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This time of year feels very poignant. As the seasons change and the chill arrives, we thoughtfully and thankfully look back and forward. We are living through an unusual year with a pandemic, social unrest, and in Louisiana, a season of storms. All of us at LSU Museum of Art hope that you and your families are safe and strong. Southbound is an amazing journey through the first decades of the 21st century. It explores the southern region through the eyes of 56 different photographers. The “South” is a complicated concept, one worth exploring in all its complexity. These well-seen images of people and places from today’s South capture compelling visual stories of friends and neighbors throughout the region. COVER IMAGE: LETITIA HUCKABY THIS SAME DUSTY ROAD IMAGE (detail): LSU MOA installation closeup view of Huckaby's Look What a Woman’s Got, 2020, clothesline, pigment prints on fabric, Courtesy of the Artist
A few Southbound photographs have been carefully selected and placed throughout our Art in Louisiana collection galleries by artist Letitia Huckaby. Huckaby’s exhibition This Same Dusty Road presents unique photographic quilts that explore her family history and relationships. This exhibition expands to a wall of our Portrait Gallery. Inserting these photographs, exploring the Southbound exhibition and Huckaby’s quilted work, is a genuinely rewarding experience that gives viewers a new lens and deeper perspective of LSU MOA’s collection and culture in the South. We invite you to visit these new exhibitions and safely find respite and solace in our galleries. The Shaw Center and the museum follow all safety protocols. This award-winning Art Talk newsletter details exhibitions and both live and virtual program opportunities available to you and your family. You can schedule a virtual group tour with our educator, watch artist talks online, and mask up for programs back at the museum. I look forward to seeing you over the next few months and into the New Year. May the arts bring relief and hope to you in the New Year. In this issue we pay tribute to Pat Bacot, beloved former curator and director of the museum. Our thoughts go to his family and friends. I was fortunate to hear Pat talk about southern culture, his specialty. Being a museum director is a complex, challenging, and rewarding role. On behalf of the museum, we are grateful for Pat Bacot’s contributions to the museum, which have greatly contributed to its success today and will continue to have enormous impact. Rest in Peace.
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EXHIBITIONS
This Same Dusty Road Southbound The Art of Seating
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COLLECTIONS Collections Interns
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LSU MOA Graduate Assistantships
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Programs
CALENDAR
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EDUCATION
New Online Resources
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DEVELOPMENT
Remembering Pat Bacot New Members
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SEMC Awards Annual Fund Campaign
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MUSEUM STORE
Holiday Trunk Show
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LETITIA HUCKABY THIS SAME DUSTY ROAD
On view through March 14, 2021
LSU Museum of Art's exhibition, Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road features quilted photographic works based on Huckaby’s faith, family, and cultural heritage in Louisiana. Much of the work in this exhibition grows out of memories of visiting family who lived along Louisiana Highway 19. Through heirloom fabrics, traditional hand-quilting techniques, and photography, Huckaby mines the legacy of her family— particularly the matriarchs—connecting and confronting past and present inequities. She composes her family portraits to evoke old masterworks and altar pieces. Another series features portraits of nuns at the Sisters of the Holy Family Mother House, which was founded in 1842 by African American women.
IMAGE (above): Installation view of This Same Dusty Road at LSU MOA
Support for this exhibition and all LSU MOA exhibitions is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund donors: The Imo N. Brown Memorial Fund in memory of Heidel Brown and Mary Ann Brown; Louisiana CAT; Charles Schwing; The Alma Lee, H. N., and Cary Saurage Fund; The Newton B. Thomas Family/Newtron Group Fund; LSU College of Art & Design; Elizabeth M. Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Arst. ABOUT THE ARTIST Letitia Huckaby holds an MFA in Photography from the University of North Texas, a BFA in Photography from the University of Boston at Lesley, and a BA in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, the Samella Lewis Contemporary Art Collection at Scripps College in Claremont, California, the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, among others. She has had residencies with the Gee’s Bend Quilters and Brandywine.
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CLOSER LOOK
COTTON PESTS AND DIABETES What images and messages are in your family quilts? Letitia Huckaby finds the softness, comfort, and familiarity of quilts connect us all. She also uses quilting to explore her family’s heritage and connect it with legacies of inequity. If you joined us for our virtual artist talk with Letitia Huckaby in September, you had a chance to hear Huckaby speak in depth about the meaning and process in her photography and quilting processes. If you missed it, check it out here bit.ly/lsumoahuckabytalk and look closer at the meaning and imagery below.
