NEWSROOM
Vanishing
Wetlands: Two Views
THE
LSU MUSEUM OF ART
OCT. 28, 2005 – FEB. 19, 2006
Baton Rouge,
La. –The LSU Museum of Art in the Shaw Center for the Arts
is presenting lectures and events for Vanishing Wetlands:
Two Views. The exhibition opens at LSU MOA on Oct. 28 and
is organized by the LSU Museum of Art. Programs include a lecture
by the artists, guest speakers, a panel discussion, and a wetlands
excursion.
Events
and Programs
Opening
Public Reception: Friday, Oct. 28, 2005, 7:30 p.m.
Artists’ Talk:
The Marsh Mission Story: Sunday, Oct. 30, 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts
Wildlife and wetlands photographer C.C. Lockwood and landscape
painter Rhea Gary recount the Marsh Mission project.
They spent a year touring coastal waters on boats, documenting
the wetlands and its inhabitants to bring attention to a significant
yet rapidly vanishing ecological and economic zone. Their book,
Marsh Mission: Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands (Baton
Rouge: LSU Press, 2005), is available at the LSU MOA Museum Store.
After the presentation, the artists will conduct a book signing.
Guest
speaker:
Mike Tidwell: Bayou Farewell: Saturday, Nov. 12, 7:30
p.m.
Location: LSU Museum of Art, Paula Garvey Manship Floor (fifth),
Shaw Center for the Arts
Celebrated travel writer Mike Tidwell reads from Bayou Farewell:
The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana’s Cajun Coast
(Vintage Books: 2004). Tidwell will share chronicles about how
Cajun society and culture is changing due to the vanishing wetlands.
Panel
Discussion:
Our Coast: Communicating a Complex Story: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2:00
to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Manship Theatre, Shaw Center for the Arts
C. C. Lockwood and Mike Tidwell are joined by Mark Schleifstein,
award-winning environment reporter for The Times-Picayne,
New Orleans. Schleifstein received the 2003 National Hurricane
Conference media award for the series “Washing Away: How
south Louisiana is growing more vulnerable to a catastrophic hurricane.”
Jack M. Hamilton, dean of the Manship School of Mass Communication,
will moderate this panel of passionate environmental commentators.
This panel is organized by the LSU Museum of Art and the Reilly
Center for Media & Public Affairs, Manship School of Mass
Communication, Louisiana State University.
Wetlands
Excursion: Saturday, Nov. 5, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
$70 per person; 46 people maximum; Advance reservations required.
The LSU Museum of Art is aware of wetlands loss and the problem
it poses to the future of Louisiana’s coast. Seeing is believing!
LSU MOA wants to make believers out of 46 curious and adventurous
adults. Join museum staff on a day-long bus ride to Lafitte, La.,
where you will take an enlightening boat tour with Captain Cyrus
Blanchard. Boxed lunches and refreshments will be provided. The
focus of our journey is the wetlands and the many impacts of coastal
erosion. For more information about LSU MOA public programs, contact
Lara Gautreau, education curator, 225.389.7207; lgaut@lsu.edu.
About
the LSU Museum of Art, Shaw Center for the Arts
The new LSU Museum of Art (LSU MOA) in the Shaw Center for the
Arts is Baton Rouge’s premiere art museum. Located in downtown
Baton Rouge overlooking the
Mississippi River, it presents rotating, historical and contemporary
exhibitions. Selections from the permanent collection are always
on display. The 3,500-work collection includes seventeenth–twentieth-century
American and British portraiture, landscape painting, prints and
decorative arts, pre-Civil War New Orleans silver, historical
art from India, China, Japan and South America, and contemporary
Inuit sculpture.
General Admission:
Adults - $8; Seniors (65+), students and LSU faculty/staff (with
I.D.) - $6; Children 5 to 17 - $4. Children under 5 are admitted
free.
Museum and Museum Store
Hours: Sunday: 1 p.m.–5 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Thursday: 10 a.m.–8
p.m.; Closed Monday.
For additional
information, call (225) 389-7200 or visit www.lsu.edu/lsumoa.org.
For more information
about projects involving C.C. Lockwood and Rhea Gary, visit www.marshmission.com
and www.atchafalayarevisited.com.
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