2025 Summer Contemporary: FELT Closing Reception
LSU School of Art and LSU College of Art + Design is pleased to announce the thirty-one artists selected for LSU School of Art’s 2025 Summer Contemporary entitled FELT. This year’s Summer Contemporary was juried by New Orleans-based curator Emily Wilkerson from over three hundred submissions. The exhibition will open July 12 at Glassell Gallery, located in downtown Baton Rouge’s Shaw Center for the Arts. The exhibition will be on view through August 23, 2025, with a closing reception planned for Saturday, August 23, 6–8 p.m.; awards will be presented at 7:00 p.m.
Taking an expansive approach to feel, feeling, and felt, Glassell Gallery’s open call sought artists whose work addresses emotional states and embodiment, to the shifts felt when we tune into our senses. The selected work embraces the sensuous—touch, temperature, vibration, aura—and connects the haptic, emotional, and somatic. The call was extended to contemporary visual artists and culture bearers who live, work, study in–or are connected to– Louisiana. The call especially encouraged local artists and university student-artists from across the Greater Baton Rouge area to submit.
Artists selected for this summer’s exhibition are Mia Isabel Pons, Erin Demastes, Sarah Moschel Miller, Rosemary Goodell, Sheila Morissette, Rob Carpenter, Lily LaGrange, Michael Lerch, Madelyn Smith, Lorena Molina, Jaden Broussard, Kelsey Scult, Jennifer Waller, Bethany LeJeune, Whitney Johnson, Kasia Ozga, Hadi Asgharpour, Suzanna Scott, Frahn Koerner, Megan Wolfkill, Ana Jahannes, Adam Farcus, Lizz Freeman, Laura Feld, Pablo Perez-Castroman, Joey Hartmann-Dow, Jessica Moorhead-Tregre, Darlene Moore, Ashley Lewis, Ashton Howard, and Gabrielle Barnett.
In addition to the closing reception scheduled for Saturday, August 23, the gallery will host a sculpting workshop, nature connection and embodiment practice, and immersive sound experience.
