Fall 2020 Art Talk

fall 2020

ART TALK

FROM THE

DIRECTOR

We find ourselves in a dynamic period where “head work” and “heart work” are profoundly needed. There is a great deal of discussion, turmoil, division, and debate in areas such as social justice and the environment. The LSU Museum of Art is committed to be a part of these important discussions with both our heads and our hearts.

The university has recently adopted a Diversity & Inclusion Roadmap that places enhancing diversity as a core institutional value. The LSU Strategic Plan states that being collaborative, creative, culturally adept, globally engaged, innovative, and transformative are values centered in all we do at the university. Each of these values is embedded in the seriousness with which we do artistic and cultural work for our students and, importantly, for our full community.

COVER IMAGE FROM SOUTHBOUND IMAGE (detail): Kevin Kline, Four on a Bike, Piety Street, 2010.

From the Someday You Will Be a Memory series, New Orleans, Louisiana IMAGE (above): Photo credit Jenn Ocken Photography

A key Strategic Challenge is Advancing Arts and Culture.

As part of this wider university and cultural moment we pledge to use our work as a platform to bridge differences and to seek understanding. We are listening, being introspective and critical, and learning. Fostering the qualities of empathy, tolerance, and global understanding through the arts is challenging, but is deeply rewarding. The museum’s mission is centered on cultural understanding and exploration.

The exhibitions in this issue of Art Talk are founded in this commitment. The Southbound and Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road exhibitions explore the American South and Louisiana. Both exhibitions are a window into the world to be explored, but also act as mirrors to see ourselves. The visual arts offer a unique experience and opportunity–seeing through someone else’s eyes and feeling their lived experience.

We invite you to use our galleries as respite during these days of isolation. Celebrate the beauty of the works on display and use them as catalysts for timely discussions with your family and friends. Learn from others, see through their eyes.

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EXHIBITIONS

Letitia Huckaby Southbound Art in Louisiana Updates

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COLLECTIONS

Online Collection

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EDUCATION

Neighborhood Arts Project Family Gallery Update

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CALENDAR

Announcements

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DEVELOPMENT

Sponsorship New Members LSU MOA Goals

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MUSEUM STORE

15 Years of Supporting 18 Local Artists: Michael Schwade

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LETITIA HUCKABY THIS SAME DUSTY ROAD

On view September 17, 2020 – March 14, 2021 ARTIST TALK Thursday, September 24 Zoom, 5:30 p.m.

LSU MOA Curator Courtney Taylor in conversation with Letitia Huckaby Pre-register on www.lsumoa.org

IMAGE (above): Letitia Huckaby, East Feliciana Altarpiece, 2010, pigment print on silk, 46 x 144", Courtesy of the Artist

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On September 17, 2020, LSU Museum of Art opens a new exhibition, Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road. 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 portrait series features nuns at the Sisters of the Holy Family Mother House, which was founded in 1842 by African American women.

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.

Sallie (1835) Lydia B. Kent (1864) Lorena Spurlock (1900) Jessie Washington (1922) Audrey Jenkins (1946) Letitia Huckaby (1972) Halle Lujah (2008) Rhema Rain (2016) Dusty Roads.

Heavy, Humid heat.

Swamps and overgrowth everywhere you look.

The moisture never quite leaves your body when to get out of the tub. You breathe in the red dirt when trucks fly by, and wait for the dust to clear as light streams through the trees above.

It’s easier to walk the winding road to the store on the hill, than try to pile eight or ten kids in the car − all screaming for chips and soda pop.

If I open my mouth to speak, I’m surrounded with questions of places far from here. It’s funny because I feel I’ve stepped into a history book. Slave quarters still in use, plantations are now antebellum homes, and the French I worked so hard to learn in school flows like water...here.

I can’t help but think of my female ancestors, and wonder what kind of life they had in the backwoods of Louisiana. What dreams did they have as they strolled down this same dusty road?

IMAGE: Letitia Huckaby, Grant Street, 2010, pigment prints on silk, 36 x 39.5 ½”, Courtesy of the Artist

Support for this exhibition and all LSU MOA exhibitions is provided by the Annual Exhibition Fund donors.

Breathing in the sweet smell of red clay after a brief summer rain, catching a light breeze through the willow and magnolia trees, and licking the moister off their lips to temper a thirst. ‘til they made it to the store on the hill.

–Poem by Letitia Huckaby

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SOUTHBOUND

PHOTOGRAPHS OF AND ABOUT THE NEW SOUTH On view October 22, 2020 – February 14, 2021 PROGRAMS Coming Soon www.lsumoa.org IMAGE (detail): Sheila Pree Bright, #ReclaimMLKDay, Black Lives Matter Disrupts M.L.K. Jr. Day Parades Across the Country, 2015.

From the #1960Now series, Atlanta, Georgia

Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South comprises fifty-six photographers’ visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty-first 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.

MORE SPECIAL FEATURES OF THIS PROJECT: Photographs from Southbound will be included in LSU MOA’s Art in Louisiana galleries to add a new lens through which to view the collection. 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/ 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.

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SPOTLIGHT THE ARTISTS

Sheila Pree Bright “When I photograph the protest images I’m not out there on the ground just clicking my camera away−okay−I’m waiting for a moment. I’m trying to show a portrait of these individuals that live in this community and want you to show the humanity…I think with all with this body of work that’s what I hope to accomplish to start a dialogue where we can go into spaces not just safe spaces, but we could go into brave spaces, to see how we can move forward..” bit.ly/southboundbright

Hear directly from the photographers involved in Southbound: Sheila Pree Bright, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, and Titus Brooks Heagins share their thoughts about their motivation, process, and about the importance of being part of your community and representing truth and humanity in photography.

Check out their videos and find more from other artists at www.southboundproject. org/watch/

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Titus Brooks Heagins

IMAGE (above): Titus Brooks Heagins, Nichole, Love Eternal, 2013.

From the Portraits from the New South series Durham, North Carolina

“I believe that there are these kind of, there are certain places where something happens where people really connect and something honest about their lives comes out, but I think that it has to be a certain type of environment.

So I look for places that have that environment because I’m looking to capture what is their truth about life.” bit.ly/southboundheagins

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Keith Calhoun “We’re more involved in our work, gonna always be part of this community, you know our work comes from the people so, you know, to me, it belongs to the people, and is for the people.

They have certain people who want to be authority on our culture, and we have to be able to speak…You know photography can take you through any door...the camera is more powerful than a AK-47, in the right hands, it’s a weapon.” bit.ly/southboundcalhounmccormick

IMAGE (above): Keith Calhoun, Dr. Michael White and The Tuxedo Brass Band Lead Funeral Procession, 1980s, ca. 2010.

From the New Orleans Music series, Uptown, New Orleans, Louisiana www.lsumoa.org

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ART IN LOUISIANA RECENT UPDATES

INTRO GALLERY The “introductory” gallery is regularly updated to set the context for the galleries to come and incorporate contemporary issues and conversations. If you visit today, you’ll find three works on view for the first time. Two photographs from the 2016 protests in Baton Rouge, a history painting related to the Civil War, and a photograph of a re-enactor from Dread Scott’s 2019 Slave Rebellion Reenactment point to the legacies of racial violence and legacies of resistance to racial oppression in Louisiana.

MODERN & CONTEMPORARY Three additions to the Art in Louisiana Modern & Contemporary gallery feature works by LSU alums Brice Bischoff, who recently joined us for an artist talk (bit.ly/bischofftalk), and Carol Elizabeth Clay Mann, whose work explores the domestic roles of women. We’re also pleased to welcome back a work by 2018 visiting artist Matt Wedel that was recently gifted by the artist.

LANDSCAPE GALLERY The Art in Louisiana gallery highlighting landscapes has been completely reinstalled to explore the intersection of the natural environment with culture. Nineteenth-century paintings pair with contemporary works to highlight the tensions between culture, industry, and the environment—and our own romanticized notions of landscape. A major highlight is the inclusion of a photograph recently acquired by Tina Freeman (pictured right).

Artist Talk with Tina Freeman / Thursday, September 10 at 5:30 p.m. on Zoom

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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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EDUCATION

NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT Among the vast impacts of the pandemic is the limited access children have to handson arts programming. The LSU Museum of Art’s community arts education program, Neighborhood Arts Project, has adapted to the special challenges of the pandemic.

