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The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery is part of the Visual Art + Design De

The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery is devoted to the presentation of national and regional exhibitions of contemporary art, lectures and workshops. The gallery is part of the Fine and Performing Arts Department and as such provides a forum for contemporary art for students, the city of Hammond and residents of the North Shore. Exhibitions and educational programs at SLU

CAG connect students with opportunities to engage with artworks and artists while giving them insight into current directions in contemporary art. The gallery located at 100 East Stadium, next to Clark Hall at the end of Spruce Street.

08/25/2026

Only TWO days until the 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition closes at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery! Visit from 9AM-5PM and have a chance to view work from students, faculty, and alumni.

If you don’t have a chance to see while we’re open, be sure to visit our closing reception on AUGUST 27TH from 5PM-7PM.

Selected artwork includes pieces based off the Art + the Environment Course offered at Southeastern taught by esteemed professors, Lily Brooks (Lily Brooks) and Ernie Milsted (E. Milsted). Curated by Autumn Smedley (Autumn “Artie” Smedley) and Izzy Bradley (Izzy jack bradley).

Spanning across a wide array of mediums such as sculpture, photography, printmaking, painting, and mixed media installation, every piece is united through the exploration of our environment.

“Metamorphosis”, 2026 by Libby S. Martin. Video Installation of a collection of videos of the environment at Joyce Wildlife Management Area. Originally to immerse viewers into the environment of Louisiana swamp and wetlands becomes a meaningful tribute to her late sister.

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”, 2024 by Ashton Howard. Series of paintings that incorporates gold accents on top of blue cyanotype portraits. Howard unites the processes of painting with nature through collaging portraits and cyanotype impressions silhouetted flora.

“Seeking Smallness”, 2025 by Karen Hoffpauir. Series of pencil and charcoal drawings of swamp landscapes emphasizing the beauty of solitude and reconnecting with the environment.

“Sailboats”, 2026 by Chloe Vogt. A mixed media video projection of personal recordings at Turtle Cove onto found objects. Vogt comments on the act of connection through the solidarity of women by passing down rituals and advice.

“J’ai am une solitair”, 2026 by Izzy Bradley. A collection of photographs surrounding her feelings of isolation and peace within the environment. She captures the still moments that surround the environment.

08/21/2026

Less than a week until the Art + the Environment Exhibition closes, Lions! Take a look at three artists currently on view at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery.

“Growing Up Southern”, 2026 by Trinitee Wilson uses photography, cyanotype, painting, and sewing to document her own experiences of growing up in southern Louisiana in a unified collage. Her use of mixed media materials becomes a method of expressing all the influences in her life that make up her memories and what she intends to preserve through creating.

Jamison Colors Futrell’s “My Mother’s Nature”, 2023, a meaningful tribute to their mother, is a quilt with embroidered nature motifs throughout eight of the sixteen squares. He memorializes memories and trips taken with his mother and how it has shaped him into the person he is today.

“BURROW: A Fine Line”, 2026 by Savannah Rae Phillips is taken from a larger collection of work that follows the relationships between life and death represented through the systems of human consumption. Using ceramic sculptures of rabbits, Phillips intentionally “captures the moment of dispatch of a farm-raised rabbit [transforming] a moment in time into something between the beautiful and macabre.” She focuses on the cost in order for humans to eat and what it means for the animals on the other end of the transaction.

The SLU Contemporary Art Gallery is open Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM and 8AM-12PM on Fridays. Join us in our closing reception of the 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition on August 27th from 5PM-7PM.

08/20/2026

One week left of the Art + the Environment Show at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery and we are proud to showcase student Xzavier Reed’s (Flora_flor 🍎) sculptures “Ancient Debris”, 2026 and “States of Decay”, 2025.

“Ancient Debris” uses found objects to build a world of flora and foliage reminiscent of a time long before construction. He repurposes man-made objects and waste through assembling them in new ways to give meaning and life again. With a central copper figure, the objects become members of their own world inside of the environment it has been built.

“States of decay” follows personified apples traveling through a linear state of deterioration and how giving a face to these inanimate objects to focus on the states of life and decay. How do each of the emotions feel to you?

Be sure to stop by the SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM. Join us for the closing reception of the Art + the Environment Show on August 27th from 5PM-7PM.

08/13/2026

Less than a week until classes begin, Lions!

SLU Contemporary Art Gallery is pleased to showcase Southeastern alums, Maxon Elliot’s “Existence,” 2025, and their collaborative project with Adrien Doucet in “, a q***r ...,” 2026.

“Existence,” a collection of photographs by Elliot that focuses on the choices and intentions when living in areas that feel removed from the greater part of conventional society. They photograph man-made objects within spaces where nature would have been in control in the past if not for human intervention. Elliot questions the choices of living in spaces that may have been destroyed or altered and how it relates to their own lived experience.

“, a q***r …,” is a collaborative project between Maxon Elliot and Adrien Doucet centering on the non-conforming gender identity experience and the parallels of physical gender presentation between humans and animals such as deer. Elliot and Doucet focus on the ways masculinity is performed within the q***r identity and the interconnected, vulnerable aspects of the body. The pieces that Doucet wears are ceramic buck antlers compressing around the chest to communicate a juxtaposition in gender expression.

View Maxon Elliot and Adrien Doucet’s photographs at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, open Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM. Join us in our closing reception for the 2026 Art + the Environment exhibition on August 27th from 5PM-7PM.

08/10/2026

Less than ten days until Fall Semester, Lions! On view until August 27, “Permanence”, 2026 by student Lahna Rose here at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery.

