Baton Rouge Gallery
In 2016, Baton Rouge Gallery - center for contemporary art ("BRG") celebrated fifty years of art exhibitions and programming, all aimed at bringing together artists and audiences in the Greater Baton Rouge area.
The nonprofit gallery actually had its beginnings in a private, for-profit, artist cooperative gallery called Unit 8 Gallery. A year after Unit 8's opening, the eight artists who founded the gallery welcomed four additional local artists to their ranks, incorporated as a nonprofit organization and Baton Rouge Gallery was born.
Ever since, BRG has been proud to showcase the work of professional artists including some of the best from Baton Rouge and Louisiana's contemporary art community. Over the past five decades, some of the most admired visual artists have shared their work on the walls at BRG. Artists like Caroline Durieux, Edward Pramuk, James Burke, Frank Hayden, Paul Dufour, Janice Sachse and many more were there at the inception of the gallery and helped lay the foundation for a new avenue for art to be experienced in Baton Rouge. Many would follow in their footsteps and help build BRG as a true forum for the artists of our community, including Samuel J. Corso, Judi Betts, Randell Henry and others.
Today, BRG offers new contemporary art exhibitions on a monthly basis featuring professional local and (occasionally) national artists with opening receptions on the first Wednesday of each month. BRG also offers a wealth of cultural programming that bring visitors face-to-face with contemporary art across disciplines, including film, poetry, dance, music and more. Art exhibitions at BRG typically feature current works of its artist members (except during the months of January and April, when it hosts special juried exhibitions). In any given exhibition, you might see the work of photographers, painters, sculptors, stained-glass artists, printmakers, ceramicists, multi-media and/or installation artists.