2026

Explore the groundbreaking work of ten influential women photographers whose images redefined visual storytelling and shaped photography as one of the twentieth century's most powerful artistic and cultural mediums.

The decade that landed a man on the Moon also filled American kitchens with Formica, and both were sold as the future. Jackson builds his paintings, furniture, and sculpture from that promise, setting them inside a steel frame that opens…

A Shreveport native, Patterson brings more than fifteen years of work to Persistent Vision, his first museum exhibition in his home state. He works in bronze and steel, weaving African diasporic motifs together with the improvisational language of jazz. The…

In the summer of 1976, as the country celebrated its Bicentennial, the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife brought Cajun and Creole musicians to the National Mall as recognized bearers of a national heritage. Louisiana artist Elemore Morgan, Jr. was there…