*Student only event

Join Centenary’s Red River Poetry Society for a poetry night at the Meadows.

Bring your lunch and join us for special topic lectures on the first Friday of the month during the fall 2024 semester. Dessert will be provided.

Free for Meadows Members; $5 for public.

November 1: On-Campus Printing Press with Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce

Dr. Jones-Pierce discovered two treasures this summer: a Showcard press in the Centenary Library and a set of type in the Turner Arts Center. She brought these items from (literal) opposite sides of our campus together, bringing new life to both. Participants will be led in making their own print. Materials provided.

Bring your lunch and join us for special topic lectures on the first Friday of the month during the fall 2024 semester. Dessert will be provided.

Free for Meadows Members; $5 for public.

October 4: Bill Wiener’s Creative Process with Bruce Allen

Hear how local architect and artist Bill Wiener designed his large-scale metal sculptures, including those that decorate Longleaf Road in South Highlands. Professor Emeritus Bruce Allen will share Wiener’s creative process and lead participants in building their own designs in his style. Materials provided.

Upcoming First Friday Lectures

November 1: On-Campus Printing Press with Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce

This event is for Centenary and local high school students only.

Join the Meadows Museum and the Department of History & Political Science for Night at the Museum: Voter Registration.

In addition to having a voter registration station, we will have a make-your-own button craft and info tables by student organizations: Outreach, Black Student Union, Disabled Student Union, and National Organization for Women.

Even if you are already registered to vote, come make a button and enjoy some snacks!

Bring your lunch and join us for special topic lectures on the first Friday of the month during the fall 2024 semester. Dessert will be provided.

Free for Meadows Members; $5 for public.

September 6: Digitizing the Meadows Collection with Kristin Sorensen and Alissa Klaus

Learn about the ways that the Meadows provides access to our permanent collection, including our newest initiative - making our collection accessible online! This lecture will include a demo of our software’s search features and examples of how can be used by museum staff, in Centenary classrooms, and by the public.

Upcoming First Friday Lectures

October 4: Bill Wiener’s Creative Process with Bruce Allen

November 1: On-Campus Printing Press with Dr. Bellee Jones-Pierce

Join us to celebrate the opening of our fall 2024 exhibitions.
Free and open to the public; cash bar available.

Bill Wiener’s World
A Retrospective

Celebrating Shreveport Architecture - 100 Years in the Making
American Institute of Architecture, Shreveport

Ida Bell’s House
Ross Lynn Charitable Foundation

Join us for a community art critique!

Four artists will each present up to five recent or in-progress works. Each artist will have 30 minutes to introduce their work and field questions from each other and the audience.

This event is free and open to the public, and is intended to:

- Provide feedback and ideas for the artists’ artistic practice,

- Create new or renewed connections with other local artists and art supporters, and

- Provide an educational opportunity for audience participants to engage with artists and their work.

The artists:

James Marks

Karen Kinberger

Lisandra Di Liberto Torres

Trinity Conant

Join us for our first public art critique!

Four artists will each present up to five recent or in-progress works. Each artist will have 30 minutes to introduce their work and field questions from each other and the audience.

This event is free and open to the public, and is intended to:

- Provide feedback and ideas for the artists’ artistic practice,

- Create new or renewed connections with other local artists and art supporters, and

- Provide an educational opportunity for audience participants to engage with artists and their work.

The artists:

Connie Eaton

Tony McDonald

Jaylin Monroe

Tama Ripps Nathan

Emerson Horne will deliver a curator talk for her senior exhibition Suspended in a Sunbeam: The Year We Became Friends with Loss. It explores the effects of quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak on five young artists’ lives and their artworks.

The exhibition will be on view April 1 - May 3, 2024.

Free and open to the public.

Join Sketch//Comic artist Kirk Reedstrom at the Meadows Museum of Art for a comic-making workshop!

This event is designed for ages 6-13, but comic-makers of all ages are welcome. Free and open to the public.

Kirk Reedstrom will give an artist talk on his exhibition Sketch // Comic: The Making of Duck and Moose. The exhibit will be on view April 1 - May 3, 2024.

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

Celebrate National Poetry Month and the Collage Poetry exhibition with an Open Mic Night at the Museum! Bring work to share with the group.

Centenary student event.

Visiting artist Craig Colorusso will provide an audio experience while alumna and campus guest A.J. Haynes leads yoga in Magale Library.

Free and open to the public.

*Bring your own mat, blanket, or towel.

Craig Colorusso will give a live performance to accompany his exhibition Sound + Light, followed by an artist talk.

Live performance begins at 5pm, with the talk beginning at 6:30pm.

Sound + Light will be on view January 16 - March 8, 2024.

Free and open to the public.

Event with Southern University at Shreveport’s Student Government Association.

A private artist talk for Divine Inspiration will begin at 4pm, followed by a reception for SUSLA faculty, grads, and the public.

It’s our birthday!

Stop by for a sweet treat on us and enjoy our current exhibitions.

Gala event for students at Caddo Parish Magnet High School, in conjunction with the installation of Expressions in our Project Space Gallery.

The event is a semi-formal night out with an art exhibition, live music, and fashion show. The theme of the event is Reawakening Fashion! Wear a statement outfit from your favorite fashion era or semi-formal wear. There will be prizes for fashion show participants in four categories.

This event is open to Caddo Magnet students only.
Tickets required at the door.

KaDavien Baylor, Eric Francis, and Ron Smith will give an artist talk for their exhibition, Divine Inspiration: A Collection from Three Perspectives on God, Giants, and G.O.A.T.s. The exhibit will be on display January 16 - May 3 , 2024.

Join us at 6:00pm to view the exhibition and mingle with the artists.

Free and open to the public.

Join Centenary’s Black Student Union for a Dream Week poetry night.

Free student event.

Celebrate the opening of our spring 2024 exhibitions.
Free and open to the public.
Cash bar available.

Divine Inspiration: A Collection from Three Perspectives on God, Giants, and G.O.A.T.s
KaDavien Baylor, Eric Francis, and Ron Smith

Sound + Light
Craig Colorusso

Dr. Dopson’s Cabinet of Possibly Artistic Curiosities
Clif Dopson

Buy your holiday gifts and support local makers at the Meadows Museum of Art’s annual Holiday Makers Market. This event includes a juried market of local artists and makers.

While you’re here, enjoy our fall exhibitions for one last day with free hot chocolate and cookies!

For more information and a list of this year’s vendors, visit https://www.themeadowsmuseum.com/holiday.

Emerson Horne and Ben Vazquez, both Centenary class of 2024, will deliver a curator talk for the exhibition Chasing the Tiger: A Commentary on Colonial Fantasy. Chasing the Tiger will be on view October 16 through December 2, 2023.

Free student event.

In collaboration with TREK, The Corrington Award, and our fall museum exhibitions, Centenary and local high school students are invited to share their literary, visual, or performance art inspired by nature.

Find more information about art shares and multidisciplinary prompts to create your own works inspired by nature below.

Art Share How-To

Step 1:
Bring your visual or literary work with you!

Step 2:
Visual artists: hold your work up for people to see and state the medium used
Literary artists: read your work out loud
Performing artists: perform your work

Step 3:
Talk about it!

· What inspired this piece?
· What did you learn about yourself through making this piece?
· What risks did you take while making this piece?
· Why did you choose this artistic medium or writing style to convey your message?
· Is there an artist, writer, or performer who inspired you?
· What was a challenge you faced while making this piece?
· What do you hope people who see, read, or watch this piece will take away?

Art Share Prompts: Nature

1. Write/create/perform a self-portrait piece. However, instead of being a self-portrait of yourself, you will be writing a self-portrait as something else. Choose something in nature and create a piece titled “Self Portrait as X.” If you took your interiority and transported it into the “body” of this thing, what would happen? What would be revealed? What metaphorical connections might you make between yourself and your chosen container?

   Examples of self-portrait poems include “Self-Portrait as a Scallop,” “Self-Portrait as Meadow,”and “Self-Portrait of Body as Night.”

   
   

2. Create a nature invective. An invective is a song of anger toward something. Your “song” can be a piece of creative writing, visual art, performance art–anything! Invectives use humor and often have curses: these curses are often not hopes for death and tragedy but are instead a little bit silly and witty. The invective subverts the expectation of nature art as idyllic. What will you do with this subversion?

   An example is “Invective Against the Bumblebee.”

   This prompt has been provided by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, this year’s Corrington Award recipient.

   
   

3. Aimee Nezhukumatathil says that when she doesn’t feel like creating, she thinks smaller:

   Brick by brick. One line. One anecdote. Make a blank journal a sky journal. Nothing fancy, a spiral notebook will do. Even if you can’t make a full poem or essay, you can designate a notebook into just having a place for your observations about the sky. In it you can record the day/time of your observation of the moon. Or make a cloud report. Describe and/or sketch the clouds. Teach yourself to identify at least five different cloud shapes: cirrus, cumulonimbus, etc. Sketch them. Make a sunset report, even if it is just from your window. What do you hear at sunset? What do you smell? How about at sunrise? (Interview with Poets & Writers)

   In your journal, create a report on something in nature you see frequently: clouds, moon, sunset, cardinals, soil, acorns–anything. Then, turn this report into a piece of writing, visual art, or performance art. Consider the patterns you identify in your report and what these shapes reveal.

   
   

4. Take a walk around the campus arboretum. Choose one plant and spend time researching it (they are labeled to help you!) Research its common names, scientific name, taxonomy, habitat, uses, and symbolic connection–really dig in! For example, did you know the arboretum has a strawberry bush, which is also called “hearts-a-bustin’?”

   Connect your research from the campus arboretum to something larger: yourself, a friend, a relationship, a feeling, this state, the country, an issue important to you, etc. What might be revealed by connecting something small and specific with something more global? You might find inspiration in the Centenary College Arboretum Blog.

   
   

5. As Edward Hirsch points out, “Our concepts of nature are relative, historically determined.” Therefore, art about nature is “affected by ideology, by literary conventions as well as social and cultural ideas” (A Poet’s Glossary).

   Using this knowledge, create a piece of art that combines the natural world with the historical, political, or environmental. Work hard to connect the concern you have chosen and the specific history, appearance, and symbols of the nature you focus on.

   You might find inspiration from a tradition called “ecopoetry,” which “takes a more critical lens towards humanity’s relationship with the planet. Rather than rely upon grand scenes of nature unfolding for the observer, ecopoetry strips away the illusion of our observer status. We are nature, entangled in its movements” (Book Riot). How might you create to reveal this entanglement?

Jessica Hawkins will discuss her exhibition, Simulacrum, on view from October 31 through December 2, 2023. The exhibition is the culmination of a Fall 2022 sabbatical project that centered on the installation of a screen-printing studio in the Turner Arts Center at Centenary College of Louisiana.

Join artist Edgar Cano in his gallery to make your own artwork in his style!

This event is free, open to the public, and kid-friendly.

What student events would you like to see at the Meadows?

We’ll discuss the below ideas and any others that you bring!

1. Poetry Reading

2. Open Studio

3. Workshops

4. Portfolio Reviews

5. Trash-ion (Fashion) Challenge 

6. Film Screening 

7. Alum visits and reviews

8. Draw-a-thon 

9. Professional Development

10. Art Pop-ups

11. Themed Months

12. Art Loan Program

Join us for the opening reception of Nature’s Wonders featuring artwork by the Shreveport Art Club. The event will include light refreshments and remarks by a judge, an Art Club member, and the Best of Show winner.

Free and open to the public.

Nature’s Wonders is on view October 16 - December 2, 2023.

Join us on World Tourism Day to hear from a panel of Centenary faculty, staff, and students involved in the making of the Centenary in Paris: 2023 Exhibition.

Preorder a book of photographs made by Centenary College of Louisiana students during Centenary in Paris, 2023. This book will make a great souvenir of your trip to Paris, or a great gift for someone in your family. It will contain approximately 220 color photographs made by you and all of your friends who submit images to the exhibition at the Meadows Museum. If there are not enough orders to justify the printing of the book, money will be refunded.