AC23 - Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

Original Air Date: 3/12/23 - This week host Pam Bordelon visits with LSU Museum of Art curator Michelle Schulte about the exciting exhibition of works by pivotal vernacular artist Thornton Dial, which opens March 30 with a 6 p.m. reception and gallery talk that includes the late artist's son Richard, as well as curator Paul Barrett, art historian Paul Arnett, cultural curator Anne Collins Smith an...

Original Air Date: 2/12/23 - This week’s AC23 touches on two topics. The Cary Saurage Community Arts Center was the site of this year’s DeBose Fine Arts Festival, whose mission is dedication to excellence in areas of Fine Arts (Visual and Performing) and Classical Piano. Arts Council Education Programs Manager Marie Flowers, who served as coordinator of the festival, shares details on this year’s...

Original Air Date: 4/16/23 - Baton Rouge area artist Malaika Favorite and ACGBR Philanthropy & Grants Officer Erin Douget join host Pam Bordelon to talk about Get Ready Grants, which provides up to $500 to help artists prepare potential disasters/emergencies. Malaika received one of these grants last year to upgrade the entrance to her studio, making it more accessible for visitors. As a resul...

Original Air Date: 2/19/23 - For 20 years, the Irene W. & CB Pennington Foundation has underwritten a series of concerts with the Baton Rouge Symphony featuring the likes of Itzhak Pearlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Dianna Ross, Johnny Mathis, Chris Botti, Renée Fleming, Natalie Cole, Kristin Chenoweth, Trisha Yearwood and Chicago. Maestro Emeritus Timothy Muffitt and Diane Tate, who chairs the Irene W. &amp...

Original Air Date: 2/5/23 - Host Pam Bordelon visits with the team behind Preserving Our Place, a photographic documentation of the effects of climate change on the native coastal communities of Chantel Comardelle, tribal executive secretary of the Jean Charles Choctaw Nation, Isle de Jean Charles, and Dennis Davis, community artist of the Native Inupiaq Village, Shishmaref, Alaska, who used their...

Original Air Date: 1/8/2023 - On Jan. 12, the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge celebrates its 50th anniversary at its annual MPAC gala. Host Pam Bordelon is joined by co-workers Vice President Jonathan Grimes and Philanthropy & Grants Officer Erin Douget to talk about the highlights from the past 50 years and share details on our upcoming ‘70s-themed celebration.

Original Air Date: 1/22/23 - This week, host Pam Bordelon visits with Baton Rouge native and current Phoenix, Arizona resident André DuBroc about his recent participation in the Magnolia Network’s Silos Holiday Baking Competition, where his Christmas wreath cookie came in second in some pretty stiff competition. Like any self-respecting South Louisiana native, he’s good in the kitchen. But he’s al...

Originally Aired: 1/1/23 - Baton Rouge native Johnny Palazzotto has become synonymous with discovering new talent and putting Louisiana artists on the international map, earning him Offbeat Magazine’s 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Southern University Jazz Hall of Fame in 2002. His most recent project was producing The Original King Bee Documentary, based on the life of Jam...

Original Air Date - 1/29/23 - Mike Weary, artist in residence at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center, joins host Pam Bordelon to talk about his artistic journey in this week’s AC23 on the eve of the openings of his two one-man shows. The self-taught artist, known as the “the guy who paints upside down,” specializes in live wedding paintings, original expressionist art and commissioned pieces. C...

Original Air Date: 3/26/23 - You might not think Renaissance Man applies to a 20-something young man, but listen in as host Pam Bordelon visits with James Linden Hogg and you’ll see why it’s an apt description for this multi-instrument musician, composer and author.

Original Air Date: 4/23/23 - Sam Irwin’s day job might be as public relations director for the American Sugar Cane League but in his off hours you can find him playing his trumpet as front man for the Florida Street Blowhards and penning books. His latest, Hidden History of Louisiana’s Jazz Age, has lots of the world-famous Louisiana city billed as the birthplace of jazz. He shares several of his...

Original Air Date: 2/26/23 - This week host Pam Bordelon visits with flautist, producer, composer and national recording artist Claudia Hayden, who delighted attendees to our March 2 Jazz Listening Room at the Cary Saurage Community Arts Center. The Louisiana native learned piano and flute as a child, studying under masters like the acclaimed jazz clarinetist Alvin Batiste and flutist Kent Jordan....

Original Air Date: 4/2/23 - This spring’s Artsplosion! camp is unlike anything ACGBR has ever done before. Guggenheim Fellow biologist/artist Brandon Ballengée leads a week-long Bug Boot Camp turning downtown Baton Rouge into an outdoor lab for the creation of his Love Motels for Insects. When he’s not teaching, he and his wife, sustainable food educator Aurore Ballengée, live at and run the Ateli...