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This quilt honors Huckaby’s father who passed away due to complications of diabetes. His image is featured in the center and surrounded by silhouetted images of Huckaby’s family.
Huckaby juxtaposes the “beat-up” look of harvested cotton fields with images of tissues ravaged by diabetes to connect legacies of systemic violence, injustice, and inequities that persist today for African American families.
Photographed through cotton sheets, both cotton and light are required for a figure to come into view— history and faith bring a person into view. The silhouetted figures also allude to the long shadow of enslavement, oppression, and systemic inequities.
IMAGE: Letitia Huckaby, Cotton Pests and Diabetes, 2007, pigment prints on fabric sewn into patchwork quilt, 46x54", Courtesy of the Artist
Watch our Zoom Artist Talk with Letitia Huckaby on YouTube bit.ly/lsumoahuckabytalk
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SOUTHBOUND
PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH On view through February 14, 2021
FREE FIRST SUNDAY Sunday, December 6 1–5 p.m. at LSU MOA Free admission Learn about Southbound during a curator gallery talk and join us for a downtown photo walk. Pre-register on www.lsumoa.org ZOOM TALKS Look for series of virtual talks in January and February 2021 with LSU Faculty and Southbound Photographers
IMAGE (detail): Installation view of Southbound at LSU MOA
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Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South comprises 56 photographers’ visions of the South over the first decades of the 21st century. Accordingly, it offers a composite image of the region. The photographs echo stories told about the South as a bastion of tradition, as a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities. The project’s purpose is to investigate senses of place in the South that come together, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers’ looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EXHIBITION For more ways to reconsider the New South, visit the Southbound Project website to view artist interviews, read ekfrastic poetry responding to the works, compare our region on their “Index of Southerness," and listen to curated playlists. http://southboundproject.org/. When you are in the LSU MOA galleries, open your camera on your smartphone and aim it at the QR codes on the labels for instant pop-ups to the Southbound website. Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South was organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, funded by the East Baton Rouge Parish Mayor-President and Metro Council. Additional support is provided by generous donors to the Annual Exhibition Fund.
SOUTHBOUND IN ART IN LOUISIANA
SELECTIONS BY LETITIA HUCKABY
Selected photographs from the Southbound exhibition are now integrated into each of LSU MOA's Art in Louisiana galleries. This Same Dusty Road artist Letitia Huckaby served as guest curator selecting works that resonated with her own view of the South to inspire deeper looking and fresh perspectives on our permanent collection. Find these works in each gallery marked with the Southbound logo and discussion of Huckaby's viewpoint.
LANDSCAPE GALLERY Kathleen Robbins' square composition reminds artist and guest curator Letitia Huckaby of a Polaroid—a snap of a moment in time. Huckaby appreciates the simplicity of this shotgun house, its unglamorized presentation. Unlike gussied-up, colorful shotgun houses of New Orleans, this shotgun house represents a moment to find beauty one would find throughout the Delta—a space where quiet moments pass and lives are lived.
SILVER GALLERY Huckaby was drawn to the alternative processes involved in the photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick now on view in our Silver Gallery: their aged—“tarnished”—look, caused by exposure to flooding during Hurricane Katrina, literally marks history onto the objects. These works starkly contrast with the polished silver’s selective, carefully engraved and designed representation of history.
