Exhibits

The Ameen Art Gallery (Thibodaux)

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday, in Talbot Hall, room 200, on the campus of Nicholls State University. For more info: www.nicholls.edu.

Faculty Invitational Art Exhibition. Featuring works by Nicholls faculty and invited artists. The exhibit closes with a reception from 3-5 p.m. Friday, April 18.

Nicholls Art Day, from 8:35 a.m.-5 p.m. Includes Josh DeWeese ceramics lecture and workshop; Thomas Neff photography lecture and book signing; Dr. Elizabeth Guin leading a discussion titled “Controversy in the Art World: the Cleaning of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel’; an art lecture led by Martin Flanagan; James Ehler’s engraving and printmaking workshop; CAC visual arts director Dan Cameron’s lecture; and the closing reception.

Arts Alive (Thibodaux)

April 10, from 5-7 p.m., along 507 West 3rd St. For more info: www.nicholls.edu. The community art show and reception features the city’s finest artists and musicians. Sponsored by the Lorio Foundation, Thibodaux Chamber of Commerce, City of Thibodaux and Thibodaux Main Street Program.

Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum (Lockport)

110 Main St., Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children under 12. For more info: (985) 532-5909.

“Bayou Excursion: 1910, the museum’s permanent exhibit.

“Lafourche Bicentennial,” tracing the history of Lafourche Parish between 1807-2007.

Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum (Houma)

7910 West Park Ave., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $3 for adults; $2 children ages 12 and under. Group rates are available. For more info: (985) 580-7200.

“Ernest Milsted: 40 Poloroids,” April 1-18, with an artist’s reception April 12 from 6-9 p.m. Landscape photographs.

D-Day Museum (New Orleans)

945 Magazine St. Admission is $14 for adults; $8 for seniors. For more info: (504) 527-6012.

“Duty, Honor, Country: When Baseball Went to War,” through Nov. 9. Featuring the All-American Girls League. When the attack on Pearl Harbor brought America abruptly into the war, the nation’s pastime took on a new role.

Downtown Art Gallery (Houma)

630 Belanger St., Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more info: (985) 851-2198.

“Janet Mayfield” is the Artist of the Month.

“2008 Art After Dark Fiesta,” April 12, from 6:30-9:30 p.m., along Main Street (from Barrow to Lafayette streets) in downtown Houma. Exhibits also on Belanger and Goode streets. Featured artists exhibit work in local business and in phantom galleries (store windows). Music will be provided at various locations, including Courthouse Square and Memorial Park.

Everett Street Gallery (Morgan City)

201 Everett St., 11 a.m-4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free. For more info: (985) 385-9945.

“Film Study Series” every Tuesday, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Focuses on culture, language, food music and environmental issues.

“Morgan City Garden Club Garden Show,” April 19-20.

“Free Grant-Writing Seminar, April 21, at 1 p.m.

“Kathy Stone Watercolor Workshop,” April 25, from 5-7 p.m.; April 26, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.; and April 27, from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost is $50 for members, $75 nonmembers.

The Frame Shop (Morgan City)

708 Front St., Monday-Friday, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. or by appointment. For more info: (985) 385-0730.

“Custom Furniture crafted by Leonard Price.” Over 20 local and regional artists showing oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolors, encaustics, stained glass and more.

The Historic New Orleans Collection/Williams Gallery (New Orleans)

533 Royal St., Tuesday through Saturday (excluding holidays) from 9:30 a.m-4:30 p.m. For more info: (504) 523-4662 or www.hnoc.org.

“Birds of a Feather: Wildfowl Carving in Southeast Louisiana,” through April 20. Admission is $6 for adults, free for students and children. Part 2: Contemporary Carvings traces the evolution of the carving tradition as a decorative and competitive art form.

“Surrounded By Water: New Orleans, The Mississippi River & Lake Pontchartrain,” through Aug. 10. Explores the natural history of the Mississippi and lake and the history played out along their banks and shores over the course of the last three centuries.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans)

400 A Julia St., 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Saturday. For more info: (504) 522-5471 or www.jonathanferraragallery.com.

“Cash Rules Everything Around Me,” through April 19. This politically-charged exhibition features new work by multi-media artist, curator and activist Dan Tague.

LeFevre’s Art Supply & Gallery (Houma)

230 Entreprise Dr., (985) 580-7991.

“Oil Painting Classes,” Thursdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., $50 for four lessons. Supply list available at the store.

“Artist of the Month: Ellen McCord” The local artist’s paper pulp art is on display.

“Drawing Classes” are available to fifth graders through adults, Mondays, 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost is $40.

“Watercolor Classes” are offered on alternating Saturdays, call for time, $60 for four classes plus supplies.

Louisiana Art & Science Museum (Baton Rouge)

100 South River Rd., 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. For more info: (225) 344-5272 or www.lasm.org.

“Richard Swenson” through June 22. Sculptor Swenson used scrap metal to create what he calls comic work small creatures, both of the easily recognizable and the slightly fantastic sort.

“Jim Henson’s Fantastic World” through June 22. This exhibition documents Henson’s career and features over 100 original works of art, including puppets, sketches, photographs, documents, TV and movie props and video productions, including excerpts from Henson’s early work and experimental films.

Louisiana State Museum (Patterson)

118 Cotton Rd. For more info: (985) 399-1268. The museum features a new traveling exhibit each month.

“Southern Excellence,” through April 12. Featuring select competition prints by 12 professional Louisiana photographers, including Houma’s Jim Pitre and Kirk Voclain. The images reflect the insight, imagination and talent of the image makers.

Louisiana State University Museum of Art (Baton Rouge)

100 Lafayette St. For more info: (225) 389-7206.

“An Adventure in the Arts: The Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y.” through June 8. A selection of over 70 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper dating from 1878 to 1994.

“The Art of Persuasion: Society and Politics through the Eyes of William Hogarth,” through April 13.

Loyola’s Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery (New Orleans)

6363 St. Charles Ave., Monday-Saturday, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sunday from noon-4 p.m. For more info: (504) 861-5456.

“Social Dress New Orleans,” through April 8. A beginning to end look at Loyola alum Takashi Horisaki’s work in Socrates Sculpture Park in New York.

“Cody Vanderkaay” through April 8. A post-studio investigation linking his ongoing “Coverup” series and his work done in the studio.

“Senior Student Exhibitions” April 12 through May 11.

Newcomb Art Gallery/Woldenberg Art Center (New Orleans)

Tulane University campus, Tuesday through Sunday from 12-5 p.m. Admission is free. For more info: (504) 865-5328.

“From Society to Socialism: The Art of Caroline Durieux,” through May 25. Featuring 100 images n prints, paintings, drawings, watercolors and etchings n of American artists working in Mexico or Mexican artists, including Diego Rivera.

New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans)

1 Collins Diboll Circle. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Wednesdays-Sundays. For more info: (504) 658-4100.

“Living Color,” through May 11. Featuring photographs by Judy Cooper.

“Ari Marcopoulos,” through April 27. Celebrated photographer, film artist and adventurist Marcopoulos presents an exhibit of large-scale Xerox and laser-jet prints. He expands his usual boundaries of architectural photography to encompass graffiti, human bodies, skateboard ramps, artist studios and architectural models.

Nicholls State University Art Studio (Chauvin)

5337 Bayouside Dr., Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-4 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is free. For more info: (985) 594-2546 or (985) 448-4597. Online, visit www.nicholls.edu/folkartcenter.

Permanent collections include paintings, photographs, sculpture and pottery by local artists.

Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans)

925 Camp St., Thursday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more info: (504) 539-9600 or online at www.ogdenmuseum.org.

“Jean Seidenberg.” Featuring paintings, drawings and sculpture from the 1950s to the present, concentrating on his recent series of realistic portraits and figure studies.

“Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor.” Featuring silver gelatin photos by master photographer Uelsmann and digital prints by Taylor and a new body of large-scale prints.

“Jose Torres Tama.” A series of expressionistic drawings of historically important free people of color who lived in the Treme and Faubourg-Marigny neighborhoods of New Orleans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

“Robert Polidori” works including six large-scale prints of New Orleans from his book “After the Flood.”

Shaw Center for the Arts (Baton Rouge)

100 Lafayette St., from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For more info: (225) 346-5001.

“Martin Payton” through June. An outdoor installation of six steel sculptures. Located on the Irene W. Pennington Rooftop Terrace and Sculpture Garden.

Southdown Plantation House/The Terrebonne Museum (Houma)

1208 Museum Dr., 10 a.m.-4 p.m. TuesdaynSaturday. Admission for the special exhibit room only is $2. Admission for full museum tour is $6, $3 for children. For more info: (985) 851-0154.

“The Photography of Henry Cancienne,” through April 26. The local photographer has been published in “Southern Breeze,” “Country Discoveries, Country Roads” and “Jewish Living of the South” as well as a number of newspapers and tourism publications. His photos are also included in the recently-published “Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook.” His images include swamp wildlife, cypress, irises and other native flora, shrimp boats, seafood harvests, plantation houses, scenes from nature preserves and Bayou Lafourche.

Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center (Thibodaux)

314 St. Mary St., open 9 a.m.-8 p.m. on Monday; until 6 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; and until 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. For more info: (985) 448-1375 or visit www.nps.gov/jela.

“In A Word: Images of Louisiana” by Brian Naquin.