Anne Archer Dennington, director, Masur Museum of Art, at the exhibit, “Artists of the Great Depression.” (courtesy thenewsstar.com)

From “Artists of the Great Depression,” Dorothea Lange, at Masur Museum of Art.

The Masur Museum has the works of Eudora Welty, Fonville Winans and several other photographers and artists of the 1930s-40s exhibited for their Artists of the Great Depression exhibit, which runs through Nov. 8.

On display at the Schepis Museum through Sept. 30 is Tempus fugit, an exhibit of photographs by B. Jo Fulton. It is a pictorial history of children taught by the artist during her 32-year career teaching kindergarten in rural Louisiana. The  museum is open Tues. - Fri., according to someone I spoke to on the phone — don’t pay attention to their website, which hasn’t been updated in some time.

Women of the Ouachita River Art Guild will be featured at the Art Fest sponsored by 102 a Bistro, Thur., Oct. 1. The reception is 4:30-6:30pm, with wine and appetizers, similar to the event done in Monroe at Sage, also owned by the same family. Art will be for sale and shown in the restaurant and on the boardwalk. Tish Miller of Inside Indigo will curate. For more info, call 318-254-1102.

And at the ULM Bry Art Gallery, check out the Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, through Sept 10.

McConnell Collection, African Art, from a previous exhibit at GSU. I'll post some shots of the current student show after I see the exhibit.

Just two days old, and this blog has already gotten some positive feedback! Wow. Thanks to everyone who commented. Apparently, it’s been placed on the virtual doorsteps of members of the Masur Museum, courtesy of Director Anne Dennington. So, hello, Masur members, and please feel free to offer any suggestions for the site.

I’ve been compiling the list of links, in the sidebar at right, by researching other lists of links compiled by other local art sites, and I think I’ve finally compiled a comfortable pile of pre-compiled art links … confusing, ain’t it? At any rate, most of what you see there, at right, again, should go directly to the current schedule of events for that particular gallery or association or what-have-you. The idea is to save readers a few clicks of going to the sites, and then having to search for exhibition and performance schedules.

Now, on to some art news …. here are a few events in progress or upcoming. At Grambling University, the student art show is going on through Aug. 28. The gallery is open during the week only, take note. At Strauss Dinner Theater, you can assist Rick Archer, PI, in solving a mystery titled “Murder at Cafe Noir,” while also enjoying your baked redfish with crabmeat sauce and a side of tomato basil soup, or a 16-oz ribeye, or something equally appetizing. Wowee. My guess is the chef did it. Playdates for that are Fridays and Saturdays in July at the Hilton Garden Inn, West Monroe.

Strauss Theater offers that ever tantalizing combo of dead guys and dinner. Uh, waiter, there's a knife in my soup.

The Rose Theater has Jekyll and Hyde, the musical, running for two weeks starting on July 17, Fri-Sun. This is something I don’t want to miss, mainly because of my deep affection for the 1990 concept recording, Highlights From Jekyll And Hyde, with Colm Wilkinson and Linda Eder singing everything almost a capella. It’s stunningly beautiful … a lot of the songs on the CD never made it to the stage, unfortunately, so I don’t know how the live version compares, but anyway, it’s a great story, and I’d like to see what the Rose does with it.

Jekyll and Hyde battle their inner demons at the Rose Theater. Hey, hold on a minute, I'm changing ... grrrrrrrrraaah!

And that’s it for now. I should have a review or two posted after this weekend if all goes well.