Past Exhibitions
Eric L. Reed: A Still Photo Journey through Film in Central Louisiana
Eric L. Reed is a photographer based in Pineville, Louisiana. His still photographs document the production experience of the first project of Alexis Crew Productions featuring many of central Louisiana’s creative individuals blending in seamlessly into the filmmaking process. The short film project included local crew members and actors as well as a shell crew…
Read MoreOur Cenla: The Muse Juried Instagram Exhibition
What does central Louisiana look like through the unique and creative eyes of the next generation of photographers? This exhibition presented by The Muse, AMoA’s club for teens and young adults, features photographs inspired by images throughout Cenla taken by area youth and shared via Instagram, an online photo-sharing website and mobile application. Sponsored by
Read MoreLouisiana’s Culinary Heritage: George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts 2013 Scholarship Art Contest Exhibition
The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts 2013 Scholarship Art Contest exhibition features fifteen finalists chosen from across Louisiana who were awarded college scholarships and art supplies. High school juniors and seniors were invited to create a work of art based on the theme “Louisiana’s Culinary Heritage,” representing our state’s unique culinary heritage while honoring its…
Read MoreStewart Nachmias: Pulp Icons
Amusement parks, urban life, musicians, puppetry, and personal mandalas are the themes of these cast paper prints created from deeply carved wood blocks, inked directly to act as molds for hand-dyed paper pulp resulting in low-relief prints. Rich color embedded in its dimensional surface highlight the excitement and danger of urban life and whimsical performance…
Read MoreTreasured Gifts: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection
This exhibition features a sampling of acquisitions to the permanent collection in the past few years. The museum regularly accepts donations of works of art in all media that highlights artists from the 20th and 21st century from or worked in Louisiana and the South, as well as artists who have been influenced by or influenced art…
Read MoreUnraveling Time, Creating Space
A group exhibition of contemporary Native artists explores created spaces transcending time and place. The illusion of a singular identity is unraveled through contemporary reworkings of weaving, performance, beadwork, storytelling, mythology, and symbolism, infusing both historical and contemporary processes and references. Imaginary space suspended beyond multiple realities highlight a more honest and accurate depiction of…
Read MoreArtists Among Us: Faculty and Friends
Sponsored by The Martin Foundation Inspired by the creative resources right within our own community and opening a new path for partnership, experimentation, and exchange among arts professors, students, and arts guilds, this annual exhibition showcases artwork by faculty and staff of AMoA, LSUA, Louisiana College, and Gallery One Eleven as well as members of…
Read MoreAn Adventure in the Arts: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Guild Hall
This exhibition featured 72 works by 61 artist-residents of the Hamptons, including Winslow Homer; Hudson River School painter Thomas Moran in the 1880s; George Bellows in the 1920s; Surrealists following WWII; Abstract Expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning; Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol; Photorealists Audrey Flack and Chuck Close, 80s…
Read MoreImmersive Space
Three Louisiana artists — Shawn Hall, Lee Deigaard, and Natchitoches-native Colin O’Con — created entire room installations to explore elements of created space and invite contemplation about our relationship with the natural world. Painting, drawing, and photography installed as part of a larger, sculpture space, create rhythm in an immersive environment where emotional space and…
Read MoreRichard Dempsey Recollections: A Forty Year Retrospective
One of the most prolific African-American artists of the 20th century, this retrospective presents a unique, comprehensive glimpse of the artist’s work over four decades. Nearly 40 artworks encompass the artist’s life repertoire, beginning with early portraits created while attending the California School of Arts & Crafts in the 1930s to experimental figurative works of the 1950s; colorful,…
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