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Now on view through August 22: SLOW - LSU School of Art Summer Contemporary

Embracing “slow” in all registers, this exhibition features work that engages slow states of being, slow processes, and slow media. Selected work cultivates attention through deceleartion and degraded signals; the work resists efficiency and resolution to instead seek immersive states of flow.

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Juried by Emily Alesandrini.
Reception & Awards August 22, 6-8 pm

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8 more days to submit Your work to SLOW: LSU School of Art 2026 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.

Submit by June 10 at https://mailchi.mp/lsu/slow

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 S*x 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.

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