Amber Baggette grew up in rural southwest Louisiana, surrounded by forest for most of her adolescence. She used the forests as a type of escapism as a child to get away from her chaotic and abusive home life. When she moved back to Louisiana for graduate school, she saw the damage the logging industry did to her hometown without attempting to repair and replant the trees. While researching the life of trees, she saw some connections between the nature of trees and humans. She makes intaglio and lithographs showing this irreversible damage to the environment and relates it to the irreversible damage to one’s mind after surviving child abuse.   

Concurrently, Pete Froehlich’s exhibition, Connections, offers an intimate look at the different types of spaces where we seek connections with each other and the objects that occupy and influence those spaces. 

These two exhibitions will be on view April 12–19 with a reception scheduled for Thursday, April 17th. Both artists will give a gallery: Froehlich will speak at 5:30 and Baggette will speak at 5:45. 

For more details and to see other upcoming MFA Thesis Exhibitions visit https://design.lsu.edu/news-and-events/exhibits/ 

Glassell Gallery Hours:  

Tuesday-Wednesday: 12-5 

Thursday-Friday: 12-7 

Saturday-Sunday: 12-5 

Closed Mondays, between exhibitions, and during LSU closures.