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This year’s juror is Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art for the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA).

Artists:

• Sarah Alewyne – Gloster, LA
• Brad Arender – Monroe, LA
• Bess Bieluczyk – Ruston, LA
• Sheila Ernst-Bifano – Houston, TX
• Critz Campbell – Mississippi State, MS
• Jenny Zoe Casey – Tavares, FL
• Joshua Chambers – Ruston, LA
• Kyle A. Chaput – Corpus Christi, TX
• Wang-Ling Chou – Pineville, LA
• Linda Dautreuil – Covington, LA – Best in Show
• Mark Denham – Baton Rouge, LA
• Jenny Ellerbe – Monroe, LA
• Dara Engler – Monroe, LA
• Tate Foley – Athens, GA
• Giacomo Fortunato – New York, NY
• Ernie L. Fournet – New Iberia, LA
• Laura Gipson – New Orleans, LA – Second Place
• Jay Gould – Ruston, LA
• Alicia Grullon – Riverdale, NY – Honorable Mention
• Karla Hackenmiller – Athens, OH
• Frank Hamrick – Ruston, LA
• Charlie Heck – Monroe, LA
• Steinthor H. Hrafnsson – Calhoun, LA
• Georgeana Ireland – Costa Mesa, CA
• Patricia Tait Jones – Ruston, LA
• Larry B. Joseph – Brooklyn, NY
• Leslie Kerby – Brooklyn, NY
• Katy Leachman – Ruston, LA
• Eric S. Lincoln – Rayville, LA
• Scott Litton – Ruston, LA
• Luz-Maria Lopez – Covington, LA
• Joanne R. Luongo – Warwick, RI – Third Place (tie)
• Joetta Maue – Brooklyn, NY
• Christina Mazzalupo – Brooklyn, NY
• Irvin Morazan – Brooklyn, NY
• Linda Norwood – West Monroe, LA
• Nick Norwood – Ruston, LA
• David Orr – Los Angeles, CA
• Meredith Pardue – Monroe, LA
• Anastasia Pelias – New Orleans, LA
• Tiana Peterson – Brooklyn, NY
• Joyce Polance – Chicago, IL
• Rebecca Reeve – Brooklyn, NY
• Tom Richard – Monticello, AR
• Bill Rowe – State University, AR
• Lindley Rust – Ruston, LA – Honorable Mention
• Jess Schrom and Graham Simpson – Ruston, LA
• Brian Schutza – Ruston, LA
• Leslie Shiels – Cincinnati, OH
• Marla St. John, Julie Schapman, and Robert Brooks artist collaboration – Choudrant, LA
• Donna Stack – Brooklyn, IA
• Shane Stratton – Philadelphia, PA
• Samuel Trioli – New Boston, NH
• Kathleen Tumey – West Monroe, LA
• Lauren Quinn Ward – Simsboro, LA – Third Place (tie)
• Jasmine Washington – Alexandria, LA
• Brandy Wolfe – Allston, MA
• Monica Zeringue – New Orleans, LA

Events in conjunction with this exhibition include a member’s reception on June 27 from 6 – 8 p.m. For more information please call the museum at (318) 329-2237.

About the Juror
A native of Los Angeles, Lash received her bachelor’s degree with honors from Harvard University, and she completed her masters at Williams College. Lash has worked extensively in different museums, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and most recently, The Menil Collection in Houston, where she held the position of Assistant Curator.

Since arriving at NOMA in February 2008, she has curated NOMA’s installation of traveling exhibition The Baroque World of Fernando Botero (organized by Art Services International) and the installation of nine artists for U.S. Biennial Prospect.1.  She reinstalled the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art during the fall of 2008 and is currently working on a series of exhibitions featuring Louisiana contemporary artists.

Born in New Orleans in 1903, Walter Anderson studied at Parsons Institute of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He lived much of his life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, taking residence in Ocean Springs, and often seeking solitude in a cottage on Horn Island. Anderson was a naturalist, and spent hours painting and drawing the nature and wildlife he found around him. This exhibition, on loan from the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is comprised of 90 works of art including watercolors, oils, pottery, wood sculpture, textiles, and furniture.

Events in conjunction with this exhibition include a talk by John Anderson, Walter Anderson’s son, during the Member’s Preview Reception on April 4 from 6 – 8 p.m. and a lecture by Douglas Myatt, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art on Thursday, June 4.  For more information please call the museum at (318) 329-2237.

Renowned photographer Bruce Davidson received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962 to photograph the people and events of the Civil Rights Movement. This exhibition includes 31 stunning photographs of the heroic people he encountered. As witness to some of the most courageous and important events of the 1960’s, Davidson gives us a first hand account of these racially charged times. He also tenderly records the every day experience of the African American, from images of school houses to weddings. These images are captured in beautifully executed photographs which the Masur Museum of Art is proud to display during Black History Month.

Born in 1933, Davidson attended Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University.  In October of 1955 his college thesis was published in LIFE Magazine, where he later worked as a freelance photographer.  IN 1957 he became a member of Magnum Photos and in 1966 Davidson was awarded the first grant in photography from the National Endowment for the Arts.  His photographs have been acquired by many major museums and private collectors worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the George Eastman House, The Smithsonian, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

In association with Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; and the artist

Also on view, “Troubling the Waters,” a film about the 1960’s struggle for Civil Rights in Northeast Louisiana.  Shown in association with the Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum.