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CALLING ALL ARTISTS!!!
The Twin City Art Foundation and the Masur Museum of Art are asking artists to help with our annual fundraiser. The Off the Wall Fundraiser will include an online silent auction. Please consider contributing a work of art to this important cause!
Each donating artist receives one entry ticket to Off the Wall on April 12, 2024. Artists may choose to donate 50% or 100% of the proceeds from their donated artwork. Don’t forget to read the full list of guidelines in our OTW Artist Call Packet before donating!
Work must be delivered to the Masur Museum between Tuesday, March 14 at 9:00 a.m. and no later than Tuesday, April 2 by 5:00 p.m. We do not have storage space to store donated art until March 14.
Artist Form Submission Deadline: April 2 @ 5PM
Auction Live: April 5 – April 12 @ 9PM
*Artwork displayed at Masur Museum in the River Galleries during this time.
OTW Event: Friday, April 12, 2023 – 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Click here for the OTW Artist Call Packet. The form must be filled out in order to be included in our online silent auction.
Artist Guidelines for Off the Wall: Please read carefully!
-Artwork must be original art made by the person donating.
-Artist must be at age 18+.
-Up to two works per artist. Artwork may be done in any medium chosen by the artist, except for video. 2- and 3-dimensional work is accepted.
*Full list of Artist Guidelines in the OTW Artist Call Packet
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61st Annual Juried Competition – Public Reception X
61st Annual Juried Competition – Public Reception
March 21, 2024 from 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
Juror: Kerry Inman, Inman Gallery of Houston, TX
Exhibition on view February 22 – May 4, 2024Public Reception: March 21, 2024 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Juror’s Talk at 6:30 PM
About the Exhibition
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. First started in 1964, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. Annually, 700-1000 recent artworks are submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media. The Masur Museum is proud to offer cash awards totaling $3,200.Announcing this year’s guest juror: Kerry Inman
Kerry Inman is the owner and director of Inman Gallery in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1990, the gallery has hosted over 200 exhibitions in its 33-year history. The gallery represents emerging and established artists with a connection to Texas, as well as the estate of Texas modernist Dorothy Antoinette (Toni) LaSelle. Kerry also serves on the board of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. -
Friday, April 12, 6:00 – 9:00 pm CST
Masur Museum of Art, 1400 South Grand StreetJoin us for the 15th Annual Off the Wall fundraiser at the Masur Museum of Art!! OTW is the area’s premier art auction featuring an excellent selection of art by artists in our community and from around the country. The party includes an expanded bar and delicious food, both of which pair nicely with live music by Shake it Like a Caveman! Please join us for one of the best parties in the Twin Cities!
Proceeds from Off the Wall support exhibitions and educational programs at the Masur Museum of Art. As the largest visual arts museum in northeast Louisiana, the Masur Museum of Art is vital to providing quality visual art experiences to the community of Northeast Louisiana. This is accomplished through temporary exhibitions, educational programs for all ages, and the management of a permanent collection.
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Upcoming Exhibitions
Angela Fraleigh: With Ready Eyes
May 23 12:00 AM - August 3, 2024 12:00 AM
Angela Fraleigh earned her MFA from Yale University School of Art and her BFA from Boston University. Her solo exhibitions include Hirschl & Adler Modern and PPOW Gallery in New York, Inman Gallery in Houston, TX, Peters Projects in Santa Fe, NM and James Harris Gallery in Seattle, WA.
Fraleigh has created site-specific solo projects for the Edward Hopper House Museum, the Vanderbilt Mansion Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Delaware Art Museum and the Weatherspoon Art Museum. Her work is included in Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value & Worth at the Weatherspoon Art museum; traveling to The Hood Art Museum and Hunter Art Museum. Her work can be found in museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and she has been the recipient of several awards and residencies including the Yale University Alice Kimball English grant, The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program Brooklyn, NY, The CORE program in Houston, TX and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE among others. She currently lives and works in New York, NY and Allentown, PA where she is a Professor at Moravian University.
