Hammond Regional Arts Center

Opening Reception: April 17, 2026 || 7 PM - 9 PM

A 3-D sculptural experience, this exhibition honors the legacy of Marjorie Morrison, a founding Member of the HRAC.

Cover art by Aileigh Simmons

Exhibiting Artists

Aileigh Simmons, a southeast Louisiana native, explores themes of connection through her deeply personal and memory-driven work. Drawing from a childhood shaped by creativity and homeschooling, she navigates the space between imagination and lived experience. Her work incorporates familiar elements like dollhouses, stuffed animals, and blanket forts to reflect on growing up and the quiet losses that come with it. 

Ben Diller's assemblage work investigates the interplay between architectural forms and painterly processes. By deconstructing and reconstructing spatial elements, he creates layered compositions that both suggest and disrupt three-dimensional space. His use of perspective, voids, and camouflage-like painting invites viewers to question perception while exploring depth and structure. 

Dale Newkirk, a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, and drawing, is known for his vivid geometric forms and contemplative wall-mounted works. Since the late 1980s, his practice has centered on using shape, color, and structure to create spatial and visual experiences. His work reflects a lineage of contemporary and non-representational artists while maintaining a focus on clarity, proportion, and surface relationships. 

Ginina Biondini, a south Louisiana native, creates work that explores loss, memory, and the complexities of human connection. Drawing from childhood experiences and emotional landscapes, she reflects on spaces between the physical and spiritual self. Her practice revisits difficult memories, transforming them into something more gentle and reconcilable in the present. Through this process, her work becomes an emotional mirror, inviting viewers to look beneath the surface and into deeper, often unspoken realms.

Kathryn Agnes Baczeski is a clay-based artist and Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Her teaching and creative practices encompass sculpture, installation, performance art, and experiential immersive experiences.

Katie Singleton is a sculptor whose work investigates the poetry of identity and place, pulling from a personal iconography to recreate the landscape that is around and within her. Familial ties and more than twenty years spent in the rural South are frequent elements within her work. 

Maggie McConnell's artistic journey began in ceramics before she discovered her passion for sculpture. Working with a wide range of materials including metal, paper, and wood, her practice blends organic forms with an exploration of order emerging from chaos. Her work has received numerous awards and has been featured in both public and private collections, as well as in film and television. McConnell describes sharing her work as using her “outside voice” to reveal something both deeply familiar and beautifully hidden.

Mary Elkins is a ceramic and fiber artist whose work centers on memory, motherhood, and domestic life. Drawing from her experiences as a mother and homemaker, she uses materials like worn clothing and clay to process and reflect on everyday moments. She creates her work in a home studio in Arkansas, where her art practice is deeply intertwined with daily life.

Mona Jahani is an Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Southeastern Louisiana University, where she also serves as resident costume designer and costume shop manager. Her work spans theatre productions across academic and professional stages, earning her multiple awards, including recognition from USITT and the Costume Society of America. Jahani balances her roles as educator and freelance designer, and her practice reflects a deep commitment to storytelling through costume and visual design.

Steve Schepker is a Professor of Theatre at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he oversees scenic and lighting design for all theatre productions. His classroom teaching includes Introduction to Theatre, Stagecraft, Scenic Design, Lighting Design, and Play Production courses, with an emphasis on collaboration, professionalism, and practical problem-solving.

Tiffany Nesbit's work is inspired by childhood memories of growing up on a Louisiana farm, where imagination and storytelling shaped her understanding of the natural world. Her sculptures memorialize the spirits of animals through playful, humorous characters. Working primarily with recycled clay, she combines wheel throwing and hand-building techniques with collage, printmaking, and found materials. Each piece becomes a layered narrative that honors both memory and place.