P.3+BR: Notes Upriver
Contemporary Visual Art in Baton Rouge
October 25, 2014 to January 25, 2015
P.3+BR: Notes Upriver, the capital region's official extension of the 13-week contemporary art biennial Prospect.3 New Orleans, will present dozens of new installations, exhibitions, film screenings, and live events from mid-October to late-January. The public is invited to experience a boldness o
f contemporary art with Notes Upriver. P.3+BR is being coordinated by emerging arts organization, Elevator Projects, with support from the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, and will feature exhibitions and special projects at 15 venues throughout the Capital City. The program will also include locally made film screenings at the Manship Theatre, documentary film screenings at Lagniappe Records, literary program in partnership with New Delta Review, and a weekend of special arts events from November 14 to 16. Perhaps the most ambitious element of Notes Upriver is the occupation of an entire vacant floor of the downtown Chase Towers, in an effort to fill the space with local contemporary art. The temporary alternate gallery space in the South Tower will feature works by over 50 Baton Rouge artists — including Hae Jung Lee, Roberta Massuch, Dawn Black, Nathan Pietrykowski, Scott Andresen, Danielle Burns, Delita Martin, John Norris, and Rhett Gerard Poche — and will be open to the public during select hours and by appointment. Dozens of local partners sites will also present exhibitions, artist lectures, literary readings, and performances. Some of the Capital Region P.3+BR locations include:
The Baton Rouge Gallery
Shaw Center for the Arts
LSU Museum of Art
Louisiana Art & Science Museum
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Firehouse Gallery LSU School of Art Foster Gallery and Glassell Gallery
Ann Connelly Fine Art
Manship Theatre
The Healthcare Gallery
Lagniappe Records
Capital Park Welcome Center
The Walls Project Art & Design Center
The Gallery at Manship Theatre
As a special reception weekend for Notes Upriver, Elevator Projects and Red Cake Events are planning a celebration of Baton Rouge culture with a November 14 to 16 reception weekend. Opportunities will include a P.3+BR party, new media performances, free museum admissions, and art happenings around the city. On November 15, the Walls Project Art & Design Center, located on the ground floor of the Chase Towers, will present 12 hours of cultural performances including collaborative dance pieces, digital orchestras, environmental mixed-media installations, and local music starting at noon. Sunday, November 16, the Manship Theatre will host a local filmmaker’s festival at 6pm, celebrating films produced in Louisiana. The closing reception for P.3+BR will be the January 24 Surreal Salon Soiree at the Baton Rouge Gallery. The Soiree is a unique Baton Rouge experience with live music, surrealist games, interactive installations, and hundreds of bizarrely clad attendees coming together to celebrate the Capital Region's partnership with Prospect New Orleans and the completion of Notes Upriver. P.3+BR Notes Upriver programming has been made possible by the support of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge, Heather Sewell-Day and David Wright of Redcake Event Planning, Florida Street Holdings, Rodneyna Hart, Diane Leightman and Stinson Maps, Ann Connelly Fine Art, Elizabeth Weinstein and the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Natasha Walker, Elisabeth Altazan, Matthew Schwartz of Pacifico, The Walls Project, Tiffany Sewell, Melisa Rad, Jason Langlois and the Manship Theatre, Emily Pontiff, Jency Hogan, Jonathan Downing, Maya Curtis, Jessica Sharpe, Chad Forbes, and many wonderful, dedicated volunteers. For more information about upcoming exhibitions and events, go to www.elevatorprojects.com
