Recent News, Awards, and Events
Browse my recent news, lectures, events, and awards below. This list is updated through about 2021; for previous news or a more comprensive list of happenings, see my curriculum vitae (coming soon).
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Recipient of 2025 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award2025 The LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award recognizes faculty at the rank of assistant professor who have outstanding records of scholarship and published research. Read more here.
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“Allison Young Awarded 2025 LSU Alumni Association Rising Faculty Research Award”March 24, 2025 Article about my Faculty Award on the LSU College of Art and Design website. Read more here.
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“Shades of Blue” re-printed in alia ali . . . one of many February 2025 The essay “Shades of Blue: Alia Ali’s INDIGO - Vision and Opacity” is re-published in the first volume of the artist’s three-part multigraph, published by Hatje Cantz. Read more here.
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Presentation at College Art Association Annual ConferenceFebruary 13, 2025 Presented a paper titled “Souvenirs of Earth: Catastrophe and Hope in the Art of Dawn DeDeaux” in the panel “Space Art in the Anthropocene” at 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY. Conference program.
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In Conversation with Hannah ChalewFebruary 2, 2025 “Chimerical Futures”: Book Release, Garden Tour, and Musical Activation organized by Hannah Chalew at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans for the closing weekend of Prospect.6. Read more here.
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Presentation at Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial ConferenceAugust 9, 2025Presented a paper titled “Ochre and Ore: Indigenous Ecopoetics in Contemporary South African Art” at the 2024 Triennial Conference of the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, Chicago, IL. Conference program.
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In Conversation event at Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, NLOctober 31, 2024In Conversation with Remy Jungerman at Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, NL on the occassion of the launch of “Remy Jungerman: Tracing the Line” Read more here.
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Panel Chair at College Art Association Annual ConferenceFebruary 18, 2024 Chaired a panel titled “Fugitive Ecologies in Contemporary Art,” sponsored by the Society for Contemporary Art Historians, at 2025 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, NY
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Recipient of 2023 ATLAS (Award to Louisiana Artists and Scholars) from the Louisiana Board of Regents2023 - 2024 Major fellowship award that supports one full year of release from teaching in order to advance the completion of a book manuscript. Read more here.
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