Traditionally, NAP functions as a neighborhood gathering point with creative activities for families. This year we encapsulated the program in over 1,000 kits for families to use to be creative and safe at home in this ongoing project.

•39 volunteers packaging kits •15 distribution points •1,073 kits distributed • 606 activity bags distributed through EBRPS Nutrition Sites March–May (adapted ArtWorks program) LSU MOA NAP art kits include: LSU MOA lessons and activity worksheets, crayons, watercolors, chalk, scissors, glue, and pencils

By safely distributing these boxes, the museum hopes to give children and parents an arts education resource and a connection to the museum during this time. NAP kits were distributed through the following partners: •Village Resource Center •Gardere Initiative • Interfaith Federation’s Holy Grill at Cadillac Street Park • Family and Youth Services of Baton Rouge •EBRP Libraries •CEO Mind, INC •Start Corporation •Unity: A Juneteenth Family Picnic •HYPE

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IMAGES: (pictured top right) LSU MOA Educator Grant Benoit teaching at Interfaith Federation’s Holy Grill at Cadillac Street Park; (top left) Baton Rouge Magnet High School Key Club students volunteering to package kits; (bottom left) Gardere Initiative participants with NAP art kits

FAMILY GALLERY

WHAT IS PATTERN

now on view: What is Pattern The latest exhibition in the Pennington Family Foundation Education Gallery, What is Pattern, highlights over 20 pieces from the permanent collection that illustrate the variety of pattern we can find in art and in the world around us.

Families can explore pattern through intricately woven pre-Columbian textiles or find elements of repetition and symmetry in Brett Weston's or William Greiner’s photographs. The world of pattern is vast—where else can you find pattern?

While visitors may miss familiar educational games and books in the gallery, don’t worry— there are still plenty of opportunities to engage in creative learning. Explore pattern through downloadable activity sheets at www.lsumoa.org or a Take Home Craft bag in the gallery.

Still need more pattern in your life? Sign up online for a virtual workshop or demonstrations based on pattern to create and learn from home.

IMAGE: Installation view of What is Pattern exhibition at LSU MOA (in progress photo)

LSU MOA’s Neighborhood Arts Project is made possible with the support of the following community partners: Office of Mayor President Sharon Weston Broome, Art Bridges, LA CAT, and BREC. Thank you also to partners at the Interfaith Federation, Gardere Initiative, Village Resource Center, and HYPE. Neighborhood Arts Project is made possible with the support of the following partners:

IMAGE: Morgan Gallegos, a rising senior at St. Joseph’s Academy and member of Mayor-President Broome’s Youth Advisory Council, packaging kits www.lsumoa.org

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT LSU MOA ANNOUNCEMENTS

hours / back to regular hours September 1 We are pleased to announce the museum will be returning to our normal business hours (listed below) on September 1st / thank you for supporting LSU MOA during the pandemic.

We hope to see you soon in the galleries to view all our exhibitions.

hours (beginning September 1, 2020) Tuesday through Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Thursday and Friday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Sunday: 1 – 5 p.m.

Closed Mondays and major holidays

IMAGE (now on view in LSU MOA’s Landscape Gallery): Ed Smith (American, b. 1959), Weight of the World, 2009, oil on canvas, Purchased with funds from the Friends of LSU Museum of Art Endowment, LSU MOA 2010.9

artist talks / virtual programming 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: bit.ly/lsumoatv Artist Talk with Martin Payton Artist Talk with Katrina Andry Navigating the Art Market Artist Talk with Brice Bischoff

upcoming programs Artist Talk with Tina Freeman

Thursday, September 10 / Zoom, 5:30 p.m.

Pre-register www.lsumoa.org

Artist Talk with Letitia Huckaby

IMAGE: Letitia Huckaby, Cotton Pests and Diabetes, pigment prints sewn into patchwork quilt, 46x54", Courtesy of the Artist

Thursday, September 24 / Zoom, 5:30 p.m.

Pre-register www.lsumoa.org

Demos & Virtual Tours Coming Soon!

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#conspicuousla / submissions Thank you to everyone who visited Conspicuous: Satirical Works by Caroline Durieux and to those who submitted work to #conspicuousla.

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#CONSPICUOUSLA SUBMISSIONS: (1) Libby Johnson, Self Portrait with a Swab, 2020, pen and ink on paper; (2) Ross Jahnke, Breasts, 2020, relief print on paper; (3) April Hammock, Ditch Fishin’, 2020, ink on paper; (4) Brian Kelly, Swin Maskers, 2020, lithograph on paper

last chance / exhibition closing Thank you to the sponsors of and lenders to this exhibition and all who visited.

Living with Art: Selections from Baton Rouge Collections on view until September 27, 2020

online resources / create at home Stay connected to the museum at home / visit our online resources for arts education activities and virtual programming: lsumoa.org/online-resources www.lsumoa.org

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100% of LSU MOA Exhibitions are supported by Donors like you.

take a closer look Support Reexamination of our Heritage

Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South ON VIEW: October 22, 2020–February 14, 2021 IMAGE (detail): Kevin Kline, Four on a Bike, Piety Street, 2010. From the Someday You Will Be a Memory series, New Orleans, Louisiana

Help LSU MOA connect with all audiences to expand their view of the American South. Southbound engages with an assumed narrative about this contested region by providing fresh perspectives for understanding the complex admixture of history, geography, and culture that constitutes today’s New South. Despite significant economic and social change, Baton Rouge and the South hold onto its past most insistently.

Reexamine the South through these 56 photographers' eyes to see change and to envision change for the future.

become a sponsor Bring 200 Years of Design to our Community The Art of Seating: A unique opportunity for Sponsors to support LSU MOA in providing all audiences with an exceptional exhibition of chair design. The American Chair Collection, includes iconic and historic chairs reaching back from the mid-1800s to pieces from today's studio movement. In addition, LSU MOA will add rarely displayed pieces from our own chair collection to expand the timeline and add a Louisiana dimension to the exhibition.

The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design ON VIEW: March 11, 2021–June 6, 2021 IMAGE: Kenneth Smythe, Synergistic Synthesis XVII sub b1 Chair, 2003, Finn Birch Laminate, Formica Colorcore, Latigo Leather, Sunbrella Acrylic, Top Grain Leather, Foam Rubber, Steel, Maple Dowels.

Courtesy of the Thomas H. & Diane DeMell Jacobsen Ph.D Foundation; Photography: Michael Koryta; Andrew VanStyn, Art Director of Photography Thank you to [$5,000] Partner Sponsor, Donald J. Boutté and Michael D. Robinson, for sponsoring this exhibition.

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CALL FOR SPONSORS

SUPPORT AN EXHIBITION

your support has impact Sponsor Artwork with Local Connections Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road features work based in our “backyard” that will foster a deep connection for local audiences. Sponsor this exhibition, which features quilted photographic works based on Huckaby’s faith, family, and heritage deriving from her family’s life in Louisiana, or consider a gift to support acquisition of these locally relevant works.

Support of an acquisition by Letitia Huckaby will support LSU MOA’s strategic goal of prioritizing acquisitions by underrepresented artists.

Letitia Huckaby: This Same Dusty Road ON VIEW: September 17, 2020–March 14, 2021 IMAGE (detail): Letitia Huckaby, Bud, 2010, pigment print on silk, 34 x 28", Courtesy of the Artist

LSU MOA SPONSORSHIP LEVELS For full sponsorship level details and to sponsor exhibitions, please contact LSU MOA Director of Development Nedra Hains at nhains1@lsu.edu Any amount counts. Donate to LSU MOA: bit.ly/donatelsumoa Thank you for supporting the LSU Museum of Art.

$30,000 TITLE SPONSOR

$5,000 PARTNER SPONSOR

$20,000 LEAD SPONSOR

$2,500 PRESENTING SPONSOR

$10,000 EVENT SPONSOR

$1,000 SUPPORTING SPONSOR

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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE SILVER George and Melanie Clark

UPCOMING GLASSELL GALLERY

BENEFACTOR Debbie and John Daniel Jimmy Harris SUSTAINER Patricia Alford

Showing at the Glassell Gallery this Fall 2020 are MFA thesis exhibitions

by School of Art recent graduates.