Look for Southbound photographs inserted throughout the galleries and get Huckaby's lens on the South. IMAGES (top): Kathleen Robbins, Shotgun House, 2009 From the Into the Flatland series, Leflore County, Mississippi; (bottom) Keith Calhoun, Dock Worker, 1980, ca. 2010, From the Riverfront Faces series, New Orleans Riverfront, New Orleans, Louisiana www.lsumoa.org
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THE ART OF SEATING
TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN DESIGN
OPENING SPRING 2021 On view March 11–June 6, 2021
IMAGE (above): Designed by Warren McArthur Jr. (1885-1961) Manufactured by Warren McArthur Corp., Rome, NY Sling Seat Lounge Chair, c. 1935 Photo by Michael Koryta and Andrew VanStyn, Director of Acquisitions, Conservation and Photography
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The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design features a selection of over forty iconic and historic chairs reaching back from the mid-1800s to pieces from today’s studio movement. Drawn from the Jacobsen Collection of American Art, these chairs offer a stylistic journey in furniture, with showstoppers by John Henry Belter, George Hunzinger, Herter Brothers, Stickley Brothers, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Isamu Noguchi, and Frank Gehry, among others. The exhibition also features contemporary and historic designs by some of the biggest manufacturers such as Knoll, Herman Miller, and Steelcase. Most chairs encountered throughout the day define themselves fairly simply—a place at the family table, a comfortable spot with a great view of the river, a seat of corporate power. When looking at the 43 chairs selected for The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design, however, there is much more to see than simple pieces of furniture. Developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and organized
for tour by International Arts & Artists, Washington, D.C, these works of art have compelling stories to tell about our national history, the evolution of American design, and incredible artistry and craftsmanship. The Art of Seating provides audiences with a unique opportunity to see chair types that usually reside in private homes, withheld from public display. The American Chair Collection, the center of this exhibition, is an amazing and comprehensive private collection of iconic and historic chairs reaching back from the mid-1800s to pieces from today's studio movement. The exhibition provides an opportunity to see readily recognizable pieces alongside those rarely seen by the public.
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EXHIBITION SPECIAL FEATURE Additions from the LSU Museum of Art permanent collection will expand the period of chair design even farther back in history to the 18th century. The Art of Seating is developed by the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and the Jacobsen Collection of American Art, and is organized for tour by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC. Thank you to Partner Sponsor, Donald J. Boutté and Michael D. Robinson, and Presenting Sponsor, Taylor Porter Attorneys At Law, for sponsoring this exhibition. Additional support is provided by generous donors to the Annual Exhibition Fund: The Imo N. Brown Memorial Fund in memory of Heidel Brown and Mary Ann Brown; Louisiana CAT; Charles Schwing; The Alma Lee, H. N., and Cary Saurage Fund; The Newton B. Thomas Family/Newtron Group Fund; LSU College of Art & Design; Elizabeth M. Thomas; Mr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Arst.
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IMAGES (1): Designed by David Wolcott Kendall (18511910). Manufactured by Phoenix Furniture Company (Founded 1870), Grand Rapids, MI. “McKinley” Arm Chair, c. 1894-96. Photo by Michael Koryta and Andrew VanStyn, Director of Acquisitions, Conservation and Photography; (2) Designed by Thomas E. Warren (active with American Chair Co. 1849-52). Manufactured by the American Chair Co. (1829-1858), Troy, NY. Centripetal Spring Arm Chair, c. 1850. Photo by Michael Koryta and Andrew VanStyn, Director of Acquisitions, Conservation and Photography; (3) Designed and Manufactured by Vivian Beer (b. 1977), Penland, NC. Current, 2004. Photo by Douglas J. Eng.
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Sydney McGinnis Sydney McGinnis (BS, Textile Science ’20) regularly uses the Past Perfect database to input needed information. She prepares and organizes loan and accession records for the permanent and temporary collections. She also handles current artwork within the museum’s storage as well as incoming pieces from new donors, and creates condition reports for outgoing artwork.
Hope Simpson Hope Simpson (BA, Anthropology '23) is a student worker in the curatorial department at LSU MOA. She works to inventory pieces in the collections database as well as complete condition reports on incoming and outgoing pieces.
COLLECTIONS STUDENT INTERNS One of LSU MOA's biggest tasks is documenting, tracking, researching, and caring for our permanent collection according to American Alliance of Museum standards. LSU MOA is grateful for the assistance of and the opportunity to provide professional museum experience for LSU students.
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Cora Barhorst Cora Barhorst (BA, History and Classical Studies, minors in Business and Latin '20) helps maintain the inventory systems of the collections in exhibition and storage and assists in taking records of the physical environment of the galleries for long-term records to ensure the care of objects.
