CLOSING PROGRAM
MONUMENT ETERNAL
A NECESSARY SPACE
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2026
6-8 PM
TULSA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP
FLAGSHIP | 112 N. BOSTON AVE.
TULSA, OK
Tulsa Artist Fellowship invites you to join us for the closing program of Le’Andra LeSeur: Monument Eternal, on view at the Flagship through March 26, 2026.
This evolving body of work reflects on the violence of erasure, the weight of silence, and the profound effects these forces have on collective identity and mental well-being. Through video, sculpture, photography, and sound, LeSeur builds an embodied archive of presence where absence has long prevailed.
Originally sparked by the artist’s personal reckoning with Stone Mountain, Georgia, the project investigates American landscapes marked by racial terror and the ways these histories remain unmarked, suppressed, or distorted. The exhibition’s central video documents LeSeur repeatedly falling on the mountain’s peak—an act of endurance that transforms physical collapse into a meditation on memory, resilience, and transcendence.
The most recent iteration of Monument Eternal turns toward Okemah, Oklahoma, and the 1911 lynching of Laura and LD Nelson. Through sculptural and photographic works, LeSeur resists the spectacle of violence by creating quiet alternative memorials that acknowledge histories too often erased.
On the occasion of the exhibition's closing, LeSeur brings together Acclaimed Designer, Kamille Glenn, and NDA Haus Founder, Vondell J. Burns, to join her in an intimate conversation on the importance of telling our stories through intentionally cultivated spaces.
Participants
Le’Andra LeSeur — Visual Artist & Tulsa Artist Fellow
Kamille Glenn — NY-based award-winning commercial designer
Vondell J. Burns — Creative problem solver, storyteller, and founder of Saturday Scribe and NDA Haus
Music by DJ Kris Harring
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Le’Andra LeSeur (b. 1989 in Bronx, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses a range of media, including video, installation, photography, painting, and performance. Her body of work, a celebration of Blackness, queerness, and femininity, seeks to dismantle systems of power and achieve transcendence and liberation through perseverance. Through the insertion of her body and voice into her work, LeSeur provides her audience with an opportunity to contemplate themes such as identity, family, Black grief and joy, the experience of invisibility, and what it means to take up space as a queer Black woman—a rejection of the stereotypes which attempt to push these identities to the margins. The artist has received several notable awards, including the Tulsa Artist Fellowship (2024-2026), Leslie-Lohman Museum Artists Fellowship (2019), the Time-Based Medium Prize, and the Juried Grand Prize at Artprize 10 (2018). LeSeur has appeared in conversation with Marilyn Minter at the Brooklyn Museum, presented by the Tory Burch Foundation, and has lectured at The New School, NY, NY, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, among others. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at MFA Boston, Boston, MA; Swivel Gallery, NY, NY; The Shed, New York, NY; Marlborough, New York, NY; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Assembly Room, New York, NY; Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Arnika Dawkins, Atlanta, GA; and others. Residencies include Pioneer Works, iLab at The University of the Arts, Visual Studies Workshop, ArcAthens, NARS Foundation, Marble House Project, and MASS MoCA.
EXHIBITION SUPPORTERS
The third iteration of Monument Eternal is commissioned, in part, by Tulsa Artist Fellowship. The touring works were co-commissioned by Pioneer Works and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and are curated by Vivian Chui. This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Tulsa Artist Fellowship; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.