Pilobolus is back
Tickets go on sale for Baton Rouge Ballet Theater’s Pilobolus tour at 2:00 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at the Manship Theater at the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St.
The Connecticut-based dance company has played in Baton Rouge several times and will present its new production, “Re:Creation.” The company engages and inspires audiences through its unique movement style.
Tickets are $44-$64. Call (225) 344-0334 or visit manshiptheatre.org.
Sending “Art Flow”.
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge is calling for proposals for its “Art Flow” Biennial, the metropolitan city’s premiere juried exhibition of works by visual artists in the Arts Council’s 11-parish area. Entries inspired by the phrase “There’s no place like home” are encouraged to be both literal and metaphorical.
The submission deadline is March 27, with notification of selection March 29. The exhibit will run April 5 through May 15 in the Shell Gallery at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, 233 St. Ferdinand St.
For submission requirements, visit artsbr.submittable.com/submit/287965/art-flow-2024-no-place-like-home.
Art of haute couture
Banana Republic and ELLEmnop.Art will partner on the “High Fashion Fine Art Friends And Family Event Sale Fashion Show & Exhibition” from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Friday, March 8, at Banana Republic at Towne Center, 2373 Towne Center Blvd.
The exhibition is designed to showcase visual and wearable artworks by visual artists in a high-end commercial environment such as a fashion show and art exhibition. It’s a private shopping experience combined with an art exhibition and fashion show of the store’s latest seasonal clothing.
Tickets are $20 by visiting ellemnop.art/highfashionfineart.
Associated Women
Associated Women in the Arts will open their annual “Member-Exhibitor Show” on March 5th in the Shell Gallery at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, 233 St. Ferdinand St., Tuesday, March 5th. An artist reception is scheduled for 5:30-7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 14.
The exhibit, sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, runs through April 1. Entrance is free. Gallery hours are 8:30am to 4:00pm Monday through Friday. For more information, visit artsbr.org.
In the Old Capitol
The old Louisiana State Capitol, 100 North Blvd., is hosting two exhibits: Commemorating the 1984 Louisiana World’s Fair through Dec. 20 and I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970. until March 16.
Entrance is free. For more information, visit louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.
In Yes We Cannibal
Yes We Cannibal, 1600 Government St., is hosting the exhibit “Curtis Schreier: Swamp Alps” through Monday, March 25.
“Swamp Alps” is Schreier’s solo exhibition, presenting a speculative Barbie-scale model of ecologically adaptive future landscape architecture and geoengineering along with a limited series of kirigami posters.
Entrance is free. For more information, call (240) 595-9421 or visit yeswecannibal.org.
“Five x Five”
The Southern University Visual Arts Gallery in Frank Hayden Hall on campus is hosting the “Five x Five Exhibition” through April 12. The show features works by five artists: Trinity Butcher, Tajreen Atker, Eliseo Casiano, Davana Robedi and Tras Kalaitsidis.
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Entrance is free. For more information, call (225) 771-4109 or email [email protected].
In the Manship Gallery
The Perceptions of Louisiana exhibit is on view through April 17 in the Manship Gallery at the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. The show focuses on the creative visions of Louisiana artists.
Entrance is free. For more information, call (225) 344-0334 or visit manshiptheatre.org.
Rodrigue spoke
The Hilliard Museum of Art, 715 E. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette, will host “Creative Conversation: Jacques Rodrigue” at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, March 6. The talk coincides with the museum’s “Sitting with George Rodrigue” exhibit, which runs through July 13.
Jacques Rodrigue will discuss his late father’s career as well as the work of the George Rodrigue Foundation for the Arts. The talk will be included in the general admission price. For more information, visit hilliardmuseum.org.
A quick sketch
Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air, 320 E. Main St., New Iberia, kicks off this year’s Quick Draw competition at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 9, in downtown New Iberia. Artists and viewers alike will be immersed in the creative process as artists race against the clock to complete a plein air painting in just two hours.
For more information, call (337) 369-6446.
In the City of Arts
Auditions for Cité des Arts’ next production, Catherine DiSavino’s “Things My Mother Taught Me,” are at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 9 and 1 p.m. Sunday, March 10 at Cité des Arts, 109 Vine St ., Lafayette. For audition requirements, email [email protected].
Installations at Hilliard
The Hilliard Museum of Art, 715 E. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette, showing “Every/Where: Beili Liu” through Aug. 17. Beili Liu creates site-specific installations in response to landscapes and their intersections with the social and cultural. For more information, call (337) 482-2278 or visit HilliardMuseum.org.