CURATORIAL TEAM GRADUATE ASSISTANTS
Autumn Johnson
Kirsten Campbell
PROFILE Autumn Johnson / first year MFA candidate studying Printmaking at LSU PROJECTS Currently, I am encouraging students and museum attendants to submit creative work for a zine; submissions must be in response to or inspired by our current exhibition Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, which consists of 56 photographers. To learn more about creative publications, I am holding a Zoom talk with the editor of longstanding on-campus publication New Delta Review, Ian Lockaby. Later in November, I will be helping the LSU Museum of Art host a socially distanced outdoor student-centered event in the museum plaza. GOALS I am very excited about having the opportunity to get people interested in looking at and thinking about art. I believe that the zine project I am currently working on will be a great experience and I can't wait to see what people submit. Hopefully, I can gain experience teaching classes and performing demonstrations through LSU MOA.
PROFILE Kirsten Campbell / Doctor of Design in Cultural Preservation (Specialization in Archival Studies) / first year in program, but third year at LSU (Campbell received MA in Art History in May 2020 and immediately began the DDES program) PROJECTS I am currently working on the Community Insights Project and gallery guides. The Community Insights Project is about hearing and honoring the experiences that the LSU MOA community has had with specific artists and artworks that are in our galleries. The gallery guides are thematic guides that will act as a teaching tool and opportunity to explore exhibitions more deeply. GOALS I am most excited about being around art everyday, and interacting with people who love art as much as I do. I hope to learn how to properly care for artworks in all phases whether it is being exhibited, in collections, or preparing for travel. www.lsumoa.org
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LSU MOA PROGRAMS MARK YOUR CALENDARS
free first sunday / returns to museum We are pleased to announce Free First Sunday programs are back at the museum! The public is invited to visit on these days for free and pre-register for programs on www.lsumoa.org/calendar. We appreciate the support of Louisiana Lottery Corporation and IBERIABANK, a division of First Horizon, for sponsoring free admission and Louisiana CAT for sponsoring programming.
Southbound Gallery Talk & Photo Walk Sunday, December 6 from 1–5 p.m. Register here: bit.ly/southboundsunday Learn about Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South during a gallery talk with LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor and then explore downtown on a photo walk led by local photographers. Learn new photo tricks for your phone or camera from professional photographers as you capture downtown Baton Rouge. Pre-register for both programs, masks required, and spaces must remain at 50% capacity.
IMAGE (detail): Susana Raab, Untitled, 2006 From the Migrants in Immokalee series, Immokalee, Florida
upcoming workshop / sign up now Register online and stay up-to-date by following LSU MOA:
Image Transfer & Collage Adult Workshop Sunday, November 22 from 1–4:30 p.m. Sunday, December 13 from 1–4:30 p.m. Register here: bit.ly/lsumoacollageworkshop Learn about image transfer techniques and how to use them for book arts, collage, painting, and fiber arts! Be inspired by the transfer methods seen in LSU MOA's current exhibition Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road and apply what you learn in this workshop to create unique mixed media artwork. $5 / Ages 18+. Visitors must pre-register for workshop (spaces limited) and masks required.
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community quilt / call for submissions Inspired by the quilts in Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road, LSU MOA is calling the community to create a collage portrait quilt square (example pictured) to add to the LSU MOA Community Quilt. Museum staff will scan your artwork, transfer it to fabric, add it to the quilt, and contact you via email to come check it out! For quilt squares and to participate: Contact LSU MOA Educator Grant Benoit at gbenoit1@lsu.edu
artist talks / take a closer look online Missed our Zoom artist talks? Watch our recent virtual talks on the LSU MOA YouTube Channel, and sign up for upcoming museum virtual programs.
watch online here: bit.ly/lsumoatv Artist Talk with Martin Payton
Artist Talk with Brice Bischoff
Artist Talk with Katrina Andry
Artist Talk with Tina Freeman
Navigating the Art Market
Artist Talk with Letitia Huckaby
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EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS interactive powerpoint resource guide
LSU Museum of Art has released new interactive resources designed for K-12 educators and their students that bring our permanent collection to their classroom in a new and flexible way. Each resource tackles different themes, exhibitions, or elements of art and is organized in units that are easily added to supplement educators' lesson plans in the classroom and keep students engaged in learning. Designed to work in multiple ways, these resources can be used as a group activity or as an independent activity for students. Students learn directly from LSU Museum educators through recorded videos, demos, gallery tours, clickable content, games, quizzes, and activities that get students thinking critically about art through making, writing, and other core subject areas. Louisiana Key Academy has been using the 'What is a Portrait?' resources to supplement their enrichment courses. "The Educational Resources that LSU MOA has provided us have made a huge positive impact on our students as well as the teachers. The incredible videos, interactive learning tools, engaging activities, and project ideas have served us well in supplementing and enriching our curriculum during this time of virtual learning and teaching. Both our in-person and virtual students can access these resources and have shown enthusiasm for the material. We greatly appreciate this opportunity and access to these resources here at Louisiana Key Academy!" Claire Kane art teacher at Louisiana Key Academy IMAGES (top and left): Students from Louisiana Key Academy who participated in the 'What is a Portrait?' LSU MOA resources.
