Class Notes

Reed Hildebrand LLC Landscape Architecture, founded by Doug Reed (BLA 1978), won an American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) 2020 award of excellence in the residential design category for the Marshcourt estate. Design Workshop, where numerous LSU alumni work, also won the ASLA honor award for “Afecting Change to Avoid Disaster: Communicating Efective Wildfre Planning Strategies.”

OJB Landscape Architecture won the 2020 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture awarded by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, honoring the practice’s transformation of public spaces nationwide. Led by founder James Burnett (BLA 1983), FASLA and partner Chip Trageser (BLA 1990), FASLA, OJB has been challenging conventional boundaries of landscape architecture for more than 30 years.

Christine Cain, BID 1984, is principal and owner of Christine Cain Design Inc., with ofces in New York, New York, and Baton Rouge, providing residential interior design serives.

Chad Lynch, BArch 1994, was appointed chief operations director of the Ascension Parish, Louisiana public, school system.

Stephen E. McLaughlin, MLA 1994, RLA, ASLA, practiced landscape architecture for a quarter of a century before having to retire prematurely in 2020 due to advancing symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). The last several years of Steve’s career were as a contractor with the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, where he provided subject matter expertise in landscape architecture as a supervisor of site design for American diplomatic missions worldwide, and served as a code ofcial or landscape -related design standards. Steve was previously employed with architecture, engineering, landscape architecture, and other consulting frms of various sizes, serving abroad mix of governmental and private sector clientele on projects around the USA and abroad. He also worked in a self-employed capacity, designing residences, additions, decks, patios, and gardens. His frst career was as a U.S. naval ofcer, in both the Atlantic and Pacifc feets. He has been married to Sophia Wang McLaughlin since 1999, and they currently reside in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Interior design by Christine Cain Design.

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Kenneth Wagstaf, BFA 1994, graphic design concentration, is owner of Wagstaf Design Creative Services in Knoxville, Tennessee, ofering web and graphic design services.

Noel Aveton, BLA 1995, ASLA, is vice president at CallisonRTKL in Dallas, Texas. Noel leads planning and landscape architecture eforts, working with clients around the globe. In addition to the development of projects, he served in various positions with the ASLA Texas

Scott Bellina, BFA 1998, graphic design concentration, is owner and executive creative director of BCBD. Before founding BCBD, Scott honed his craft as lead creative in top agencies located in New Orleans, Dallas, London, and New York City. Scott has provided awardwinning creative designs for clients such as Nike, Adidas, Cosmopolitan, Showtime, BBC Worldwide, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, the National Hockey League, IFC, eMusic.com, Fuse, Samsung, Temple Turmeric, Qello Concerts, the New York Rangers, and the New York Yankees.

Coleman Partners Architects LLC has promoted Jonathan Heltz, BArch 1998, to principal architect. Heltz has been with the frm for 23 years and is a project manager for local and international hospitality projects. chapter, where he was president of the executive committee. His years of experience include landscape architecture, urban design and master planning of public and private developments, as well as major urban design and mixed-use projects.

Photo courtesy of Bayou Gotham Hot Sauces.

In March 2019, Bellina partnered with fellow LSU design classmate, Scott Hodgin (BFA 1998) of Tilt Design, to develop branding for Bellina’s new handcrafted product line, Bayou Gotham® Hot Sauces.

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Erin Hill Morgan, BArch1999, was named partner architect at Tipton Associates, APAC, in Baton Rouge, where she leads the student-life studio in projects on campuses across the Southeast.

Christina Macaluso Hammock, BFA 2000, leads the journalism department at Geneva School of Boerne in Boerne, Texas. Under her leadership, her staf has been nationally recognized by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), the National Scholastic Press Association (NSPA), Jostens, and locally by the Interscholastic League

“The Castle” at University of Virginia. Photo by Cameron Triggs. In association with Clark Nexsen.

Press Conference (ILPC) and Texas Association of Private & Parochial Schools (TAPPS). She also leads the high school photo team and advises production of CSPA Crown Award winning quarterly magazine, as well as an annual literary magazine. She also works as an in-house designer for the school.

