Past Exhibits

2021

• 9/11 Twenty Years Later: A Selection from Dickie Landry’s Personal Archives

  September 10, 2021 ‐ October 09, 2021

  This intimate project explores Dickie Landry’s connection to the World Trade Center during his time living in New York City and how the site changed after the attacks on September 11, 2001. 

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• Universe of the Mind (天心): Master Shen-Long

  July 20, 2021 ‐ January 22, 2022

  Master Shen-Long is a multidisciplinary artist who is a contemporary master of classical Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, and seal carving. He merges these genres with contemporary art-making p...

  

• John Gargano: Le Détroit In Dust Ree

  March 19, 2021 ‐ September 11, 2021

  In the broadest sense, John Gargano’s installation Le Détroit In Dust Ree honors working people and the tools they use. While Gargano’s ceramic objects projecting from the wall ...

  

• Khara Woods: Axis

  July 24, 2021 ‐ December 18, 2021

  Khara Woods uses materials, pattern, and abstraction to great effect in her studio practice. Her gridded hard-edge compositions incorporate warm wood grain with a bold, personable palette of saturate...

  

• MiniScapes: Where the Land Meets the Mind

  May 06, 2021 ‐ September 10, 2021

  This exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Lafayette Parish School System Talented Visual Arts Program and the Hilliard Art Museum. Using the  exhibitions on view in Spring , stud...

  

• Raine Bedsole: Water and Dreams

  January 16, 2021 ‐ December 03, 2021

  Other than a fortuitous reference to water, Heraclitus of Ephesus’ aphorism, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man,” provides the perfe...

  

• Sanctuary: New Work By Linda Alterwitz

  June 11, 2021 ‐ February 11, 2022

  The concept of sanctuary, though often idealized, is rarely acknowledged as fleeting and subjective. Sanctuary: New Works by Linda Alterwitz explores notions of refuge with an interdisciplin...

  

• Acadian Brown Cotton: The Fabric of Acadiana

  September 12, 2020 ‐ June 30, 2021

  This landmark exhibition celebrates and commemorates a vibrant 250 year tradition. Acadian brown cotton blankets were taken for granted by past generations; today they are cherished f...

  

• Black Nature: Letitia Huckaby

  October 02, 2020 ‐ July 10, 2021

  This exhibition takes its name from Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, a collection of historical and contemporary poems exploring African Americans’ complic...

  

• Bridging the Mississippi: Spans Across the Father of Waters

  August 04, 2020 ‐ April 03, 2021

  Philip Gould’s Bridging the Mississippi: Spans across the Father of Waters is an expansive account of America’s greatest waterway. The impetus for this project, bridges, frequently do no...

  

• Kate Gordon: Alligator Naps

  January 06, 2021 ‐ August 04, 2021

   “The imagery I work with is largely stream of consciousness and dream based. As the individual images are cut up and re-stitched together, a nonsensical narrative often emerges focusing...

  

• LaChaun Moore: 17845

  November 13, 2020 ‐ May 29, 2021

  LaChaun Moore: 17845 is a contemplative exploration of the artist’s family history and relationship to agriculture. Moore’s worldview and artistic practice is informed by being a Black w...

  

• Nancy Macko: The Fragile Bee

  April 17, 2021 ‐ August 25, 2021

  Nancy Macko’s exhibition The Fragile Bee presents pollinator conservation as an environmental justice issue with roots in 1970s Ecofeminism. Macko’s bees are symbols of a movement that aims ...