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Leanne McClurg Cambric, Scott Finch, Kathryn Hunter and Michaelene Walsh

Baton Rouge Gallery, a BREC facility, welcomes four of its artist members for an exciting multimedia exhibition Aug. 29 through Sept. 23, featuring the work of Leanne McClurg Cambric, Scott Finch, Kathryn Hunter and Michaelene Walsh.

The gallery will host a “First Wednesday” Opening Reception for this eclectic exhibition and the four featured artist members on Sept. 1 from 7-9 p.m. Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 program hosts its monthly ARTiculate series on Sept. 4, featuring two of the gallery’s artist members’ providing an intimate and thought-provoking tour of their exhibitions.

clockwise: The work of McClurg Cambric, Finch, Hunter and Walsh

Leanne McClurg Cambric’s work consists of functional hand-built porcelain and earthenware pottery, decorative displays and imagery inspired by nature, grief and survival. Her newest exhibit, Reluctant Perseverance, explores what perseverance looks like to the artist. After personal and professional setbacks in the past few years, Cambric now uses narrative imagery as a way to express emotions of resilience, perseverance, loss and grief. Cambric uses metaphorical strengths and abilities of animals to show how she feels about herself and the characters in her life.

Scott Finch’s exhibit, Nothing Predetermined, includes large and medium-sized paintings featuring taught dichotomies between ancient and contemporary vantages on the human condition. After years of exhibiting large, photo-based, flatly-executed paintings on paper, gallery visitors noticed signs of a creative upheaval in Finch's snarky and poetically confessional drawings on inter-departmental envelopes last year. This year visitors will see a more thorough introduction of informal and spontaneous gesture into Finch's works on paper in painting and drawing media.

Kathryn Hunter’s exhibit, Menagerie, explores the idea of charting perceptions of existence through the imagery of animals. Using printmaking and mixed media, her work reflects the patterning of life, interdependence, cycles and the symbols of such ideas.

Michaelene Walsh’s exhibit, Alight, Adrift, Aloft, mixes the metaphorical with the concreteness of forms. Walsh uses clay to make images of lightness, abundance and freedom, such as birds, ice cream cones, pregnancy and fertility. The intermingling of the images creates a sense of the absurd, or conveys weightier meaning to these carefree images.

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Movies & Music on the Lawn Series Continues with ‘dayDREAMS & nightSCREAMS’ on Sept 25

Baton Rouge Gallery’s Movies & Music on the Lawn, continues its 2010 season Sept. 25. This year’s theme, dayDREAMS & nightScreams, explores our wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Since the late-1980s, the gallery has invited film buffs and families alike to come out the last Saturday of the month, May through October, to snack under the stars and enjoy an exciting silent-era film paired with live contemporary music provided by some of the area’s most talented musicians.

Enjoy the 1926 animated film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” on Sept. 25. Based on a story from the classic, 1001 Arabian Nights, this film by German animator Lotte Reiniger is the oldest surviving animated feature-length film. Shot in Reiniger’s own invention of silhouette animation, this story follows the handsome Prince Achmed atop a winged horse to remote lands as he sets out on thrilling adventures. Meet friendly witches, demons and Aladdin with his magic lamp and wait for this heroic prince to rescue and fall in love with the beautiful Princess Pari Banou.

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Sundays@4 Hosts the Louisiana Sinfonietta for a Solo Series Concert on Sept. 19

Baton Rouge Gallery’s Sundays@4 program will host The Louisiana Sinfonietta for a solo series concert on Sunday, Sept. 19. This program includes music for bassoon, violin and piano by featured composers: J. S. Bach, Bela Bartok, Paris Paraschoudis, Dinos Constantinides, Karl Simmerman, Maira Cimbleris, Alejandro Arguello, Giselle Eastman, J. Corey Knoll and Mikel LeDee.

The Louisiana Sinfonietta is a professional ensemble of musicians led by composer, conductor and LSU Boyd Professor, Dinos Constantinides. The Sinfonietta maintains a high standard of excellence throughout its membership and continued reputation for excellence in the composing arts. Some of its current members’ credentials include Doctor of Musical Arts degrees, doctoral candidates, teachers, Juilliard School of Music graduates and former students of illustrious teachers like Galamian.

Several members have performed as soloists with the Sinfonietta as well as across the continental United States and abroad.  Distinguished guest artists appear with the ensemble frequently. Since its founding more than 100 soloists, both locally and nationally known, have appeared with the ensemble.

As always with Sundays@4 events, this concert is free, open to the public and starts at 4 p.m.