Collection:LPB

Genre: Art

Place Covered: Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

Copyright Holder: Louisiana Educational Television Authority

Date Issued: 2016-06-18

Duration: 00:11:48

Subjects: Baton Rouge Gallery | Arts | ARTISTS

Contributors:

• Fox-Smith, James Host
• Jackson, John E. Producer
• Miguez, Cat Producer
• Pramuk, Edward Interviewee
• Burke, James Interviewee
• Jeansonne, Jim Interviewee
• Corso, Samuel J. Interviewee
• Henry, Randell Interviewee
• Marcel, Kathy Interviewee
• Haymon, Ava Leavell Interviewee
• Andreasen, Jason Interviewee

This segment from the June 18, 2016, episode of the series “Art Rocks!” features a profile of the 50th anniversary of the Baton Rouge Gallery, one of the oldest artist cooperatives in the United States. It includes interviews with: Edward Pramuk, James Burke, and Jim Jeansonne, co-founders; Samuel J. Corso and Randell Henry, artist members; Kathy Marcel, former director; and Ava Leavell Haymon, a former Louisiana Poet Laureate. Host James Fox-Smith also interviews Jason Andreasen, the current executive director of the Baton Rouge Gallery. He discusses: the artists with the biggest impact on the Baton Rouge Gallery; their exhibitions; their artist members; the current “Before the Fork” exhibition; and the work of ceramicist David Scott Smith.