Video documentation from her father after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to Plaquemines Parish with an audio interviews with her Great Aunt and Great Grandmother.

Rose combines the two worlds to make amends to her family history between New Orleans and Plaquemines Parish that she continues to explore and understand. She uses the footage and interviews to think about the memories of her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. As well as analyzing how traumatic events influence what stories get passed down as memories or stay forgotten.

Come by SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM and join us in our Closing Reception of the Art + the Environment Show: August 27th, 2026 5PM-7PM.

08/06/2026

Currently on view at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery “Broken Horse” by Izzy Bradley, co-curator of the 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition.

A part of a larger collective of sculptures, ”Broken horse” follows three abstracted wooden horses varying in size. Constructed with two primary materials, wood and nails, Bradley showcases the resilience of the materials after treatments such as burning or breaking. She uses the figures to illustrate ideas of belonging, stating that it is “meant to represent the feeling of finding yourself in others and in the world around you.”

At the center of our exhibit, “Broken horse” bridges natural materials and processes to ignite conversations surrounding how our environment influences community searching.

View Izzy Bradley’s work at the SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, open Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM.

Join us in the closing reception of the Art + the Environment Exhibition on August 27th, 5PM-7PM.

07/22/2026

Who else loves our Louisiana wetlands?

“Primordial Waters” and “Marmalade”, 2026 by Emmilyn LeBlanc and “More Cypress Trees, Less AI Please…” by Nathan A. Lee are currently on view at SLU Contemporary Art Gallery.

LeBlanc’s photographs focus on the grief of watching Louisiana coastlines erode. “Primordial Waters” uses intentional artifacting to focus on different parts of the environment and distorts the viewer’s idea of the landscape. “Marmalade”, reminiscent of the varying colors of the sweet citrus preserves, addresses her view of the past through a filtered lens of warmth and care.

In “More Cypress Trees, Less AI Please…” Lee’s bold and punchy bumper sticker designs grab your attention no matter how far away you might be on the road. The striking pink and chartreuse palette pairs with the quick, direct diction communicating his thoughts after driving across Lake Maurepas for two semesters.

The Art + the Environment Exhibition is open from 9AM-5PM, Mon-Thurs.

Join us in our closing reception from 5PM-7PM, August 27th.

07/21/2026

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Come stop by SLU Contemporary Gallery to view Peyton Chiasson’s sculptures, “Artificial Fossils”, 2026 in our 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition.

Sculpted from a real turtle shell scanned through LiDAR technology at Turtle Cove, Chiasson used 3D printing and mold-making creating ceramic sculptures emphasizing varied textures and effects. Different colored glazes and techniques achieve unique representations of the environment ranging from plant impressions and etchings to simple clear glazes with the clay presented at its foundational level.

Chiasson states to explore “the relationship between nature, human impact and humanity’s attempt to preserve what is slowly disappearing.” The shells intentionally show imperfections of the ceramics as the “resulting forms exist between preservation and reconstruction, acting as replicas that can never fully replace the living systems that created the original shell,” he adds. The shell sculptures work together to exhibit an experience of human and evolutionary influence on the environment stretching across time.

Open Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM. The 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition will be open until our closing reception on August 27th, from 5PM-7PM.

07/16/2026

Let’s take a look into three artists displayed here at SLU Contemporary Gallery’s 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition, on view from now until our closing reception on August 27th (5PM-7PM).

Katherine McCain’s “Coastal Pearls”, 2025 is a vibrant collection of her memories of the oyster shells and pearls found from her class field trip to Grand Isle. A small glimpse into the environment, McCain focuses on the movement of swirling colors to pull a whimsical and playful energy towards the viewer. The loose brushstrokes exercise the eye and create the sandy, rocky beaches and alive waters that give home to a number of local flora and fauna species in Louisiana.

“A Peaceful Fish”, 2024 by Sara Torres depicts a bear hunting in a river with a school of coho salmon passing upstream and draws parallels between humans and animals in their practices of survival in the composition of the piece. Torres uses vibrant and saturated autumnal colors to bring out the warmth of the environment.

“Beach Night”, 2025 is a watercolor piece by Brenley Bankson. Working with a deep aquatic color palette, the scene brings the viewer to an idyllic scene of beaches after the crowds dissipate and when the moonlight takes over. Bankson’s use of building up washes of color creates the loose details of the empty beach and pier.

See these artists on display at the SLU Contemporary Gallery, open Mon-Thurs from 9AM-5PM, until August 27th.

07/13/2026

SLU Contemporary Gallery is proud to present student Amelia Mouton’s collection of photographs, “Yet Life Stays”, 2026 in our 2026 Art + the Environment Exhibition.

Composed through different photo sizes, Mouton tells the stories of birds she studied while at Turtle Cove Environmental Research Station as they respond to the changing environment. The juxtaposition Mouton creates between the grey, cloudy skies to the vibrant greenery of the marsh using the birds as reoccuring central figures invites the viewer on their own trip across Turtle Cove.

As the weather, coastlines, and wetlands of Louisiana evolve, its animals must adapt to the climate and overcome adversity. Mouton uses the birds as a way to communicate the significance of belonging to an environment even as it transforms over time. She focuses on the birds in both community flocks and isolation, accenting how they interact in dynamic or mundane atmospheres.

Come see Amelia Mouton’s work TODAY, at SLU Contemporary Gallery, open Mon-Thurs 9AM-5PM.

Join us in the closing reception of the Art + the Environment Exhibition on August 27th, 2026, 5PM-7PM.

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