinator of the Communications across the Curriculum Art & Design Studio, recently coauthored a poetry book, _a ship on the line, available for purchase at Amazon.com. LSU landscape architecture alumnus Matt Williams (MLA 2014) designed the cover.