Alexandria Museum of Art, 10a.m.-3:30p.m. Learn traditional yet simple paper making techniques using a variety of organic material and paper rags to create a colorful, textured and layered composition. Cost: $50 for members, $70 for non-members, pre-registration is required. Call Nancy Noles: 443-3458.
Alexandria Museum of Art, 5:30-7p.m. Class is limited to 20 per meeting date. Offers basic instruction in drawing techniques to get you started. All supplies included. Cost: Free to AMoA members, $10 for non-members, pre-registration not required. Call Nancy Noles: 443-3458.
Galleries at Cabrini and Rapides Regional Hospitals, 10a.m. (Rapides) and 1p.m. (Cabrini). Sponsored by Central Louisiana Arts & Healthcare, Inc. This is the 8th annual Paint Pink Art Show dedicated to Breast Cancer Awareness. The show features local artists and will be up the entire month of October at both Rapides and Cabrini Hospitals. Proceeds from sales got to Cancer Art Programs. Cost: Free and open to the public. Call Judy Ginsburgh: 769-7602.
933 Second Street, 1-4p.m.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art.
Margie Tate will teach the technique of En Plein Art (in full air) oil painting on site at Chickamaw Plantation. Limited to 20 students. Visit www.themuseum.org to register, or for more information.
Cost: $35 for AMoA Members, $50 for Non-members.
Call Nancy Noles: 443-3458.
Hearn Stage at the Kress Theatre, 7p.m.
Sponsored by Arts Council of Central Louisiana. Working in an insular farming community in Appalachia, Sal Damon, a modern day Thoreau, seeks solace from a past relationship. After a sudden death in the community and the discovery of a feral child living on the lam, Sal must reconcile his place in a world that lives outside the law.
Cost: Adults $10, Students $8.
Call Julie Prevot: 484-4744.
933 Second Street, 6:30-8:30p.m.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art.
Our Renegade Tours continue in March. Join local arts and culture personalities for special after hour’s tours of our exhibitions, and enjoy a unique experience at the Museum.
Cost: Free.
Call Gar Pickering: 443-3458.
933 Second Street, 10a.m.-2p.m.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art. AMoA celebrates Youth Art Month and supports the creativity of our youth with a festival featuring art from educational FREE interactive art activities, demonstrations, art and food vendors and much more!
Cost: Free.
Call Nancy Noles: 443-3458
933 Second Street, 5:45p.m.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art. Yoga is offered free of charge every Tuesday at AMoA. Yoga instructor, b. Hedrick is an ascetic Taoist yogi with fourteen years of yoga practice. Yoga Tao is for all experience levels, incorporating spirit-mind-body techniques.
Cost: Free.
Call Gar Pickering: 443-3458.
933 Second Street, During Museum Hours.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art. Alexandria artist Kathryn Keller paints her life in oil and watercolor.
Cost: Free admission every second Saturday, Regular Admission $5 Adults, $4 Seniors/Students/Military and $3 Youth (children 4-13). Free for children 4 & under.
Call Gar Pickering: 443-3458.
933 Second Street, During Museum hours.
Sponsored by Alexandria Museum of Art. The Music Maker Relief Foundation supports musicians who preserve the musical traditions of the South. Tim Duffy, its founder, has spent 35 years photographing the artists who work with the foundation. This exhibition features platinum palladium prints of many of these southern musicians in their own environment. These timeless photographs bring out the personalities and styles of these musicians and their art.