Calendar

• Artist Talk: Faculty Miniatures

  Wed, Jan 22 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Chris Bennett, Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and curator of “Faculty Miniatures: Toward the Condensed and Not-Yet-Known” will deliver a lecture about miniatures as a contemporary art form.

  

• Blow-Out Book Sale!

  Sat, Jan 25 @ 10:00—5:00pm

  Come to the Hilliard Store for our annual blowout book sale! Select titles will be up to 50% off, and members receive an additional discount to marked down prices.

  

• Curator Tour

  Wed, Jan 29 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Join the Hilliard’s Curator of Exhibitions, Ben Hickey, as he leads in-depth tours of the exhibitions “The Art of Sir Winston Churchill” and “Vitus Shell: ‘Bout It ‘Bout It, The Political Power of Just Being”

  

• Panel Discussion: Architecture and Sustainability

  Wed, Feb 5 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  UL Lafayette Professors of Architecture explore the role sustainability plays in the world of modern architecture, and how they integrate these themes into their own practice. This panel is presented in response to the exhibition “Robert C. Tannen | Box-City”

  

• Toddler Time

  Wed, Feb 5 @ 10—11am

  Parents and their children will enjoy story time, songs with finger play, participate in a hands-on art project, and may explore the museum after the program.
  Toddler Time is free to attend.

  
  

  To reserve a spot, please fill out the form here

  

• Spring Exhibition Opening Reception

  Fri, Feb 7 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Join us in celebration of a new season of exhibitions! Members are invited to join us for an exclusive first look from 4:00 – 6:00pm. Cocktails and light refreshments are generously provided by Bread & Circus Provisions and Dripping Springs Vodka.

  

• Yoga in the Galleries

  Sat, Feb 8 @ 11—12pm

   

  Join us on the second Saturday each month for yoga at the Hilliard Museum led by an RYT-200 certified instructor. Please bring your own yoga mat and arrive 10 minutes before class is scheduled to begin. The class is limited to the first 20 participants.
  

  
  

   

  
  

  

• A Conversation with Angela Stempel: On Being an Independent Animator in Los Angeles

  Wed, Feb 12 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Angela Stempel, artist and film director with clients including AdultSwim, “The New York Times” and Apple Music, will discuss her work as an animation director and a freelance cel animator, and independent filmmaker.

  

• Galentine's Day

  Thu, Feb 13 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Enjoy a ladies’ night out celebrating your girl gang at the Hilliard’s first Galentine’s Day event! Relax with wine from Wild Child Natural Wines, snack on delectable bites from Graze Acadiana, get a 5-minute massage, and walk away with some special giveaways from Shop Kiki, Frenchie’s Modern Nail Care, and so much more!

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• Gallery Tour with Vitus Shell

  Wed, Feb 19 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Join Artist Vitus Shell and Curator of Exhibitions Ben Hickey as they lead a tour and discussion of the exhibition “Vitus Shell: ‘Bout It ‘Bout It, The Political Power of Just Being”. Find out more about Shell’s artist practice and motivations, and how he chooses his subjects. Copies of Shell’s new publication will als...

  

• Toddler Time

  Wed, Mar 4 @ 10—11am

  Parents and their children will enjoy story time, songs with finger play, participate in a hands-on art project, and may explore the museum after the program.Toddler
  Time is free to attend.

  
  

  To reserve a spot, please fill out the form here

  

• Psychology and the Politics of Just Being

  Wed, Mar 11 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Trey Delcambre, a graduate student in the UL Lafayette Department of Psychology at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, will share how he approaches the need for diversity in the arts, how creative works are evaluated by popular culture, and the ways on which artistic expression can be used to inspire political participation. Ref...

  

• Yoga in the Galleries

  Sat, Mar 14 @ 11AM—12pm

   

  Join us on the second Saturday each month for yoga at the Hilliard Museum led by an RYT-200 certified instructor. Please bring your own yoga mat and arrive 10 minutes before class is scheduled to begin. The classes are free to attend thanks to the generous sponsorship of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. The cla...

  

• Plein Air Painting Demonstration

  Tue, Mar 17 @ 1:00—3:00pm

  Watch a painting come to life on the museum's grounds while refining your own plein air practice. The Hilliard is pleased to partner with the 2020 Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air competition in offering this outdoors painting demonstration.

  

• Muscial Performance by Myron Saul

  Wed, Mar 18 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Local artist and alternative hip-hop musician Myron Saul will perform tracks from his latest album #linkinthebayou

  

• Envision Da Berry: Counter-Localism for the Future of the Small-Town American South

  Wed, Mar 25 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Phanat Xanamane, an urban designer with a background in architecture, will present a retrospective look of the work completed by his community organization, Envision Da Berry. This not-for-profit organization uses art and community engagement to create connections that have successfully revitalized areas of New Iberia ...

  

• Disruption of the Self: The Political Power of Just Being

  Wed, Apr 1 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Valin S. Jordan, Assistant Professor of Diversity Education and Founder of Yoga4SocialJustice ™, will deliver an impactful and powerful workshop combining yoga and social justice education. Attendees will engage in self-inquiry and partner activities illuminated by direct-teaching of social justice content in connection to the e...

  

• Toddler Time

  Wed, Apr 1 @ 10—11am

  Parents and their children will enjoy story time, songs with finger play, participate in a hands-on art project, and may explore the museum after the program.
  Toddler Time is free to attend.

  
  

  To reserve a spot, please fill out the form here

  

• Louisiana's Coastal Crisis and Our Window of Opportunity

  Wed, Apr 8 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  James Karst, the Director of Communications and Marketing at the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, discusses the crisis facing Louisiana’s disappearing coast line, and the steps that his organization - and all of us- can take to prevent further devastation.

  

• Yoga in the Galleries

  Sat, Apr 18 @ 11AM—12pm

   

  Join us on the second Saturday each month for yoga at the Hilliard Museum led by an RYT-200 certified instructor. Please bring your own yoga mat and arrive 10 minutes before class is scheduled to begin. The class is limited to the first 20 participants.

   

  
  

  

• Masculinity's Paradoxes: Pavel Fedotov and the Picturing of Russia's Men in the 1840's

  Wed, Apr 22 @ 6:00—8:00pm

  Dr. Allison Leigh, Assistant Professor of Art History in the UL Lafayette Visual Arts Department, explores how the works of the Russian painter Pavel Fedotov embody ideas for masculinity which shaped men’s lives in the 1840’s.

  

• Toddler Time

  Wed, May 6 @ 10—11am

  Parents and their children will enjoy story time, songs with finger play, participate in a hands-on art project, and may explore the museum after the program.
  Toddler Time is free to attend.

  
  

  To reserve a spot, please fill out the form here

  

• Yoga in the Galleries

  Sat, May 9 @ 11AM—12pm

   

   

  Join us on the second Saturday each month for yoga at the Hilliard Museum led by an RYT-200 certified instructor. Please bring your own yoga mat and arrive 10 minutes before class is scheduled to begin. The class is limited to the first 20 participants.