Education

Lecture by Dr. Blaise Ducos of the Musée du Louvre at the LSU Museum of Art on February 28, 2023

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Lecture by Dr. Blaise Ducos of the Musée du Louvre at the LSU Museum of Art on February 28, 2023

Dr. Blaise Ducos, the Curator of 17th- and 18th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the Musée du Louvre, discusses European decorative arts. Dr. Blaise Ducos will give a lecture at LSU MOA titled, Metal into Paint: The Many Lives of the Van Vianen Vase during the annual Decorative Arts Lecture Series.

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NAP 2020 Student Volunteer Highlight: Morgan Gallegos

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NAP 2020 Student Volunteer Highlight: Morgan Gallegos

The LSU MOA staff is grateful to have student volunteers assist us in assembling our NAP art kits this summer to distribute out into the Baton Rouge community. Recently, we spoke with Morgan Gallegos, a rising senior at St. Joseph's Academy and member of Mayor-President Broome's Youth Advisory Council, about her experience so far with LSU MOA and our Neighborhood Arts Project education program.

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Gee's Bend Quilts

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Gee's Bend Quilts

What is a quilt? Where do we find quilts? We are going to learn about the quilters of Gee’s Bend today. Gee’s Bend is a very small, poor town in Alabama. The women in Gee’s Bend are known for their beautiful, colorful quilts that look like paintings you would see in a museum. The quilts were made to keep their families warm. Because the women didn’t have a lot of money to buy new fabric or materials, they used things they had—old clothes, towels, rags—nothing was wasted.

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