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LSU College of Art & Design Galleries will present Leonardo Madriz: Home Coming, as part of the LSU School of Art Lineages Series, which features the work of mid-career alumni artists. Raised in Baton Rouge, Leonardo Madriz's self-titled solo exhibition will feature present assemblage, expanded cinema, photographic works that explore notions of place as home, migration and assimilation, relationality, disillusionments of the American Dream, and the inner states of belonging.

The exhibition will be on view at Glassell Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts from November 5 through December 12, 2026, with a reception scheduled for Thursday, November 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. LSU School of Art invites the public to attend a lecture by Leonardo Madriz to be presented in Julian T. White Hall 103 on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 5 p.m. All events are free and open to all.

This exhibition is hosted by LSU School of Art and LSU College of Art + Design with support from a Louisiana Project Assistance Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts distributed by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

Now on view through August 22: SLOW - LSU School of Art Summer Contemporary

Embracing “slow” in all registers, this exhibition features work that engages slow states of being, slow processes, and slow media. Selected work cultivates attention through deceleartion and degraded signals; the work resists efficiency and resolution to instead seek immersive states of flow.

Swipe to see the 2026 list of selected artists!

Juried by Emily Alesandrini.
Reception & Awards August 22, 6-8 pm

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Introducing Open Experimental Studio Resident Artist Rachel Parish She’s in Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays now through June 26.

Rachel’s workhops will explore ancestry through plants, storytelling, and sensory experiences. Rachel will collaborate with EBRPLGenealogy and The Louisiana Wild Society to map family histories, craft vessels from bodily forms, make paper from recycled clothing, and blend botanical scents and teas.

Join us Saturday at noon for a presentation from Genealogy Librarian David Laatsch entitled Finding Roots: Introduction to Genealogy and an Alternative Mapping workshop with Rachel.

Full program schedule at link in bio.

Working internationally, Rachel Parish is an interdisciplinary visual artist and theatre-maker whose work has been seen at venues including Tate Britain, de Young Museum, Lyric Hammersmith, Battersea Arts Centre, Woodruff Art Center, and Standpoint Gallery, as well as in public spaces such as train stations, community centers, homes for the elderly, in streets, schools and online.

Rachel’s social and conceptual practice researches how we exist in community with each other, where this “we” can be a person with themselves, specific groups of people, groups of ecologies, histories, or places. Her practice is rooted in deep listening and fostering dialogue, with the recognition that words are only one form of communication, and that conversation can and does happen across cultures, species, and time, in ways that we can engage and play with meaningfully and creatively.

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

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8 more days to submit Your work to 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://mailchi.mp/lsu/slow

Juror, Emily Alesandrini


Emily Alesandrini (she/her) is a writer, curator, and art historian working in New Orleans and New York. Her research concerns contemporary representations of race and gender with a particular focus on aesthetics of opacity, ornament, and the diasporic body in art by women and artists of color. She strives to spotlight underrepresented voices in the field and work in community-based collaboration to subvert systems of oppression and erasure within and beyond art history. Alesandrini has contributed to exhibitions and publications at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, The Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, The Museum of S*x in New York, Prospect New Orleans, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, as well as Assembly Room Gallery and the 8th Floor. She is the founding editor of Slip magazine and her writing has appeared in ARTnews, The Offing, Burnaway, and BOMB, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues.

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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 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 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 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 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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