Our Louisiana now on view at Louisiana Art & Science Museum
Visitors enjoying Our Louisiana on its opening day, January 16, 2020.
BATON ROUGE, LA
.- Our Louisiana, on view until January 14, 2024, explores Louisianas history and culture through objects from LASMs permanent collection. Featuring artwork in a variety of media by Louisiana-born and Louisiana-based artists, the exhibition is divided into the categories of Nineteenth Century Art; Modern Art; Contemporary Art; Baton Rouge Art; and Self-Taught Art, Folk Art, and Craft. Organized by the Louisiana Art & Science Museum and curated from its collection, Our Louisiana is on view on the first floor of the main gallery.
My New Orleans
Beading Rhythms
Big Chief Demond Melancon explores history, passes the art and attributes of beading to the next generation of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians
12/31/2020
Aretha Franklin
New Orleans is a gumbo of people of all different nationalities and races and all those people show a lot of love to each other,” says artist and Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Demond Melancon. “I’m part of that gumbo.”
Melancon, who resides with his wife Alicia in the city’s Bywater neighborhood, is a prominent “contemporary bead artist” and Big Chief of the Lower 9th Ward Young Seminole Hunters Mardi Gras tribe. His beaded portraits and exquisite Mardi Gras Indian costumes called suits all made with thousands of tiny colored beads are mystical symbols of an African American Creole culture that courses through the city’s veins and historic neighborhoods like the rhythmic motions of the Mississippi. To him, they are spiritual connections to the African diaspora a
The Baton Rouge Symphony s Holiday Brass concert, featuring the symphony brass and percussion, will be held online at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 16. The concert, conducted by David Torns and streaming live from St. Joseph Cathedral, will feature David Summers on the cathedral pipe organ. Tickets are $30 at brso.org.
A fundraiser for America, My Oyster Association will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, at the Kendra Scott store at Perkins Rowe shopping center. The store will donate 20% of sales to provide additional funding for AMOA s Making a Stand to Understand Our America! documentary series, which will feature interviews with the graduates of the Class of 2020 about pursuing their education during the pandemic and social unrest. They also talk about how they plan to use their education and talents to make America better. Twenty percent of online purchases Dec. 19-20 with the code GIVEBACK-0ISU also will be donated to AMOA, which encourages students to embrace education a