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EDUCATION
NEW ONLINE RESOURCES HOW TO NAVIGATE 1. Go to www.lsumoa.org
LEARN
2. Go to Main Menu and hover over the Learn Tab 3. Explore Online and Get Started!
BOOK VIRTUAL TOUR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES ONLINE RESOURCES
MEET UP AT THE MUSEUM VIRTUALLY FOR A GROUP TOUR families & friends classrooms BOOK ONLINE TODAY: bit.ly/lsumoavirtualtour Keep the creative learning going even distanced at home! LSU Museum of Art now offers live, educator-led tours via video that give groups and students access to art in the museum and lots of fun, critical thinking activities. Groups and students can engage with the educator just like in an ordinary tour by asking and answering questions and participating in a hands-on art project at home or in the classroom. Live tours are 30 minutes, explore 3–4 art works at the museum, and include an educator resource guide with activities and in-classroom resources. Groups and teachers can select from the following themes or exhibitions: Art in Louisiana Materials and Tools Portraits Landscape Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road Private group number: minimum 5, maximum 10 people to book virtual group tour (does not apply to school tours). Groups and teachers can also request a specialized, interdisciplinary tour (4 weeks in advance) tailored to a specific subject area, thematic unit, skill, or teacher preference. Please contact Grant Benoit for scheduling and rates, gbenoit1@lsu.edu www.lsumoa.org
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REMEMBERING PAT BACOT
"Pat Bacot led the Anglo American Art Museum through many successful years and it grew into the even larger LSU Museum of Art. He was very knowledgeable and had a great ability to bring important donations and acquisitions to the collection. Through his books, lectures and love of art and especially the decorative arts, he brought awareness and esteem to both museums." −Beth Fuller, LSU MOA Advisory Board Member Professor Emeritus, Henry Parrott 'Pat' Bacot has left an impactful legacy at LSU MOA. In 1967 he began his career as the Curator of LSU MOA and an Instructor in Art History. Bacot formed important collections of Louisiana paintings, including the largest holdings of the opaque watercolors of Adrien Persac, one of Louisiana's most significant artists of the 19th century. He is largely responsible for the museum's comprehensive collection of the arts and crafts produced by Newcomb College. Through his vision, LSU MOA now owns the largest collection of silver made in New Orleans in the 19th century. Caroline Durieux, Louisiana's most notable graphic artist, was a firm friend. As a student, Pat helped her make some electron prints. This friendship led to her giving the museum an almost complete run of her prints. With Bacot's focus on Louisiana's fine and decorative arts, he formed a collection of 18th and early 19th century Louisiana-made furniture. Under his direction, the holdings in American and British art were expanded. A recognized scholar, Bacot co-authored many award-winning publications, journal articles, and wrote catalogs for exhibitions he curated for LSU MOA. Always active in the historic preservation movement, Bacot served on several boards and as interiors consultant for a number of public and private restorations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. LSU MOA is grateful for Pat Bacot's contributions to the growth and success of LSU MOA. In lieu of flowers kindly make donations in his memory to Magnolia Mound Plantation or the LSU Foundation for the LSU Museum of Art. Source: The Advocate / Read full obituary: www.lsufoundation.org/patbacot
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MEMBERSHIP SPECIAL!
When a LSU MOA member buys a membership as a holiday gift, you get one month free added onto your current membership!