“What if the female characters we’ve come to know from art history-the lounging odalisques, the chorus that whispers in the background-present more than a voyeuristic visual feast? What if these characters embody a flickering of female power at work? Can we see these passive characters as subversive and powerful? And if we do, how might it affect women today and of the future?” – Angela Fraleigh
The River is the Road: Paintings by George Rodrigue
May 23 12:00 AM - October 6, 2024 12:00 AM
Born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana, George Rodrigue (1944-2013) received his formal training at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now UL Lafayette) followed by the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California. Unlike his classmates, he risked returning home, bravely choosing Louisiana over California and New York to pursue a career in painting. The year was 1969, and Rodrigue felt compelled, he said, “to graphically interpret the Cajun culture,” something the young artist recognized as disappearing in a modern world. His keen observation regarding his heritage, as well as the landscape of Southwest Louisiana, led Rodrigue on an extraordinary artistic and personal journey over the next 45 years. Furthermore, his simple, heartfelt decision to return home to Louisiana ultimately catapulted him to world-renowned status.
Rodrigue noted in his book, The Cajuns of George Rodrigue (1976, Oxmoor House), that when the Cajuns arrived from Canada following Le Grand Dérangement in 1755, “The waterways of Louisiana were the highways. We had no roads; we just had the water. They were the natural fairways for commerce, development, and everything necessary for settlers to expand.”
In Rodrigue’s paintings, the roads and rivers blend as one, and are one and the same. Rejecting the spacious sky of traditional European-style paintings, he pushes a large oak to the front of his canvas, cropping the top of the tree so that the light shines in the distance and is small beneath the branches. In hundreds of his paintings, it is a river or road that invites the viewer into Rodrigue’s imaginary world, one that feels like Louisiana, and onto a painted path that leads to a symbolic, hopeful light.
When the Blue Dog enters Rodrigue’s world, his paintings become increasingly more colorful, reflecting changes in his life and outlook. Unlike the black bayous of his Cajun paintings, Rodrigue’s Blue Dog interpretations are surreal in both design and color. Oftentimes the rivers are blue, red, yellow, and abstracted, blending and swirling almost indiscernibly with the land and sky. Ultimately, paintings from the last year of Rodrigue’s life, as featured in this exhibition, ponder his life’s journey as never before, borrowing from the symbolism of his early paintings and the optimism of his later ones. In these intensely personal expressions, Rodrigue once again invites us into his world with a river, this time contemplating not only his life’s journey and artistic legacy, but also, with hope and curiosity, the next part of his adventure.
Organized by the Life & Legacy Foundation and Art Tour with Wendy Rodrigue
IMAGE:
He Stopped Loving Her Today (2013)
Acrylic on canvas
Collection Wendy Rodrigue
Julie Crews: I’ll Be Right With You
August 22 12:00 AM - November 2, 2024 12:00 AM
Julie Crews is an oil painter. She grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, but has called many other places home. A few include northern California, which taught her how to ease into her 20’s; Louisiana, which enriched her southern vision for ten years; and Huntsville, Alabama, where she now lives with her husband and five children. She operates an open studio and gallery in a 122-year-old cotton mill, repurposed as Lowe Mill Arts and Entertainment.
Julie paints what takes her out of the studio: the life it takes to nurture a family. When she is in the studio she escapes certain domestic tethers, but on the canvas before her remain the scenes of her life. Fires burn in the backyard. Cars wait at a red light. Children swim and leaves settle on the forest floor. Weather, traffic, landscapes encountered while running errands around town, and her interactions with the people closest to her influence her work, naturally. But recreating these scenes gives permanence to the emotional undercurrents of her life.
I’ll Be Right With You is an ongoing narrative of the pursuit of living a well-curated life, and even though curating her emotions is one of her most challenging charges, Julie Crews does not hold back. With works entitled I Can Do Hard Things and Wake Me Please When This is Over, she is hopeful that every soul viewing the exhibition I’ll Be Right With You will find work that resonates with them in a deep and meaningful way.
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