Arts Market Saturday; Japanese artist to visit
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The next Baton Rouge Arts Market will be 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 6, at 5th and Main streets.
The Arts Market is a project of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and takes place every first Saturday, featuring the original and fine-crafted artwork by artists from Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Florida.
The Arts Market regularly features free children’s art activities 9 a.m.-noon at the Arts Market’s Kids Booth and takes place in conjunction with the weekly Red Stick Farmers Market and the Main Street Market.
During inclement weather, the markets are held in the Galvez Parking Garage at 500 Main St.
For more information, call Katherine Scherer at the Arts Council at (225) 344-8558.
Japanese artist at LSU
Critically acclaimed artist Kyoko Ibe, one of Japan’s most innovative paper artists, will visit the LSU School of Art at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, in Room 103, the Design Building lecture hall, on campus.
Her visit is part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series. She will speak about her creative work with traditional and experimental Japanese paper or washi, and her collaborative installations working with theater, dance and performance art.
Ibe is internationally known for creating large-scale installations using washi, a traditional Japanese method of creating beautiful and durable paper dating back more than 1,400 years. She became interested in the material and began constructing contemporary art objects from it at a time when the medium was used exclusively for traditional Japanese art and crafts. In her pioneering work, she has pushed the limits of washi to develop a new art form, which combines a respect for tradition with technological experimentation.
Ibe is in the U.S. for a show of her work at the University of Illinois.
For more information, call (225) 505-8997.
At the LSU Museum of Art
The exhibit American Masters From the Blanton Museum of Art’s Mari and James A. Michener Collection continues to Nov. 30 at the LSU Museum of Art in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St.
American Masters is a selection of nearly 40 paintings from the Mari and James Michener Collection at the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. This exhibition is a celebration of the creativity of modern American artists, tracing the development of 20th century American painting from the gritty realism of Robert Henri to the startling pop art of Robert Indiana to the experimental abstraction of Alan Cote.
Through the Clouds
The exhibit Through the Clouds, featuring the artwork of Saliha Staib, will open Tuesday, Sept. 9, at Ann Connelly Fine Art’s second location, 4221 Perkins Road. The exhibit will continue to Sept. 29, and there will be reception 6-9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12.
Staib’s new work explores the secrets of what is seen and unseen by the eye alone, delicately illustrating the tension between how things look and how they are or might be, walking the edgy line between the immediate and alluring beauty of the visible world and our uncertainties and doubts about our own place within it. Like human personalities, Staib’s abstract subjects first invite and then ultimately elude definition, and abandon us — sometimes uncomfortably — to our imaginings.
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