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SUSTAINER Bob and Jane Blackledge
2020 SEMC AWARDS
SUPPORT AN AWARD WINNING MUSEUM
Under $10,000 Budget SILVER: LSU Museum of Art Adore | Adorn: The Elsie Michie Contemporary Jewelry Collection (pictured above)
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This year LSU Museum of Art was honored and grateful to win four awards as an institution in the Exhibition and Publication Competitions of the Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC). Your support of our exhibitions allows LSU MOA to provide an exceptional museum experience to the public. Consider donating to our Annual Fund to support future exhibitions. Make your end of the year gift before December 31, 2020 to the FY21 Annual Fund Campaign. Official kick-off is February 1, 2021. DONATE HERE www.lsumoa.org/ annual-giving
THANK YOU SPONSORS FREE FIRST SUNDAYS & FREE FRIDAY NIGHTS Thank you to the following sponsors of Free First Sundays and Free Friday Nights. We appreciate the support of Louisiana Lottery Corporation and IBERIABANK, a division of First Horizon, for sponsoring free admission and Louisiana CAT for sponsoring programming.
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MUSEUM STORE SUNDAY November 29 | 1–5 p.m. 25% off your entire purchase plus enter a raffle to win a Household membership from LSU Museum of Art and LASM. 16TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY TRUNK SHOW December 4 | 4–8 p.m. Get 20% off one regular priced item (George Rodrigue items excluded), free gift wrap, and refreshments. GIVE THE GIFT OF MEMBERSHIP Membership Special! Take part in art and give the gift of membership this holiday season. Contact LeAnn Russo 18225-389-7210 Art Talk Winter 2020
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HOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDE The LSU Museum Store has a wide variety of gifts for the holidays from LSU School of Art artworks, locally made pottery, LSU MOA published art books, jewelry, and so much more! 1 LSU Museum of Art 15th Anniversary Mug 2 Cotton Mural oval platter by Clementine Hunter 3 Guess the Artist-Art Quiz Game by Laurence King Publishing 4 Purple Crawfish adult mask by Nola MasQ 5 Uncanny Apple Blossom Girl by Ian Park 6 Etched Heart Earrings by Thomas Mann 7 Ceramic wheel-thrown bird feeder by Potteri Studios 8 Purple and gold glass candy dish by Juli Juneau 9 Broken Time Sculpture by Martin Payton book 10 Mimosa Shimmering Sun and River cuffs
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Daniel E. Stetson, Executive Director Sarah Amacker, Communications Coordinator Grant Benoit, Educator LeAnn Dusang, Museum Store Manager / Visitor Services Manager / Membership Coordinator Nedra Hains, Director of Development & External Affairs Jordan Hess, Preparator Olivia Johnson, Curatorial Assistant Courtney Taylor, Curator & Director of Public Programs Fran Huber, Assistant Director for Collections Management (through December 31, 2020) Becky Abadie, Business Manager (through January 15, 2021)
FRIENDS OF LSU MUSEUM OF ART President: Susannah Bing Johannsen Vice President: Clarke J. Gernon, Jr. Secretary / Treasurer: Robert Bowsher Michael Avant Brad M. Bourgoyne Burton Perkins Emile C. Rolfs III Ann Wilkinson Jeff Bell Ex-Officio: Daniel E. Stetson Staff Representative: Nedra Hains
ADVISORY BOARD 2020–2021
Chair: Steven Heymsfield Vice Chair: Nancy C. Dougherty Secretary / Treasurer: John Everett Immediate Past Chair: Brian Schneider Sanford A. “Sandy” Arst Margaret Benjamin George Bonvillain Jerry Ceppos Lake Douglas Donna Fraiche Beth Fuller Becky Gottsegen Louanne Greenwald Joyce Jackson Ben Jeffers Mary T. Joseph Elizabeth Carpenter Noland Kay Martin Mary Ratcliff, Student Representative Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr. L. Cary Saurage II Carol Steinmuller Ex-Officio: Susannah Bing Johannsen Daniel E. Stetson Honorary: Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser Nadine Russell Emerita: Sue Turner
GLASSELL GALLERY Years That Ask Questions 19th Annual Summer Invitational Art Exhibition: WINTER EDITION December 11, 2020–February 12, 2021
Emery Kate Tilman: Yours Always, Always Yours MFA Thesis Exhibition March 2–13, 2021
View media created by local talent inspired by Southern writers. Jurors: Denyce Celentano and James Beaman
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CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF ART DOWNTOWN
