2017 exhibitions
artspace presents & the Holidaze bazzar
Karen La Beau, Julie Glass, Meghan Davis Taylor, Bruce Allen, Marilyn Couch, Linda Dickson, Nancy Ferrari, Aly Fletcher, Cayla Flynn, Donna Chance Hall, Dorothy Kristen Hanna, Hooshang Khorasani, Thomas Little, Tracy McComic, Lauri Wallace, and Sherry Tamburo.
You’ll find UNexpected and UNcommon gifts of fine art by juried local Artists in the “artspacePRESENTS” galleries. This is seasonal shopping to give you peace on earth rather than the hustle and bustle of wandering the mall.
The first & only 2017 glitter zombie apocalypse ball
By William Joyce
Curated by William Joyce
Award-Winning short film maker, artist and author William Joyce weaves a web of Halloween magic at artspace Shreveport this October with his collection of stupendous spiders, spine tingling skeletons, spooky skulls and generally scary stuff from his Halloween parties that Martha Stewart once featured on her show. The Shreveport Regional Arts Council invites you to enter the weird, wacky Halloween world of William Joyce and get your glitter on with other ghouls, ghosts and goblins.
Pictured: “Evening Mist of Fall” by Larry Sanchez
iNgraved: celbrating 100 years of forest park cemetary
Forest Park Cemeteries & Funeral Home CEO & Chairman Mr. Robert C. Lomison will present almost $4,000 in cash awards to NWLA artists for InGRAVED—an exhibition of visual, literary and performance works created to celebrate the 100th birthday of the historic Shreveport cemetery. The art works were inspired by the history and scenes of the cemetery where well known Louisianans including sculptress Clyde Connell, WWI Louisiana governor Ruffin G. Pleasant and the nuns of the Catholic Daughters of the Cross are buried.
Quake in paradise: echoes of nepal
Douglas Walton
Renowned Ruston artist M Douglas Walton survived the catastrophic April 25th, 2015 earthquake in Nepal. Walton was compelled to share Nepal’s beautiful, hope-filled story through his creation of powerful and inspiring paintings motivated by his transformation after surviving the catastrophe.
Vicarious Trauma
Raluca Iancu
Iancu’s art explores disaster, tragedy, memory and vulnerability. The focus of her artspace exhibition will be the installation piece, “It’s Not Easy to Stop a Train”. This is immersive art that presents the viewer with a chance to “step into” one compartment of a crashed long distance passenger train and experience catharsis.
James Burton: master of the telecaster
THE ART OF THE GUITAR…nobody illustrates it in bolder “living color” than “The Master of the Telecaster,“ James Burton. From vivid pink paisley to flaming red hot, Burton’s guitars and his unmistakable riffs and soft bending sounds have defined rock ‘n roll for more than six decades and have made him one of the world’s greatest musical legends.
Art of the guitar: Guitar heroes
The second floor of artspace features “Guitar Heroes”, where Guitar Collectors exhibit their one-of-a-kind guitars for display. Some are pure celebrity- autographed by stars like Mick Jagger - and others are delightfully “artistic”, such as the mosaic tile Art Guitars, or the Cigar Box Guitar that really plays!
hope amid madness: Kryzstof Krol and “the windows of wolinska street”
David Bottoms
For his solo show, Bottoms will exhibit a visual representation of his short story with images as a backdrop to lend atmosphere as well as furniture and an old tube radio reflective of the WWII Polish Resistance era which makes up the plot of his story.
The essence of things: The art of talbot hopkins
Talbot Hopkins
Hopkins’ solo show includes 25 works of portraiture and still-life’s with more than 15 pieces of new, never-before seen work by Hopkins-Trudeau created specifically for this show. In her words, “I believe the pieces in this exhibition reflect my love of beauty--especially that found in nature--as well as a subconscious and conscious desire for peace and simplicity.”
Critical Mass 5
Robert Pincus, Ph.D - Visual Arts Critic
David Kipen - Literary Critic
Mark Lowry - Performance Critic
Experience Northwest Louisiana’s finest visual and literary artists. Over 130 artists will be on display competing for a $2,000 prize for Best In Show for Literary and for Visual!
Talbot Hopkins - Visual Winner
David Bottoms - Literary Winner
Poetic X - Performance Winner
Retrospective Tribute: Paula hallman, carlos colon, and Jane rYder
Fantasy Dolls, Haiku Elvis and feathers, flowers and veils—this was the “ stuff,” the heart of the art of three of Northwest Louisiana’s most beloved artists: PAULA HALLMAN, CARLOS COLON AND JANE RYDER.
Art of the creole wild west mardi gras indians
Every year on Mardi Gras, the sparkling beads, jangling of tambourines, and chants of “Creole Wild West” announce to the world that the oldest Mardi Gras Indian tribe is still “masking” in New Orleans. Now Big Chief Howard Miller and his tribe bring their hand-beaded and feathered “suits” to Shreveport January through March 2017 as artists in residence with the Shreveport Regional Arts Council.
Artist studios 2017
Six artists set up shop in the mainspace gallery of artspace to see what it would be like to live and work out of a studio space downtown.