Scott Smith, BLA 2006, is Director of Design & Estimating for Juniper in Cape Coral, Florida.

Satish Vayuvegula, MArch 2006, is Practice Leader – Architecture at ArchWert Planners & Designers in Pune, India.

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Stacy Murphy, BID 2007, is national sales manager at Armstrong Flooring in Austin, Texas. Stacy holds two degrees in interior design, from LSU and from the New York School of Interior Design. She passed her NCDIQ and became licensed in

Amy Phillip, BFA 2009, graphic design concentration, is cofounder/design strategist of Cultiv8 Creative in Baton Rouge. As the design strategist at Cultiv8, she partners with other agencies to design marketing collateral, publications, social/digital campaigns, and advertisements. She has collaborated on a wide range of projects for companies such as Amazon, Azek, USG, Aon, and Max Digital. the State of Texas while working on large corporate ofce projects at Corgan and Benson Hlavaty Architects in Dallas, Texas. In 2012, she relocated to Washington, DC. Stacy was named a HiP Award Winner from Interior Design Magazine in 2019 and has served on boards for IIDA since 2013. At Armstrong, she currently executes commercial real estate strategies for national and global retail brands.

Katrina Andry: The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came by Katrina Andry (MFA 2010), (printmaking concentration), was on display at the Windgate Museum of Art at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, on view through March, 2021.

Cody Arnall, MFA 2010, sculpture concentration, was awarded an artist’s residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, February–March 2020. Coleman Partners Architects LLC has promoted William Thibaut, BArch 2009, to principal architect. Thibaut has been with the frm 11 years and is a project manager of educational facilities, specializing in K-12 design.

The Promise of the Rainbow Never Came, Katrina Andry

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Louise Cheetham Bordelon, MLA 2010, received a PhD of geography & anthropology at LSU. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, Louise returned to the United States and now teaches in the MLA program at University of Colorado– Denver as assistant professor and interim chair. Her research interests are centered on cultural landscapes, continuous networks of biodiversity, and visual thinking/research by design.

Katie Virag, BFA 2013, sculpture concentration, is She exhibited her installation “sub specie aeternitatis” completing an MFA in studio arts at the University of at the Hotel Henry in Bufalo, New York in 2020. Syracuse in Syracuse, New York expected in May 2021.

Lane Rapier, BID 2015, received a Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University in 2018. She is a designer at architecture and interior design frm Farouki Farouki in New Orleans.

William Baumgardner, BLA 2016, is a PhD candidate in constructed environment at the University of Virginia.

Alex Morvant, BLA 2016, is a landscape architect at Ten Eyck Landscape Architects in Charleston, South Carolina.

Tina Naraghi-Pour, BArch 2016, is an architectural staf member at Corgan in Houston, Texas.

Michelle Jones James, BArch 2018, is an assistant project manager at Arkel Constructors in Baton Rouge.

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HONORING SUE TURNER

Dr. Sue Turner (left) at 2017 LSU Commencement ceremony. Photo by Eddy Perez.

The LSU College of Art & Design is saddened by the passing of Sue Turner, a devoted preservationist and philanthropist who supported LSU and the Louisiana arts community for many years. She was 93.

The LSU College of Art & Design presented Dr. Turner with the Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2017, honoring her long-standing philanthropic commitment to LSU and her exemplary support of the arts and culture of Louisiana.

Her projects included Louisiana Art & Science Museum (LASM), which she helped get of the ground in the early 1960s. In the more than 50 years that followed, she played a role in securing and renovating two historic buildings in downtown Baton Rouge for LASM’s home (the Old Governor’s Mansion and then the Illinois Central Train Station), building two planetariums, growing an art collection, and securing governmental funding that stabilized LASM through the decades.

“Sue said that when she discovered museums as an adult it opened her world,” said Carol Gikas, who served as the president and executive director of the Louisiana Art & Science Museum for thirty-nine years. “She wanted Louisiana schoolchildren and families to have cultural opportunities that she wished she could have had as a child.”

The LSU community respectfully honors the Turner family at this time of grief.