On December 10th, the Rima Hourani Exhibition Hall at the Byblos Campus hosted the 99 Posters exhibition. The space was filled with cleverly designed posters putting into practice various design pillars like typography, layout, grid structure, color and composition. Other than showcasing design principles, these posters paid tribute to Lebanese women that left their trace on society.
On December 6 at Sheikh Zayed Exhibition Hall, LAU’s Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World in partnership with ESCWA hosted “Fighting Gender-Based Discrimination with Arts”. The roundtable was a powerful and emotional one that featured actress Natasha Choufani, LAU ’s Coordinator of the Fashion Design Program Jason Steel, and artists and activists Michelle and Noel Keserwany.
Our very own Arwa Seifeddine is a staple in the Fine Arts program, she is one of the longest serving faculty in the DA&D. She joined LAU in 1984, back when it was still called BUC.
Alumnus and instructor Bahij Jaroudi’s skills has won him many awards including the 2015 Mahmoud Kahil Award for best graphic illustrator in the Arab world and the 2013 KITABI Award for Arab Children's Literature.
Our fine arts professor Bettina Badr graduated from the Lebanese University with a Diplome d'Etudes Superieures in fine arts in 2001, and a Master's degree in Visual Arts in 2012. Though she spent her years teaching and developing her own sense of artistry, she never stops attending local and international workshops.
This past June Genny Haddad graduated from the Fashion Design program with her final collection that won her the best concept award from a renowned panel of jury. Her graduation project, was based on a through research on mental institution. She visited and talked with the patients and collected some of their illustrations.
Christine Kettaneh, an LAU fine arts alumna with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design became known as an investigation of the limit of language and systems in research-based works that are at the same time sculptural and performative.