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 link in bio.
Juror, Emily Alesandrini
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Now on view: 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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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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“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 @rachelaliciaparish 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 @presencingnature 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
New MFA show! 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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To be closer delves into the intersections between intimacy, unease, and the interpersonal. Sarah Moschel Miller’s works use the visual language of the body and its thresholds to explore how each of us builds interpersonal connections and understandings of self.
This exhibition will be on view April 4–11, 2026 with a reception scheduled for Saturday, April 11 from 6–8 p.m. Miller will lead a hand sculpting workshop Saturday, April 4 from 1–3 p.m.
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.
Printmaking MFA candidate Mia Isabel Pons explores the body’s invisible depths, the unseen and its interpersonal memories in the exhibition, this body held others. Through print, book arts, and papermaking, the work draws upon her personal archives and collected, reconstructed, and recycled imagery to examine survival through both a corporeal and spiritual lens.
The exhibition will be on view April 4–11, 2026 with a reception scheduled for Saturday, April 11 from 6–8 p.m. Pons will deliver a public papermaking demo on Saturday, April 4 from 3–5 p.m.
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.
Heather Molecke’s Doctor of Design exhibition The Lost and Found: Selected Relics presents a study of decay and debris, positioning overlooked objects as material evidence rather than waste. Through found objects, assemblage, and museum-style display, Molecke’s work examines time, memory, and preservation as material processes. This work considers how discarded or marginal materials acquire meaning, distort history, and negotiate value over time.
The exhibition will be on view March 27–April 2 in the Barnes Ogden Art & Design Complex Gallery, with a reception scheduled for Thursday, April 2 from 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Barnes Ogden Gallery Hours:
Monday–Friday: 9–4:30 p.m.
Saturday: 12–5 p.m.
Closed Sundays, between exhibitions, and during LSU closures and home games.
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Gulf Coast 2050: Speculative Design For Possible Futures features designs by LSU School of Architecture students that were developed during the 2026 All School Workshop. The exhibition is on view on Boyce Gallery through Tuesday, March 24.
Twenty-five years into the century, the scorecard is rough. But what if we take the right decisions, and soon? What if the next few years deliver a radical shift that improves life for every living being, human and more than human? Picture that world in 2050. Imagine a quarter century of bold choices.
Organized by the LSU School of Architecture and the Caribbean Spatial Justice Lab, the 2026 annual All School Workshop is a three-day experiment in collective foresight. It convenes students, faculty, and leading voices in architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, social sciences, humanities, and coastal sciences to visualize possible futures.
More at link in bio and design.lsu.edu
Congratulations to the students and teachers whose work was included in the LSU School of Art 10th Statewide Juried High School Exhibition, especially our award winners!
Images 1&2: First prize winner Lucy Lavery for “Spilling Tea”; teacher, Alissa Compton of West Monroe High School
Images 2&3: Second prize winner Analeigh Buxton for Unity, teacher, Alissa Compton of West Monroe High School
Image 4: Third Prize work, Waterway of Waste by Ruby Roumillat-Crowe; teacher MeLissa Kossick of Academy of Sacred Heart
Image 5: West Monroe High School Teacher Philip Peyton accepting Teacher Recognition Award. Both Peyton and Alissa Compton of WMHS were recognized.
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Tommi Bonomo’s LSU School of Art MFA Thesis Exhibition, Edges That Touch, examines the instability of gender binaries through the lens of combat sports, using design to examine how hypermasculine enviornments fragment femme identities will be on view March 21-28. Join us for a gallery talk and reception Saturday, March 28 from 6-8 p.m.; the gallery talk is scheduled for 5:45 p.m.
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Join us Saturday, March 21 from 1-3 p.m. to celebrate students and teachers statewide who submitted art to the LSU School of Art 10th Statewide Juried High School Exhibition.
Awards will be presented at 2 p.m.
Parking is free and gates are open Saturday.
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