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Free Summer Reception

  • LSU Museum of Art 100 Lafayette Street, Fifth Floor Baton Rouge, LA, 70801 United States (map)
Painting by Edgar Cano and photograph by Amalia Amaki.

(left featured in South Arts) Edgar Cano, Life is Beautiful, 2022. Oil on linen. Photo by Anna Poe; (right featured in ReVision: Women in Photography) Amalia Amaki, Blue Lady, 2006. The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at the University of Alabama.

Summer Reception

Thursday, June 11 from 6–8 PM

  • Members Only Preview from 5–6 PM

  • Public Reception from 6–8 PM 

  • Free to attend (RSVP not required to attend)

Celebrate the exhibitions South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts and ReVision: Women in Photography. Members get a special cocktail hour prior to the public reception. Not a member? Join at lsumoa.org/membership.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS

South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts is a touring exhibition featuring artwork by the 2025 Southern Prize & State Fellowship for Visual Arts recipients: Loretta Pettway Bennett (Alabama), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (Florida), Masela Nkolo (Georgia), Travis Townsend (Kentucky), Edgar Cano (Louisiana), Stephen Phillips (Mississippi), Lydia C. Thompson (North Carolina), Felicia Greenlee (South Carolina), and Tabitha Arnold (Tennessee). This exhibition is organized by South Arts and is supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Windgate Foundation, Southern First Bank, The Warner Fund, and many generous donors.

ReVision: Women in Photography features works from the permanent collections of the LSU Museum of Art and the Paul R. Jones Museum in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, showing the continuing impact of women artists who have shaped—and continue to shape—the visual language of photography. Featured photographers include: Amalia Amaki, Sheila Pree Bright, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Suda House, Celestia Morgan, Martina Mullaney, Dianora Niccolini, Anne Noggle, Kenda North, Akasha Rabut, Ming Murray Smith, Clarissa Thompson Sligh, Sheila Turner, Kristine Thompson, Melanie Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems.