zine project
state of the art: record
State of the Art: Record is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. The national tour of State of the Art 2020 is sponsored by Bank of America with additional support from Art Bridges. This exhibition and its programming are sponsored locally by a generous grant from Art Bridges.
LSU Museum of Art thanks the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, LSU College of Art + Design, and Therese Knowles of the LSU-University Laboratory School for partnering and facilitating zine submissions.
Printing of this zine publication is sponsored by Baton Rouge Printing. LSU Museum of Art thanks Baton Rouge Printing for making printed copies available to zine participants.
LSU Museum of Art (LSU MOA) 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. LSU MOA is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. LSU MOA Free First Sundays and Free Friday Nights sponsors: Louisiana Lottery Corporation; IBERIABANK, a division of First Horizon; and Louisiana CAT. LSU MOA educational programming is also sponsored by Louisiana CAT and Junior League of Baton Rouge. LSU MOA thanks the generous donors to the LSU MOA Annual Exhibition Fund for supporting all exhibitions at the museum: Louisiana CAT; The Imo N. Brown Memorial Fund in memory of Heidel Brown and Mary Ann Brown; The Alma Lee, H. N., and Cary Saurage Fund; Charles “Chuck” Edward Schwing; Robert and Linda Bowsher; LSU College of Art + Design; Mr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Arst; and The Newton B. Thomas Family/ Newtron Group Fund.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Sarah Amacker (LSU Museum of Art Communications & Marketing Specialist) FRONT COVER: Astrid Guerrero BACK COVER: John Everett (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member)
Ava Tapia
ABOUT THE PROJECT Visitors were encouraged to view State of the Art: Record at the LSU Museum of Art in Baton Rouge, LA during the spring of 2022, and take in the way each artist creates, responds, or reflects on a record or the idea of one. Makers were given these questions as a starting point: What does it mean to record? What constitutes a record? Who creates the record and can a record be changed? Participants in this zine responded to these ideas or created their own record in any media they desired. Poetry, painting, photography, collage–anything was fair game. Flip through this zine to see these art makers and the works they created in response to this exhibition.
Alex Fluker (LSU-University Laboratory School)
ABOUT THE RECORDS high school submissions Therese Knowles’ classes at LSU-University Laboratory School
COMMUNITY SUBMISSIONS East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library At Goodwood Blvd LSU College of Art + Design Free First Sunday participants at the LSU Museum of Art Emailed submissions
Grayson Calahan (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Grayson Gaspard (LSU-University Laboratory School) 6
Jordan Morris (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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ARTIST: Sophia Greeson Title: Domestic Creature Year: 2021 Media: Cotton fabric with polyester filling “Within academia, the record of an idea is often centered around the construction of a timeline. While this regard for temporality in our documentation process aids organization, it disregards the emotional landscape, leading to a clinical and incomplete description. Domestic Creature is a record of psychological space forged by the idea of womanhood and its manifestations. As a personal exhibition, the work does not claim universality, but it does embrace universal themes of mythology, domesticity, and gender.”
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Anna Lauren Schwab (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Anonymous (LSU-University Laboratory School) 9
Vithyarasy Kean
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Evelyn Lane
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Blake Shanklin (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Nicholas Williams Jr. (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Kassidy Herrin (LSU-University Laboratory School) 13
Rayne McMillan (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Anonymous (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Marthalee Marron
Logan Tapia
Stephen Miller (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member) 16
Faith Robertson (LSU-University Laboratory School) 17
ARTIST: Geeta Dave Title: Voice of voiceless
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These works celebrate the diverse culture of beauty and complexity of the Indian diaspora. –Geeta Dave
ARTIST: Geeta Dave Title: The Woman & The Woman 19
ARTIST: Huseyin Emre Karaoglu Title: One Of Us, JB Year: 2021 Media: Oil on Paper “Human bodies and faces embody many deep emotions in the routine struggle in life. As an observer, when you watch daily life, you can clearly feel these emotions. I think the images I paint of the human body act as a bridge for me, a way to express to others what I feel from the people I see in daily life.” 20
ARTIST: Rodney F. Hughes Title: The Dream Project The Dream Project is an auto-ethnographic and experimental investigation into the mystical mind of vivid dreams and prophetic vision. Hughes’ interest in dream divination began with his first vivid vision in 1985 and continues until 2021. These liminal experiences had such a startling effect on his life, that he was compelled to explore their meanings and what they came to teach. The Dream Project is deeply personal and seeks to validate and bare witness him and others experiencing similar journeys into selfinitiated shamanism and retrieval of sacred knowledge bridging the non-material world to that of the material. Hughes laments that the knowledge gained through vivid dreams allows the initiate to become in tune with frequencies that allow for a deeper understanding of the profound mysteries of spiritual awareness.
Watch The Dream Project Short Film
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Landon Zosel (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Anna Baumgartner (LSU-University Laboratory School) 22
Tatum Teague (LSU-University Laboratory School) 23
Anonymous (LSU-University Laboratory School) 24
Jordan Phillips (LSU-University Laboratory School) 25
Joyce Jackson (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member)
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Ava Muñoz (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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ARTIST: Jonathan Peterson Title: Picture Takers, Hoover Dam, January 2018 Media: Photography “A fact of primary social importance is that the photograph is a place of work, a structured and structuring space within which the reader deploys, and is deployed by, what codes he or she is familiar with in order to make sense.” -Victor Burgin, The Camera: Essence and Apparatus Jonathan Peterson said he found inspiration from this quote when creating this work.
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Mia Bruni (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Karleigh Ortego (LSU-University Laboratory School) 29
Catie Rouse (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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ARTIST: Tabitha “Tabby” Stone Title: Old Barn at Horse Farm Media: Acrylic on Canvas “This is an impressionistic piece representative of the old barn at the Horse Farm in Lafayette, LA, now known as Moncus Park.”
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Nicholas Knapp
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Sadie Knapp
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Bailey VanHoogstraten (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Preston Brumley (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Jules Alario (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Kilian Bishop (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Regan Archie (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Macy McCalip (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Ciera Ross (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Tilley Robinson (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Madeline Franques (LSU-University Laboratory School) 40
Haylee Salter (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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ARTIST: Victoria Ward Title: Record the moments, pleasant and unpleasant “This work brings a different approach into the recording of memories— good or bad, record the experiences.”
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ARTIST: Remington Gillis “In June 2017, Zachary Bear Heels, a Rosebud Sioux Tribal member, became stranded in Omaha, Nebraska while experiencing a mental health crisis. Omaha Police Department officers brutally beat him, tased him 12 times, and dragged him by his hair across a gas station parking lot despite a lack of resistance from Bear Heels. By the time the ambulance arrived, Bear Heels was unresponsive; the coroner listed his cause of death as ‘excited delirium’ and officers were cleared of all charges in relation to his murder. In Chalepah v. City of Neb., Bear Heels’ family was paid a $550,000 settlement by the city. Through the use of blackout poetry of court documents from the court case, this work highlights the brutality of Zachary Bear Heels’ death, despite attempts to tidy it up in the court and historical record.”
see artwork on pages 44–47
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Daniel E. Stetson (LSU Museum of Art Executive Director)
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Ben Jeffers (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member) 49
Emma Pennington (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Jackson Forbes (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Madeline C. Parker (LSU-University Laboratory School)
William Bankston (LSU-University Laboratory School) 51
Serena Salizar (LSU-University Laboratory School) 52
Oyster Party working at the whims of wishy washy waspy families, who ask for a Size Large in the same voice that tells Minority America “Shut It.” in sans serif meanwhile my manifesto: avoiding the afternoons I split Your mind, I split America like an oyster and saw paisley patterns on a gypsy bandana, every shape of fire in every sinning second, three church bells and two faces four kids on bikes only four wheels on the ground and your charms, hidden, like the disease on the doorknob the flounder in the fish markets bungalows and their charms dancers and their charms homes bought just for tear downs, tear down gentrified town homes forlorn and for lease, and Your voice coming killing career progress, I pull myself up through my throat and slap it on the table like flounder at the fish markets; downtown is for dragworms, sanitized skaters and sinning saints. I split Your mind and I split the country and see subject snoring on city streets boats mired on the mississippi river billowing flag trembles black rain billowing black drops on gray concrete five drops on two lenses and One for the taking
Poems by Jonah Webster
SPANISHTOWN In these days when my mind melts into the Parched pavement, I find no compassion in Fifty Flamingos fondling Pink Plastic Beads, Aged men of smoke speaking empty words as Faded blue wood recalls the burning lake At twilight, gas street lamps scatter blackbirds Vermillion Stuccos confide in Scarlet Slats Trees echo groans and pluck power lines The blocks are buzzing, cat paws and birdsong: The ballroom dance of banisters and rails Stilted shadows stalk the sun-stained grasses Over cypress, sidewalk, and stained glasses In these days where my languor hangs like clouds I exhume my mind and pluck it for chords
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Blayton Bernard (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Emma Monroe (LSU-University Laboratory School) 54
Kassidy George (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Savannah Taylor (LSU-University Laboratory School) 55
Olivia Kinchen (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Caroline Vance (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Daniel Moore (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Evan Burgos-Dugas (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Kate Stewart (LSU-University Laboratory School) 58
McKenzie Cregg (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Annslee Phillips (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Anonymous (LSU-University Laboratory School) 60
Elise Lathon (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Claire Schilling (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Addison Moran (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Ava Muñoz (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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William Leach (LSU-University Laboratory School) A Controlled Society Poem by Neil Adams
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Jabari Johnson (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Connor Lozick (LSU-University Laboratory School) 66
James Murrill (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Kari Plunkett
Hattie Knapp 68
Pratyoshalk Buchannon
Vasilisa Gautreau 69
Josef Hodoh (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Amanda Johnson (LSU-University Laboratory School) 70
Kate Porter (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Annalise Duncan (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Amelia Harrington (LSU-University Laboratory School)
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Emily Poirrier (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Seth Day (LSU-University Laboratory School) 73
ARTIST: Huseyin Emre Karaoglu Title: One Of Us, Kevin Year: 2021 Media: Oil on Paper “I have been trying to record the present condition of life in the city by extracting and selecting powerful images that speak to me and the human condition.” 74
Erica Anderson (Louisiana Division of the Arts Representative)
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Hayden Viguerie (LSU-University Laboratory School)
John Cuccio (LSU-University Laboratory School) 76
Brooke Crawford (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Roman Pitre (LSU-University Laboratory School) 77
Natalie Shearer (LSU-University Laboratory School)
Helen Polito 78
Carli Wilson
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Cali Wilson
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ARTIST: Holly Stone-Barker “This piece records the time we spent in seclusion during COVID-19. The house number reads 35, which was the thirty-fifth day of living through the pandemic.”
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Michael Sanchez
Astrid Guerrero 82
Kari Plunkett
Emerson Corder 83
ARTIST: Jeremiah Ariaz Title: Printing Press, Great Bend Tribune, Great Bend, KS (from the series, The Fourth Estate) Year: 2021 Media: Photography
ARTIST: Jeremiah Ariaz Title: Archives, The Greenville Advocate, Greenville, IL (from the series, The Fourth Estate) Year: 2021 Media: Photography
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Elizabeth Noland (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member)
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Sebastian Cuartas
Rowen Johnson 86
Skye Vincent
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Rick LeCompte
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ARTIST: Holly Stone-Barker “This piece recorded my day. Look closely: you can see within the color wheel there are patterns and textures. The textures are from things I observed, construction walls, patterns from a metal table, foliage from a flower bed, an umbrella stand, or a simple cast shadow. This color wheel brings back fond memories of the day I spent with my sister helping her move.” 89
Madeleine Hansen
Vera Olmos 90
Sean Vincent
Natalie Peterson (London, England) 91
ARTIST: Natalie Peterson (London, England) Title: Fire in the Basement
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TRANSITION On the morning after tears and the rain fell heavy and hard, so many birds trill, chitter, warble, sputter, in gushes, spurts, clear, wetlit. Midday, a monarch flies from gardenia leaves, lands on the tip of my cobweb broom. Fun sun, tiplit leaves and branches undulate. Music passing through. Afternoon heat. A hummingbird above ginger leaves dissolves into the snow– flower cluster. Late afternoon. Dying water lily radiates lavender swords sunward. The up stretched throat of an old green lizard births a grizzled pink moon. Dusk. On the tips of distant blood orange tree branches, mossed by old dark leaves, bloom newborn light-green ones. Evening. Water lily closes in on itself. Violet knife points sink up tipped. Falling luminescence into brown water.
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Poems by Nancy Tatje Broussard
When I Think Of You, green becomes yellow and the yellow, orange and the orange, purple and purple, green.
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This piece references imagery from the Edo period (1603–1867) Japan. The word geisha literally translates to “artist.” In this image the geisha can be seen giving herself a final glance before setting out for an evening of dance and entertainment as their job is to provide pleasant company. Because they spend years training to learn traditional instruments and dances of Japan, this is a record of the traditional geisha culture as they promote a women-only business model that allows women to be self sufficient and have economic independence. –Fred Parker
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Mia Taranto
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Nancy Dougherty (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member)
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Poem by Erika Williams Record. A six letter word, but what does it mean? Well, it can mean many things. The whirring of a cassette tape. The scrawling of a pen on paper. The scratching of a stylus on a vinyl. A booming voice declaring action be done. The definitions change like the seasons And vary from person to person. But one thing remains the same— They’re all records.
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John Everett (LSU Museum of Art Advisory Board Member)