OPEN CALL - LSU School of Art is seeking entries for its annual Summer Contemporary: SLOW 

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 Here: https://www.artworkarchive.com/call-for-submission/the-galleries-at-lsu/slow-lsu-school-of-art-summer-contemporary

Submission Deadline: June 10, 2026

Exhibition Dates: July 11–August 22

Entry Fee $15

First Prize $750

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.