Uniquely Louisiana: Collectors, Curators, and Artists
Michael Willmon, Robert Gordy in Heaven, 2007, Oil on canvas 30 x 40 inches – canvas, 32.5 x 42.5 inches, photo and artwork courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery
Uniquely Louisiana: Collectors, Curators, and Artists is the focus of the 2009-2010 season at the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College of Louisiana. On view for the general public are some of Louisiana’s most superb collections and artworks by a number of Louisiana’s finest contemporary artists currently producing in studios above and below the I-10 corridor. Loaned to the museum by private collectors in Louisiana and from Louisiana galleries that represent the most recent trends in the visual arts in the state, the exhibition schedule will be of interest to members of the general regional public as well as to serious collectors and working artists. The calendar of events developed in tandem with this year’s slate of exhibitions features curatorial lectures, gallery talks, Artist’s Circle programs, and more. All Meadows Museum of Art exhibitions and programs are presented free-of-charge to the public-at-large.
The season begins on Sunday, August 16, when the Focus Gallery exhibition Uniquely Louisiana Artists- Louisiana Artists from the Arthur Roger Gallery (August 16 – December 24, 2009) goes on view. Presented here are works by many of Louisiana’s most well-known artists including Robert Gordy and John Scott. The fall continues with the mounting of Uniquely Louisiana Collectors- MAGNIFICENT, MARVELOUS, MARTELE: American Art Nouveau Silver from the Collection of Jolie and Robert Shelton (September 13 – November 1, 2009) which opens to the general public on Sunday, September 13, and features some of the finest objects created during the Art Nouveau period. In November, the private collection of John Webster Keefe, the RosaMary Foundation Curator of The Decorative Arts at the New Orleans Museum of Art and curatorial consultant for the Shelton’s Martele collection, premieres in an exhibition entitled Uniquely Louisiana Curators- FOR THE LOVE OF ART: Selected Works from the Collection of John Webster Keefe (November 22, 2009 – January 31, 2010).