Parisian Monuments, Alien Landscapes, Corrupt Elections

The Meadows Museum of Art greets students returning to the Centenary College campus with three new exhibitions on view through October. 

• Centenary in Paris: A Monumental Experience celebrates Centenary’s innovative, immersive curriculum, which sends Centenary’s first-year students to Paris to begin their college coursework studying various intensive academic subjects. The exhibit features work created by incoming students, and monumental original art by Professor Bruce Allen.

• The Court of King Skebal is a collaboration by Bossier City multi-disciplinary artist Steve Zihlavsky and Shreveport musician and filmmaker Michael Futreal. Zihlavsky wields scrap-work creativity to create an imaginary world of alien creatures and environments, accompanied by an original musical score and soundscape, produced using Futreal’s own hand-built electric and acoustic instruments. A reception for both artists will be on Saturday, September 10, from 5:30 pm–7 pm.

• Election Humours offers a print series by eighteenth-century British artist William Hogarth, who pioneered political cartooning and sequential narrative art in Europe. A witty, perceptive, and detailed satirist, Hogarth criticized the social problems he observed, including an allegedly crooked 1754 election in Oxfordshire, England.

• Related Event: On Wednesday, October 12 Centenary's political science professor, Dr. Mark Leeper, will give a lecture entitled "Are They Still Hitting the Spot? An Historical Glance at the Use and Effectiveness of Political Ads in Presidential Campaigns" from 6 pm–7 pm, discussing the origins and use of television advertising by presidential candidates, from Eisenhower to Clinton and Trump.

Open every day except Saturday on the campus of Centenary College, 2911 Centenary Boulevard. (318) 869-5040 or centenary.edu/meadows.