Each year, LSU School of Art Master of Fine Arts candidates prepare a thesis exhibition to share the culmination of the three-years of study and practice at LSU School of Art. This year, Glassell Gallery will host the work of seven graduate students in five exhibitions beginning March 21. MFA candidates will share their work, lead gallery tours, and the gallery will host free receptions open to all. LSU School of Art invites our community to share in these artists’ accomplishments throughout March, April, and May and join us for receptions, gallery talks, and artist demonstrations.  

Read a more detailed description of each artist’s exhibition.

Tommi Bonomo: Edges That Touch 

Edges That Touch examines the instability of gender through the lens of combat sports, focusing on the way the hypermasculine environment abstracts femme identities. Informed by my lived experience, the work investigates the paradox in which empowerment and alienation coexist and destabilizes gender binaries. This exhibition will be on view March 21–28 at Glassell Gallery with a reception on March 28 from 6–8 p.m. Tommi Bonomo will give a gallery talk Saturday, March 28 at 5:30 p.m. 

Sarah Moschel Miller: To be closer  |  Mia Isabel Pons: this body held others 

To be closer delves into the intersections between intimacy, unease, and the interpersonal. Sarah Moschel Miller’s works use the visual language of the body and its thresholds to explore how each of us builds interpersonal connections and understandings of self.  

Concurrently, Mia Isabel Pons explores the body’s invisible depths, the unseen and its interpersonal memories in the exhibition, this body held others. Through print, book arts, and printmaking, the work draws upon her personal archives and collected, reconstructed, and recycled imagery to examine survival through both a corporeal and spiritual lens.  

These two exhibitions will be on view April 4–11, 2026 with a reception scheduled for Thursday, April 11 from 6–8 p.m. Both artists facilitate gallery demonstrations open to the public. Miller will lead a hand sculpting workshop Saturday, April 4 from 1–3 p.m. and Pons will deliver a papermaking demo on Saturday, April 4 from 3–5 p.m. 

Serena Corson: Touching Grass: Reimagining the Commons 

Responding to the history of the enclosure of communal land, this exhibition reimagines the commons through an ecofeminist and animist lens, using intuitive artmaking and symbolic imagery. This exhibition will be on view April 18–25 with a closing reception the evening of April 25 from 6–8 p.m. Serena Corson will host a series of programs entitled “The Art of Hosting is the Highest Form of Art” on Sunday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 22 from 5–7 p.m.; more information and tickets can be found at LSU College of Art & Design Galleries Eventbrite Page 

Jacob Mills: AEX26: Arts & Electronics Expo |  Nicholas Roberts: Within These Walls 

Jacob Mills’ project, AEX26, the Arts & Electronics Expo 2026, is an experimental convention hosted in a gallery setting that presents a curated selection of companies and their products through the visual and organizational language of trade shows. Featuring games, toys, adult novelties, and self-help technologies, the exhibition invites audiences to encounter a collection of niche commercial offerings developed in response to rare, specific, or overlooked use cases.  

Concurrently, Within These Walls reflects on the Nicholas Roberts’ evolving sense of home. Through printmaking, drawing, and sculpture, Roberts considers how everyday objects and personal spaces hold memory, invite reflection, and mark moments of transition. The work explores what it means to outgrow one’s understanding of home and begin to redefine it. 

These two exhibitions will be on view May 2–16 with a reception scheduled for Saturday, May 9, from 6–8 p.m. Nicholas Roberts will lead a mezzotint demonstration during Free First Sunday, May 3 from 1–2 p.m.  

Glassell Gallery Hours:  

Tuesday–Wednesday: 12–5 p.m. 

Thursday–Friday: 12–7 p.m. 

Saturday–Sunday: 12–5 p.m. 

Closed Mondays, between exhibitions, and during LSU closures.