Events
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62nd Annual Juried Competition – Public Reception X
62nd Annual Juried Competition – Public Reception
February 20, 2025 5:30 - 7:30 PM
5:30 – 7:30 PM
Juror’s talk and awards: 6:30 PM
Receptions at the Masur Museum of Art are free and open to the public. Light food and refreshments are served and ID for alcoholic beverages is required. Parking at the museum is limited so carpooling is suggested.
About the Juror
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, who has curated several exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art including Kogyo: Japanese Woodblock Prints (2022), Treasures of Art Nouveau (2019) and Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia (2018). Her more recent projects include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum and A Creative Place at the Trout Museum of Art. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.Exhibition on view Feb 20 – May 3, 2025
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
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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 11, 2025. 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 Saturday, March 1 at 12:00 p.m. and no later than Wednesday, March 26 by 5:00 p.m. We do not have storage space to store donated art until March 1st.
Artist Form Submission Deadline: March 26 @ 5PM
Auction Live: April 4 – April 11 @ 9PM
*Artwork displayed at Masur Museum in the River Galleries during this time.
OTW Event: Friday, April 11, 2025 – 6:00 to 9:00 PM
Please review the 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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Friday, April 11, 6:00 – 9:00 pm CST
Masur Museum of Art, 1400 South Grand StreetJoin us for the 16th 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! Please join us for the best party 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.
Auction Link TBA
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$50.00
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The Masur Museum of Art Presents the return of PARTY 318!
FREE admission
Food trucks, free wine and beer (beer provided by Marsala Beverage), live music, games, and more! Join us for the best PARTY of the year! FREE to attend. Bring your I.D. (we card!) and money for food trucks. Participating food trucks TBA.
Featuring the return of our Raise the Roof fundraiser! A roof tile fundraiser for the permanent collection. Area artists are creating a work of art using one of the original blue slate tiles from the museum’s roof. In 2020, a tornado hit the museum causing roof damage and not all the original tiles from the 1929 roof were able to be reused. We have saved these tiles and artists are creating art with them to help us with a fundraiser to benefit care of the museum’s permanent collection.
Tiles will be displayed in the Lower River Gallery of the Masur Museum for two weeks in advance of Party 318, link TBA.
Own a piece of history and a unique work of art all at once! Bidding takes place online only and will end when Party 318 ends at 8:00 pm on October 23, 2025.
Upcoming Exhibitions

62nd Annual Juried Competition
Feb 20 - May 3, 2025
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
Exhibition on view Feb 20 – May 3, 2025
Public Reception: February 20, 2025 5:30 – 7:30 PM
About the Juror
Annemarie Sawkins, PhD, is a Milwaukee-based independent curator, who has curated several exhibitions for the Masur Museum of Art including Kogyo: Japanese Woodblock Prints (2022), Treasures of Art Nouveau (2019) and Afghan War Rugs: The Modern Art of Central Asia (2018). Her more recent projects include Profound Prints: Art by Exceptional Women at the Hilliard Art Museum and A Creative Place at the Trout Museum of Art. From 1999 to 2012, she was a curator at the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University. A frequent juror and portfolio reviewer, Annemarie Sawkins has a MA and PhD in Art/Architectural History from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
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.

Swimming in the Sky: Cliff Tresner
August 21, 2025 – November 1, 2025
Clifford Tresner attended Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, and earned a BFA in Sculpture/Woodworking in 1990. He received his MFA from The University of Mississippi in Oxford in 1994.
Mr. Tresner began his teaching career in earnest in 1997 as an assistant professor of art, tenure track at the University of Louisiana, Monroe, LA, where he taught all levels of sculpture and drawing. Mr. Tresner moved to teaching painting and drawing in 2013. He has held many positions over his career, most recently as the William D. Hammond Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts, 2017 – 2020 and the Art Program Coordinator at the University of Louisiana Monroe.
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, as administered by the Northeast Louisiana Arts Council. Funding has also been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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