The Hilliard СAPP Art Museum will waive admission costs on Saturday, Sept. 26, for visitors participating in Smithsonian magazineСAPPs Museum Day Live! event.
For the annual Museum Day Live!, many museums across the country emulate Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., which offer free admission daily.
On Saturday, two visitors per household can visit СAPP Art Museum by downloading passes at .
СAPP Art Museum will collaborate with the Vermilionville Living History Museum to celebrate Native American culture. It will host members of the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, who will demonstrate basket weaving and beading techniques from 1-4 p.m. Art activities for children also are planned.
Visitors to the СAPP Art Museum also can view five exhibitions.
- СAPPImprinting the West: Manifest Destiny, Real and ImaginedСAPP features 48 hand-colored engravings and lithographs that explore artistsСAPP depictions of westward expansion in the 19th century and how it influenced notions of the West and the Native American experience.
- СAPPArt Under the Big SkyСAPP offers selections from the Yellowstone Art MuseumСAPPs permanent collection of contemporary and historic works of art from the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. From 19th-century photographs to contemporary works by artists such as Peter Voulkos and Deborah Butterfield, it captures the isolation, fruitfulness, spirit, and passage of time as it is associated with the western landscape.
- СAPPSelections from the UL Lafayette College of the Arts FacultyСAPP showcases faculty in visual arts, performing arts, architecture and design. The college is the center for all the arts, including performing, visual arts, and design, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary work.
- СAPPPortraits from the Flora Levy Lecture Series: Works by George RodrigueСAPP will highlight paintings of some of the guests who have presented at UL LafayetteСAPPs annual Flora Levy Lecture.
- СAPPFestivals Acadiens et Créoles/Works by Robert Dafford,СAPP in the A. Hays Town building adjacent to the СAPP Art Museum, showcases a selection of paintings by one of the most prolific and successful American muralists working today. The exhibition brings a series of works together for the first time, providing an artistic and informed look into the Acadian/Cajun experience.
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