2021

Nancy Macko’s exhibition The Fragile Bee presents pollinator conservation as an environmental justice issue with roots in 1970s Ecofeminism. Macko’s bees are symbols of a movement that aims to undo the damage humans have wrought on our environment. Bees and other pollinators…

LaChaun Moore: 17845 is a contemplative exploration of the artist’s family history and relationship to agriculture. Moore’s worldview and artistic practice is informed by being a Black woman whose family inspired her love of agriculture. Her affinity for growing things flips supposed…

 “The imagery I work with is largely stream of consciousness and dream based. As the individual images are cut up and re-stitched together, a nonsensical narrative often emerges focusing on the comically dark aspects of life. This feels very in…

Philip Gould’s Bridging the Mississippi: Spans across the Father of Waters is an expansive account of America’s greatest waterway. The impetus for this project, bridges, frequently do not receive their due as architectural wonders although they speak to American ingenuity…

This exhibition takes its name from Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, a collection of historical and contemporary poems exploring African Americans’ complicatedrelationship with the American landscape. With this being the case, it comes as no surprise that…

This landmark exhibition celebrates and commemorates a vibrant 250 year tradition. Acadian brown cotton blankets were taken for granted by past generations; today they are cherished for their artistic merit and cultural importance, as documented in the film “Coton jaune…

The concept of sanctuary, though often idealized, is rarely acknowledged as fleeting and subjective. Sanctuary: New Works by Linda Alterwitz explores notions of refuge with an interdisciplinary approach and great psychological depth. Replete with photographs featuring landscape and architectural imagery, brain scans…

Other than a fortuitous reference to water, Heraclitus of Ephesus’ aphorism, “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man,” provides the perfect framework for understanding Raine Bedsole’s…

This exhibition is presented in collaboration between the Lafayette Parish School System Talented Visual Arts Program and the Hilliard Art Museum. Using the  exhibitions on view in Spring , students were challenged to make landscapes rooted in their own sense…

Khara Woods uses materials, pattern, and abstraction to great effect in her studio practice. Her gridded hard-edge compositions incorporate warm wood grain with a bold, personable palette of saturated colors. The intensity of the color and tightly packed lines in…

In the broadest sense, John Gargano’s installation Le Détroit In Dust Ree honors working people and the tools they use. While Gargano’s ceramic objects projecting from the wall in the Hilliard’s atrium have the playful appearance of a Rube Goldberg…

Master Shen-Long is a multidisciplinary artist who is a contemporary master of classical Chinese poetry, painting, calligraphy, and seal carving. He merges these genres with contemporary art-making practices to create new interpretations of traditional culture. This exhibition is presented in…

This intimate project explores Dickie Landry’s connection to the World Trade Center during his time living in New York City and how the site changed after the attacks on September 11, 2001. Richard “Dickie” Landry, Philip Glass, Glass in the…