COLLECTIONS ONLINE DATABASE
In the wake of March’s stay-at-home order for Louisiana, museum staff were left reeling, wondering: How can we fulfill our mission if no one can visit the museum? One easy way to provide visitors access to the museum’s collection and galleries was already on our radar: expanding LSU MOA’s online collection database. If you’ve explored the museum’s website, you may have clicked “explore the collection,” which has been available for some time. When museum staff went home in March, there were only 542 objects available to see. Since then, the records available have more than doubled (over 1,133 objects) and continue to grow with collective efforts from museum staff and student workers.
see the collection from home
Go to lsumoa.pastperfectonline.com Use the keyword or advanced search to find a specific object, artist, or collection. Try “Caroline Durieux” in the Artist field or “Newcomb” in the Collection field. Or try “Art in Louisiana” in the On View In field and see everything on view. Check in often to see what new records have been added. Take our survey on the LSU MOA collections page to help LSU MOA add more useful search keywords.
RECENT ACQUISITION NOW ON VIEW: TINA FREEMAN Inspired by childhood memories of fishing in Louisiana’s wetlands and impacts of climate change on these sites, Freeman took aerial photographs of southern Louisiana and glacial ice at the North and South poles. This work represents Freeman’s understanding of “the deeper underlying relationship between melting glaciers and vanishing wetlands, two aspects of climate change and rising waters that threaten the survival of our species on this planet. Seeing the melting polar ice not only showed me the reality of global sea level rise, but brought home the vulnerability of New Orleans…”
IMAGE: Tina Freeman, 20150623_Greenland_003, Sea ice off the easter coast of Greenland; 20130911_Louisiana_Deltas_108, Rotten marsh near Delacroix, Louisiana, from the Lamentations series; printed 2020, archival inkjet print on paper, ed. 1/3, Purchased with funds from Robert T. and Linda H. Bowsher, LSUMOA 2020.3 www.lsumoa.org
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