Summer Reception at the LSU Museum of Art

Thursday, June 11 from 5-8 PM • Free to attend

100 Lafayette Street, Shaw Center for the Arts, 5th floor, Downtown Baton Rouge, LA

• Members Only Preview from 5-6 PM
• Public Reception from 6-8 PM 

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. This event is free to attend. Not a member? Join now

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About the LSU Museum of Art's two Summer Exhibitions:

South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts

on view June 4–September 6, 2026 

The LSU Museum of Art presents the show South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts, June 4–September 6, 2026, a touring exhibition featuring artwork by the 2025 Southern Prize & State Fellowship for Visual Arts recipients. Launched in 2017 by South Arts, the Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts program celebrates and supports exemplary contemporary art in the American South. This exhibition features work by the nine 2025 recipients—one each from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee—representing the South Arts region. Represented artists and Fellows include: 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). 

South Arts is a nonprofit regional arts organization that advances creativity and innovation across the American South by supporting artists, organizations, and communities. Through grantmaking, professional development, touring exhibitions, and regional initiatives in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and state arts agencies, it expands access to the arts and strengthens cultural infrastructure throughout its nine-state region. South Arts’ Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts is generously supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation, the Windgate Foundation, Southern First Bank, The Warner Fund, and many generous donors. Learn more about South Arts by visiting southarts.org.

ReVision: Women in Photography

on view June 11–August 30, 2026 

This summer, the LSU Museum of Art partners with the Paul R. Jones Collection at the University of Alabama to present ReVision: Women in Photography. The show affirms the continuing impact of women artists who have shaped—and continue to shape—the visual language of photography. The exhibition showcases powerful images that explore themes such as social justice, aging, feminism, relationships, and feminine aesthetics. Representing a wide range of backgrounds, heritages, and lived experiences, the featured photographers offer perspectives grounded in the viewpoints of women. Through intimate portraits, conceptual narratives, and documentary approaches, the artists challenge assumptions about gender, identity, and representation while expanding conversations on the evolving roles of women in art and society. 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.