Nedra Davis Hains promoted to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art. Read more in this press release.
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          Nedra Davis Hains promoted to Deputy Director of the LSU Museum of Art. Read more in this press release.
Read MoreLSU Museum of Art appoints new Senior Curator and Director of Programming, Michelle Schulte. Read this press release to learn more.
Read MoreLSU Museum of Art's loan exhibition 'State of the Art: Record' delivers a multi-sense experience. Read this feature by the LSU Reveille.
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            Read this feature by inRegister Magazine about Vincent Darré’s visit to the museum. Darré has designed for Yves Saint Laurent, Fendi and, now, the LSU Museum of Art. Click here to read.
Read MoreCountry Roads Magazine reviews State of the Art: Record (On exhibit at the LSU Museum of Art from March 10–June 19, 2022). Click here to read.
Read MoreVisit Eugene Martin: The Creative Act at LSU MOA (April 7–October 2, 2022) and create your own inspired collage at home using these activity steps!
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            IMAGE: Detail of Candice Lin, La Charada China (Tobacco Version), 2019
Burnaway features Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers in this article. Click here to read.
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            IMAGE: Carla Edwards, Bonfire, 2017, American flags, bleach, nylon dye, 124 × 112 in., Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2020.20
225 Magazine covers State of the Art: Record exhibition at LSU Museum of Art. Click here to read.
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            IMAGE: Mark Messersmith (American, b. 1955), Summer 2010, 2010, mixed media on canvas with predella boxes and carved wood, Gift of the Artist, L2021.12a,b
Now on view in LSU MOA’s Art in Louisiana: Views into the Collection landscape gallery is Mark Messersmith’s Summer 2010, a sculptural painting based on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Learn more about this work’s symbolic imagery in this closer look blog post by LSU MOA Graduate Assistant Kirsten Campbell.
Read MoreRead this interview by Ocula to learn more about Candice Lin's artistic practice and exhibitions including The Agnotology of Tigers now on view at LSU MOA until March 20, 2022.
Read MoreLearn about the objects in Candice Lin's La Charada China (Tobacco Version) installation and the history of these objects and their relationship to indentured Chinese laborers and how they reveal long forgotten (or suppressed) aspects of global trade.
Read More225 Magazine covers Candice Lin: The Agnotology of Tigers at LSU Museum of Art. Click here to read.
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            NOW ON VIEW (pictured here in LSU MOA’s Art in Louisiana: Views into the Collection Intro Gallery): Mary Lee Bendolph (American, b. 1935), Untitled (Strip Quilt), 2009, cotton, corduroy, velvet, Purchased with funds from the Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists, LSUMOA 2021.10
LSU Museum of Art recently acquired a quilt by Mary Lee Bendolph, one of the foremost strip quilters associated with Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Bendolph’s striking compositions reject traditional methods of symmetry and uniformity, instead embracing abstraction through the improvisational use of geometry. Learn more about it in this closer look by LSU MOA Graduate Assistant Kirsten Campbell and view it today in our Art in Louisiana Intro Gallery!
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            IMAGE (above): Marcel Pardo Ariza, Linda, Lee & Dorsey, Louis (1988, 2018), 2018, mounted inkjet print, ash artist frame, Twilight Blue paint, 58 × 29 in., Courtesy of the artist
State of the Art: Record from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Opens March 10 at LSU Museum of Art. Read the full press release.
Read MoreLSU Cornerstone featured The Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists in the 2021 Winter Issue. Read an interview and watch a video with LSU MOA Curatorial Fellow Clarke Brown and former LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor.
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