DeBose highlights students’ artwork
The DeBose Foundation will begin its 38th Fine Arts Season by presenting the East Baton Rouge Schools’ Visual Arts Exhibition, featuring adjudicated two- and three-dimensional artworks.
The exhibition opening will be at 5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, in the Jones Walker Gallery at the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. It will feature an awards ceremony and reception for the winners and participants, and the show will run through Feb. 27.
Participating schools are Istrouma, Scotlandville Magnet, Belaire, Woodlawn, Baton Rouge Magnet and McKinley Senior high schools; and Westdale, Woodlawn, McKinley, Sherwood and Broadmoor middle schools.
Also participating are Forest Heights, Claiborne, Brownfields, Glen Oaks Park, Winbourne, Buchanan, Dufroq, Villa Del Ray and Parkview elementary schools and the Baton Rouge Center for Visual and Performing Arts.
The DeBose Visual Arts Exhibition is endorsed and produced through collaboration with the East Baton Rouge Office of Fine Arts, the Shaw Center for the Arts, DeBose Fine Arts Program Director Marie Flowers, visual arts coordinators Debra Sullivan and Mariam Clifton and visual artists Randell Henry of Southern University and Matthew Bourgeois of Baton Rouge Community College.
The annual DeBose Fine Arts Festival-National Piano Competition is a singular program distinguished by teaching excellence, showcasing achievement in literary, visual and performing arts.
Admission to the reception and show is free.
The DeBose Foundation