Christopher Burns: Sodium Vapor with special guest Tamrin Ingram September 22 – October 9, 2020 Emery Kate Tilman: Yours Always, Always Yours October 14 – 30, 2020

HOUSEHOLD Beth Courtney Dr. Harold Clausen and Dr. Robin Kilpatrick Larry and Karen Ruth DUAL Micheline Cazayoux Lee and Gretchen Kantrow Kristopher and Gwen Palagi

Samantha Combs: Meanwhile November 10 – 24, 2020

FRIEND Rosemary Goddell Kristine Johnson Adele Smith

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EDUCATOR Scott Dusang

IMAGE: Sculpture by Emery Kate Tilman

We greatly appreciate your ongoing support as a member.

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LSU MOA GOALS

MUSEUMS ARE NOT NEUTRAL Support the LSU Diversity & Inclusion Roadmap • Enhancing Diversity and Inclusion as a core institutional value

Prioritize Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion (DEAI) National Efforts • Pursue Education and Training Opportunities including Dialogue on Race in Louisiana • Participate in OF/BY/FOR ALL and the Change Network

Use our Work as a Platform to Bridge Differences • Continue to reinterpret our exhibition spaces, collections, and installations • Develop a Community Engagement Council

Ensure Sustainability • Grow Membership and Annual Fund Campaign and Fierce for the Future Campaign • Apply marketing efforts to diversify and build both audience and support

Free First Sundays and Free Friday Nights LSU MOA appreciates the support of Louisiana Lottery Corporation and Iberia Bank for sponsoring free admission and LA CAT for sponsoring educational programming.

MICHAEL SCHWADE

LSU MUSEUM STORE CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF SUPPORTING LOCAL ARTISTS As the LSU Museum Store continues to celebrate 15 years of business in the Shaw Center for the Arts, we also celebrate 15 years of collaboration with jewelry artist Michael Schwade of Osage Metal Arts. Schwade’s unique jewelry has been an essential part of our Museum Store throughout the years.

Michael Schwade began his love of creating and designing jewelry while attending Boston’s Vesper George School of Art. There, his silver jewelry production evolved, and he found he could make a living from his art. Shortly after he met and apprenticed for Cuban sculptor, Ernesto Gonzalez in Key West, Florida. Schwade began to develop his craft of modern, sculptural and alternative jewelry. He uses a variety of metals including bronze, copper, and silver in all his one-of-a kind pieces.

The LSU Museum Store was lucky to find Michael at a Baton Rouge art festival nearly two decades ago. Schwade’s work has its own fanbase that consistently supports his jewelry and patronizes our store.

Celebrate the LSU Museum Store's 15th anniversary in the Shaw Center for the Arts by shopping and supporting all our current artists’ works. The LSU Museum Store will return to regular shopping hours beginning September 1, 2020.

IMAGES: Michael Schwade’s jewelry

VISIT THE STORE

regular hours / masks required (beginning September 1, 2020)

Tuesday through Friday: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Sunday: 1 – 5 p.m.

Closed Mondays and major holidays LSU MOA Members: Get 10% off when you shop at the LSU Museum Store and when you dine at Shaw Center restaurants.

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STAFF

Daniel E. Stetson, Executive Director Becky Abadie, Business Manager Sarah Amacker, Communications Coordinator Grant Benoit, Educator LeAnn Dusang, Museum Store Manager / Visitor Services Manager / Membership Coordinator Nedra Hains, Director of Development & External Affairs / Events Manager Jordan Hess, Preparator Fran Huber, Assistant Director for Collections Management Olivia Johnson, Curatorial Assistant Courtney Taylor, Curator & Director of Public Programs

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 Rolfs Ann Wilkinson Jeff Bell Ex-Officio: Daniel E. Stetson Staff Representative: Nedra Hains

ADVISORY BOARD 2020–2021

Chair: Dr. 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 Dr. Lake Douglas Donna Fraiche Beth Fuller Becky Gottsegen Louanne Greenwald Dr. Joyce Jackson Ben Jeffers Mary T. Joseph Elizabeth Noland Kay Martin Mary Ratcliff, Student Representative Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr., PhD L. Cary Saurage II Carol Steinmuller Ex-Officio: Susannah Bing Johannsen

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LSU Museum of Art is supported 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, and our donors and members. Funding for Louisiana Culture Care Fund grants has been provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan. Support provided by Art Bridges.

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