SLOW: LSU School of Art Summer Contemporary From The Galleries at LSU

SLOW
LSU School of Art Summer Contemporary

Embracing “slow” in all registers, we invite artists whose work engages in slow states of being, slow processes, and slow media. We seek work that lingers in drifts and delays; work that dwells in states of stillness and attunement. Resisting efficiency and resolution, we seek immersion into the hum, the grain, the granular—work that cultivates attention through deceleration and degraded signals, work engaging slow, low, and no technology to open immersive states of flow.

Juror: Emily Alesandrini

Emily Alesandrini (she/her) is a writer, curator, and art historian working in New Orleans and New York. Her research concerns contemporary representations of race and gender with a particular focus on aesthetics of opacity, ornament, and the diasporic body in art by women and artists of color. She strives to spotlight underrepresented voices in the field and work in community-based collaboration to subvert systems of oppression and erasure within and beyond art history. Alesandrini has contributed to exhibitions and publications at The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, The Ford Foundation Gallery in New York, The Museum of Sex in New York, Prospect New Orleans, Wave Hill in the Bronx, and The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York, as well as Assembly Room Gallery and the 8th Floor. She is the founding editor of Slip magazine and her writing has appeared in ARTnews, The Offing, Burnaway, and BOMB, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues.

Alesandrini participated in Burnaway’s 2023 Arts Writing Incubator. She was a 2025 AICA Art Critic Fellow, a 2025 Momus summer resident, and a 2025 Andy Warhol Short Form Art Writing grant winner. Alesandrini graduated from Smith College, earned her MA in Art History from Tulane University, and continues her studies as a doctoral student in Art History at Bryn Mawr College.

Contemporary visual artists and culture bearers who live, work, study in–or are connected to– Louisiana are eligible to apply. We especially encourage local and college/university student-artists from across the Greater Baton Rouge area to apply. Artists must be 18 years and older. 

There is a $15 entry fee.  Applicants may enter up to four (4) artworks TOTAL. If more than 4 are submitted, only the first 4 submissions will be considered. 

Accepted Art
All media are eligible. 

Work should have been completed within last three years (2024, 2025, 2026. 
 
All selected works must be ready for installation at the time of delivery or work will be disqualified (unless special arrangements are made for artist install.) 
 
Artists must frame work and/or provide any specialized hardware. 
 
In some cases, particularly with new media works, artists must provide required special AV equipment and/or display stands that are specific to the work. 
 
For each submitted work, applicants must provide general technical elements/ specifications. 
 
For each submitted work, where applies, applicants must provide a checklist of objects/ elements that are included with the work and any special display descriptions and values. 
 
Work made of materials that may be hazardous cannot be accepted. 
 
Installation-based work may require self-installation, with support from Glassell’s staff. Glassell Gallery is unable to provide travel assistance. 

Shipping/Delivery
Selected artists are responsible for covering travel costs and making all round-trip delivery and incoming shipping arrangements in coordination with Glassell Gallery. Accepted entries will be insured onlyduring the installation and exhibition of work at Glassell Gallery. The artist is responsible for all insurance and shipping costs during travel. Mailed works should include return shipping label upon arrival. 

Please ensure that work is securely packed with reusable packing, for both shipped and hand-delivered submissions. Glassell will not be responsible for loss and damage to work due to inadequate packaging and/or shipping arrangements. 

Sales/Commissions 
Works are offered for sale with a 50/50 split to support Glassell Gallery Programming. 

To process sales payments, artists will be required to sign up as supplier with LSU. To process award payments, artists will be required to sign up as supplier with LSU Foundation. 

Important Dates  

Open Call: April 28–June 10, 2026 – Entries accepted through Artwork Archive 

Juror Review: June 11–19, 2026 

Notification of Acceptance: June 22, 2026 

Delivery of Artwork (mail or hand delivery): June 27–July 1 / July 6  

Exhibition Dates: July 11–August 22, 2026  

Reception & Awards: Saturday, August 22, 6–8 p.m.  

Pick up/ Return of Artwork: Artists may pick up their work at 8 p.m. 8/22 or August 25–29, 12–5 p.m. // Mailed works with pre-printed label will be returned August 25–30 in original packaging.