Past Exhibitions
Treasured 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,…
Read More“25th September Competition”
25th September Competition is AMoA’s Annual National Competition Exhibition Thursday,September 27: Artist and juror Linda Stein will present $2,000 in cash awards to winners selected from recent artworks in all mediums created by over 50 artists!
Read MoreLuz Maria Lopez: Mayan Creation Stories
Mayan visions of cosmology, creation, ancestry, and history are depicted in scenes from thePopol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya. Explore the roots of the Mayan Prophecy through colorful paintings and drawings. Epic tales of hero twins and fantastical characters such as Grandmother of Light, Heart of Sky, Plumed Serpent, Crow, and Parrot plus…
Read MorePause…
Pause…Cenla Artists Respond to 2020 Look back at the past year through the lens of local artists as we greet 2021. This special 6-week exhibition will feature works created by Central Louisiana artists during the year of social unrest surrounding racial disparities and COVID 19. Themes of fear, isolation, and protest, as well as hope…
Read MoreShe Persisted: Louisiana Women in Art
On view March 5 – June 26, 2021 Thank You to our generous exhibition sponsors: Jennifer Nichols – Visual Concepts • Catherine L. Davidson – Attorney at Law • Maria Losavio – Losavio Law Offices • Lisa Campo – The Campo Agency • Amie Green – Box Drop of Cenla • Rosa Fields – State…
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