Celebrate exceptional alumni work at Le’Andra LeSeur SCAD40 Prize presentation

Join SCAD in congratulating alumna and interdisciplinary artist Le’Andra LeSeur (SCAD B.F.A., photography, 2014) as she receives the SCAD40 Prize for her remarkable artistic achievements. This award presentation will take place directly before the annual keynote discussion with deFINE ART honoree Lawrence Weiner.

LeSeur personifies the spirit of the SCAD40 Prize, the university's highest recognition for alumni. Honorees are selected for exemplary contributions to their professions and for demonstrating through their success the preeminence and purpose of a SCAD education.

Awarded at signature events throughout this 40th anniversary year, the SCAD40 Prize is presented to graduates who give all of themselves — hand, head and heart — to their creative careers in the highest ranks of culture and business.

Through visual media, installation and performance, LeSeur’s work explores black identity informed by the effects regulated systems of oppression have on black women, specifically. She has participated in exhibitions throughout the Southeast including "On Being Black" at Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. She is the recipient of the 2017 Contemporary Black Art award at ArtPrize 9 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for her piece, "Searching," and the recipient of the 2018 Time-Based Category Award and Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 in Grand Rapids for her piece "brown, carmine, and blue."

This event is free and open to the public and is part of SCAD deFINE ART 2019, held Feb. 26–28 at university locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.