Events
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Grounds for Departure: A Historic House, An Art Museum X
Grounds for Departure: A Historic House, An Art Museum
August 20th, 2026 — October 31st, 2026
Masur Museum Main House
August 20th, 2026 – October 31st, 2026Public Reception: August 20th, 2026, 5:30 — 7:00pm
Grounds for Departure will feature abstract painting and sculpture that engages directly with the architecture of the museum’s structure, mapping its domestic history within the walls of the current-day art museum.
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It’s Time to Grow Up (No Thanks!) X
It’s Time to Grow Up (No Thanks!)
August 20th, 2026 — October 31st, 2026
Masur Museum River Galleries
August 20 – October 31, 2026Public Reception: October 1, 2026, 5:00pm – 9:00pm (Monroe Art Crawl)
Inique Harris is a Monroe-based artist, illustrator, and art educator. Her visual art explores themes of femininity and girlhood, paired with a whimsical focus on the pure essence of creativity and love.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Bernard Mattox: Retrospective
November 19th, 2026 — February 7th, 2027
Masur Museum Main House
December 3, 2026 – February 20, 2027
Public Reception: December 3rd, 2026 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Bernard Mattox is a New Orleans-based artist who specializes in multi-media and ceramics. His work blends the vibrant imagery reminiscent of New Orleans street-life with totem-like figures that call to mind tribal imagery.
64th Annual Juried Competition
March 11, 2027 — May 15, 2027
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council 
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Masur Museum Main House
March 11 – May 15, 2027
Public Reception: March 11th, 2027 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM
This year’s juror: TBA
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 1963, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year.
Past Exhibitions
John James Audubon
February 9 12:00 AM - April 21, 2012 12:00 AM
This exhibition is a survey of prints by the famed wildlife painter of the same name. Its thematic thrust is the importance of the printmaking process to his career. The context of when or how an edition of Audubon’s work was struck is an interesting and sometimes overlooked window into the artist’s life, business practices, and legacy. John James Audubon contains some of the artist’s most iconic art, but also lesser-known works, such as a selection of North American quadrupeds. This exhibition is not to be missed!
Michael Manjarris’ Rate of Exchange
November 3, 2011 12:00 AM - January 28, 2012 12:00 AM
Michael Manjarris’ career as an artist/curator is geared around the give and take concept of cultural exchange. He is concerned with how artworks, individuals, groups, and even whole cultures interact with one another in the marketplace of ideas. Please join us as he presents one way of making sense of a world where different cultures collide and create something new.
Seeing and Believing: Recent Work by James Surls
November 3, 2011 12:00 AM - January 28, 2012 12:00 AM
This exhibition features sculptures and drawings with strong gestural and representational elements. Surls’ art deals with the phenomenal and noumenal worlds we inhabit. He simultaneously interprets substantive experience, touching on scientific ideas like genomes and the natural order of flora and fauna while also attempting to give physical form to unseen elements that influence the course of events both large and small such as emotions, the subconscious, and the inexplicable urge of life to persist.
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