Art

The Alexandria Museum of Art is pleased to announce it is opening its doors to the galleries on the first Monday of each month for those with disabilities for
private, stress-free viewing of the exhibits, free of charge.

While those with special needs are welcome any business day, this dedicated day offers specialized interactives for hands-on learning, creative inspiration and
engagement as well as communication tools. Communication cards and social stories are available for download from the AMoA website to prepare for your visit.

CENLA Art Odyssey is a digitally interactive fundraising event jam-packed with art and adventure throughout Central Louisiana in keeping with current social distancing guidelines. Odyssey Teams will use their physical, mental and creative skills to complete a series of challenges and race to discover the origin of the mysterious ARTifact.

Your mission is simple - complete the series of challenges, solve the final puzzle and report your findings to mission control. Assemble your team, adventure awaits!

Ignite The Mic presents, "Soul Food Saturday" Open Mic Night featuring songstress, Ellen Maria.

Join us for an amazing night of artistry as poets, singers, and musicians grace the stage.

The purpose of this event is to promote the creation and performance of art that engages communities and provides a platform for voices to be heard uncensored.

Poets, singers, musicians, praise dancers, mimes, rappers, comedians, and more: the stage is yours! Want to sign up and showcase your talent? We'd love to have you! $10 entry fee. Contact: 318.446.1768

Inspired by the kinetic sculpture of Lin Emory, displayed in the parking lot of AMoA, participants will learn how to create their own whirring and spinning sculptures. This class is appropriate for family and friends who are like family.
Free for AMoA Member Families, $20 per
non-member family (up to 5 individuals)

Adult studio class focusing on abstract applications of landscape painting using acrylics, drawing inspiration from the rhythms of life around us, with 32nd September Competition artist Mary Louise Porter
$45 for members , $60 for non-members

FREE
Join AMoA to Light UP Art Walk! Everyone is welcomed to walk with us. You are welcomed to carry or wear your own illuminated creations or contact us early if you’d like to volunteer to help us carry and wear sculptures and costumes created by AMoA staff and friends. We’ll also have a few small luminaries to let you borrow for the procession on a first come first serve basis. Want to make your own luminary? Join Cindy Blair and Nancy Noles for the FREE Community Luminary Project on Thursday, September 19 at 6 pm.

FREE
Everyone is welcomed to join AMoA educators Nancy Noles and Cindy Blair to create their own luminary creations to carry in the Art Walk Illuminated Procession on October 18 at 7:30 pm.

Louisiana Craft Beer breweries will meet up once again in Alexandria, Louisiana to share their brews with you, and go head-to-head in multiple categories, and you pick the winners! Praised as one of the top beer events in Louisiana, our annual Craft Brews, BBQ, & Blues Summer fundraiser, featuring CENLA’s original Craft Beer competition, returns on August 17, 2019.

In addition to the annual September Competition, AMoA will be exhibiting the Rodrigue Scholarship Contest winners’ exhibition. Each year the Rodrigue Foundation holds an art competition for juniors and seniors in high school throughout the state. Students enter work based on a theme, which was Cosmos this year. The entries are judged by art professionals throughout the state, including AMoA’s curator, Megan Valentine, from almost 600 entries down to the 17 finalists.

Beginning July 5th, the Alexandria Museum of Art will showcase outstanding contemporary art from around the world for the 32nd year of our September Competition. Featuring pieces from all media, this exhibition features work of artists 18 and up throughout the country and beyond. The pieces on exhibit were selected by a guest juror from over 450 works with no information apart from the images of the artwork and very basic details about the piece itself. This year’s exhibition features work from 49 artists, 4 countries,
23 states, and 49 cities.