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If you missed it on campus, check out “Making With” at Bluebonnet Branch Regional Library. ARTH4020: Art & Ecology focu...
05/28/2026

If you missed it on campus, check out “Making With” at Bluebonnet Branch Regional Library.

ARTH4020: Art & Ecology focused on fieldwork and embodied experience as research methods to move beyond text and image-based research. The creative and contemplative practices represented in this student exhibition emphasized making with an environmental partner such as soil, sun, and a waterway. The course approached art history as a transdisciplinary creative research practice to explore new ways of thinking, knowing, and being in relation.

Visiting artist Rachel Parish led creative practices that were informed by study of the co-evolution of ecological thought and ecological art led by Instructor Courtney Taylor. A meditative nature connection experience led by opened the course.

You can catch artist Rachel Parish alongside Edem Dake in residence throughout June in Glassell Gallery as part of the 2026 Open Experimental Studio.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES | SLOW: LSU School of Art 2026 Summer ContemporaryEmbracing “slow” in all registers, we invite artists ...
05/26/2026

CALL FOR ENTRIES | SLOW: LSU School of Art 2026 Summer Contemporary

Embracing “slow” in all registers, we invite artists whose work engages in slow states of being, slow processes, and slow media. We seek work that lingers in drifts and delays; work that dwells in states of stillness and attunement. Resisting efficiency and resolution, we seek immersion into the hum, the grain, the granular—work that cultivates attention through deceleration and degraded signals, work engaging slow, low, and no technology to open immersive states of flow.

Submit by June 10 at https://www.artworkarchive.com/call-for-submission/the-galleries-at-lsu/slow-lsu-school-of-art-summer-contemporary

Juror | Emily Alesandrini
First Prize | $750

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LSU College of Art & Design invites our community to experiment, make, and connect alongside 2026 Open Experimental Stud...
05/26/2026

LSU College of Art & Design invites our community to experiment, make, and connect alongside 2026 Open Experimental Studio resident artists Rachel Parish and Edem Dake throughout June in Glassell Gallery.

From June 2–26, the gallery will offer drop-in open studio space for visitors to experiment with their own projects, participate in special workshops, and collaborate with one another on projects that will be facilitated by the artists. Working across clay, paper, photography, textiles, and plants, the artists will guide participants in creating personal and collective artifacts rooted in storytelling and sensory experience. Participants may map family histories, craft vessels from bodily forms, make paper from recycled clothing, blend botanical scents and teas, mend garments through embroidery, or create photographic traces of their presence using alternative processes. Designed as accessible, family-friendly experiences, these workshops emphasize collaboration, reflection, and experimentation while encouraging new relationships between memory, material, and community. All experience-levels are welcome. Full schedule coming soon!

The 2026 Open Experimental Studio is supported by the Charles Lamar Family Foundation and the Windgate Foundation.

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The LSU School of Art Spring 2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art Senior Exhibition will feature the work of graduat...
05/07/2026

The LSU School of Art Spring 2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art Senior Exhibition will feature the work of graduating undergraduate students from the ceramics, photography, painting and drawing, printmaking, and sculpture areas. This exhibition will be on view May 2–15 at the Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery .

A reception is scheduled for Thursday, May 7, from 5–7 p.m.

This event is free and open to all. Gates open and parking is free on LSU’s campus after 4:30 p.m.

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MFA Nicholas Roberts’ Within These WallsWithin These Walls reflects on Nicholas Roberts’ evolving sense of home. Through...
05/07/2026

MFA Nicholas Roberts’ Within These Walls

Within These Walls reflects on Nicholas Roberts’ evolving sense of home. Through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, Roberts considers how everyday objects and personal spaces hold memory, invite reflection, and mark moments of transition. The work explores what it means to outgrow one’s understanding of home and begin to redefine it.

The exhibition will be on view May 2–16 with a reception scheduled for Saturday, May 9, from 6–8 p.m. Nicholas Roberts will lead a mezzotint demonstration during Free First Sunday, May 3 from 1–2 p.m.

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04/28/2026

Making Groceries: Community Life in South Louisiana, c. 1920–1930 examines how shopping, food, labor, and trade shaped everyday life and community in rural Louisiana. Centered on the rural general store, the exhibition uses everyday objects to reveal the social and cultural systems that connected households, communities, and regional markets.

Created by LSU Doctor of Design in Cultural Preservation students through the Material Culture course (DART 7004), Spring 2026.

Opening Reception
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
4:30–7:00 p.m.
LSU Rural Life Museum

This event is free of charge and open to the public.

04/23/2026

This week's featured MFA candidate: Serena Viola Corson!

A painter, her graduate thesis exhibition “Touching Grass: Reimagining the Commons” - described as an “eco-feminist paradise” - is on view at The Galleries at LSU Glassell Gallery now through April 25. The reception is Saturday at 6–8 p.m., free and open to all.

"I see image-making as an act of listening and alchemy—a way of filtering the external through our emotional bodies to transmute new realities," she said.

Read her story at: https://design.lsu.edu/art/

“Making With” is now on view in Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery through 4/24. ARTH4020: Art & Ecology focused ...
04/23/2026

“Making With” is now on view in Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery through 4/24.

ARTH4020: Art & Ecology focused on fieldwork and embodied experience as research methods to move beyond text and image-based research. The creative and contemplative practices represented in this exhibition emphasized making with an environmental partner such as soil, sun, and a waterway. The course approached art history as a transdisciplinary creative research practice to explore new ways of thinking, knowing, and being in relation.

Visiting artist Rachel Parish led creative practices that were informed by study of the co-evolution of ecological thought and ecological art led by Instructor Courtney Taylor. A meditative nature connection experience led by opened the course.

A Gallery Activation with talks from 4020 students and performances by students in Travis Brisini’s “Performing the Visual World” is scheduled for Monday 4/20 at 4:30 p.m.

You can catch Rachel Parish in residence throughout June in Glassell Gallery as part of the 2026 Open Experimental Studio.

Image 1: Bailey Rigby, My Skin is an Archive
Image 4: Bailey Rigby, Along the Mississippi Shoreline
image 6: Faith Carter, By the Creekside
Image 9: Ricki Denes, Wading in the Mississippi

Serena Viola Corson’s Touching Grass: Reimagining the Commons opens Saturday, 4/18. Responding to the history of the enc...
04/23/2026

Serena Viola Corson’s Touching Grass: Reimagining the Commons opens Saturday, 4/18. Responding to the history of the enclosure of communal land, MFA painting candidate Corson’s exhibition reimagines the commons through an ecofeminist and animist lens, using intuitive artmaking and symbolic imagery.

This exhibition will be on view April 18–25 with a closing reception the evening of April 25 from 6–8 p.m. Serena Corson will host a series of programs entitled “The Art of Hosting is the Highest Form of Art” on Sunday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 22 from 5–7 p.m.; more information and tickets can be found at LSU College of Art & Design Galleries Eventbrite Page

Glassell Gallery Hours:
Tuesday–Wednesday: 12–5 p.m.
Thursday–Friday: 12–7 p.m.
Saturday–Sunday: 12–5 p.m.
Closed Mondays, between exhibitions, and during LSU closures.

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