History Project
• working with the T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU which is part of the Special Collections Department of the Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University.
• working with local AIGA board members and all members, current and past.
• working with former ADDA members.
• collecting materials for a permanent digital archive.
• collecting individual stories and oral histories from all commercial artists practicing in south Louisiana for twenty-one years or more.
If you have materials that you would like to donate and or a story you want to tell, please contact us.
If you would like to be trained in taking oral histories and help us collect them for this project, please contact us.
For more information: email Nancy Sharon Collins at nscstationer@earthlink.net, or call 917 392 1417.
Co-Chairs:
Christie Hackenberg
AIGA New Orleans Board Member, Emeritus
Nancy Sharon Collins
AIGA New Orleans Education Director
Committee Members:
Lacy Picou
Michelle Neuhoff
Amie Leicher
Brianna George
Board of Advisors:
Don Smith, president emeritus, ADDA New Orleans
Tom Varisco, Tom Varisco Designs; president emeritus and fellow, AIGA New Orleans
Kathleen Joffrion, Assistant Professor of Visual Communications at Delgado Community College
William Drenttel, partner, Winterhouse; president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, trustee, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, fellow, New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU; designer, publisher, editor, lecturer
Jessica Helfand, partner, Winterhouse; critic, MFA program Yale University, fellow, Jonathan Edwards College; graphic designer, educator, writer and theorist.
Steve Heller, senior art director, New York Times Book Review; editor, AlGA Journal of Graphic Design; chair, Design Writing MFA Program, School of Visual Arts, author (of more than eighty books about design), lecturer and AIGA Medalist