LSU School of Art announces 31 artists included in 2025 Summer Contemporary: FELT opening at Glassell Gallery July 12.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana— 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.
PROGRAMS
Hand Sculpting with Clay
Thursday, August 7, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Glassell Gallery
Led by LSU School of Art MFA '26 and FELT artist Sarah Moschel Miller, join us for this two-hour experiential workshop emphasizing tactile expression by sculpting faces from a solid block of clay with your hands. Free and open to 14+. Space is limited; pre-registration is required via Eventbrite.
Nature Connection with Lilia Kapsali-Grant
Saturday, August 9, 9:30–11:30 a.m.
BREC’s Bayou Manchac Park
Join nature connection facilitator Lilia Kapsali-Grant for meditation, embodiment, and creative practices at Manchac Swamp. Free and open to 14+. Space is limited; pre-registration is required via Eventbrite.
Observation of Sensation through Sound with Precept Works
Thursday, August 14, 6–7 p.m.
Glassell Gallery
Immerse yourself in sound with MFA '27 Christina Loughlin. Free and open to 14+.
Reception and Awards Presentation
Saturday, August 23, 6–8 p.m.
Glassell Gallery
Join us for drinks and hors d’oeuvres to celebrate the closing of the 2025 Summer Contemporary. The awards will be presented by Juror Emily Wilkinson at 7 p.m.
Full program details and registration links at
https://mailchi.mp/lsu/felt
Admission to LSU School of Art’s Glassell Gallery and its programs is free and open to all. Glassell Gallery is open Tuesday through Sunday 12–5 p.m. with public hours extended to 7 p.m. on Thursdays and Friday. Glassell Gallery is closed on Mondays, between exhibitions, and during LSU closures.
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ABOUT THE JUROR
Emily Wilkerson is the founder and director of Other Plans, a contemporary art gallery in New Orleans that presents solo and two-person exhibitions by an inter-generational group of artists. Wilkerson's writing has been featured in Artforum.com, Art in America, Pelican Bomb, Art Papers, Burnaway, and multiple exhibition catalogs, and she has worked on exhibitions and projects with Prospect New Orleans, the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, the Chinati Foundation, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Wilkerson completed her master's at the University of Southern California in Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere in 2012 and holds a B.A. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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