Past Exhibits

Youth Art Month: "Art Shapes the World"

Image above by Lori Doiron, Bolton High School
Art Teacher: Barbara Clover

Saturday, March 31st the Alexandria Museum of Art and MeOhMy Art Enrichment Center will come together to celebrate Youth Art Month with "Youth Art Month Art Festival." From 10am-2pm students of all ages are invited to participate in this fun filled day. Our annual Youth Art Month Exhibition Awards Ceremony will be held promptly at 10am in AMoA's parking lot. The museum and galleries will be Free and open to the public on that day. Following the ceremony you are encouraged to join in the Art Activities at ...

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Pottery & Textiles from theAfrican Art Collection At Southern University New Orleans

Through the visual aesthetics of this pottery, one immediately finds a
wonderful diversity in both form and design. By examining the distinctions, one can gain greater insights into the cultures from which they were
produced, while also seeing how specific artistic methods and techniques result in unique cultural expressions.

While African pottery is typically produced bywomen, African textiles are produced by both men and women with a designateddivision of labor according to specific processes. Design elements inAfrican textiles are not random; they all have meanings that are known tomembers of the cultures who create and ...

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Geza Brunow: "Event Horizon"

Asheville, NC artist, Géza Brunow uses a kind of soul-powered "Rorschach" distillation of the pause in time and space between two events in his latest exhibition of visual essays, Event Horizon. Utilizing a dramatic technique of painting from emotional memory instead of sight, Brunow chronicles the past decade of his life in the South, weaving a rich and compelling tapestry into his own “strange little worlds of magic and mayhem.”

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Studio Art Quilts Associates: "Sightlines"

In the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ international invitational exhibition, Sightlines, fourteen fiber artists create a running installation along the theme of the interaction of time, personal history, and memory. Curator, Virginia Spiengel used as her guiding inspiration a quote from author, Barbara Kingsolver’s description of a good short story: “It will tell something remarkable, it will be beautifully executed, and it will be nested in truth.” AMoA invites you to bear witness to the thread of their stories.

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Studio Art Quilt Associates: "Sightlines"

In the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ international invitational exhibition, Sightlines, fourteen fiber artists create a running installation along the theme of the interaction of time, personal history, and memory. Curator, Virginia Spiengel used as her guiding inspiration a quote from author, Barbara Kingsolver’s description of a good short story: “It will tell something remarkable, it will be beautifully executed, and it will be nested in truth.” AMoA invites you to bear witness to the thread of their stories.

Géza Brunow: Event Horizon

Asheville, NC artist, Géza Brunow uses a kind of soul-powered "Rorschach" distillation of the pause in time and space between two events ...

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: "Realism in Print"

Massachusetts-born painter and printmaker, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
(1834-1903) is best known for his painting Arrangement in Grey and Black—
a.k.a. Whistler’s Mother. He was also widely renowned for his prints and
etchings, which reflect the influence of the French Realist movement on his work.
Created during the late 1850s to 1880s, these works depict scenes of
everyday life and include pieces from some of Whistler’s most famous series of
etchings, the “French Set” and “Thames Set.” The exhibition Realism in Print, a
collection of 23 etchings from the Dr. Richard L. Shorkey Collection, comes to
AMoA by way of ...

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Steve Martin: Figurative Expressionism--the abstract qualities of line, shape, and color expressed through the human form

Cenla native and longtime New Orleans resident, Steve Martin observes,
“We respond to line and form instinctively, without conscious thought.” In a
retrospective exhibition, “Figurative Expressionism…” Martin works in a variety
of media as he explores the quality of these elements in a prolific sampling of
paintings, sculptures, and prints. Martin has become both artist and entrepreneur,
as owner of Steve Martin Studios, based in both New Orleans and Miami.
His own work is now represented in over one thousand corporate, civic, private,
and museum collections throughout the world. Steve will be teaching a “Master
Class” in wire sculpture ...

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Louisiana Crafts Guild

The Louisiana Crafts Guild is an organization of juried Fine Crafts
Artisans located throughout the state of Louisiana and the Southern
Region of the United States. Members of the Guild are active in their
community and give back by providing demonstrations to schools,
churches, libraries and other organizations. AMoA looks forward to
the Guild’s annual exhibit of treasures just in time for holidays.

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Louisiana in Black and White: Photographs by Elemore Morgan, Sr. from AMoA's Permanent Collection

August 19-October 1, 2011
This exhibit features 46 black and white photographs from the Elemore Morgan, Sr. collection, a gift made in 1992 to AMoA from the International Paper Corp. Morgan created an important visual record of mid-20^th century folk ways and rural life, nature and industry, architecture and landscapes of Louisiana.

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24th September Competition

August 19-October 1, 2011
September Competition is AMoA’s signature national juried competition. This year, we proudly welcome as sole judge and juror, Keith Perelli. Mr. Perelli is a visual artist working in painting, printmaking and drawing. His figurative work explores a variety of social, political, and personal issues. He is a native of New Orleans and teaches Drawing and Painting at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, a pre-college conservatory for the arts. He has participated in numerous, national and international invitation and juried exhibitions--including the 22^nd September Competition in 2009, in which he won first place.
Awarded Artists:...

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